Two Etruscan perfume mixing sticks, 4th century BC.Bronze.Measurements: 18,5 and 23,5 cm (length).Two sticks for mixing perfumes, made of patinated bronze, decorated at the ends one with a lion and the other with a kind of flat shield as handles.Etruria, also often called in Greek and Latin texts Tyrrhenia or Tirrenia, was an ancient historical region located in central Italy, in the regions of Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria. The toponym derives from the Etruscans or Tyrrhenians, the people who settled there creating a powerful confederation, the so-called Etruscan dodecapolis.