Nenfro

Summary

Nenfro is a volcanic rock, gray tuff or banded trachyte (Brocchi) or leucite phonolite lava (Rosenbusch) with a soft but compact structure,[1] typical of the Viterbo region that the Etruscans used in their sculptures of northern Lazio Cimini hills near Rome, Italy.[2]

The Winged lion of Vulci, Louvre, Paris
Centaur of Vulci, National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome

One of its features is to take a pinkish tint when drying.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Definition from Dizi.it
  2. ^ Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1817); H. Rosenbusch (1888)
  3. ^ Catalogue of the Etruscan gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
  4. ^ Œuvres d'art étrusque découvertes à Castro.