#Estruscan

[artifacts-archive]

Hand Mirror

Etruscan, 470-450 BCE

Found in women’s graves, bronze mirrors were luxurious personal possessions used in life and then buried with the dead for use in the afterlife. One side was highly polished; the other side was usually engraved with a mythic scene, such as this one, which shows the goddess Eos carrying the body of her son, Memnon, who was killed by the hero Achilles. The episode was taken from Homer’s The Iliad, the epic poem that narrates the Greek siege and eventual defeat of the city of Troy.

[sepulchrypha]

chamber_discovered

A capture from a lost archaeological documentary.

[thebrandondowning]

TETE D'HOMME (2022), 10 ½ x 12 ½"

[charring58]

The #Etruscan civilization (/ɪˈtrʌskən/ ih-TRUSK-ən) was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered,

[thoodleoo]

MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!

[unionizedwizard]

going through endwalker MSQ on my 2d character and there's something crazy going on about corvos like

-> garleans claim to be originally from corvos (that they call locus amoenus. which is a whole thing that would deserve its own 10000 words essay but anyway) before they got "kicked out" by "the corvosi" (?). to this day they still dream of "going back" and the infamous radio song/national anthem is a reference to this project (even though corvos is currently under imperial rule...?)

-> g'raha is from corvos. his tribe has been living there for centuries after the fall of the allagan empire, in order to protect the allagan ruins and artefacts from being used by a new aggressive imperialist nation (hence the allagan eye), and was sent to sharlayan as a safety measure when garlemald invaded corvos (within his lifetime)

-> according to a researcher in meryall agronomics, labyrinthos was modelled on corvos, because its unique, favorable and varied climate was deemed ideal for experimentating on different biomes and growing/creating new types of plants (also it's clearly supposed to be italy (and rome). g'raha italian-coded confirmed)

-> according to g'raha himself (and very obviously), the crystarium and its various locally-grown crops/greenhouses meant to breed and safeguard new strains of plants (necessary endeavor for survival in a post-apocalyptic world) was directly inspired from sharlayan, including labyrinthos

-> while this was, as far as i know, not directly confirmed in canon, i'm pretty sure we can assume that labyrinthos was modelled on elpis (aka the original locus amoenus) thanks to hydaelyn's intervention & her orders to the loporrits

conclusion: ???? everyone is weirdly obsessed with the mysterious and secretive fantasy italy to the point it's literally haunting the narrativeTM and a major reason for the plot to keep moving. and so i'm pretty sure we'll have a corvos-themed expansion soon enough

[blogbirdfeather]

Etruscan Honeysuckle - Madressilva (Lonicera etrusca)

Loures/Portugal (4/04/2024)

[Nikon D850; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8 with Circular Flash Nissin  MF 18; 1/250s; 400 ISO]

[empirearchives]

Muséum étrusque de Lucien Bonaparte, prince de Canino, fouilles de 1828 à 1829, vases peints avec inscriptions

Book by Lucien Bonaparte

(Etruscan Museum by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Camino, excavations of 1828 — 1829, painted vases with inscriptions)

[everjay-art]

I’ve recently been trying to be more intentional about writing things down that interest me and that I want to remember later, sort of like a very informal style of journaling (trying desperately to combat the combined impact of ADHD, chronic joint pain/fatigue, and autonomic dysfunction on my memory)

usually it’s an art idea or something that happened that day, sometimes it’s whatever this series of entries is lol

edit: somehow I managed to mistype Etruscans twice oh well 🙃

[swedishmeetballfan]

i wish i had a badass Etruscan name like Larthuza or Thanchvil

[theromaboo]

The Third Day of Julius Caesar

What was Julius Caesar's *real name*?

People often think that Caesar's name is just Julius Caesar, nothing more nothing less. His first name is Julius and his last name is Caesar. And that makes sense in a culture in which Julius is a valid first name.

But was Julius a valid first name in the time of Julius Caesar?

Usually not!

Generally, Roman men at the time of Julius Caesar had to have at least two names, a praenomen and a nomen. A praenomen is like your first name, your given name. A nomen is like your family name, it showed which gens (your extended family) you belonged to, and it usually ended with an -ius (like Claudius, Valerius, Vipsanius, Vergilius, Flavius and... Julius!)

There was a third type of name, called a cognomen. It was like a legal nickname, or it could also be a name that showed which branch of your gens you belonged to. Not all Roman men had one (such as Marc Antony!), but many did, including Caesar.

Generally, the order was like so: praenomen, nomen, and cognomen (fun fact: Maximus Decimus Meridius probably should've been Decimus Meridius Maximus. But who can trust Gladiator to be accurate?).

So we know Caesar's nomen, Julius. And we know his cognomen, Caesar. Wait, what about his praenomen? He needs one!

