Varga Edith szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 79. (Budapest, 1993)

NIELSEN, MARJATTA: An Etruscan country woman from Terriccio

6. The lid figure of the urn fig. 5 from the left back angle e miniere di rame di Terriccio. When I checked Enrico Fiumi's references

17 a picture emerged of authorities being notified of the existence of Etruscan objects or their being offered for sale by an employee of the mining society in Terriccio. One Adriano or Gabriele Giunti did so just about the time when Jakab Hahn donated his urn to the Hungarian museum. In 1880 F. Gamurrini

18 published a fragment of a blackglazed bowl, 'found by Adriano Giunti in a tomb at Terriccio to the right of the river Cecina', that bears the Etruscan inscription tarchntes in angular, incised letters.

19 Another document is a letter from 1878 sent by Gabriele (?) Giunti to the director of the Reali Musei in Florence about four statuettes. I cite the letter and the answer to it in its entirety in my Appendix. In fact, Giunti does not actually speak of having found the objects in Terriccio, though the museum director's reply gives such an impression. We can only assume that the statuettes were of bronze and Etruscan. Nor is there any record of where these objects have ended. The description of the warrior statuette (no. 4 in the letter) brings to mind the famous statuette called 17 Studi Etruschi 29 (1961) p. 283, notes 78-79. 18 Appendice al Corpus Inscriptionum Italicarum ed ai suoi supplementi di Ariodante Fabretti, Firenze 1880, p. 9, no. 52. 19 The name is not known in this form elsewhere, but one tarchnta is known from Perugia, and tarchntias from Radicofani, see s. v. in Thesaurus linguae Etruscae 1. Indice lessicale (eds. Pallottino, M.-Pandolfini Angeletti, M.), Roma 1978. p. 331.