Veii

Published by University of Texas Press 2019

Veii

Edited by: Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo

In the series Cities and Communities of the Etruscans

https://doi.org/10.7560/317259

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Reputed to be the richest city of Etruria, Veii was one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean world. It was located ten miles northwest of Rome, and the two cities were alternately allied and at war for over three hundred years until Veii fell to Rome in 396 BCE, although the city continued to be inhabited until the Middle Ages. Rediscovered in the seventeenth century, Veii has undergone the longest continuous excavation of any of the Etruscan cities.

The most complete volume on the city in English, Veii presents the research and interpretations of multiple generations of Etruscan scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. Their essays are grouped into four parts. The first provides a general overview of archaeological excavation at Veii and discusses the different types of methodologies employed over the years. The second part narrates the history of Etruscan occupation of the city and its role in the greater Mediterranean world. The third section examines the surviving material culture of Veii, including pottery, painting, sculpture, metalworking, and architectural terracottas. Finally, the legacy of Veii is discussed, and a chronology of the site is presented. This pioneering research offers all students of the ancient Mediterranean a new understanding of the development of Veii and its territory from the late Bronze Age to the Roman conquest, as well as of the interactions of Veii with nearby sites and territories in central Tyrrhenian Italy.

Author / Editor information

Jacopo Tabolli holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Founder of the Museo Civico Archeologico-Virtuale di Narce (MAVNA) in Mazzano Romano and editor of Officina Etruscologia, he has excavated at Veii and Narce for several years.

Reviews

An important addition to the corpus of Etruscan studies. Not only does it bring considerable research to English readers that would otherwise be unavailable, but its chapters include insightful new thoughts on their relative topics by a stellar cast of authors.

— Ancient World Magazine

This volume will be especially useful to advanced students and scholars of Etruscan history and archaeology and of Italian urbanism. The information is comprehensive, the bibliographies current, and the methodology consistent with the current direction of Etruscan studies...It will likely be a first point of reference for those studying the Etruscan city.

— American Journal of Archaeology

[Veii] manages to give a sense of the site as a whole, something that is otherwise difficult to comprehend at times in light of numerous projects and individual areas of scholarship that tend to publish findings separately...the volume is a good representation of the current state of Etruscan studies... Assembling a set of evidence and arguments such as these in a format that can be used by English-speaking undergraduates is an important effort to secure the discipline’s international future.

— The Classical Review

This volume dismantles any lingering Rome-centric appraisals of this preeminent Etruscan city to evaluate the unique status and cultural identity of Veii on its own terms, as one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean...There is much to be appreciated in this volume by scholars and students alike, as it provides a well-assembled, comprehensive and foundational look at this city...This volume will be the reference point for Veii studies for many years to come.

— Journal of Roman Studies

A book on Veii is long overdue, and this one will make a great deal of valuable information (and references for obtaining more) available to a wide audience. It is written by the current, undisputed experts on Veii, very often the excavators themselves, so the data could not be fresher or more pertinent. The chapters on artifacts and production, construction, and settlement dynamics are excellent and unlike any that most general readers will have read. There is no comparable book on this subject.

— Jean MacIntosh Turfa, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, editor of The Etruscan World

An outstanding book that presents impressive results from a major project of intensive study and excavation of this very important site, one of the largest in Etruria and—in terms of material culture—one of the most important cities of the Mediterranean of its time.

— Tom Rasmussen, University of Manchester, coauthor of The Etruscans

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustration Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Jacopo Tabolli Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Album of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction: Exploring Veii Gilda Bartoloni, Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I . ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CITY
Chapter 1. Veii, the Stratigraphy of an Ancient Town A Case Study of Piazza d’Armi Valeria Acconcia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 2. City and Landscape The Survey Roberta Cascino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 3. The Emptyscapes Project Filling Gaps in Space and Time at Veii Stefano Campana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
PART II. HISTORY OF THE CITY
Chapter 4. Toward Veii The Bronze Age Francesco di Gennaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 5. Veii and Its Territory from the Final Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age Folco Biagi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 6. Veii in the Eighth Century BCE Alessandra Piergrossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 7. Veii and the Others Closest Neighbors Jacopo Tabolli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 8. The Orientalizing Period Orlando Cerasuolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 9. Veii during the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE Political Structure and Organization of the Territory Gilda Bartoloni and Anna De Santis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 10. Veii and the Greeks Francesca Boitani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 11. Veii and the Near East Annette Rathje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 12. Veii during the Archaic Period (Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE) Gilda Bartoloni and Laura M. Michetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 13. The Sanctuary of Portonaccio Giovanni Colonna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 14. Cult Evidence from the Urban Sanctuaries at Veii Ingrid Edlund-Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 15. The Epigraphical Evidence Daniele Federico Maras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 16. The Defensive System Luca Pulcinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
PART III. MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CITY
Chapter 17. Early Iron Age Pottery Sara Neri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 18. Orientalizing Pottery Silvia ten Kortenaar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 19. Archaic, Late Archaic, and Classical Pottery Maria Teresa Di Sarcina and Federica Pitzalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 20. Metal Production Matteo Milletti and Luciana Drago Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 21. Wall Painting Francesca Boitani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 22. Stone Sculpture Iefke van Kampen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 23. Kilns and Evidence of Ceramic Production Barbara Belelli Marchesini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter 24. Architectural Terracottas Nancy A. Winter and Claudia Carlucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
PART IV. LEGACY OF THE CITY
Chapter 25. Furius Camillus and Veii Christopher Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Conclusions Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Appendix. A Chronology of Veii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 238
Illustrations
- Other: 14 color photos, 51 b&w photos, 56 b&w illus., 3 color and 9 b&w maps

eBook

Published: February 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781477317266