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Title: “Tombs, Transformations, and Athenian Vases in Etruria”
Abstract: Of the thousands of Athenian figured vases exported to Etruria during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., the majority were deposited in tombs. In this talk, Prof. Bundrick discusses two chamber tombs discovered in 1879 near the Tuscan town of Foiano della Chiana, notable for their meticulous documentation in the Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica and the usage of Athenian pottery for cinerary urns in most of the burials. Characteristically of the time, all the objects in both tombs were sold onto the art market or otherwise disappeared into various collections; however, in the decades since, provenance research by a succession of scholars (including Prof. Bundrick) has allowed six of the original seven Athenian vessels to be identified. Prof. Bundrick uses this recontextualization as an opportunity to explore the physical and metaphorical transformation of the vases—their “etruscanization”—as their Etruscan owners adapted them for local customs and funerary belief.
Respondents: Giovanni Lovisetto, Nikki Sarto
Image: Attic black-bodied volute krater from Foiano della Chiana. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902, inv. 48.29 (Photo courtesy Walters Art Museum)
