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The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...
Taylor, Laurel, "Temple of Minerva and the sculpture of Apollo (Veii)", Khan Academy essay Winter, Nancy A., "Monumentalization of the Etruscan Round Moulding in Sixth Century BCE Central Italy", in Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation , edited by Michael Thomas, Gretchen E. Meyers, 2012, University of ...
The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu , designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple. The statue was discovered in the Portonaccio sanctuary of ancient Veii , Latium , in what is now central Italy , and dates from c. 510-500 BC .
The temple of Juno was the greatest and most honoured in the city. [4] The largest visible monument is the sanctuary of Minerva from the 7th c. BC, situated along an important route just outside the city (at modern Portonaccio). Prior to their influx of wealth around the 7th century BC, the people of Veii preferred to worship their gods and ...
Bronze Mirror from Bolsena with Caile Vipinas, Artile, Cacu and Avle Vipinas. The historical existence of Aulus Vibenna, citizen of Vulci, [2] is confirmed by archaeological finds, including a cup found at the sanctuary of Portonaccio near Veii, a bucchero chalice (of which only the high cylindrical foot remains from the sanctuary of Portonaccio) from the period in which tradition places it ...
Naples (Italy) and its immediate surroundings preserve an archaeological heritage of inestimable value and among the best in the world. For example, the archaeological park of the Phlegraean Fields (Cumae, Baiae, the Flavian Amphitheatre and the Pozzuoli forum) is directly connected to the centre of Naples through the Cumana railway, and the nearby sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and ...
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Vulca was an Etruscan artist from the town of Veii. The only Etruscan artist mentioned by ancient writers, he worked for the last of the Roman kings, Tarquinius Superbus (who died in 495 BC). [ 1 ] He is responsible for creating a terracotta statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill , and ...