Refugee Terracotta Craftsmen from Anatolia in Southern Etruria and Latium, 550/540 to 510 BCE

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7 - Refugee Terracotta Craftsmen from Anatolia in Southern Etruria and Latium, 550/540 to 510 BCE

from Part III - Technology and Mobility

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023

Nancy A. Winter

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Elizabeth P. Baughan and

Lisa C. Pieraccini

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Elizabeth P. Baughan: Affiliation:
University of Richmond, Virginia
Lisa C. Pieraccini: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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From about 550 to 510 BCE, Etruscan terracotta roofs display many innovations linked to terracotta roofs in Anatolia stratigraphically datable between 585 and 560/550 BCE: decorative motifs including double volutes and scrolls, lotuses, star-flowers, meanders, birds, landscape elements, centaurs, and animal battles; chariot race scenes with dogs and hares running below the horses, and particular horse trappings; painted motifs, without relief; a new polychrome palette of brown, gold, blue, and green; a white background and black outlines; L-shaped simas with an overlapping flange system; and high-relief pedimental sculpture. These features are documented pre-550 BCE at the sites of Larisa on the Hermus; Phocaea and Sardis in Anatolia; and post-550 BCE at Tarquinia, Veii, and Cerveteri (ancient Caere) in Etruria. The correspondences are so close as to indicate that artisans from Anatolia were active in Etruscan terracotta workshops for one generation after 550/540 BCE, recalling Herodotus’ stories of refugees fleeing west from Anatolia when the Persian king Cyrus began advancing into the area around 560 BCE and of Phocaean captives taken to Caere after the Battle of Alalia in 540 BCE.

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architectural terracottas migration roof decoration technology polychromy Phocaea Larisa Veii Caere Tarquinia

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Information: Etruria and Anatolia
Material Connections and Artistic Exchange
, pp. 129 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009151016.012 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2023

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