Word: etruscan
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...using a new dating technique, has reported that 48 of 66 objects thought to be from Hacilar, a settlement that existed 7,000 years ago in southwestern Turkey, are forgeries. The results of their investigations, published in the current issue of Oxford's Archaeometry, also showed that 25 "Etruscan" wall paintings on terra cotta, for which Swiss, American and other collectors have been paying up to $24,000 apiece, are less than twelve years...
...illustrations in McLean's book enforce the point. They indicate an obsession with certain fundamental themes: the phallus, sometimes decorated with wings (an accessory, incidentally, commonly found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more erotic than sentimental. Typically, the heart symbol, if it survives long enough on the wall, gets further embellishment; someone adds an arrow, and then later another resourceful artist converts the heart into a rude approximation of the female posterior...
...that the place wasn't one oferuditeness and respectability. Once two Harvard professors were sipping a beer in the Kings Tavern and arguing about the Etruscan Wars...
...only the old guys who grumble, as they crowd in now at Harvard Gardens or Whitney's and wish to God there was one place left on earth where they could get away from the old woman and swear a little and argue one more time about the Etruscan Wars...
...figures chiseled out of Etruscan boulders include a 19-ft.-high elephant crushing a warrior in its trunk, a giant dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini...