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Catalogue of Etruscan objects in World Museum, Liverpool / Jeann MacIntosh Turfa and Georgina Muskett.
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World Museum Liverpool
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Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]
©2017
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xiii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Art, Etruscan
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Etruria
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Antiquities
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Italy
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Muskett, G. M. (Georgina M.)
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Summary note
One of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. His donation of the collection became the core of Liverpool Museum, now World Museum, and has been augmented over the years by additional gifts and other acquisitions, such as those from the Wellcome Collection and Norwich Castle Museum. Much of the original material came from the necropolis of Vulci (Canino) when it was excavated by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, while additional objects represent several other cities and sites. Already famous for its gold jewelry and bronze vessels of the 6th to the 4th centuries BCE, the Liverpool collection includes a fine selection of Etruscan vases, especially bucchero ware and Archaic painted vases, several scarab seals in semiprecious stones, a small number of carved ivories, and funerary urns, including that of Larui Helesa, in which were found gold earrings identical to those worn by her colorful effigy on its lid. A large group of bronze fibulae (safety-pins) furnish examples of most major types of these important ornaments of the Iron Age and Archaic periods. Engraved bronze mirrors and terracotta votives in the form of heads and body parts (such as uteri) of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE illustrate myths and offerings that were essential to Etruscan religion. From a Villanovan sword to Hellenistic epitaphs, the Liverpool Etruscan and Italic collection offers a rare glimpse of early civilization in central Italy.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Prehistoric and Proto-Historic Italic/Etruscan Metalwork
Tools, arms and armour fibulae, personal belongings
Etruscan vessels and utensils
Etruscan ornaments
Etruscan figurines
Etruscan and Italic Mirrors
Items in Bronze Once Labeled as Etruscan, but not in this Catalogue
ch. Two Jewellery (Gold) and Related Objects
Items published as Etruscan, but lost during World War II
Items which are not Etruscan, but have been so described in past inventories or publications
ch. Three Stone and Other Materials
Scarabs
Sculpture (urns, cippus)
Ivory and bone
Glass
Items cited in past publications as Etruscan
Objects cited or inventoried as Etruscan, now identified as non-Etruscan
ch. Four Ceramics
Vases donated by the Wellcome Trust (London) in 1981
Terracottas
Ceramic item lost in 1941
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Inventory Numbers
Inscriptions
Vase attributions
Vase fabrics
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ISBN
9781784916381 ((paperback))
1784916382
OCLC
1002419462
Other standard number
99975885515
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