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"This book offers the first comprehensive study of Etruscan and Anatolian cultures as agents of artistic exchange rather than as side characters in a Greek-focused narrative. Diverse chapters synthesize a wide range of material evidence, from tomb architecture and furniture to painted vases, terracotta reliefs, and magic amulets. By identifying shared practices, common visual language, and movements of objects and artisans (not only from east to west but also from west to east), this volume illuminates many varied threads of the interconnected ancient Mediterranean fabric. Rather than trying to account for similarities with one, overarching theory, it presents multiple, simultaneous modes and implications of connectivity while also recognizing the distinct local identities expressed even through shared artistic and cultural traditions"--
List of contents
Introduction: Etruria, Anatolia, and Wider Mediterranean Connectivity Lisa C. Pieraccini and Elizabeth P. Baughan; Part I. Broadening Perspectives: A Wider Mediterranean Landscape: 1. From East to West and Beyond Alessandro Naso; Part II. Interpretive Frameworks: 2. Bridging Cultures in the Past and Present Tamar Hodos; 3. Etruria and Anatolia: An Ancient Relationship Framed by the Modern Views of 'Orientalization' Jessica Nowlin; 4. A Tale of Two Buccheri: East and West Theresa Huntsman; 5. The Role of Greek Sanctuaries in Material and Artistic Interactions between Etruria and Anatolia Nassos Papalexandrou; Part III. Technology and Mobility: 6. Wooden Furniture from Verucchio and Gordion Elizabeth Simpson; 7. Refugee Terracotta Craftsmen from Anatolia in Southern Etruria and Latium, 550/540-510 BCE Nancy A. Winter; Part IV. Shared Practices: 8. Etruscan Lightning and Anatolian Images: The Use and Perception of Tridents in Etruria and the East Jean MacIntosh Turfa; 9. Luxury Consumption and Elite Lifestyles Annette Rathje; 10. Tracing Connections Between Archaic Etruria and Anatolia in Material Culture and Funerary Ideology Fernando Gilotta; 11. Rock Tombs and Monuments in South Etruria and Anatolia: Typology, Chronology, Ideology - Differences and Common Elements Stephan Steingräber; Part V. Shared and Distinct Iconographies: 12. Wall Paintings from Gordion in their Anatolian Context Susanne Berndt; 13. Chasing the Dog in Etruria and Anatolia: Connections, Context, and Meaning Lisa C. Pieraccini; 14. Reconsidering Ionian and Other Eastern Influences on Etruscan Black-Figure Vase-Painting Dimitris Paleothodoros; Part VI. Shared Forms, Distinct Functions: 15. Forms and Functions of Beds and Couches in Etruscan and Anatolian Tombs Elizabeth P. Baughan; 16. Female Assembly on Archaic Etruscan and Anatolian Funerary Monuments Gretchen Meyers; 17. Anatolian Fashion in Etruscan Clothing: The Case of the Pointed Shoes Tuna ¿are A¿türk; 18. Male Necklaces in the East and West Alexis Q. Castor.
About the author
Elizabeth P. Baughan is an Associate Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond (2013).Lisa C. Pieraccini is a Lecturer in the History of Art Department and Affiliated Faculty in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence, co-editor of the series Cities of the Etruscans, and consulting editor of the Journal of Etruscan and Italic Studies.
