Nenfro

The Winged lion of Vulci, Louvre, Paris

Centaur of Vulci, National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome

Nenfro is a volcanic rock, gray tuff or banded trachyte (Brocchi) or leucite phonolite lava (Rosenbusch) with a soft but compact structure, ^[1] typical of the Viterbo region that the Etruscans used in their sculptures of northern Lazio Cimini hills near Rome, Italy. ^[2]

• The Winged Lion of Vulci, in the Louvre
• The Centaur of Vulci, preserved in the Villa Giulia in Rome
• The sarcophagus of Laris Pulena MS 3488 of Civita Musarna. ^[3]
• The sarcophagi figured at the galleries and the entrance to the Tarquinia National Museum

One of its features is to take a pinkish tint when drying. ^[4]

References

1. Definition from Dizi.it
2. Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1817); H. Rosenbusch (1888)
3. Catalogue of the Etruscan gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
4. Œuvres d'art étrusque découvertes à Castro.