The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

Annette Rathje

big candelabra and a burning censer. In front of the gods of the Netherworld a couple,
man and woman, recline, while the other banqueters are all men. This tomb has depicted
a candle light dinner for five generations of the Leinie family as can be learned from the
inscriptions. So, here we are witnesses to collective consciousness about the past.
We meet the Velcha family from Tarquinia in the paintings of the Tomb of the Shields
(Fig. 44.5).18 Here the family banquet of two generations is seen in the central room,

Figure 44.4 Golini I tomb, Orvieto, mid-fourth century BC, family banquet and its preparation.

Illustration by Thora Fisker.

Figure 44.5 Tomb of the Shields, Tarquinia, banquet of the Velcha family, mid-fourth century BC.

Illustration by Thora Fisker.

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