Editing Tages (section)

==Representations of Tages==
Labeled Etruscan representations of Tages are very rare, and scenes clearly tied to the Tages myth are almost as rare. Figures leaning on the ''[[lituus]]'', the crooked staff of the ''[[augur]]'', or examining entrails wearing the conical cap of the ''haruspex'', are common, but are not necessarily Tages. Winged figures, representing divinity, are also common, especially on funerary urns from [[Tarquinia]], but whether any depict Tages is questionable. Assuming that a certain percentage of these representations are, in fact, Tages, there appears to be no standard way to depict him. Art historians have inserted Tages freely among them but entirely in a speculative fashion.

In addition to the labelled scene on the bronze mirror described above, which must have been repeated many times without labels, a type of scene engraved on fourth-century&nbsp;[[Anno Domini|BC]] gemstones, once set in seal rings, appears to describe the Tages myth. A bearded figure (Tarchon?) bends over as though listening at the head or head and torso of another, beardless figure embedded in or arising from the ground.<ref>{{cite book|pages=26–27|title=Etruscan myth, sacred history, and legend|first=Nancy |last=Thomson De Grummond|location=Philadelphia, PA|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|year=2006}}</ref> On a similar theme is a third-century&nbsp;BC bronze votive statuette, {{convert|.327|m|ft|abbr=on}} high, from Tarquinia, of a sitting infant peering upward with an adult's head and visage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Museo Gregoriano Etrusco II|url=http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/ET2-Etrusco.html|publisher=Musei Vaticani e Cappella Sistina|year=1994|access-date=30 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625081931/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/ET2-Etrusco.html|archive-date=25 June 2009}}</ref>