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HOUSE URNS AND ETRUSCAN TOMB PAINTING: TRADITION VERSUS INNOVATION IN THE NINTH–SEVENTH CENTURIES BC
Author(s) -
LEIGHTON ROBERT
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2005.00241.x
Subject(s) - ninth , painting , ancient history , period (music) , indigenous , archaeology , sixth century , history , art , art history , ecology , physics , biology , acoustics , aesthetics
Summary. The first painted tombs in Etruria date to about 675–650 BC, as attested by a few examples at Veii and Caere, which pre‐date those of Tarquinia (mainly sixth–third centuries BC). At first glance, tomb painting has no obvious connection with the Early Iron Age or Villanovan period (tenth/ninth–eighth centuries BC), when burial in shaft or trench graves predominated. Nevertheless, some links can be suggested with Villanovan house urns, which reinforce the point that indigenous traditions merit greater consideration than is usual in discussions of Etruscan artistic and cultural development.