Investigating the Relationship Between Spiritual and Artisanal Practices in Etruria: The Case of Cetamura del Chianti
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Abstract
Archaeological evidence from the Late Etruscan (3rd-1st centuries BCE) site Cetamura del Chianti illustrates the intersection between the spheres of the religious and the mundane for the Etruscans. This site is unusual among known Etruscan settlements because it contains a center for the manufacturing of utilitarian goods in which exists one of the best preserved Etruscan kilns, and it is situated within the boundaries of a clearly delineated sacred space. Facilities for the production of pottery, textiles, and metalwork co-exist alongside a fully functional religious sanctuary, a proximity that suggests a relationship between craft production and ritual activity. It is also apparent that religious rituals were performed within these facilities of production themselves, providing an even closer link between the spiritual and the profane. The analysis of the remains of ceramic wares found within the kiln demonstrate the religious implications associated with the production of ceramics for the Etruscans. These ceramicremains, ranging from basic utilitarian wares to finely manufactured gloss coated objects illustrate how as a ritual medium such utilitarian objects facilitated the interactions between the individual and the ritual world. The findings from Cetamura provide a model by which we can interpret the Etruscan ritual relationship with mundane objects. This information reveals the inextricable link between religious ritual and profane contexts within the Etruscanworld, further exposing Etruscan ritual spaces are multi-faceted and multi-functional in nature.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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