Etruscan man wearing a laurel-wreath 2nd C. BCE

"The Tyrrheni, then, are called among the Romans "Etrusci" and "Tusci". The Greeks, however, so the story goes, named them thus after Tyrrhenus, the son of Atys, who sent forth colonists hither from Lydia: At a time of famine and dearth of crops, Atys, one of the descendants of Heracles and Omphale, having only two children, by a casting of lots detained one of them, Lydus, and, assembling the greater part of the people with the other, Tyrrhenus, sent them forth. And when Tyrrhenus came, he not only called the country Tyrrhenia after himself, but also put Tarco in charge as "coloniser," and founded twelve cities; Tarco, I say, after whom the city of Tarquinia is named, who, on account of his sagacity from boyhood, is said by the myth-tellers to have been born with grey hair."

-Strabo, Geography: Book 5, Chapter 2.2

Etruscan man wearing a laurel-wreath 2nd C. BCE. Terracotta. Height: 11 1/2 in. (29.21 cm). Gift of Robert Blaugrund (M.82.77.13). Current location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190121220423/https%3A//collections.lacma.org/node/243824

 

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/5B*.html#2.2