Etruscan male from Vulci - Hellenistic Period (300-50 BCE)

"The Etruscans were the oldest inhabitants of this plain at the same period that they possessed also the Phlegraean plain in the neighbourhood of Capua and Nola, which, accessible and well known as it is to many, has such a reputation for fertility. Those therefore who would know something of the dominion of the Etruscans should not look at the country they now inhabit, but at these plains and the resources they drew thence. The Celts, being close neighbours of the Etruscans and associating much with them, cast covetous eyes on their beautiful country, and on a small pretext, suddenly attacked them with a large army and, expelling them from the plain of the Po, occupied it themselves."

-Polybius, The Histories: Book 2.17

Etruscan male from Vulci - Hellenistic Period (300-50 BCE). From Vulci, votive deposit of an urban sanctuary at "Area I", on the northeast slopes of La Città (1996-2002 excavations). Current location: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia.

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Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/2*.html#17