ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ARCHAEOLOGY I I

The teaching characterizes the CdS in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Landscape. It aims to provide students with the methodological tools for the interpretation of the archaeological contexts of pre-Roman Italy.
Objectives of the course are: to develop the ability to think about the dynamics of formation and development of the Etruscan civilization and of ancient Italy, also from different points of view. It aims to provide the methodology for the analysis of archaeological contexts also in comparison one with each other.

1. Knowledge and understanding
- To know basic archaeological and technical terminology
- To Know Italic chronology relative and absolute
- To know main theoretical models to analize settelments and necropolis
- To Know main theoretical models to analize material culture and social organization
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- To be able to employ archaeological and technical terminology
- To be able to apply chronological references for the Italic Iron age
- To be able to analyze some case studies for settlements and necropolis
- To be able to analyze examples of material culture and artistic finds
3. Judgment skills
- To be able to judge and argue hypothesis about etrusco-italic contexts
4. Communication skills
- To be able to tell new finds or results of the research with a plain and technical terminology
- to be able to compare themselves with colleagues and tutor, even in virtual way
5. Learning ability
- To be able to take notes and to share them with colleagues, even on line
- To be able to consult bibliographic references even with a critical point of view

Minimum requirement is a good knowledge of the Italian phisical and morphological geography. A basic knowledge of terminology and Iron age italic chronology, furthermore an overlook on the etrusco-italic civilization.

The course aims to develop knowledge and interpretation of the manifestations of the cult in the Etruscan-Italic world, highlighting the different realities of ancient Italy. Through architectural, artistic, epigraphic and material culture sources, the different methodologies of context analysis aimed at understanding the phenomenology of worship and identification of deities and their prerogatives will be addressed, with particular reference to the chronological and socio-cultural development of the different cultures of ancient Italy. Students will have to deal with a general part and an in-depth study of their choice on one of the proposed sites related to Etruria proper, Etruria padana and the Italic world, either in analytical form or for comparative analysis.

general bibliography:
G. Colonna 1985, I caratteri costanti; Dalla casa al tempio; Il tempio come categoria architettonica; I santuari urbani; I santuari suburbani; I santuari extraurbani, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 23-27; 53; 60-61; 67-69; 98-99; 127.
M. Torelli 2000, La religione etrusca, in Gli Etruschi, Milano, pp. 273-289.
G. Gambacurta 2013, Uomini e dei, in Venetkens. Viaggio nella terra dei Veneti antichi, Venezia, pp. 106-111.
A. Marinetti 2008, Culti e divinità dei Veneti antichi: novità dalle iscrizioni, in I Veneti antichi. Novità e aggiornamenti, Atti Convegno (Isola della Scala 2005), Verona, pp. 155-182.
Insights into cities and worships
Veio:
F. Melis 1985, Veio: l’oikos di Piazza d’Armi, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 58-59.
V. Acconcia, G. Bartoloni 2014, La cittadella di Piazza d’Armi, in Atti PontAccRomArch – Rendiconti, Città del Vaticano, p. 273 ss.; G. Colonna 1985, Santuario in località Portonaccio a Veio, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 99-101; G. Colonna 2008, L’officina veiente: Vulca e gli altri maestri di statuaria arcaica in terracotta, in Etruschi. Le antiche metropoli del Lazio, Milano, pp. 52-63.
Tarquinia e Gravisca:
G. Colonna 1985, Il tempio detto Ara della Regina a Tarquinia, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 70-73; F. Boitani 2008, Gravisca, profilo storico-topografico, in Etruschi. Le antiche metropoli del Lazio, Milano, pp. 149-153; L. Fiorini 2008, Il santuario dei mercanti greci e le feste di Adone a Gravisca, in Etruschi. Le antiche metropoli del Lazio, Milano, pp. 155-161.
Orvieto:
S. Stopponi 1985, Il santuario del Belvedere a Orvieto, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 80-83.
S. Stopponi 2018, Orvieto – Località Campo della Fiera: la scoperta del Fanum Voltumnae, in Scavi d’Etruria, Annali “Claudio Faina” XXXV, Roma, pp. 9-35; S. Stopponi 2019, Orvieto, Etruriae Caput; Orvieto (Terni), il Fanum Voltumnae, in Etruschi. Viaggio nelle terre dei Rasna, Milano, pp. 265-269; 270-277.
Capua:
M. Bonghi Jovino 1985, Capua: il santuario del fondo Patturelli, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 121-123; C. Rescigno 2019, Capua e gli artigiani campani, in Etruschi. Viaggio nelle terre dei Rasna, Milano, pp. 239-243; I. Gennarelli 2019, Curti (Caserta), il santuario di Fondo Patturelli, ibidem, Milano, pp. 249-255.
Cerveteri – Pyrgi:
G. Colonna 1985, Il santuario di Leucotea-Ilizia a Pyrgi, in Santuari d’Etruria, Milano, pp. 127-130; L.M. Michetti, B. Bellelli Marchesini 2018, Pyrgi, porto e santuario di Caere. Tra conoscenze acquisite e ricerche in corso, in Scavi d’Etruria, Annali “Claudio Faina” XXXV, Roma, pp. 245-279; L. M. Michetti 2019, Caere e Pyrgi: la città arcaica nelle sue forme sociali e nascita degli empori, in Etruschi. Viaggio nelle terre dei Rasna, Milano, pp. 161-165.
Marzabotto:
E. Govi 2018, L’area sacra urbana di Marzabotto (R. I, 4-5). Culti e pratiche rituali, in Scavi d’Etruria, Annali Museo “Claudio Faina” XXXV, Roma, pp. 613-651; E. Govi 2019, Marzabotto. La città fondata, in Etruschi. Viaggio nelle terre dei Rasna, Milano, pp. 443-451.
Il Veneto:
A.Ruta Serafini (a cura di) 2002, Este preromana: una città e i suoi santuari, Treviso: A. Maggiani, Luoghi di culto e divinità a Este, pp. 77-87; A. Ruta Serafini, C. Sainati, il “caso Meggiaro” problemi e prospettive, 216-223; L. Capuis, A.M. Chieco Bianchi, Il santuario sud-orientale di Reitia e i suoi devoti, 233-247; H.W. Daemmer, Il santuario sud-orientale. Le indagini recenti; Il santuario lacustre di San Pietro Montagnon, 248-269, 299-305; E. Baggio Bernardoni, Un santuario occidentale? Un problema aperto, 276-280; G. Gambacurta, L. Zaghetto, Il santuario settentrionale, 283-295; L. Zaghetto, Il santuario di Vicenza, 306-320; M. Tirelli, Il santuario di Altino: altno- e i cavalli, 311-320.

The test is oral; the student have to show a good knowledge of the main subjects and that they are able to explain the topics in a formally correct language, making use also of proper archaeological terminology. The students are expected to recognise the main funerary contexts treated or traceable in the bibliography and their chronological and cultural framework.

Face to face lessons
Lectures and exercises
On.line papers for specific topics.

Italian

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