“The Cult of the Kiln and the Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans at Cetamura del Chianti, Italy” is the topic of a lecture to be given by Dr. Nancy T. de Grummond at East Tennessee State University on Monday, Feb. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Ball Hall auditorium.An archaeologist and art historian, de Grummond is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and a Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She is an authority on the Etruscans, a mysterious ancient culture whose past is coming to light through contemporary exploration. The Etruscans predated the ancient Romans and were eventually absorbed by them. In her presentation, de Grummond will illustrate the connection between the Etruscan religious sanctuary and the activity of the artisans at Cetamura.

Dr. de Grummond holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of The Religion of the Etruscans and Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. An exhibition of the results of her excavations was displayed in 2009 at the Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, and has been relocated on a long-term basis to the Badia a Coltibuono at Gaiole in the region of Chianti, Italy.

The free public lecture, sponsored by the ETSU Department of Art and Design, will be followed by a reception.

For more information or special assistance for those with disabilities, contact Don R. Davis at (423) 439-7864 or davisdr@etsu.edu.

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