Abstract
In a paper published in the Accordia Research Papers, entitled ‘The Power of Women in Etruscan Society’ Nigel Spivey (1991) concluded that the status of Etruscan women was distinctive in contrast to other ancient Mediterranean societies:
The archaeology of Etruscan women confirms their peculiar status. If they were of the appropriate family, they might share in some of the tokens of social power: ‘heroic’ burial; the ostentation of ancestry; the ability to read and write. They joined their husbands for certain social occasions which admitted them to some manifestations of Hellenic culture denied to their counterparts in Athens. But they