Etruscan Final Vocab

Lituus

Latin, though to have derived from an Etruscan cultic word describing a soothsayers wand modelled on a shepards crook and associated with sacrafice and favorable omens. Earlier Roman and Etruscan depictions show the instrument in procession, ecspecially funeral processions. Symmbol of power. The Etruscan mirror from Vulci depicting Tages (Tarchies) teaching Tinia how to interpret signs (early 3rd c. BC

Corvee labor

public works labor tax potentially used for Etruscan infastructure. Ex. Road building. In Etruscan history, corvée-like labor likely took the form of obligatory service imposed by elite families or civic-religious authorities for public works, religious buildings, and aristocratic tombs.

Fasces

a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade, carried by a lictor in ancient times as a symbol of a magistate’s power. Represents corproal and capital punishment. Romans also adopted this from the Etruscans

Pech Maho

lead scroll from 5th. c BC, written in Etruscan on one side, Ancient greek on the other. Contract or delivery notes

cabotage

sailing along the coast and making multiple stops for each port, Etruscans were doing this, made port cities convinent. Resulted in mixed cargo. Can be seen in the Giglio shipwreck from around 600 BC

-          Tabula Cortonensis

one of two property disputes, 2 zilaths, ritually broken? copies made, kept in home of 4 elite individuals in chiusi

Dextrum iuncito

holding hands, marriage, on sarcophagi

Anasyrma

lifting skirt to show body, etruscan mirrors depicting turan

Elba

best iron producer, phonecians adn Greeks trading here, populonia smelts the iron, got going mid 6th c. BC. Great reputation, livy writes about it

Heroon

sacred site for a founding hero (little temple) on the palatine for Romulus?

Tarquinius

5th king of Rome, Etruscan descent, brings things such as symbols of magisrates to Rome

Forum Romanum - Regia

one of the first sacred spots,founded by Numa, 3 sacred rooms, 11 fake shields one mars,

hub and spoke model

different relations with different spokes, rome is the hub, elite families are the spikes