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Hi guys
I went to Tuscany for vacation and touched Chiusi. Managed to sneak a photo of a battle scene of a fragmented sarcophagus. Unfortunately the photo is out of focus but I will attach it to this contribution once I figure out how to do it. Indeed it should be interesting enough to trigger some of you to visit Chiusi. It has a VERY nice Etruscan museum too with wonderful mythological fighting scenes in color!
The headless legionary on the left is really cool. His scabbard is in perspective and has a nice upbeat to it.
Jeff
p.s. the fragments were found 20 years ago under the main church of Chiusi. The photo should not have been taken (no authorization) but then it is out of focus!
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I visited Chiusi around 5 years ago and can second Jeff's view. I recall an interresting tour of tunnels under the town, which was once Clusium, the home of Lars Porsena.
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It seems to me that the photo is seen as available only if I log in and to see it I must download it. How do I set things up so that any casual reader (non-member) can see it?
Have any of you logged on also downloaded the photo successfully?
jeff
p.s. Sorry for out of focus.
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Wow very good. Etruscan friezes were extremely high quality, in some places better than the Greeks of the time!
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The sarcofagus I photographed is roman. To me it looks from the trajanic period. Evidently there was some "roman" general from Chiusi area. The quality is not as good as great trajanic friezes in Rome but it is still quite impressive.
Instead in the nearby Etruscan museum there are wonderful freizes in full color and some with great "realistic" details.
Bye
Jeff
p.s. again can anyone tell me how to post a picture so it can be visible to all, even those non-logged in?
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Yes...but I cannot make out the scabbard you mention.... :?
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Quote:The sarcofagus I photographed is roman. To me it looks from the trajanic period. Evidently there was some "roman" general from Chiusi area. The quality is not as good as great trajanic friezes in Rome but it is still quite impressive.
Oh, how can we tell that this is from the Trajanic period? It looks great, and very similar to the Etruscan funeral battle friezes.
As far as I know you can't upload images to the forum without limiting their visibility only to members. But if you upload the image to
www.imageshack.us or to
www.picoodle.com then it will be visible to everybody.
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Quote:Goffredo:6gb3tpcg Wrote:The sarcofagus I photographed is roman. To me it looks from the trajanic period. Evidently there was some "roman" general from Chiusi area. The quality is not as good as great trajanic friezes in Rome but it is still quite impressive.
Oh, how can we tell that this is from the Trajanic period? It looks great, and very similar to the Etruscan funeral battle friezes.
The style definitely looks 2nd c. AD. Etruscan funerary scenes have quite a different style to this.
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The stacking (if there is a technical term for it, I don't know what it is) does seem to strongly indicate a 2c date. Trajanic period seems reasonable. By the late 2c the stacking and general crowding was more considerable than what I can make out in the fragment pictured here. Etruscan battle scenes could be crowded, but almost never exhibited any use of stacking, and generally used scene dividers if they did.
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