Papers by Vincenzo Bellelli
My theme is a class of orientalizing clay vases called ring-askoi, the origin of which is broadly... more My theme is a class of orientalizing clay vases called ring-askoi, the origin of which is broadly speaking Aegean or
Eastern Mediterranean. These are rarely attested in Etruria, Latium Vetus and other regions of ancient Italy. The aim
of the paper is to offer some insights into the production of this rare vase-shape, its function and distribution during
the orientalizing period. I conclude by drawing particular attention to the importance of this class of special-purpose
ceramic vases to the study of the orientalizing phenomenon in Tyrrhenian Italy.
Keywords: Orientalizing, Ring-askoi, Etruria, Latium Vetus, special-purpose vases.
Ogni volume è sottoposto a doppio referee anonimo.
Review of D. Briquel books on etruscan origins: Les origines des Étrusques. Un débat antique, 3 v... more Review of D. Briquel books on etruscan origins: Les origines des Étrusques. Un débat antique, 3 vols. École française de Rome – Classiques; École française de Rome. Vol. 1 [Les Pélasges en Italie.
Recherches sur l’histoire de la légende]: Pp. LXXVII + 657, ISBN 978-2-7283-1399-0; vol. 2 [L’origine lydienne des Étrusques. Histoire de la doctrine dans l’Antiquité]: Pp. X + 575, ISBN 978-2-7283-1400-3; vol. 3 [Les Tyrrhènes peuple des tours. Denys d’Halicarnasse et l’autochtonie
des Étrusques]: Pp. X + 227, ISBN 978-2-7283-1401-0
The sacred well investigated by the CNR-ISPC in the Etruscan sanctuary of Manganello at Cerveteri... more The sacred well investigated by the CNR-ISPC in the Etruscan sanctuary of Manganello at Cerveteri was uncovered in 2007, although its filling was investigated in 2019, after the area was secured. The authors present a preliminary report of the 2019 excavation and pay particular attention to the content of the well, which includes debris of the nearby buldings which composed the sanctuary and fragmentary ex votos
The Chimaera of Arezzo is by far the most important Etruscan bronze ever. To achieve a full under... more The Chimaera of Arezzo is by far the most important Etruscan bronze ever. To achieve a full understanding of this masterpiece of ancient art, the characters of Bellerophon and Pegasus have to be taken into account in the interpretation of the sculpture. After examining the most
recent interpretations, the Author tries to fathom out what were the real historical circumstances that, at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century BC, allowed such an exceptional – from all points of view – work of art, to be ordered and dedicated in the Etruscan city of Arezzo. According to the Author, a political interpretation may provide
the most appropriate key to place the bronze statue of Arezzo against its correct historical background. The Author argues that, from an allegorical point of view, the fire-breathing Chimaera is equivalent to the representation of the defeated protagonist of an armed rebellion. The donarium was meant to celebrate a military operation that long remained alive in the collective Etruscan memory: Aulus Spurinna’s intervention, around 400 BC, in favour of the ruling class of Arezzo to tame a dangerous social revolt.
Nel suo celebre taccuino di viaggio Etruscan Places David H. Lawrence parla più volte del vino ch... more Nel suo celebre taccuino di viaggio Etruscan Places David H. Lawrence parla più volte del vino che gli capita di bere nel corso dei suoi spostamenti in terra etrusca 1. La prima volta lo fa quando racconta del suo soggiorno a Cerveteri e Ladispoli, le località a nord di Roma in cui ha inizio il suo tour etrusco 2. A giudicare dalla descrizione del pasto e del vino (presumibilmente locale a dispetto di quanto si sta per dire), che gli vengono serviti a Cerveteri nell'unica locanda 133 www.bollettinodiarcheologiaonline.beniculturali.it
This paper deals with Campanian viticulture and its development throughout the archaic period. In... more This paper deals with Campanian viticulture and its development throughout the archaic period. In particular, the Author addresses 3 main problems: 1) the Pithecusan wine-production from the late eighth to
the sixth century BC; 2) The diffusion of Pithecusan and Etruscan wine-amphorae in Campania, southern Italy and Sicily in the seventh/sixth century BC; 3) the alleged south-Campanian production hypothesized by Claude Albore Livadie in the light of Nuceria’s material published in 1983. The Author assumes that both the Etruscan flat-bottomed amphorae from Vulci and the similar amphorae found at Nuceria imitate in shape the pithecusan model up-dated at Ischia about the mid-seventh century BC (G. Buchner’s shape ‘B’). After examining the whole archaeological dossier available in literature, the Author tries to distinguish the pithecusan imports in Campania from the Etruscan ones and argues that the amphorae from Nuceria could be identified as local products, as Albore Livadie had already stated. Some interesting literary sources dealing with the ‘Aminaean’ wine are also discussed in order to demonstrate that the Etruscan area between Pompei and Pontecagnano was renowned in antiquity because of its wine-production. Nuceria was the
pivot of this territory because it stands at the crossroads of the road network connecting north Campania with south Campania. The production technique was probably the Etruscan ‘vite maritata’ system that later widespread all over Campania and beyond. Because of the scanty findings of amphorae of Nuceria type outside the region, this south-Campanian production has to be considered a local phenomenon, different from the Etruscan export-trade viticulture. In the paper’s final part (Appendix), the Author discusses the inscriptional records from Etruscan wine-amphorae that provide further material for reflection on trade and economy in preroman Italy.
