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The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu , designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple. The statue was discovered in the Portonaccio sanctuary of ancient Veii , Latium , in what is now central Italy , and dates from c. 510-500 BC .
The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...
The invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo and his sister Artemis. Apollo is also an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crops from diseases, pests and predators were his primary duties. As the god of mousike, [a] Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance and ...
One of the best known examples of free-standing or isolated statue of this phase is the cult sculpture of Apollo of Veii, currently in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. [1] During this period important changes were made in sculpture also due to changes in the field of architecture and religion.
Zerynthus (Ancient Greek: Ζήρυνθος, romanized: Zḗrunthos; Latin: Zerynthus [1]) was a town of the Apsynthii in Thrace which had a temple of Apollo [2] and Artemis. Because of that two deities derived the epithet of Zerynthian. [3] According to Lycophron's Alexandra, this was the location of Zerynthos or Zirynthia, a cave sacred to ...
Epithet of Śuri, Etruscan infernal deity whose temple stood at Rome near the Capitoline Hill. [53] The identification is made from the deity's Latin names related by a number of ancient authors over the centuries: Vēi, Vēdi, Vēdii, Veiovis, Vediovis, Vediiovis, Vedius. [55] Vesuna: Italic goddess mentioned also in the Iguvine Tables. [53 ...
Vulca was an Etruscan artist from the town of Veii. The only Etruscan artist mentioned by ancient writers, he worked for the last of the Roman kings, Tarquinius Superbus (who died in 495 BC). [ 1 ] He is responsible for creating a terracotta statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill , and ...
Tolumius enters history when the Roman colony of Fidenae revolted against the Republic in 438 BC, and allied itself with Veii, giving Tolumnius control of the Fidenate army. The Romans sent four envoys ( Tullus Cloelius , Gaius Fulcinius , Spurius Antius , and Lucius Roscius ) to Fidenae to demand an explanation, but they were murdered by the ...