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The Villanovan and Etruscan collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts not only represent an important source of Classical Antiquity in the United States, but also serve as a historical model of how such artifacts were acquired by large American museums from the late-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. These collections provide museum visitors, scholars, and students with an indepth view into one of antiquity's most fascinating peoples, the Etruscans and their predecessors. The wide-ranging collections contain artifacts from every aspect of Etruscan life such as utilitarian tools and weapons, objects for personal adornment, votive statuettes, and cinerary urns to house the dead. One statuette, the Detroit Rider, is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Etruscan small sculpture. The catalogue brings together all of these pieces for the first time with photographs and relevant bibliographic sources on their cultural and religious functions in antiquity.
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foreword The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts i ii foreword Monumenta Graeca et Romana Editor-in-Chief John M. Fossey FRSC (McGill University & Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) Associate Editor Angelo Geissen (University of Cologne) Advisory Board Christiane Delplace (CNRS, France) Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Nota Kourou (University of Athens) Gullög Christine Nordquist (University of Uppsala) Michael Vickers (University of Oxford) VOLUME 14 foreword The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts By David A. Caccioli BA, MA, MA, PhD With an Introduction by William H. Peck LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 iii iv foreword Illustration on the cover: General view, Etruscan Cinerary Urn 74.69a-c; Photograph Courtesy of the DIA. (See also Cat. No. 3 and Plates 5–7, pp. 18–20.) This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Caccioli, David A. The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts / by David A. Caccioli ; with an introduction by William H. Peck. p. cm. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana; v. 14) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-90-04-17230-2 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Villanovan culture—Catalogs. 2. Etruscans—Catalogs. 3. Etruria—Antiquities—Catalogs. 4. Greece— Antiquities—Catalogs. 5. Classical antiquities—Catalogs. 6. Detroit Institute of Arts—Catalogs. I. Title. II. Series. GN780.2.V5C33 2009 016.9375—dc22 2009014963 ISSN 0169-8850 ISBN 978 90 04 17230 2 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all right holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . .