Poggio Civitate (Murlo)

Anthony Tuck, professor of classical archaeology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is director of excavations at Poggio Civitate. His books include Burials from Poggio Aguzzo: The Necropolis of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) and First Words: The Archaeology of Language at Poggio Civitate (Murlo).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction

The Site and Its Surroundings
Ancient and Medieval History
Poggio Civitate before Excavation Began in 1966


2. The Earliest Community of Poggio Civitate (Late Eighth Century BCE to the First Quarter/Middle of the Seventh Century BCE)

Early Phase Orientalizing Complex Building 4 (EPOC4)
Early Phase Orientalizing Complex Building 5 (EPOC5)


3. The Lords of Piano del Tesoro: The “Orientalizing Period Complex” (ca. 675/650 BCE to the End of the Seventh or Beginning of the Sixth Century BCE)

The Orientalizing Complex
Evidence for the Date of the Orientalizing Complex
The Decorative Program of the Orientalizing Complex
Daily Life of the Social Elite of Poggio Civitate
OC3/Tripartite and Connections to the Larger Etruscan World
Manufacturing at Poggio Civitate
Personalities of Poggio Civitate’s Workforce
The Economy of Poggio Civitate
Sigla and the Communitarian Environment of Poggio Civitate
Non-Elite Domestic Spaces at Poggio Civitate
Subordinate Communities beyond Poggio Civitate
Conviviality, Banqueting, and the Mistress of Animals
Responses to Death at Poggio Civitate
Before the Fire


4. Monumental Aspirations: Poggio Civitate’s Archaic Phase (ca. 600 BCE to Approximately 525 BCE)

The Decorative System of Poggio Civitate’s Archaic Phase Building
Interpreting the Archaic Phase Decorative Program
The Function(s) of Poggio Civitate’s Archaic Phase Building
The Destruction and Abandonment of Poggio Civitate
The Political Situation of the Late Sixth Century BCE


5. Poggio Civitate: An Overview
Notes
Bibliography
Index