From East to West and Beyond,

The relations between different regions of Anatolia and Etruria show main movements from East to West, but they also reveal some objects going the other way, from West to East. The exchange was made in several ways, which included trade of goods and substances as well as immigrated skilled workers. The idea of a monumental funerary landscape was developed in Etruria probably under influence from North Syria or Anatolia. Tomb- and vase-painting show an intense East Greek activity in Etruria: East Greek painters have been identified particularly in harbors as Gravisca and in cities as Tarquinia and Vulci. East Greeks turning home brought return goods from Etruria and gifted them as votive offerings to the divinities: bucchero, the national Etruscan pottery, and few Etruscan wine amphoras have been found in South Ionia at Miletus and Samos and in North Ionia at Phocaea. Through East Greek cities Etruscan bucchero arrived also to the north Black Sea coast. Such imports show that Etruscan goods were appreciated in East Greece and that some reflections of their knowledge may be identified in Greek and not-Greek handcraft. In Anatolia Etruscans had connections also with non-Greek peoples, as Lydians, and Lydian imports are known in Etruria.