Uomo e territorio nell’Etruria antica, in L. Bentini, M. Marchesi, L. Minarini, G. Sassatelli (a cura di), Etruschi. Viaggio nella terra dei Rasna. Catalogo della Mostra (Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 7 dicembre 2019 – 24 maggio 2020), Milano, Electa, 2019, pp. 29-33 Trasporti Montenovi Srl Biglietti e prenotazioni Best Union (Vivaticket) Audioguide AudioGuide Fi... more Trasporti Montenovi Srl Biglietti e prenotazioni Best Union (Vivaticket) Audioguide AudioGuide Firenze Assicurazioni Aon Progetti educativi e servizio didattico ASTER srl Archeologia Storia e Territorio Promossa e progettata da In collaborazione con Organizzazione e comunicazione SOTTO L'ALTO PATRONATO DEL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA Direzione generale Musei Direttore generale Antonio Lampis Direttore del Servizio I Collezioni museali Antonio Tarasco Dichiarazione di rilevante interesse culturale Alessandra Gobbi Viaggio nelle terre dei Rasna
Abstract: In this paper, I focus on Etruscan imports in Sardinia from the end of the 6th through ... more Abstract: In this paper, I focus on Etruscan imports in Sardinia from the end of the 6th through the 5th and 4th century
BC. The available archaeological evidence for the late Archaic period until the first two decades of the 5th century consists
of only a handful of items, which suggests that contacts with Etruria were limited. These few imports cannot be interpreted
as evidence of regular trade, but amphorae provide more abundant data for the 5th to 4th century BC. Increasing amounts
of Etruscan transport containers have been found in recent years, which point to the existence of well-established patterns of
trade in that period and that suggest that the perception of weak contacts across the Tyrrhenian Sea may be due to a lack of
systematic research.
The Etruscan-Phoenician relations in the Tyrrhenian area were particularly intense and precocious... more The Etruscan-Phoenician relations in the Tyrrhenian area were particularly intense and precocious and lasted throughout
the "first half of the "iirst millennium BCE. On the Etruscan side, Cerveteri was undoubtedly one of the main protagonists of the
international openness to the Phoenician-Punic element, insomuch as a historical source – the "first book of the stories by Herodotus
– reminds the Caeretan-Carthaginian alliance against the Greeks of Phocaea for the political control of the Tyrrhenian commercial
routes. Other well-known literary evidence – such as a passage of Aristotle’s Politics – remind diplomatic agreements between
Carthage and the coastal Etruscan cities, probably including Cerveteri (even if those sources do not explicitly refer to the Etruscan
communities involved). The latter, after all, lived a special relationship with the first Phoenician traders and then with Carthage as
well, to the point that it signed political-military agreements with the Semitic counterpart, aimed to preserve the respective spheres
of action in the Tyrrhenian space: the exceptional epigraphic evidence of the bilingual Pyrgi laminae fully confirms this framework
and contributes to enlarge the discussion to the historical-religious dimension. Finally, the mass of the archaeological record allows
us to include in the debate the question of the commercial network between Cerveteri and the Phoenician-Punic cities of the centralwestern Mediterranean, which can now be revisited thanks to the new data concerning both the Etruscan-Caeretan side and the
Carthaginian, Sicilian and Sardinian one.
