nenfro

The Winged lion of Vulci, [[Louvre, Paris|thumb|right]]

[[Centaur of Vulci, National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome|thumb|alt=]]

Nenfro is a volcanic rock, gray tuff or banded trachyte (Brocchi) or leucite phonolite lava (Rosenbusch) with a soft but compact structure,[http://www.dizi.it/nenfro Definition from Dizi.it] typical of the Viterbo region that the Etruscans used in their sculptures of northern Lazio Cimini hills near Rome, Italy.Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1817); H. Rosenbusch (1888)

One of its features is to take a pinkish tint when drying.[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1967_num_111_1_12087?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard& Œuvres d'art étrusque découvertes à Castro.]

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