The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu (Apollo), designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple. The statue...
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Veii (also Veius; Italian: Veio) was an important ancient Etruscan city situated on the southern limits of Etruria and 16 km (9.9 mi) north-northwest of...
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42.02389°N 12.40139°E / 42.02389; 12.40139 The battle of Veii, also known as the siege of Veii, involved ancient Rome, and is approximately dated at 396...
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Vulca (category Year of birth unknown)
statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, and possibly the Apollo of Veii. His statue of Jupiter...
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Etruscan art (category Art by period of creation)
statuette. Bronze. Chiusi, 550–530 BC Apollo of Veii, c. 550–520 BC Detail of the Louvre Sarcophagus of the Spouses Chimera of Arezzo, bronze, c. 400 BC Tarquínia...
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Śuri (redirect from Apollo Soranus)
as the Apollo of Veii, is a painted terracotta statue from Veii, Latium, attributed to Vulca. His theonym Usil (also mentioned on the Liver of Piacenza)...
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of sculptures along the central ridge of the roof, going beyond the acroterion group above a pediment in Greek and Roman temples. The Apollo of Veii was...
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Portonaccio (category Veii)
of Turms, Hercle, Apollo (the Apollo of Veii) and Leto on the roof, which has come to be regarded as a temple of Apollo. Next to the temple of Apollo...
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Etruscan alphabet (redirect from Romanization of Etruscan)
The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime...
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Lars Porsena (category History of Tuscany)
Porsena also restored to the Romans their hostages, and also the lands of Veii that had been taken from Rome by treaty. Livy records that, by these matters...
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