Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commend TIME for its translation of Pliny the Elder's remark about the Etruscan ceramic statues. We teachers of Latin are so used to hearing such a sentence woodenly rendered "More sacred than gold and certainly more innocent," that it brightens the day for us to meet a vigorous and idiomatic translation...
George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, Ph.D. University of Berlin, summa cum laude. His field is Etruscan art, and he is now working on it at Johns Hopkins...
Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
Students in Archaeology will give a gallery talk this afternoon in the Balcony Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 3 o'clock in connection with the Etruscan Art Exhibit. The speakers, from Harvard and Radcliffe, are students of George H. Chase, Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. One of the pieces to be shown is the famous Morgan statuette of a girl which has been lent by the Metropolitan Museum in New York...
Among the group of gold objects is a gold fibula or safety pin, decorated with a ram's head, whose Etruscan filigree work is of the greatest rarity. Of equal prominence is a series of gold dress ornaments used on a costume to the dead...