076 - Si vis pacem para bellum

"IF YOU WANT PEACE PREPARE THE WAR”.
ETRUSCAN / (Text translated by Google) /The bearer of this news is a priest with an Etruscan lituus in his left hand and a horned, he squeezes awkwardly on his hip with his right hand, just lost the lower fixation of the central shaft. It blows loudly in his wind instrument to proclaim the war. The short himation draped or covered by our man exists only to showcase his nakedness. The gentleman is right in the shock, he is now offering a lotus flower to a woman as a sign of love or peace? Is it not instantly become an enemy? If the left half of the table represents the announcement of the war, while his right hand, that of peace, here seems very much in jeopardy! Only the dog made the connection between the "bellum" and the "pax", while the bird fled. The Etruscans practiced fluently Ornithomancy! Quick reminder about the original characters: the back of two Etruscan mirrors, we had a runner a little chubby, looking behind him with arms outstretched with bare hands it became our promising musician. In another, four women, including our heroine, made the toilet their mistress. At the bottom of a large platter, surrounded by satyrs pickers stood the god Dionysus on a horse ithyphallic: it has become somewhat reworked our rider! As for the dog, it comes with a miniature English has nothing to do with Etruria, except the leg of the artist who you turned it into pure strain Etrurian! Do we remember that the Etruscan inscriptions are read in reverse order according spent?
Lituus: Baton sacred shaped butt, which served to define the in augury templum (space gaze). It was used to trace and identify the divisions in the sky ideal to divine the future. He is represented here, was discovered in a tomb from the 6th century BC. It is a bronze ribbon 36 cm or 14,17 inches! The lituus was also the name of a musical instrument-shaped brass trumpet-like whelks.
Cornu: Musical Instrument, used by musicians or cornicines armies, their role was specifically coded transmission of orders to carry the emblems, which gave them a sound and visual record of the conduct of armies. The two ends are connected by a wooden shaft cross facilitating the conduct and practice.
Himation: Wrapped around the body, often unsymmetrically, it could be arranged symmetrically on the arms like a shawl, which is the case here against the skin.
Ornithomancy: practice divination practiced on the accidental appearance of birds at a key moment.