https://hcommons.org/groups/etruscan-archaeology/ Activity feed for the group, Etruscan archaeology. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:28:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fb2e5f9fda1abdf76b12fe87e1341731 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779485/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:23:45 -0400 The text on Nestor’s Cup (750-700 BCE) is not Greek as many claim but is actually Alphabetic Akkadian. Its three-line text is a debate about the cause of a drought. The first line blames the life network goddess Ayu and her eagle vultures while the second line blames emotion magic with its owls (like the Athenian owl). Alphabetic Akkadian was t…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e432295bf13e0bda9facce8b532c7e5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774611/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 02:25:01 -0400 Heroes and Demons entered the northern Mediterranean culture between 600 and 500 BCE when the culture was transforming from the magical Ancient Pagan Paradigm to a lordified Paradigm which forced deity personification making them lords in a royal pantheon instead of powers. This caused an explosion in the number of deities and other divine realm…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6293f3517a548a24329385f54a95118 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773089/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:23:44 -0500 The past inability to translate Etruscan texts has meant that the interpretation of Etrucan art has been mostly speculation. This interpretation has been made even more difficult because this was the time when new demon imagery (Cyclops, Skadi) not seen in the past was being introduced as Etruscan religious culture was changing from the magical…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f9ce7b321d8675c2a15f46a9f11da4f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771058/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:24:10 -0500 In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e92b2cd7e2b9f863aa7906cca30018 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741793/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:28:52 -0400 While liver divination was known to have been practiced by the ancients no one really know what that involved until now. This object is a bronze liver covered in writing which describes a divination result about the cause of a drought. This bronze liver was found in the northern Italian Po valley in 1877. The liver is divided into four main…[Read more]

]]> 0 765fd5860bcd33a5140f36f93530fc56 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741340/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:23:44 -0400 Three texts inscribed on gold foil were found in a holy relic repository located in a side room to a Pagan temple near Pygi, Italy. Their language is Alphabetic Akkadian yet their text styles are Phoenician and Etruscan. They are a philosophical debate about the cause and cure for a recent drought. The Phoenician text argues that emotion magic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4cc8beb8347317464d259bfd73595c4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724233/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:23:52 -0500 Contains a description of seven fragments of Roman moldmade architectural terracottas dated to the 4th-3rd centuries BCE from the site of Sant'Omobono in Rome, location of the ancient temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta.

]]> 0 f3b5a7ea2f02c5d47509d8ce96a597e6 https://hcommons.org/groups/etruscan-archaeology/forum/topic/aia-eig/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:14:06 -0400 Will the AIA Etruscan Interest Group be posting on this group? Is Theresa Huntsman on HC yet?

]]> bd583631cdcb625f2e30575bc3f88174 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602478/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 04:13:29 -0500 Um den verschiedenen Prinzipien offener Wissenschaftskommunikation – wie auch dem ganzen Konzept »open science« als solchem – gerecht zu werden, ist eine nachhaltige Disseminations- und Archivierungsstrategie für digitale Forschungsdaten zwingend nötig. Maßnahmen zur langanhaltenden Gewährleistung der freien Verfügbarkeit in Form von Parametern…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7b3091041611f6baaf0887c7b5931c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601777/ Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:13:28 -0500 A short paper about some preliminary results of the excavation seasons 2014 and 2015 at the roman rural site of Molino San Vincenzo in Tuscany.

]]> 0 1fd25dedc9bc9725d05341aef4f40dc4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593296/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:41:59 -0500 Paper on archaeological field research in Tuscany, where various invasive and non-invasive investigations have been carried out since 2010 at the roman rural site of Molino San Vincenzo.

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