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Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa: The Story of an Etruscan Noblewoman Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Swaddling, Judith (Author), Prag, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0861599799     ISBN-13: 9780861599790
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Published: February 2007
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Annotation: The magnificent painted terracotta sarcophagus of the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa has for well over a century been a star exhibit at the British Museum, but it is only in rela-tively recent times that attention has turned to the skeleton found within, which appears to be the best preserved Etruscan skeleton now in existence. The initial aim of the research was to reconstruct the face of Seianti using the techniques of forensic medicine, in order to compare it with that of the reclining, fullsized image of the dead woman on the sarcophagus lid. This already yielded striking information about the Etruscans as the initiators of realistic portraiture - we believe this to be the first proven identifiable portrait in western art. Consideration of the silver tomb goods, the jewellery worn by Seianti and the radiocarbon dating of the bones has indicated a dating of the burial earlier in the Hellenistic period than previously accepted. The construction of the sarcophagus itself, a remarkable feat of firing, and the techniques of its decoration form the subject of other papers, while the circumstances of the find in 1876, the archaeology and evidence about the Seiante family are discussed in detail.

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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
- History | Ancient - Greece
Dewey: 937.504
Series: BMP Occasional Paper
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.2" W x 11.5" L (0.70 lbs) 76 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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The sarcophagus containing the remains of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa was found at Poggio Cantarello near Chiusi in 1886 and is housed in the British Museum. This volume publishes the results of the study of the sarcophagus and the analysis of the human remains set within an archaeological and historical context.
 
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