Offered by Don Verboven - Exquisite Objects
An Etruscan (Italian) fragment in marble. With the image of a griffin. The right corner of a marble facade fragment.
The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, northern and central Lazio.
A culture that is identifiably Etruscan developed in Italy about 900 BC.