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I percorsi dell'acqua
In the history of the ancient world, water plays an important role as the quickest way to
move from one site to the other, for religious reasons, as a way to reach the Otherworld. This last
aspect is analysed in the paper starting from Mycenaean larnakes, passing through Oriental myth,
Greek ways of death, arriving in Villanovan Italy and Sardinia from Iron Age. It becomes a long
journey following the idea of Okeanos as the limit between our world and the Other one, the
navigation toward the unknown, the Otherworld of Orientalizing and Archaic phases in Etruria with
the painted tombs
Tarquinia [Etrus. Tarchuna, Tarxna; Gr.Tarkunia; Lat. Tarquinii]
New Grove Dictionary of Art Online, Etruscan cities, Tarquinia
Vulci [Etrus. Velc; Gr. Olkion; Lat. Volcii]
Grove Dictionary of Art Online, Etruscan cities, Vulc
Sant'Imbenia/Pontecagnano Sulci/Pithekoussai: four tales of an interconnected Mediterranean
Ceramica euboica in Sardegna fra la seconda metà del IX e l'VIII secolo a.C.Euboean pottery in Sardinia from the second half of the 9th to the 8th centurie BC
Cerveteri [Gr. Agylla; Lat. Caere; Etrus. Caisra]
Grove Dictionary of Art Online. Etruscan cities: Cerveter
Volterra [Etrus. Velathri; Lat. Volaterrae]
Grove Dictionary of Art, Etruscan cities, Volterr
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