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ETRUSCAN BY DEFINITION
An Etruscan study day in honour of Sybille Haynes on her 80th birthday
Friday 8 December 2006
A day of papers by international scholars on the theme of the regional,
cultural and personal identity of the Etruscans
List of papers:
James Byres and the definition of the Etruscans - David Ridgway
Regional identities within the Villanovan culture - Judith Toms
The atrium house and life-style: an Italo-Etruscan concept -Friedhelm Prayon
Etruscan Rock tombs - Origins, characteristics, local and foreign Elements - Stephan Steingräber
Rituals and ideology among the aristocracy of the orientalising period - Stefano Bruni
To sleep, perchance to dream: Etruscan funerary perfumes - Jean-René Jannot
Shake, rattle - and role? Sistra in Etruria - Judith Swaddling
Solving the riddle of the sphinx on the roof -Nancy Winter
Personal details in Etruscan inscriptions -John Penney
The importance of being Umaele - Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
The annual Eva Lorant Memorial Lecture will follow in the evening:
Dr Phil Perkins, The Open University, on
'Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum and the Origins of Mass Production'.
Tickets: £35 (students £28) www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/tickets or +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Includes buffet lunch, evening lecture and reception.
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