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By Nancy Thompson de Grummond,Lisa Pieraccini

ISBN-10: 1477308431

ISBN-13: 9781477308431

The Etruscan urban of Caere and 11 different Etruscan city-states have been one of the first city facilities in historic Italy. Roman descriptions of Etruscan towns spotlight their wealth, attractiveness, and ambitious defenses. even though Caere left little written historic checklist outdoors of funerary inscriptions, its advanced tale might be deciphered through studying surviving fabric tradition, together with structure, tomb work, temples, sanctuaries, and fabrics equivalent to terracotta, bronze, gold, and amber present in Etruscan crafts. learning Caere presents useful perception not just into Etruscan historical past and tradition yet extra widely into urbanism and the improvement of city facilities throughout historic Italy.

Comprehensive in scope, Caere is the 1st English-language booklet devoted to the examine of its eponymous urban. gathering the paintings of a global staff of students, it gains chapters on a variety of issues, equivalent to Caere's formation and historical past, financial system, international relatives, alternate networks, paintings, funerary traditions, equipped setting, faith, way of life, and rediscovery. widely illustrated all through, Caere offers new views on and research of not only Etruscan civilization but additionally the city's function within the wider pan-Mediterranean basin.

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