The Etruscan Chimera sculpture from Arezzo, dates c. 400 BC.is the bronze statue is 129 cm in length and 80 cm high. Chimera is a legendary, fire-breathing monster of Greek myth that hailed from Lycia in SW Anatolia. It was unearthec in Arezzo, an ancient Etruscan and Roman city in Tuscany, in 1553.
See:
- J. M. Turfa, “Votive Offerings in Etruscan Religion,” In The Religion of the Etruscans, edited by N.T. De Grummond and E. Simon, J. M. Turfa, “Votive Offerings in Etruscan Religion,” In The Religion of the Etruscans, edited by N.T. De Grummond and E. Simon, pp. 90–115 , pp. 90–115
- Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond. London: Routledge, 1996, pps. 276-277.
- Fred S. Kleiner: A History of Roman Art. Boston: Wadsworth, 2016, p. 20
- Paul Greg Warden, he Chimaera of Arezzo: Made in Etruria? AJA 115/1, 2011
