Etruscan perfume vase 2nd C. BCE

"And the same people were called by the rest of the world both Tyrrhenians and Pelasgians, the former name being from the country out of which they had been driven and the latter in memory of their ancient origin. I mention this so that no one, when he hears poets or historians call the Pelasgians Tyrrhenians also, may wonder how the same people got both these names."

-Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities: Book 1.25


Etruscan perfume vase shaped like a female head, on which is inscripted the word “suthina” (“for the tomb”) in retrograde Etruscan script. Bronze, early 2nd century BCE. H. 16 cm (6 ¼ in.). Current location: Louvre Museum.


Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etruscan_perfume_vase_Louvre_Br2949.jpg

 

 Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#25

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