I'm still hesitant about attributing the Etruscan word to the Greek word, simply because it requires me to assume a lot. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan araχ: a falcon, a hawk, both?] Reference
The exhibit will remain open until 2 March, after which the Euphronius Vase will be moved to its permanent home in National Etruscan Museum at the Villa Giulia in Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Euphronius Vase at eternallycool.net] Reference
They’re Swiss, their name is a word in Etruscan, and some of their vocals are in Gaulish (the rest in English). From Wordnik.com. [John Joseph Adams » Best New Bands] Reference
I just found damningly conclusive proof now that Losna is indeed falsely identified as Etruscan as I asserted above. From Wordnik.com. [The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin] Reference
Feb 6 08 I just found damningly conclusive proof now that Losna is indeed falsely identified as Etruscan as I asserted above. From Wordnik.com. [Perhaps we need an Etruscan "anti-dictionary"] Reference
The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another na. From Wordnik.com. [The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin] Reference
The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin. From Wordnik.com. [The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin] Reference
Pushing a meaning of 'Etruscan' on the word makes for both clumsy semantics and grammar. From Wordnik.com. [ETP 187: More weirdness] Reference
Paleoglot: The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin] Reference
Many Etruscan names show -e where we find Latin -us such as Etruscan Marce and Latin Marcus. From Wordnik.com. [The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone] Reference
And I found many contradictions Like rasna being "Etruscan", according to these same Bonfantes. From Wordnik.com. [What are Etruscans doing with those eggs?] Reference
However, my position is that barely anything is 'Etruscan' before the "oriental influences" start pouring in. From Wordnik.com. ["Proto-Aegean" - What I mean and what I don't] Reference
Read The so-called "Etruscan" goddess Losna: Another nail in her coffin which I wrote a few months laterFebruary 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Perhaps we need an Etruscan "anti-dictionary"] Reference
Here is one Etruscan legend of the nursery, recalling. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Monte-Leone in the Etruscan house would not be for ever. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Etruscan art exercised the greatest influence in Rome, for. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Etruscan origin, the exhibitions of the amphitheatre are so peculiarly. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
It is by the subject chiefly that the Etruscan vases are distinguished from the. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Also a few Roman and Etruscan antiquities, and the series of coins and medals struck at. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
It is moreover shown by the Etruscan diviners in treatises on their science that the fanes of. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The amphitheatre of Sutri is considered to be peculiarly Etruscan in its mode of construction. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In some Etruscan cities earthenware was manufactured by local artists working after Greek patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The compositions show an admixture of local myths and usages, not to mention Etruscan inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
I said to Madame Marmet, 'We have at Fiesole, in the Pretorio Palace, a modest little Etruscan museum. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Of all the ancient objects collected by the archaeologist, she had retained nothing except the Etruscan. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The hall was a large and very fine one, most chastely decorated in a style which reminded one of the Etruscan. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
The last time I was in Italy was 1999, three years after Frances Mayes 'book put the Etruscan town on the map. From Wordnik.com. [Sue Frause: People Pay to Eat Pray Love Their Way Through Italy, India and Indonesia] Reference
It amazed one to see in this good lady's house that Etruscan warrior wearing a green bronze helmet and a cuirass. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Agylla city, an ancient pile of stone, where of old the Lydian race, eminent in war, settled on the Etruscan ridges. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
We have historical evidence, also, that gladiatorial combats had an Etruscan origin, and were borrowed by the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Such sunshades, which, like our own, could be shut by means of wires, we often see depicted on vases and Etruscan mirrors. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But meanwhile the Trojan force nears the walls, with the Etruscan captains and their whole cavalry arrayed in ordered squadrons. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
There is the hand pouring oil into a lamp of pure Etruscan shape, symbolical of the nutriment supplied to the intellectual flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Rome was adorned with monuments of Etruscan art, in its very infancy; it was a Tuscan called Veturius Mamurius who made the shields. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He was able to speak the Etruscan language, and felt that a little audacity was all that he needed to carry his mission out safely. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
If you go back to ancient cave drawings of, you know, Etruscan art, you actually see people playing double pipes, two pipes at once. From Wordnik.com. [Red Priest: Defying Baroque Boundaries] Reference
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