Book contents
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- British School at Rome Studies
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Charts and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Silent Roofing Revolution
- 3 Architectural Terracottas of Central Italy within Their Wider Mediterranean Context
- 4 The Connective Evidence for Early Roman Urbanism
- 5 Connecting Foundations and Roofs
- 6 Architectural Choices in Etruscan Sacred Areas
- 7 Connections in Death
- Index
- References
7 - Connections in Death
Etruscan Tomb Architecture, c. 800–400 bc
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- British School at Rome Studies
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Charts and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Silent Roofing Revolution
- 3 Architectural Terracottas of Central Italy within Their Wider Mediterranean Context
- 4 The Connective Evidence for Early Roman Urbanism
- 5 Connecting Foundations and Roofs
- 6 Architectural Choices in Etruscan Sacred Areas
- 7 Connections in Death
- Index
- References
Summary
Funerary architecture can profitably be analysed through the lens of connectivity. As material that connected the living and the dead, both at the level of the individual and the community, funerary architecture exhibits the values held to be important in both realms and, like religious architecture, is a vehicle for connecting the tangible and intangible. The characteristics and development of Etruscan funerary architecture have to be studied mainly in their connections with settlements, society, and domestic, religious, and foreign architecture. A case study of rock tombs shows the problems that arise in trying to identify certain forms as either predominantly local or international, and thus effectively signals the limits of analyses of geographical connectivity and the need to go beyond typology in certain cases.
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- Architecture in Ancient Central ItalyConnections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building, pp. 174 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022