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Incidentally a famous artifact called the Capitoline Wolf depicting Remus and Romulus nursing under a wolf was long thought to be an Etruscan artifact. A littl
by antognini 5y ago
Incidentally a famous artifact called the Capitoline Wolf depicting Remus and Romulus nursing under a wolf was long thought to be an Etruscan artifact. A little while back I was reading a history of the arts published in the late 1990s that used it as an example of one of the high achievements of Etruscan art. It turns out, however, that radiocarbon dating done in the 2000s showed that it was actually a medieval work. Apparently there had been doubts about its origins for centuries, but they had mostly been ignored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf
- ARandomerDude 5y agoThanks for this comment, I had no idea! Interestingly enough, the Wiki article states there is good reason to think the wolf is Etruscan but Romulus and Remus are medieval. > However, a recent study by John Osborne at the British School at Rome concluded that the radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates were totally inconsistent. He pointed out that metal from which the wolf is made is of the Etruscan type using copper from Sardinia and that there is no sign of the adulteration common in mediaeval times, and that on the balance of probabilities, the wolf should be considered to be Etruscan.
- teruakohatu 5y agoInteresting. I looked into this and if it was a medival casting, it was probably a replacement for the original.