Un gruppo di urne etrusche di produzione volterrana: prospettive di analisi quantitativa

Paola Moscati

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 1994, 5, 87-110

Abstract

A research project named « Automatization of Etruscan Corpora » was established, ten years ago, at the Institute of Etruscan and Italic Archaeology of the C.N.R. The main purpose of this project is the use of information technology to file, classify and analyze homogeneous classes of artifacts belonging to the Etruscan culture. In the sphere of this project, many research works were carried out; one of these is the project Volaterrae, aimed at the quantitative analysis of about 1,200 cinerary urns produced in Volterra in the Hellenistic period, with particular reference to the classification of the chests. The metric and nominal variables chosen and encoded to describe the chests regard in particular typological and morphological information; in addition, spatial and iconographical data were also filed. In this article the statistical analysis of a group of urns is stressed. The group, which consists of 351 chests, is characterized by the representation in bas-relief of scenes relating to the Etruscan funerary world. The results obtained allow us to make some preliminary considerations regarding the modalities of production and diffusion of these chests. These results have been confirmed through the comparison wìth the entire data sample.

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