Acknowledgments Foreword: The State of the Field of Terracotta Architectural Decoration in Central Italy (Corinna Riva) Introduction: Contextual Encounters with Ancient Art (Alexander Ekserdjian) Section 1. Crafting Encounters On the Identity of Etruscan Artists and Craftsmen (Nancy de Grummond) Animal Friezes in Etruscan Late-Archaic Terracottas and Painting: Reviving an Orientalizing Motif (Daniele Maras) Arnza and His Bird: The Swallow of the Francois Tomb (Cristiana Zaccagnino) Master of the Roof: Recontextualizing the Herakles and Athena Acroteria from Archaic Central Italy (Allia Benner) Mixing and Matching on Italic Temple Roofs (Sophie Crawford-Brown) Section 2. Experiencing Encounters Ways of Seeing: On Temples and Their Terracottas in Republican Rome (Fay Glinister) Encounters in the Sanctuary: Experiencing Pedimental Sculpture in the Second Century B.C.E. (Alexander Ekserdjian) Space, Place, and Performance: The Cultural Poetics of Italic Temple Decoration Appendix: Viewshed and Visual Perception of the Etruscan Pediment (P. Gregory Warden, with an appendix by Maurizio Forte) Disposing of Sacred Images: The End of the Life of Architectural Terracottas (Fabio Colivicchi) Encountering the Dead: Sonic and Visual Experience inside the Fourth Century B.C.

E. Tomba Golini I, Orvieto, Italy (Jacqueline Ortoleva) List of Contributors.