The Archaeological Institute of America Lincoln/Omaha Society presents “Etruscan Human Sacrifice in Myth and Ritual” by Nancy T. de Grummond, Florida State University, Sunday, Sept. 11, Joslyn Art Museum, Abbott Lecture Hall, at 2 p.m.
Scholars have been reluctant to believe that the Etruscans practiced human sacrifice. There are many references in written sources and in representations of human sacrifice that have at one time or another been dismissed as not sufficient for determining if the Etruscans engaged in this practice. Recent excavations at Tarquinia have proven that human sacrifice was practiced by the Etruscans, through the discovery of a number of burials in this non-funerary context.
This presentation assembles literary, archaeological and iconographical evidence to be studied anew with an open mind in order to determine what is most likely to have represented real sacrificial practice as opposed to fictional, exaggerated, symbolic or mythological matter.
All Archaeological Institute of America are free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Creighton University.
For more information, please contact Dr. Erin Averett at [email protected].
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