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I went to Bologna a couple of weeks ago & visited the many bicycles and ate tortellini in an old school dining room staffed by men in white coats.
My primary objective, however, was to see the Etruscan exhibition at the Archeological Museum. Just as well I did, the show had been extended to the end of November but all museums are closing tomorrow for at least a month. Here are a few things, in no particular order.
Bronze helmet and flask, from the necropolis of Visentium. 8th century BCE.
Funerary exoticism. Perfume jars, respectively imported from Egypt and Syria. Found at the Tomb of the Dolii, Necropolis of the Banditaccia, Cerveteri. c.625 BCE
Horse shaped parts of a horse’s bit, bronze, c.625 BCE. From the tomb of a woman at Vetulonia.
The Cortona Tablet, a long inscription in Etruscan on bronze referring to the sale of valuable land by Lake Trasimeno. Late 3rd/early 2nd BCE. Found 1992.
The head of a young man, c.300 BCE. The Romanising of Etruscan portraiture. Find site unknown.
The base of the donarium dedicated in 264BCE by the consul Marcus Fulvius Flaccus to commemorate the Roman conquest of Etruscan Volsinii (Orvieto). From the sacred area of Sant’Omobono in Rome (junction of Vico Jugario and via Luigi Petroselli).
