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[German version] According to Roman tradition, T. was a noble Etruscan lady from Tarquinii and the wife of the fifth King of Rome (Pol. 6,11a,7; Fabius Pictor in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4,6,3 and 30,2 f.; Liv. 1,34,4 ff.), the half-Greek L. Tarquinius [11] Priscus who also came from Tarquinia. Familiar with the art of prophecy, she predicted, upon the couple's arrival in Rome, her husband's rise to the throne (Liv. 1,34,8 f.; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 3,47,3 f.) and, after he was murdered, cunningly procu…

[German version] Female Etruscan Underworld daemon. As an announcer of death and guardian of graves V. appears, usually winged, primarily in the funerary domain (Burial, Dead, cult of the), sometimes together with Charun (Charon), sometimes in mythical scenes. An earlier type of representation with a long chiton can be traced until the 5th cent. BC; in the Hellenistic period her appearance was strongly influenced by the Greek Gorgo [1] (snakes as hair) and the Erinyes (boots, short chiton, cross s…

[German version] [1] Important Etruscan female deity Important Etruscan female deity, whose name, inscriptionally recorded from the 7th cent. BC (ET vol. 1, 179), was originally Etruscan and implies great age. T. appears in numerous depictions from the late Etruscan period, primarily as a goddess of love, fertility, and beauty. She is identified with the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus [1]; her original sphere of influence, however, may have been wider (cf. Uni). T. was one of the cult goddesses in…

[German version] Etruscan nymph, also known as Begoe (Serv. Aen. 6,72); Etruscan vecui ( a), vecuvia (cf. the nomen gentile vecu/ viku, attested especially in Chiusi). V. is mentioned in Roman tradition as the one to create/announce (a part of?) the holy Etruscan books about the doctrine of lightning ( L ibri fulgurales ; Serv. loc.cit.) as well as a part of the books of rituals. The entirety of these books was referred to as libri Vego(n)ici (Amm. Marc. 17,10,2, a part of the Etrusca disciplina ) and was later kept in the temple of Apollo on the Palatine (Serv. loc.cit., along with the Sibyllini …