Nenfro

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

The Winged lion of Vulci, Louvre, Paris

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

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.