Earth:Nenfro

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

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, in the Louvre
  • The Centaur of Vulci, preserved in the Villa Giulia in Rome
  • The sarcophagus of Laris Pulena MS 3488 of Civita Musarna.[3]
  • The sarcophagi figured at the galleries and the entrance to the Tarquinia National Museum

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

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