Book contents
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Abbreviations and Spelling
- Introduction
- Part I Broadening Perspectives
- Part II Interpretive Frameworks
- Part III Technology and Mobility
- Part IV Shared Practices
- 8 Etruscan Lightning and Anatolian Images
- 9 Luxury Consumption and Elite Lifestyles
- 10 Tracing Connections between Archaic Etruria and Anatolia in Material Culture and Funerary Ideology
- 11 Rock Tombs and Monuments in South Etruria and Anatolia
- Part V Shared and Distinct Iconographies
- Part VI Shared Forms, Distinct Functions
- Index
- References
8 - Etruscan Lightning and Anatolian Images
The Use and Perception of Tridents in Etruria and the East*
from Part IV - Shared Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
Book contents
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Abbreviations and Spelling
- Introduction
- Part I Broadening Perspectives
- Part II Interpretive Frameworks
- Part III Technology and Mobility
- Part IV Shared Practices
- 8 Etruscan Lightning and Anatolian Images
- 9 Luxury Consumption and Elite Lifestyles
- 10 Tracing Connections between Archaic Etruria and Anatolia in Material Culture and Funerary Ideology
- 11 Rock Tombs and Monuments in South Etruria and Anatolia
- Part V Shared and Distinct Iconographies
- Part VI Shared Forms, Distinct Functions
- Index
- References
Summary
Tridents and bidents appear to have been used in early Italy as symbols of divinatory power associated with lightning and are known by the evidence of rare representations and actual metal objects placed in Italic rulers’ tombs of the eighth through the seventh centuries BCE (Golasecca and Etruria). Fragile or even deliberately blunted, these implements could really only be symbolic emblems, and two show evidence of intense destruction during the funerary ritual. A possibly analogous situation, with deeper roots in the Near East (especially Assyria, Urartu, and the Levant) may also have occurred in Anatolia, especially Phrygia (Gordion). A trident planted in the earth may have symbolized divination.
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