What are the Cultural Contributions of Etruscan in Rome?

Answer 1

It is not very clear because of a lack of historical records about this and of archaeological finds from the period of early Rome. According to the Roman tradition, Lucius Tarquinus Priscus the firth king of Rome, introduced the celebration of triumphs in the Etruscan fashion, riding a golden chariot drawn by four horses and wearing a gold-embroidered toga and the tunica palmata, a tunic on which palm-leaves were embroidered and Etruscan insignia of civilian authority and military distinction: the sceptre of the king; the trabea, a purple garment that varied in form, but was perhaps most often used as a mantle; the fasces carried by the lictors; the curule chair; the toga praetexta, later worn by various magistrates and officials; the rings worn bysenators; the paludamentum, a cloak associated with military command; and the phalera, a disc of metal worn on a soldier's breastplate during parades, or displayed on the standards of various military units. Strabo reports that Tarquin introduced Etruscan sacrificial and divinatory rites, as well as the tuba, a straight horn used chiefly for military purposes.[