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Book SynopsisReopened in 2010, having been closed since 1939, the world-famous Berlin Etruscan collection, one of the largest outside Italy, is now on permanent display again. This companion volume to the new exhibition in the Altes Museum provides exciting insights into this still fascinating culture of early Italy on the basis of the Berlin holdings - complete grave findings and excellent testimonies of Etruscan art production: history, architecture, sculpture and cabaret, cult and myth as well as writing and reception are presented in informative and richly illustrated articles.
Table of ContentsForeword History of the Etruscans On the topography of ancient Etruria Etruscan architecture Death and the afterlife Etruscan Funerary sculpture Etruscan and italic Votive terracotta sculpture Etruscan ceramics Bronze Metalwork Etruscan Gold Jewellery Etruscans in Campania Writing systems of the Etruscans and their neighbours Rediscovering the Etruscans Chronology of Etruscan History Glossary Names of important Etruscan cities Abbreviations Bibliography List of illustrations
