Etruscan head of a woman 3rd-2nd C. BCE

"The Romans, however, give them other names: from the country they once inhabited, named Etruria, they call them Etruscans, and from their knowledge of the ceremonies relating to divine worship, in which they excel others, they now call them, rather inaccurately, Tusci, but formerly, with the same accuracy as the Greeks, they called them Thyoscoï. Their own name for themselves, however, is the same as that of one of their leaders, Rasenna."

-Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities: Book 1:30 

 

Etruscan head of a woman 3rd-2nd C. BCE. Current location: Museo Gregoriano Etrusco - Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums).

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#30.3