Unraveling the iconography of the Etruscan lamp of Cortona, Italy

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Unraveling the iconography of the Etruscan lamp of Cortona, Italy

A large, highly decorated bronze lamp found in a ditch near the town of Cortona, central Italy, is significantly older than previously estimated and shows the god Dionysus, a new study published in De Gruyter's Etruscan and Italic Studies argues.