Vincenzo BELLELLI, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,... more Vincenzo BELLELLI, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma -texte traduit de l'italien par Anne-Sophie Faullimmel Paysage d'Étrurie, depuis la nécropole de Tarquinia. © Adobe Stock / e55EVU 1. Rhètes : peuplade d'Italie antique établie dans les vallées alpines orientales.
The northern part of Campania offers the main "body of evidence" about the presence of Etruscan c... more The northern part of Campania offers the main "body of evidence" about the presence of Etruscan civilization outside Etruria. Literary sources, epigraphic data and archaeological discoveries confirm that the Etruscans in the region developed an advanced urban civilization, and from the late tenth century BCE onward founded several cities around Mount Vesuvius, while never reaching the coast. Capua and Nola were the main centers of Etruscan Campania. The former, according to ancient written sources, was the capital of a dodecapolis (a confederation of twelve cities). The results of a deep cultural and ethnic interaction between the Etruscans and the indigenous peoples, the Opikoi and the Ausones, gave birth in northern Campania to a mixed civilization, which included the entire mesogaia, the fertile hinterland. In the fifth century BCE, the Etruscan cities of Campania were cap tured by the Campanians.
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Eastern Mediterranean. These are rarely attested in Etruria, Latium Vetus and other regions of ancient Italy. The aim
of the paper is to offer some insights into the production of this rare vase-shape, its function and distribution during
the orientalizing period. I conclude by drawing particular attention to the importance of this class of special-purpose
ceramic vases to the study of the orientalizing phenomenon in Tyrrhenian Italy.
Keywords: Orientalizing, Ring-askoi, Etruria, Latium Vetus, special-purpose vases.
Recherches sur l’histoire de la légende]: Pp. LXXVII + 657, ISBN 978-2-7283-1399-0; vol. 2 [L’origine lydienne des Étrusques. Histoire de la doctrine dans l’Antiquité]: Pp. X + 575, ISBN 978-2-7283-1400-3; vol. 3 [Les Tyrrhènes peuple des tours. Denys d’Halicarnasse et l’autochtonie
des Étrusques]: Pp. X + 227, ISBN 978-2-7283-1401-0
recent interpretations, the Author tries to fathom out what were the real historical circumstances that, at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century BC, allowed such an exceptional – from all points of view – work of art, to be ordered and dedicated in the Etruscan city of Arezzo. According to the Author, a political interpretation may provide
the most appropriate key to place the bronze statue of Arezzo against its correct historical background. The Author argues that, from an allegorical point of view, the fire-breathing Chimaera is equivalent to the representation of the defeated protagonist of an armed rebellion. The donarium was meant to celebrate a military operation that long remained alive in the collective Etruscan memory: Aulus Spurinna’s intervention, around 400 BC, in favour of the ruling class of Arezzo to tame a dangerous social revolt.
the sixth century BC; 2) The diffusion of Pithecusan and Etruscan wine-amphorae in Campania, southern Italy and Sicily in the seventh/sixth century BC; 3) the alleged south-Campanian production hypothesized by Claude Albore Livadie in the light of Nuceria’s material published in 1983. The Author assumes that both the Etruscan flat-bottomed amphorae from Vulci and the similar amphorae found at Nuceria imitate in shape the pithecusan model up-dated at Ischia about the mid-seventh century BC (G. Buchner’s shape ‘B’). After examining the whole archaeological dossier available in literature, the Author tries to distinguish the pithecusan imports in Campania from the Etruscan ones and argues that the amphorae from Nuceria could be identified as local products, as Albore Livadie had already stated. Some interesting literary sources dealing with the ‘Aminaean’ wine are also discussed in order to demonstrate that the Etruscan area between Pompei and Pontecagnano was renowned in antiquity because of its wine-production. Nuceria was the
pivot of this territory because it stands at the crossroads of the road network connecting north Campania with south Campania. The production technique was probably the Etruscan ‘vite maritata’ system that later widespread all over Campania and beyond. Because of the scanty findings of amphorae of Nuceria type outside the region, this south-Campanian production has to be considered a local phenomenon, different from the Etruscan export-trade viticulture. In the paper’s final part (Appendix), the Author discusses the inscriptional records from Etruscan wine-amphorae that provide further material for reflection on trade and economy in preroman Italy.
