ARTH 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Magna Graecia, Villanovan Culture, Caere
25 Jan 2017
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January 16, 2016
Cont. Archaeology of Rome and The Etruscans
-We know they have similar cultures but they are not the same
people
-Villanovan Culture has much in common with the Urnfield Culture
-Villanovan are ancestors to the Etruscans
-Housing burial urns that resembled their houses
-Urns that also looked like the soldiers helmets
-likely for soldiers
-copper, tin, ceramics
-skilled in metal work
Pottery
-Impasto
-nothing too Greek
- the metal work is very great
-we only see what is offered to the dead
-they had horses
-carts, chariots
Armour
-very much like Etruscan armour
Peoples of Early Italy — 750 - 400 BCE
-Non-Italian Peoples in Italy
-Greek culture influence everywhere
-Greek - Etruscan - Roman
The Etruscans
1000-50 BCE
-they do not disappear but become immersed into Roman culture
Etruscan Confederation
-they don’t really have a country !
-they have a culture - a confederation !
-where do they come from?!
-They were quite Greek !
- possibly from Lydia !
-they had a famine !
-so they repopulated somewhere else !
-they are not indo-European !
- native people of Italy !
- First Greek Colony - Pithecusae !
-First Greek Settlers from Euboea !
-each city state has their own dialect and way of writing !
-MAGNA GRAECIA (greater Greece) !
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-Phoencians !
-they bought the alphabet to us !
- Pyrgi gold tablets !
-longest text panel we have !
-a Rossetta stone !
Phoenician Text !
Dedication by Thefarie Velianas, King of Caere (c. 500 BCE)
To Lady Ashtarot,
This is the holy place, which was made, and which was given by
Tiberius Velianas who reigns over the Caerites
During the month of the sacrifice to the Sun, as a gift in the temple, he built an aedicule
For Ashtarot raised him with Her hand to reign for three years from the month of Chuvar,
from the day of the burial of the divinity [onward]
And the years of the statue of the divinity in the temple [shall be] as many years as the
stars above.
(transl. Hildegard Temporini, Joseph Vogt, Wolfgagn Haase, 1972)
-abecedarian
-found in an Etruscan grave !
- likely used to copy the alphabet !
-likely belonged to a child !
Architecture
-Tumuli
-tombs are very obvious
-bad for archaeologist because people just take stuff
-Cerveteri Necropolis
-like a little house for the family after death
-Tomb of the Reliefs
-all their stuff all around
-the dead are laid down with pillows
-Tomb of the Shields and Chairs
-there are no names
-built of Tulfa
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Document Summary
We know they have similar cultures but they are not the same people. Villanovan culture has much in common with the urn eld culture. Housing burial urns that resembled their houses. Urns that also looked like the soldiers helmets. We only see what is offered to the dead. Peoples of early italy 750 - 400 bce. They do not disappear but become immersed into roman culture. They have a culture - a confederation. Each city state has their own dialect and way of writing. Dedication by thefarie velianas, king of caere (c. 500 bce) This is the holy place, which was made, and which was given by. During the month of the sacri ce to the sun, as a gift in the temple, he built an aedicule. For ashtarot raised him with her hand to reign for three years from the month of chuvar, from the day of the burial of the divinity [onward]
