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Board: Etruria
Topic: Etruscan Daily Life 
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Message: Re: Etruscan House Plans
Author: Zilach Caisras - Tanaquil Sergius, Patron 
Date: Dec 9, 2000 13:56
      Camitlna, you are very right on the remains of Etruscan houses on the 
      archaeolical site of Marzabotto. This city site has proved that the 
      Etruscans were the well equipped city planners they were told to be by 
      writers like Livy, who has given a statement about the planning of cities 
      by the Etruscans (and there are other writers as well). The finds at Murlo 
      are in fact believed to be dealing with some kind of a big house, owned by 
      an important inhabitant of that city, maybe it's a palace. The remains of 
      reliefs, depicting court banquets, state this. Now there are two factions 
      of archaeological interpretations of this relief: one group thinks it's a 
      banquet of the (Olympian) gods, another group thinks it's a banquet of the 
      local Lauchum and his family. Because there are no inscriptions and there 
      has been not yet enough evidence of the importance of the city of Murlo in 
      Etruscan times, we cannot yet be certain of the real meaning of this 
      relief. 
      About the meaning of the Tablinum: in Roman houses, this room is the 
      dwelling of the "pater familias". It's his office as well as his bedroom, 
      as in ancient times, husbands and wives were not sleeping together every 
      night. Now I have read somewhere (long ago, so I unfortunately can't give 
      a quote right now), that Etruscan males were believed not to have a 
      bed(room) of their own. They were sleeping in their wife's bed or, if this 
      was not possible, they were to sleep somewhere else in the house (on a 
      sofa or with someone else of the family..). So, Etruscans were considered 
      to usually sleep with their wives. The Romans had the same sleeping custom 
      as the Greeks had, and now I mentioned the Greeks: layouts of Greek and 
      Hellenistic houses had proved the influence of Greek house building on the 
      Romans. So the Romans actually took house building practices from the 
      Etruscans and the Greeks. 

      <<Maru Menervas sechlac Rasnal>>Thanchvil Cilnei/Tanaquil Sergius








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