Overview

Expanding the study of Etruscan habitation sites to include not only traditional cities but also smaller Etruscan communities, Cetamura del Chianti examines a settlement that flourished during an exceptional time period, amid wars with the Romans in the fourth to first centuries BCE. Situated in an ideal hilltop location that was easy to defend and had access to fresh water, clay, and timber, the community never grew to the size of a city, and no known references to it survive in ancient writings; its ancient name isn't even known. Because no cities were ever built on top of the site, excavation is unusually unimpeded. Intriguing features described in Cetamura del Chianti include an artisans' zone with an adjoining sanctuary, which fostered the cult worship of Lur and Leinth, two relatively little known Etruscan deities, and ancient wells that reveal the cultural development and natural environment, including the vineyards and oak forests of Chianti, over a period of some six hundred years. Deeply enhancing our understanding of an intriguing economic, political, and cultural environment, this is a compelling portrait of a singular society.

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Author:   Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781477319109

ISBN 10:   1477319107
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   10 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments Album of Maps Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Early and Middle Etruscan Periods (Seventh–Fourth Centuries BCE) Bucchero Pottery A Ritual Crevice Chapter 3. Late Etruscan Phase I (300–150 BCE) Two Wells The Artisans’ Quarter Structure K: Making Brick and Tile Structures B and C: Water Management and Textile Production Structure J: A Workers’ Platform Structure N: Iron Working Pottery: A Typology Artifacts in the Artisans’ Quarter Fauna and Flora Conclusion Chapter 4. Late Etruscan Phase II (ca. 150–75/50 BCE) Structures A, B, and D Artifacts from Structures A and B Building L: The Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans Votive Features of Building L Chapter 5. The Wells of Cetamura: From Etruscan to Roman Well #2 (Structure M), on Zone II Well #1, on Zone I Chapter 6. Roman Cetamura (ca. 50 BCE to Late Antiquity) The Settlement of a Roman Veteran Baths and Production The Early Roman Empire The Later Roman Empire Chapter 7. Cetamura as a Community Chapter 8. Cetamura after Antiquity Appendix. A Timeline of History for Cetamura del Chianti Notes References Index

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[Cetamura del Chianti is] a model introduction to a small site and to the scholarly task of drawing connections between the micro and the macro...Cetamura is a case study of an artisan community and its infrastructure that could usefully inform more exploration of this phenomenon in Etruria...this is a book and a site with much to offer. * Ancient History Bulletin *

[Cetamura del Chianti is] a model introduction to a small site and to the scholarly task of drawing connections between the micro and the macro...Cetamura is a case study of an artisan community and its infrastructure that could usefully inform more exploration of this phenomenon in Etruria...this is a book and a site with much to offer. * Ancient History Bulletin * This volume presents evidence from Cetamura in an accessible manner. It is best suited for students new to Etruscan archaeology and helps to broaden the discipline's scope by focusing on a non-elite, rural community. Moreover, this volume underscores the value of rigorous palaeobotanical research. * The Classical Review *

Author Information

Nancy Thomson de Grummond is M. Lynette Thompson Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at Florida State University, director of excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, and coeditor of The Religion of the Etruscans and Caere.

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