Chapter 6: Etruscan:

Italy before the Romans

Italy in Etruscan Times

Aerial view of Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri, Italy, seventh to second centuries BC.

Sarcophagus with reclining couple, from Cerveteri, Italy, ca. 520 BC. Painted terracotta, approx. 6’ 7” X 3’ 9 1/2”.

Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome.

DETAIL: Diving and fishing, mural paintings in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, Italy, ca. 530–520 BC.

Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs, Cerveteri, Italy, third century BC.

Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century BC, as described by Vitruvius. Istituto di Etruscologia e di Antichità

Italiche, Università di Roma, Rome.

Apulu (Apollo), from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple, Veii, Italy, ca. 510–500 BC. Painted terracotta, approx. 5’ 11” high. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome.

Capitoline Wolf, from Rome, Italy, ca. 500–480 BC. Bronze, approx. 2’ 7 1/2” high. Palazzo dei

Conservatori, Rome.

Detail: Romulus and Remus suckling (Renaissance addition)

Chimera of Arezzo, from Arezzo, Italy, first half of fourth century BC. Bronze, approx. 2’ 7 1/2” high. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence.