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The Three Phases of the Etruscan Palace of Poggio Civitate The Vartan Gregorian Lecture by Anthony Tuck, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Presented by The Archaeological Institute of America, Rockford Society in collaboration with The Burpee Museum of Natural History and The Classics Program of Rockford University

in The Burpee Museum of Natural History 737 North Main Street Rockford, Illinois

on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:30 P.M.

The monumental architecture of Poggio Civitate remains some of the best preserved and most enigmatic of the early period of Etruscan social and political development. Two phases of architectural development are well known. The latest phase, dating to the Archaic Period (ca. 600- 550 BCE), consists of an opulently decorated, monumental, four-winged, fortified structure. While the overall purpose of this large building remains obscure, most scholars agree it served as a residence. The earlier phase of architectural development, dating to the mid-7th century BCE, consisted of a multi-functional complex surrounded by several other large buildings of different functions. Excavation in 2015 and 2016 revealed traces of yet another phase of monumental domestic architecture at the site. This building was considerably larger than any of the site’s contemporary architecture and also appears to have employed one of the earliest known decorated terracotta roofs in central Italy. The comparison of forms of these three phases of elite domestic architecture suggests the site’s aristocratic population initially expressed status in terms of scale and size of their household. However, over time, the location of domestic space gradually moved further away from non-elite elements of the site’s surrounding population and visual access to members of the aristocracy grew increasingly more restricted. Anthony Tuck is an Associate Professor in the department of classics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Holding a B.A. from Haverford College and a PhD from Brown University, he specializes in Etruscan Culture. He is Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate.

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