{"id":2250,"date":"2020-12-13T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:55:11","slug":"the-etruscans-who-were-they-and-where-did-they-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/the-etruscans-who-were-they-and-where-did-they-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"The Etruscans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69f2072c0aeb3\" data-id=\"69f2072c0aeb3\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"10\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"10\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Etruscans&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;title&#8221;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69f2072c0aedd\" data-id=\"69f2072c0aedd\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"10\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"10\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Who were the Etruscans and where did they come from?&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;subtitle&#8221;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69f2072c0aef3\" data-id=\"69f2072c0aef3\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"10\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"10\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The origins of the Etruscans &#8211; indeed almost everything about them &#8211; remains mysterious. It is even unclear when they first arrived in the Italian peninsula and whether an entire people migrated or only what became a ruling caste. Recent genetic studies of both Etruscan human remains and local oxen provides evidence that a connection with eastern Anatolia is not purely cultural and that Herodotus was right when he stated that the Etruscans originated in Lydia, southern Anatolia. DNA samples were obtained from three present-day Italian populations living in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.val-di-merse.com\/murlo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Murlo<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volterra.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Volterra<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valdarno-info.com\/casentino.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\"> Casentino<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> in Tuscany. The sampled individuals were from families that had lived in these areas for at least three generations and had surnames limited to these areas. The results appeared to\u00a0 show that all three groups, but especially those from Murlo, were more closely related to the samples from the near East than from other parts of Italy. The Murlo samples contained a genetic variant found only in the samples from Turkey and Lemnos, the island where a stele was discovered in 1885 inscribed in a pre-Greek language that is related to Etruscan, and dating to the 6th century BC. Lydia is inland from the island of Lemnos, and Smyrna (Izmir) from which Herodotus says the Etruscan set out for Umbria and Tuscany, lies between the two. However, more recent genetic evidence seems to show that the mtDNA haplogroups found in the modern sample from Murlo and classified\u00a0 as of Near Eastern origin are actually widespread in modern samples from other areas of Italy and Europe that have no link with the Etruscans. The implication of this recent study is that these haplogroups are evidence of much earlier, neolithic incursions, and cannot be taken as evidence that the Etruscans arrived from Anatolia.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"95%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3066\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3066 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan\" width=\"219\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\"><strong>Etruscan terracotta statue<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3069\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_musician.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3069 \" title=\"Etruscan musician\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_musician-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan musician\" width=\"194\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_musician-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_musician-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_musician.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\"><strong>Tomb wall painting of an Etruscan musician<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roman authors record that the Etruscans had a rich literature, but only one book (now unreadable) has survived. By AD 100, Etruscan had been replaced by Latin. Only a few scholarly Romans with antiquarian interests, such as Varro, could read Etruscan and last person known to have been able to read it was the Roman emperor Claudius (10 BC \u2013 AD 54), who is said to have compiled an Etruscan dictionary by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language. Thus the Etruscan language is now known almost solely from some 13,000 mainly brief inscriptions and has yet to be fully interpreted. It was evidently a language isolate that can be grouped with Raetic, a language spoken in antiquity in the province of Raetia, in the Eastern Alps, to the north and west of Venetic. Etruscan and Raetic are grouped with Lemnian, an extinct Aegean language, to form the Tyrsenian language family which is an isolate family not demonstrably related to any other known language family. In other words, Etruscan was not an Indo-European language. It is also very likely that the Etruscans learned to write from their Greek neighbours so that, while Etruscan inscriptions appear quite suddenly in the historical record, the Etruscans themselves had been developing their culture and language <i> in situ<\/i> on the Italian peninsula before the first historical record of their existence.<\/p>\n<p>The Romans owed a great deal to the Etruscans, their accomplished predecessors and former enemies on the Italian peninsula. They were known as Rasenna, and Tusci or Etrusci by Romans, whose historians did not give their accomplishments due credit. However, over the past two hundred years, archaeologists and art historians have shown that the Etruscans occupied much of north-central Italy in the first millennium B.C. and traded widely in the Mediterranean. Their prosperity and taste for luxury connected them to trade routes that extended as far north as the Baltic Sea from which they imported amber. Even now, much of what we know of the Etruscans is derived from their rich tomb furnishings which fill museums world-wide. One of the most comprehensive and best organised Etruscan collections is in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volterra.net\/guarnacci_museum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Guarnacci Museum in Volterra<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/borgo-di-vagli.blogspot.ch\/2013\/03\/getting-to-understand-etruscans-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Museo dell&#8217;Accademia Etrusca di Cortona<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3073\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_krater.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_krater-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan krater\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_krater-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_krater-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_krater.