Nenfro is a volcanic rock, gray tuff or banded trachyte (Brocchi) or leucite phonolite lava (Rosenbusch) with a soft but compact structure, typical of the Viterbo region that the Etruscans used in their sculptures of northern Lazio Cimini hills near Rome, Italy.
- 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.
- 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.
References
- Definition from Dizi.it
- Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1817); H. Rosenbusch (1888)
- Catalogue of the Etruscan gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Œuvres d'art étrusque découvertes à Castro.