Etruscans Now
Architecture
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Annette Rathje - University of Copenhagen
Murlo, Images and Archaeology
The site of Poggio Civitate, near the village of Tuscan Murlo has been the cause of a rather heated debate since its discoveries in the 60’s by the late Prof. Kyle Philips. In this paper I want to discuss the buildings and their extraordinary decorations as an iconological case-study, in order to contextualize these images representing examples of cultural amalgamations and iconografical syncreticism. I am convinced that this particular site is suitable for a methodological discussion of how to interpret a local Etruscan ‘community’ of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. and wider Etruscan use of symbolic representations.