Julius Caesar actually had three names; we just don't usually call him by his first name. His full name is Gaius Julius Caesar. His father's name was also Gaius Julius Caesar, and his father's, and his father's! (but Julius Caesar's great great grandfather's name was actually Sextus Julius Caesar)

So yeah, Julius was not Caesar's first name.

I've met a few people who say "Actually, no. Julius Caesar's *real name* was Caius Julius Caesar with a C instead of a G!"

Nope!

The reason we sometimes see Caius for Gaius (and why Gaius was abbreviated as C.) wasn't because Gaius was actually Caius or the ancient Romans pronounced Gaius like Caius. It's because in earlier Roman history, those poor guys didn't have the letter G! They had C, K, and Q (which all made the exact same sound) but they didn't have G. They had to spell Gaius with a C and they had to abbreviate Gaius with a C because they had no G.

This was because the Latin alphabet came from the Etruscan alphabet, and Estruscan didn't have a distinction between the C and G sounds and therefore they didn't need two separate letters. Latin, meanwhile, did have a distinction and did desperately need two letters.

Anyway, Romans later got the letter G and then they could write all your favorite G words, like Gay and Gaius. They still commonly abbreviated Gaius as C. because old habits die hard.

If you say that we should write Gaius as Caius because that's the original way to spell it, you might as well say we should write Gaius as CAIVS. Don't cherry pick your archaisms!

[druckers]

adding "estruscan sarcophagi" to the list of things that have made me extremely emotional in art history

[mossytrashcan]

Also, fun fact about Thesan's name! It's the name of the Estruscan goddess of the dawn, which through osmosis with the goddess Eos, also of dawn but Greek, she has this theme of kidnapping her lovers all the time. So whenever i think of Thesans lover I think he jailbroke him out of his house at some point. He's also onenof at least three? men in the series named after goddesses and I find it fascinating

Honestly I respect SJM’s complete disregard of gender and prioritization of vibes when it comes to naming. But yeah honestly would pay for a romcom spin-off of young Thesan breaking his lover out of his shitty home environment or something

[kustas]

top 5 historical/art periods?

this is going to be purely on the art as I don't care for political history and don't think it's worth rating civilizations

bronze age Mediterranean especially Minoans

neolithic europe

shang dynasty

magdalenian

prrrrrobably the Merovingians or Estruscans or Jomon i know little about them

[3lectra-he4rt]

what are your opinions. on the symbolism & meaning behind kai's name :3

ITS SO COOL. LIKE ALL THEYRE NAMES ARE SO USHEBNEJSJS. OKAY SO BASICALLY KAI = FIRE, RIGHT (i js struggled i almost wrote that in italian), AND HIS POWER IS FIRE. COOL RIGHT?? WELL HE FINDS HIS POWER

sorry guys i have my The Hollow playlist on and Crack Baby js came on.

ANYWAY HE FINDS HIS POWER IN EPISODE SIX!!! CRAZY RIGHT. ND THEY WERE DROPPING HINTS LIKE FUCKIN CRAZY FROM EPISODE ONE. ONEEE!!!! INSANEEEEE

ALSO!!

Kai is a lesser used spelling of Kaj, the Danish name, and both come from the Estruscan “Caie” (C was used to represent G(!), Etruscan phonetics of letters often don’t match with modern English), so thats cool!!! Kaj is more directly from Cāius (pronounced “chaos”, “keys”, or “kiss” depending on where you’re from/your accent), but that js comes from Caie so i say go directly to the source! In every other country where the name is popular (ex. Finland), it js came from Denmark :pp, except Turkey, where it derives from “Kayı” <3

i js like linguistics so i thought that was cool…i could keep going but i wont lolz

[fundgruber]

At its core, an art museum is essentially a narrative of empire. If, as Napoleon quipped, history is a set of lies agreed upon, a museum is their physical manifestation. Aptly, the Met—the grandest, most august museum in a city that likes to think of itself as the center of the world—boasts all the baubles that connote having made it, including a few once owned by Napoleon himself. Cleopatra’s needle, the Temple of Dendur, Greek goodies faded polychrome or ghostly blanched, Persian carpets, Old Masters, Estruscan jewels, Japanese lacquer, South Asian sacred sculpture, Chinese vases, Senegalese masks, Polynesian canoes. The good, old stuff! All in one place, the best of it all from every corner of the globe. 

Cara Marsh Sheffler - There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Museum

"Both the Met and the AMNH are flawed. One model tells the story of the human perception of meaning and our quest to make the mortal coil a bit more bearable; it is a story of status and hierarchy, and the ugly, inescapable truth that inequality and the suffering of most are the cost of beauty and luxury for few. The other model tells the story of the impact of humans on Earth, with the great caveat that it’s the world’s most unreliable narrators telling it: humans."