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Virtue & Power

Museum

Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

The national Etruscan collection, and holder of the Chigi vase — the earliest clear depiction of hoplites in formation.

Rome, Italy · founded 1889

Scope

Etruscan and Faliscan antiquities, and the Greek vases found in Italy.

History of the collection

Established in 1889 in a sixteenth-century papal villa, to hold the material coming out of Etruscan sites in Lazio and southern Etruria.

Collection notes

A great many of the finest Greek vases known were found in Etruscan tombs rather than in Greece. That is a fact about ancient trade and Etruscan burial practice, and it is why an Italian Etruscan museum holds a key document of Greek warfare.

Objects in this catalogue