{Beneath an Etruscan Sky [continued]}[8th February 1991]

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‘In the latest period (4th-2nd century BC[E]), depictions connected with the world beyond the grave appeared.* This signifies that new eschatological ideas had become diffused in the Etruscan world; the pessimistic tone of the later tomb pictures contrasts with the doctrine of the transformation of the dead into divinities, a doctrine reported in the literary tradition.’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20: 306]

*(in Etruscan funerary pictures)

2048R~256BCE

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