The stages apply only to aristocratic names, attested in the inscriptions. Development of namesĮtruscan naming conventions are complex and appear to reveal different stages in the development of names. It is worth noting that a number of Etruscan tombs carry funerary inscriptions in the form ‘X son of and ’, indicating the importance of the mother’s side of the family. Thus the freedom of women within Etruscan society could have been misunderstood as implying their sexual availability. In both Greece and Republican Rome, respectable women were mostly confined to the house and mixed-sex socialising did not occur. It is possible that Greek and Roman attitudes to the Etruscans were based on a misunderstanding of the place of women within their society. The bond was obviously a close one by social preference The lids of large numbers of sarcophagi (for example, the « Sarcophagus of the Spouses« ) are adorned with sculpted couples, smiling, in the prime of life (even if the remains were of persons advanced in age), reclining next to each other or with arms around each other. The Etruscans were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. At the center of the lautn was the married couple, tusurthir. The Etruscan name of the family was lautn. The wealthiest cities were located near the coast.
That the growth of this class is related to the new acquisition of wealth through trade is unquestioned. The Etruscans could have used any model of the eastern Mediterranean. It is not an Etruscan original, as there is no sign of it in the Villanovan. The inscriptional evidence shows that families were interred there over long periods, marking the growth of the aristocratic family as a fixed institution, parallel to the gensat Rome and perhaps even its model. The princely tombs were not of individuals. Groups of Villanovan villages were now consolidated into Etruscan cities. By the 7th century they had imported methods and materials from the eastern Mediterranean and were leaving written inscriptions. Yet the rise of Etruscan civilization cannot entirely be explained by immigrants from Greece. They brought their elegant pottery styles and architectural methods with them. In the 8th century BC, the orientalizing period began, a time of influx of luxuriously living Greeks. Their simple ware is known as bucchero, plain black undecorated pots. People of the Villanovan culture lived in poor huts concomitant with subsistence agriculture and owned plain and simple implements. The Etruscans did not always own sufficient wealth to support necropolises for their chief men and stock them with expensive items to be smashed and thrown away.
Their magisterial functions are obscure now, but they were chief men in society. While alive they occupied magistracies recorded in the inscriptions. The society of the tombs therefore was that of the aristocrats. The sarcophagi were ornate, each one a work of art. The interment chambers also were stocked with furniture, luxury items and jewelry, which are unlikely to have been available to the ordinary citizen. These were the work of craftsmen who must have gone to considerable expense, for which they must have been paid. The population described by the inscriptions owned the tombs in which their relatives interred them and were interred in turn. 100 BC, Etruscan couple (Louvre, Etruscan society, Etruscan society is mainly known through the memorial and achievemental inscriptions on monuments of Etruscan civilization, etrusque, giacobbe giusti, late 5th to early 4th century BC, Louvre Museum, musee du louvre, Room 18), The Mars of Todi, The Orator. Tagué : a life-sized bronze sculpture of a soldier making a votive offering, an Etruscan man wearing a Roman toga while engaged in rhetoric the statue features an inscription in the Etruscan alphabet, an Etrusco-Roman bronze statue depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), art, bronze, c. 100 BC, an Etrusco-Roman bronze statue depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), an Etruscan man wearing a Roman toga while engaged in rhetoric the statue features an inscripti, The Mars of Todi, a life-sized bronze sculpture of a soldier making a votive offering, late 5th to early 4th century BC. Marchesini, Simona. "New Studies on Etruscan Personal Names: Gentium Mobi, Etruscan couple (Louvre, Room 18), Etruscan mother and child, 500–450 BC, Etruscan society, Etruscan society is mainly known through the memorial and achievemental inscriptions on monuments of Etruscan civilization, Giacobbe Giusti, Etruscan society, louvre, Senza categoria, The Orator, c.