Research Catalog

Title

Catalogue of Etruscan objects in World Museum, Liverpool / Jeann MacIntosh Turfa and Georgina Muskett.

Author

World Museum Liverpool.

Publication

• Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Muskett, G. M. (Georgina M.)

Description

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Archaeopress archaeology

Uniform Title

Archaeopress archaeology.

Subjects

• Catalogs
• Italy > Antiquities > Catalogs
• Etruscans > Antiquities
• Art, Etruscan > Catalogs
• World Museum Liverpool Catalogs

Genre/Form

• catalogs (documents)
• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalog.
• Catalogs.
• Catalogues.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 -- Concordance -- Inventory Numbers -- Inscriptions -- Vase attributions -- Vase fabrics -- Provenance.

ISBN

• 9781784916381
• 1784916382

LCCN

99975885515

OCLC

• on1002419462
• 1002419462
• SCSB-8904581

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library