ABSTRACT

A good estimate of Etruria’s wealth and economy, and its impact upon neighboring – and subsequent – cultures may be predicated upon a survey of its imports and exports and the range of foreign influences it embraced and adapted. The meeting of different cultures is discussed in Part III of this book, and the interaction and immigration of foreign craftsmen (and others) is treated in Chapters 6 and 48. The character of the evidence, both objects and contexts, differs from east to west across the Mediterranean, with – thanks to quite recent excavations – a rapidly growing body of material to be analyzed for the western Mediterranean, both Europe and North Africa.