The images you'll see as you scroll down to the current text are all part of the story telling in my novel, Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance.


Bianca Caldwell, pen name, Bianca Fiore, is a writer for an art magazine. In each of her monthly stories she describes an object used in ancient ritual.

Etruscan Gold Disc with Bees

Gold Disc with Bees, 700-600 BCE. Collection of Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

ETRUSCAN GOLD FILIGREE EARRINGS

Openwork ribbons filled with wire bands, bosses, scrolls. Probably from Vetulonia Ca. 1st 1-4 of the 7th cent. BC

American Library in Paris Book Award

On Friday 15 November 2013, the first annual American Library in Paris Book Award was given to Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall Logevall is a professor at Cornell University. His book also won the Pulitzer prize.



Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance, is pictured front row left. I am honored that my novel was among the accepted nominations.


Realms of Gold, Ritual to Romance, has now been officially accepted by the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais

CHATILLON –SUR-SEINE. BURGUNDY, FRANCE. OCTOBER 19, 2013


Terry Stanfill’s novel, Realms of Gold, Ritual to Romance, has now been  accepted officially by the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais and will be offered for sale in the Museum bookshop. 


The Trésor de Vix  includes the immense bronze Krater (South Italy circa 510 B.C.)  an object used in ritual  for the mixing wine with water.  The great vessel was discovered in 1953 in the tomb of a Celtic woman/(circa 500 B. C) along with her magnificent gold diadem-torque.  The Treasure is of Vix is now on display in the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais once the abbey of Notre-Dame de Châtillon. founded in the 12th century by Bernard of Clairvaux and rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

From left to right, MaryLou Boone, Robin Tait, Vigdis, Madame Fries. Dr. Robert Fries. President de Les Amis du Musee. Terry Stanfill, Dennis Stanfill, Jane Simpson, Georgianna Erskine


Le groupe de visiteurs (le couple Stanfill était accompagné par Tait Robin, avocat, et son épouse Vigdis, peintre, et de quelques amis) a été guidé dans sa visite par Patricia Janeux, conservatrice adjointe. Au fil des salles, Terry Stanfill et ses concitoyens ont découvert dans le détail les éléments essentiels du cratère et de son environnement ainsi que l’exposition temporaire qui a été spécialement prolongée pour cette visite.

Les visiteurs ont découvert dans le détail les éléments essentiels du cratère. Photo Bernard Martin

Terry Stanfill, écrivaine américaine, est venue découvrir au musée du Pays châtillonnais le cratère de Vix, élément central de son roman Les Royaumes dorés.

C’est une visite un peu particulière qui s’est déroulée au musée du Pays châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix. À l’invitation de Robert Fries, président de l’association des Amis du musée du Pays châtillonnais, Terry Stanfill, écrivaine américaine, accompagnée par son mari Dennis, est venue découvrir un élément clé de son roman Les Royaumes dorés sous-titré Du rite à l’amour : le cratère de Vix. L’ouvrage, traduit en français par Thierry Boucquey, rend compte de la quête de Bianca Calwell, de son obsession d’écrivaine pour retrouver les origines du cratère. Elle est accompagnée par son ami archéologue et cette traque les a conduits à Venise, New York, au sud de l’Italie pour s’achever à Châtillon-sur-Seine.

Cette machine à remonter le temps a été saluée par de nombreux lecteurs dont Eric T. Haskell, professeur d’études françaises et d’humanités à Scripps College, au Claremont University Center, en Californie.




 

Etruscan Gold Granulation


The Etruscan have the most astonishing examples of granulation, a technique consisting in soldering small metal granules to a metal sheet for decoration purposes. They mastered this technique so well that even with a 100x magnifier it isn't possible to see soldering remains between the metal sheet and the granule! it looks like it is simply resting, nevertheless 2600 years old pieces prove that the joint is perfectly resistant!

Etruscan Gold "bullae"


Hollow pendants like these, called "bullae," contained protective charms or perfume and were worn as amulets, especially by children. A stopper at the top, held in place by a chain or cord, secured the contents. The heart-shaped bodies of these Etruscan "bullae" are decorated with detailed palmettes and tendrils worked in repoussé and has intricate smooth and twisted wire applied to the surface. Etruscan, 5th century BC

Etruscan. Gold ear-ring with a female head

Etruscan Gold ear-ring formed of a hollow tube with a ring of beaded wire at one end and a female head at the other. 




Excavated/Findspot Atri, tomb. (Europe, Italy, Abruzzi,Teramo (province),Atri) 500BC-475BC.