Book contents
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Abbreviations and Spelling
- Introduction
- Part I Broadening Perspectives
- Part II Interpretive Frameworks
- Part III Technology and Mobility
- 6 Wooden Furniture from Verucchio and Gordion
- 7 Refugee Terracotta Craftsmen from Anatolia in Southern Etruria and Latium, 550/540 to 510 BCE
- Part IV Shared Practices
- Part V Shared and Distinct Iconographies
- Part VI Shared Forms, Distinct Functions
- Index
- References
6 - Wooden Furniture from Verucchio and Gordion
from Part III - Technology and Mobility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
Book contents
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
- Etruria and Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Abbreviations and Spelling
- Introduction
- Part I Broadening Perspectives
- Part II Interpretive Frameworks
- Part III Technology and Mobility
- 6 Wooden Furniture from Verucchio and Gordion
- 7 Refugee Terracotta Craftsmen from Anatolia in Southern Etruria and Latium, 550/540 to 510 BCE
- Part IV Shared Practices
- Part V Shared and Distinct Iconographies
- Part VI Shared Forms, Distinct Functions
- Index
- References
Summary
In the 1950s, University of Pennsylvania archaeologists recovered over fifty pieces of wooden furniture from three royal tumulus burials and the city mound at Gordion, Turkey. Tumuli MM and P (eighth century BCE) contained thirteen tables and three serving stands with characteristic Phrygian features. The style and joinery of the tables tie them to a long trajectory of wooden tables from the ancient Near East. A variety of fine wooden objects was found in two tombs excavated in 1972 at Verucchio in northern Italy (late eighth through early seventh centuries BCE). The finds from tombs 85 and 89 include wood tables, footstools, thrones, boxes, and other organic materials. Three tables from tomb 85 had legs attached to the table top with a version of the collar-and-tenon joinery used for the Gordion tables. Rarely are ancient wooden artifacts recovered in good condition; the finds from Verucchio and Gordion provide a large and important corpus from the early first millennium BCE. This paper examines the similarities (and differences) between Gordion and Verucchio wooden furniture and investigates the possibility of interaction between Near Eastern and Italic woodworking schools in the eighth through the seventh centuries BCE.
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- Etruria and AnatoliaMaterial Connections and Artistic Exchange, pp. 113 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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