BROLIO

BROLIO: translation

   An important sixth-century BC votive deposit discovered in 1863 in the Val di Chiana. The deposit is primarily famous for a set of figurative bronzes, but the deposit originally contained arms, agricultural implements, rough bronzes, pottery (bucchero/painted), bronze vessels, and fibulae/rings (totaling today some 47 objects) in a clay layer associated with wooden structures. This deposit is typical of the marking of the limits of the natural terrain in North Etruria.

   See also BRONZE FIGURINES; TRADE.