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\"><strong>An Etruscan krater<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Etruscans were second only to the Greeks themselves as a medium for the introduction of Greek culture and its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/etruscan_mythology.htm\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Pantheon of Gods<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> to the Romans. The Etruscans also developed a version of the Greek alphabet, that influenced Roman script. They built the first cities in Italy and their influence shows up in the later Roman architecture and engineering. The ruins of settlements and cities, especially in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bella-toscana.com\/maremma.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Maremma<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> have revealed a great deal about Etruscan material culture, from huts through houses to palaces. At locations around <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grosseto-info.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Grosseto<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grosseto-info.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Roselle<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altamaremma.org\/pitigliano.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Pitigliano<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altamaremma.org\/vetulonia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Vetulonia<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altamaremma.org\/populonia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Populonia<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> etc. excavators have uncovered remains of fortification walls, artisans&#8217; workshops and kilns, temples and grids of streets. Some cities were laid out with separate zones for residences, industry and public buildings. Roads had ruts paved with stone, like tram tracks, to provide a smoother ride in springless carriages and chariots. Etruscan settlements began evolving from collections of thatched huts to tiled-roof, rectangular houses on stone foundations, then to real cities as early as the seventh century B.C. in which an Etruscan society, with wealthy elite, controlled a large population of slaves and serfs. Remains of Etruscan tombs are also to be seen on the outskirts of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castellina.com\/sights_of_castellina.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Castellina in Chianti<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortona-italy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Cortona<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Etruscan power and grip on the Italian peninsula began to decline in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\">More about the<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiantitravelguide.com\/history-of-tuscany-and-tuscan-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\">History of Tuscany and Tuscan Culture<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/b>.<\/h3>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Etruscan Dodecapoli league of twelve cities<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3086\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_civilisation_map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_civilisation_map-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etruscan civilisation map\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_civilisation_map-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_civilisation_map-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/etruscan_civilisation_map.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\"><strong>Map showing the principal cities and towns of the Etruscans<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\">The Etruscan cities most often included (with their more familiar Latin and Italian equivalents) are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arretium (modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arezzo-info.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b>Arezzo<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Caisra, Cisra (Caere or modern Cerveteri, and its frazione Ceri)<br \/>\n\u2022 Clevsin, (Clusium or modern Chiusi)<br \/>\n\u2022 Curtun (modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortona.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Cortona<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Perusna (<span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perugia-italy.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Perugia<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Pupluna, Fufluna (<span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altamaremma.org\/populonia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Populonia<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Veia (Veii or modern Veio)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tarch(u)na (Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia-Corneto)<br \/>\n\u2022 Vetluna, Vetluna (<span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altamaremma.org\/vetulonia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b>Vetulonia<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Felathri (Volaterrae or modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volterra.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Volterra<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Velzna (Volsinii, presumed modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orvieto-info.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Orvieto<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2022 Velch, Velc(a)l (Vulci or modern Volci).<\/p>\n<p><b>Other Etruscan cities<\/b>, not members of the Dodecapoli:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Vi(p)sul (Faesulae or modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiesole.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Fiesole<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>).<br \/>\n\u2022 Adria.<br \/>\n\u2022 Spina.<br \/>\n\u2022 Felsina (Bononia, modern <span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bologna-info.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Bologna<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span>).<br \/>\n\u2022 Mutna (Mutina, modern Modena).<br \/>\n\u2022 Parma.<br \/>\n\u2022 Rusellae, near modern <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grosseto-info.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roselle Terme<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n\u2022 Alalia in Corsica (Roman and modern Aleria).<br \/>\n\u2022 Capeva (Capua).<br \/>\n\u2022 Manthva (Mantua).<br \/>\n\u2022 Inarime(?) (Pitecusa (Greek Pithekoussai) or modern Ischia.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #cc3300;\">More about<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chianti.info\/chianti\/the-gods-goddesses-and-mythology-of-the-etruscans\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3399ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Etruscan gods, goddesses and mythological figures<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/b>.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Etruscans&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;title&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Who were the Etruscans and where did they come from?&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;subtitle&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The origins of the Etruscans &#8211; indeed almost everything about them &#8211; remains mysterious. 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