BC. The available archaeological evidence for the late Archaic period until the first two decades of the 5th century consists
of only a handful of items, which suggests that contacts with Etruria were limited. These few imports cannot be interpreted
as evidence of regular trade, but amphorae provide more abundant data for the 5th to 4th century BC. Increasing amounts
of Etruscan transport containers have been found in recent years, which point to the existence of well-established patterns of
trade in that period and that suggest that the perception of weak contacts across the Tyrrhenian Sea may be due to a lack of
systematic research.
the "first half of the "iirst millennium BCE. On the Etruscan side, Cerveteri was undoubtedly one of the main protagonists of the
international openness to the Phoenician-Punic element, insomuch as a historical source – the "first book of the stories by Herodotus
– reminds the Caeretan-Carthaginian alliance against the Greeks of Phocaea for the political control of the Tyrrhenian commercial
routes. Other well-known literary evidence – such as a passage of Aristotle’s Politics – remind diplomatic agreements between
Carthage and the coastal Etruscan cities, probably including Cerveteri (even if those sources do not explicitly refer to the Etruscan
communities involved). The latter, after all, lived a special relationship with the first Phoenician traders and then with Carthage as
well, to the point that it signed political-military agreements with the Semitic counterpart, aimed to preserve the respective spheres
of action in the Tyrrhenian space: the exceptional epigraphic evidence of the bilingual Pyrgi laminae fully confirms this framework
and contributes to enlarge the discussion to the historical-religious dimension. Finally, the mass of the archaeological record allows
us to include in the debate the question of the commercial network between Cerveteri and the Phoenician-Punic cities of the centralwestern Mediterranean, which can now be revisited thanks to the new data concerning both the Etruscan-Caeretan side and the
Carthaginian, Sicilian and Sardinian one.
Eastern Mediterranean. These are rarely attested in Etruria, Latium Vetus and other regions of ancient Italy. The aim
of the paper is to offer some insights into the production of this rare vase-shape, its function and distribution during
the orientalizing period. I conclude by drawing particular attention to the importance of this class of special-purpose
ceramic vases to the study of the orientalizing phenomenon in Tyrrhenian Italy.
Keywords: Orientalizing, Ring-askoi, Etruria, Latium Vetus, special-purpose vases.
Recherches sur l’histoire de la légende]: Pp. LXXVII + 657, ISBN 978-2-7283-1399-0; vol. 2 [L’origine lydienne des Étrusques. Histoire de la doctrine dans l’Antiquité]: Pp. X + 575, ISBN 978-2-7283-1400-3; vol. 3 [Les Tyrrhènes peuple des tours. Denys d’Halicarnasse et l’autochtonie
des Étrusques]: Pp. X + 227, ISBN 978-2-7283-1401-0
recent interpretations, the Author tries to fathom out what were the real historical circumstances that, at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century BC, allowed such an exceptional – from all points of view – work of art, to be ordered and dedicated in the Etruscan city of Arezzo. According to the Author, a political interpretation may provide
the most appropriate key to place the bronze statue of Arezzo against its correct historical background. The Author argues that, from an allegorical point of view, the fire-breathing Chimaera is equivalent to the representation of the defeated protagonist of an armed rebellion. The donarium was meant to celebrate a military operation that long remained alive in the collective Etruscan memory: Aulus Spurinna’s intervention, around 400 BC, in favour of the ruling class of Arezzo to tame a dangerous social revolt.
the sixth century BC; 2) The diffusion of Pithecusan and Etruscan wine-amphorae in Campania, southern Italy and Sicily in the seventh/sixth century BC; 3) the alleged south-Campanian production hypothesized by Claude Albore Livadie in the light of Nuceria’s material published in 1983. The Author assumes that both the Etruscan flat-bottomed amphorae from Vulci and the similar amphorae found at Nuceria imitate in shape the pithecusan model up-dated at Ischia about the mid-seventh century BC (G. Buchner’s shape ‘B’). After examining the whole archaeological dossier available in literature, the Author tries to distinguish the pithecusan imports in Campania from the Etruscan ones and argues that the amphorae from Nuceria could be identified as local products, as Albore Livadie had already stated. Some interesting literary sources dealing with the ‘Aminaean’ wine are also discussed in order to demonstrate that the Etruscan area between Pompei and Pontecagnano was renowned in antiquity because of its wine-production. Nuceria was the
pivot of this territory because it stands at the crossroads of the road network connecting north Campania with south Campania. The production technique was probably the Etruscan ‘vite maritata’ system that later widespread all over Campania and beyond. Because of the scanty findings of amphorae of Nuceria type outside the region, this south-Campanian production has to be considered a local phenomenon, different from the Etruscan export-trade viticulture. In the paper’s final part (Appendix), the Author discusses the inscriptional records from Etruscan wine-amphorae that provide further material for reflection on trade and economy in preroman Italy.
