Nenfro
Nenfro is a volcanic rock, gray tuff or banded trachyte (Brocchi) or leucite phonolite lava (Rosenbusch) with a soft but compact structure,[1] typical of the Viterbo region that the Etruscans used in their sculptures of northern Lazio Cimini hills near Rome, Italy.[2]
- The Winged Lion of Vulci, in the Louvre
- The Centaur of Vulci, preserved in the Villa Giulia in Rome
- The sarcophagus of Laris Pulena MS 3488 of Civita Musarna.[3]
- The sarcophagi figured at the galleries and the entrance to the Tarquinia National Museum
One of its features is to take a pinkish tint when drying.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Definition from Dizi.it
- ^ Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1817); H. Rosenbusch (1888)
- ^ Catalogue of the Etruscan gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- ^ Œuvres d'art étrusque découvertes à Castro.