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Cities of the Etruscans

Introduction : exploring Veii / Gilda Bartoloni, Jacopo Tabolli, and Orlando Cerasuolo

Part I. Archaeology of the city. 1. Veii, the stratigraphy of an ancient town : a case study of Piazza d'Armi / Valeria Acconcia ; 2. City and landscape : the survey / Roberta Cascino ; 3. The emptyscapes project : filling gaps in space and time at Veii / Stefano Campana

Part II. History of the city. 4. Toward Veii : the Bronze Age / Francesco di Gennaro ; 5. Veii and its territory from the final Bronze Age to the early Iron Age / Folco Biagi ; 6. Veii in the eighth century BCE / Alessandra Piergrossi ; 7. Veii and the others : closest neighbors / Jacopo Tabolli ; 8. The orientalizing period / Orlando Cerasuolo ; 9. Veii during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE : political structure and organization of the territory / Gilda Bartoloni and Anna De Santis ; 10. Veii and the Greeks / Francesca Boitani ; 11. Veii and the near East / Annette Rathje ; 12. Veii during the Archaic period (sixth and fifth centuries BCE) / Gilda Bartoloni and Laura M. Michetti ; 13. The sanctuary of Portonaccio / Giovanni Colonna ; 14. Cult evidence from the urban sanctuaries at Veii / Ingrid Edlund-Berry ; 15. The epigraphical evidence / Daniele Federico Maras ; 16. The defensive system / Luca Pulcinelli

Part III. Material culture of the city. 17. Early Iron Age pottery / Sara Neri ; 18. Orientalizing pottery / Silvia ten Kortenaar ; 19. Archaic, late archaic, and classical pottery / Maria Teresa Di Sarcina and Federica Pitzalis ; 20. Metal production / Matteo Milletti and Luciana Drago ; 21. Wall painting / Francesca Boitani ; 22. Stone sculpture / Iefke van Kampen ; 23. Kilns and evidence of ceramic production / Barbara Belelli Marchesini ; 24. Architectural terracottas / Nancy A. Winter and Claudia Carlucci

Part IV. Legacy of the city. 25. Furius Camillus and Veii / Christopher Smith

Conclusions / Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo

Appendix. A chronology of Veii.

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