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List of Illustrations ix

Preface xiii
Jacopo Tabolli
List of Abbreviations xvii

Album of Maps xix

Introduction: Exploring Veii 1

Gilda Bartoloni, Jacopo Tabolli, and Orlando Cerasuolo

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Chapter 1. Veii, the Stratigraphy of an Ancient Town: A Case Study of Piazza d’Armi 9
Valeria Acconcia
Chapter 2. City and Landscape: The Survey 17
Roberta Cascino
Chapter 3. The Emptyscapes Project: Filling Gaps in Space and Time at Veii 29
Stefano Campana

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Chapter 4. Toward Veii: The Bronze Age 37

Francesco di Gennaro
Chapter 5. Veii and Its Territory from the Final Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age 47
Folco Biagi
Chapter 6. Veii in the Eighth Century BCE 55
Alessandra Piergrossi

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Chapter 7. Veii and the Others: Closest Neighbors 67

Jacopo Tabolli
Chapter 8. The Orientalizing Period 77
Orlando Cerasuolo
Chapter 9. Veii during the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE:
Political Structure and Organization of the Territory 87
Gilda Bartoloni and Anna De Santis
Chapter 10. Veii and the Greeks 95
Francesca Boitani
Chapter 11. Veii and the Near East 101
Annette Rathje
Chapter 12. Veii during the Archaic Period (Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE) 107
Gilda Bartoloni and Laura M. Michetti
Chapter 13. The Sanctuary of Portonaccio 117
Giovanni Colonna
Chapter 14. Cult Evidence from the Urban Sanctuaries at Veii 127
Ingrid Edlund-­Berry
Chapter 15. The Epigraphical Evidence 139
Daniele Federico Maras
Chapter 16. The Defensive System 147
Luca Pulcinelli

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Chapter 17. Early Iron Age Pottery 157

Sara Neri
Chapter 18. Orientalizing Pottery 163
Silvia ten Kortenaar
Chapter 19. Archaic, Late Archaic, and Classical Pottery 169
Maria Teresa Di Sarcina and Federica Pitzalis
Chapter 20. Metal Production 177
Matteo Milletti and Luciana Drago
Chapter 21. Wall Painting 187
Francesca Boitani
Chapter 22. Stone Sculpture 193
Iefke van Kampen

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Chapter 23. Kilns and Evidence of Ceramic Production 201

Barbara Belelli Marchesini
Chapter 24. Architectural Terracottas 207
Nancy A. Winter and Claudia Carlucci

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Chapter 25. Furius Camillus and Veii 219

Christopher Smith
Conclusions 225
Jacopo Tabolli and Orlando Cerasuolo

Appendix. A Chronology of Veii 229

Index of Names 235

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