On the Gesture χεῖρ’ ἐπί καρπῶ in Etruscan and Faliscan Visual Culture.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.7829

Keywords:

χεῖρ’ ἐπί καρπῶ, Wrist-Grasping Gesture, Gestuality, Offering, Etruscan and Faliscan Visual Culture, Etruscan Funerary World

Abstract

Around the first half of the 6th century BC, Etruscan visual culture appropriated a gesture of Egyptian origin but characteristic of Greek art called χεῖρἐπί καρπῶ (to grab the wrist) and, over the coming centuries, it was adapted and, on some occasions, even reinterpreted, granting it, in this way, a semantic meaning different from the original. Thus, the objective of this study is, on the one hand, to present a brief overview of the most characteristic Etruscan and Faliscan visual examples in which said gesture is identified and, on the other hand, to expose the multiple readings it acquires according to the visual narrative, although, among them, we can anticipate that the funerary is the main one feature.

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Author Biography

David Vendrell Cabanillas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

History degree at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona) and Master’s in History and Sciences of Antiquity at Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). At present, he is a predoctoral researcher (FPU16/04804) in the PhD Program in “Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies” in the Department of History and Art Theory of the Autonomous University of Madrid. His thesis is about the female bath in attic pottery found in Etruria and his line of research focuses on ancient greek art, greek vase painting and the study of gender, sexuality and mentalities in ancient Greece. He has participated in seminars and congresses in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom, Hungary and Greece.

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Published

2023-12-19

How to Cite

Vendrell Cabanillas, David. 2023. “On the Gesture χεῖρ’ ἐπί καρπῶ in Etruscan and Faliscan Visual Culture”. Atrio. Revista De Historia Del Arte, no. 29 (December). Sevilla, España:8-25. https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.7829.

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