BC. The available archaeological evidence for the late Archaic period until the first two decades of the 5th century consists
of only a handful of items, which suggests that contacts with Etruria were limited. These few imports cannot be interpreted
as evidence of regular trade, but amphorae provide more abundant data for the 5th to 4th century BC. Increasing amounts
of Etruscan transport containers have been found in recent years, which point to the existence of well-established patterns of
trade in that period and that suggest that the perception of weak contacts across the Tyrrhenian Sea may be due to a lack of
systematic research.
the "first half of the "iirst millennium BCE. On the Etruscan side, Cerveteri was undoubtedly one of the main protagonists of the
international openness to the Phoenician-Punic element, insomuch as a historical source – the "first book of the stories by Herodotus
– reminds the Caeretan-Carthaginian alliance against the Greeks of Phocaea for the political control of the Tyrrhenian commercial
routes. Other well-known literary evidence – such as a passage of Aristotle’s Politics – remind diplomatic agreements between
Carthage and the coastal Etruscan cities, probably including Cerveteri (even if those sources do not explicitly refer to the Etruscan
communities involved). The latter, after all, lived a special relationship with the first Phoenician traders and then with Carthage as
well, to the point that it signed political-military agreements with the Semitic counterpart, aimed to preserve the respective spheres
of action in the Tyrrhenian space: the exceptional epigraphic evidence of the bilingual Pyrgi laminae fully confirms this framework
and contributes to enlarge the discussion to the historical-religious dimension. Finally, the mass of the archaeological record allows
us to include in the debate the question of the commercial network between Cerveteri and the Phoenician-Punic cities of the centralwestern Mediterranean, which can now be revisited thanks to the new data concerning both the Etruscan-Caeretan side and the
Carthaginian, Sicilian and Sardinian one.
Just published:
"Le lamine di Pyrgi. Nuovi studi sulle iscrizioni in etrusco e in fenicio nel cinquantenario della scoperta"
Edited by Vincenzo Bellelli and Paolo Xella
Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente antico, ns, 32-33 (2015-2016)
Essedue Edizioni, Verona 2016
i-ii, 254 pp., Pl. I-VIII; 58 euros; promotional offer (until 1st May 2014): 38 euros
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Contents:
- Vincenzo Bellelli – Paolo Xella, Prefazione
- Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, Sull’ambientazione della lamina fenicia di Pyrgi
- Giovanni Garbini, La bilingue di Tiberio
- Philip Ch. Schmitz, Sempre Pyrgi. A Retraction and Reassessment of the Phoenician Text
- Paolo Xella, Il testo fenicio di Pyrgi
- José Á. Zamora, Pyrgi Revisited. An Analysis of the Structure and Formulae of the Phoenician Text of Pyrgi
- Enrico Benelli, Riforme della scrittura e cultura epigrafica al tempo delle lamine di Pyrgi
- Daniele F. Maras, Lettere e sacro. Breve storia della scrittura nel santuario etrusco di Pyrgi
- Valentina Belfiore, Nuovi spunti di riflessione sulle lamine di Pyrgi in etrusco
- Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, The Etruscan Text of the Pyrgi Golden Tablets: Certainties and Uncertainties
- Giovanni Colonna, Ancora sulle lamine di Pyrgi
- Mario Torelli, La ricerca del carisma. Le ragioni della fondazione templare di Thefarie Velianas
- Christopher Smith, The Pyrgi Tablets and the View from Rome
- Jorge Martínez Pinna, Del zilacato de Thefarie Velianas a la realeza de Orgolnio. Algunas reflexiones sobre la magistratura ceretana
- Vincenzo Bellelli, The Pyrgi Golden Tablets. A Selected Bibliography (1994-2004)
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- Indirizzi degli autori
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