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With essays by multiple generations of Etruscan scholars, this volume offers the most complete English-language overview of Veii, an ancient Etruscan city that was the ally and rival of Rome for over three hundred years.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface (Jacopo Tabolli)
- List of Abbreviations
- Album of Maps
- Introduction: Exploring Veii (Gilda Bartoloni, Jacopo Tabolli, and Orlando Cerasuolo)
- Part I. Archaeology of the City
- 1. Veii, the Stratigraphy of an Ancient Town: A Case Study of Piazza d’Armi (Valeria Acconcia)
- 2. City and Landscape: The Survey (Roberta Cascino)
- 3. The Emptyscapes Project: Filling Gaps in Space and Time at Veii (Stefano Campana)
- Part II. History of the City
- 4. Toward Veii: The Bronze Age (Francesco di Gennaro)
- 5. Veii and Its Territory from the Final Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (Folco Biagi)
- 6. Veii in the Eighth Century BCE (Alessandra Piergrossi)
- 7. Veii and the Others: Closest Neighbors (Jacopo Tabolli)
- 8. The Orientalizing Period (Orlando Cerasuolo)
- 9. Veii during the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE: Political Structure and Organization of the Territory (Gilda Bartoloni and Anna De Santis)
- 10. Veii and the Greeks (Francesca Boitani)
- 11. Veii and the Near East (Annette Rathje)
- 12. Veii during the Archaic Period (Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE) (Gilda Bartoloni and Laura M. Michetti)
- 13. The Sanctuary of Portonaccio (Giovanni Colonna)
- 14. Cult Evidence from the Urban Sanctuaries at Veii (Ingrid Edlund-Berry)
- 15. The Epigraphical Evidence (Daniele Federico Maras)
- 16. The Defensive System (Luca Pulcinelli)
- Part III. Material Culture of the City
- 17. Early Iron Age Pottery (Sara Neri)
- 18. Orientalizing Pottery (Silvia ten Kortenaar)
- 19. Archaic, Late Archaic, and Classical Pottery (Maria Teresa Di Sarcina and Federica Pitzalis)
- 20. Metal Production (Matteo Milletti and Luciana Drago)
- 21. Wall Painting (Francesca Boitani)
- 22. Stone Sculpture (Iefke van Kampen)
- 23. Kilns and Evidence of Ceramic Production (Barbara Belelli Marchesini)
- 24. Architectural Terracottas (Nancy A. Winter and Claudia Carlucci)
- Part IV. Legacy of the City
- 25. Furius Camillus and Veii (Christopher Smith)
- Conclusions (Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo)
- Appendix. A Chronology of Veii
- Index of Names
About the author
Jacopo Tabolli holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Founder of the Museo Civico Archeologico-Virtuale di Narce (MAVNA) in Mazzano Romano and editor of Officina Etruscologia, he has excavated at Veii and Narce for several years.
Summary
With essays by multiple generations of Etruscan scholars, this volume offers the most complete English-language overview of Veii, an ancient Etruscan city that was the ally and rival of Rome for over three hundred years.
