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Decoration with engraved drawings on an oinochoe (wine jug) from Tragliatella, discovered in 1878 in an Etruscan tomb near the actual Cerveteri and now exhibited in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Musei Capitolini), Rome. The object, dating to about 600 B.C., is an Etruscan artefact inspired to Greek patterns of the Proto-Corinthian period. The engraving represents a raw of warriors, armed with lances, holding a shield on which is depicted the image of a boar. This animal was, indeed, regarded as a symbol of fierceness and warrior power and was deemed sacred to Ares, the war god. In mythology, it was told that Ares transformed himself into a boar to escape from the monster Typhon which pursued him. The warriors, putting on themselves the image of the animal, intended perhaps to acquire the boar’s qualities.

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