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Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ct in the Museum of Volterra, ut supra, in Etruscan art, as is proved by the atti- p. 117, n. 4. tudes, full faces, and rlow of drapery. The 6 The patera in these scenes, has been shears seem also an adoption from Greek taken by a fanciful writer, whose theories fable, whether alluding to Atropos, who distort his vision, to represent a nautical cuts the thread of life spun out by her compass ! Etruria Celtica, II. p. 270.sister Clotho, or to Proserpine, who severs 318 CHIUSL—The City. (CHAPi LIII. There are some sepulchral lions couchant and a pair of sphinxes in stone,•with wings curled up like elephants trunks ; they were found in the tombs•of the Poggio Gajella. See the woodcut at p. 352. There are also numerous sepulchral tiles, two or three feet long, bearingEtruscan inscriptions—one in the ancient style called boustrophedon, rarelyfound on the monuments of this people. These tiles are discovered•either in tombs as covers to urns, or in niches in the rock—two or three
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THE ANUBIS-VASE—BLACK WARE OF CHIUSI. being arranged so as to form a little penthouse over a cinerary urn ,and the epitaph, instead of being on the urn, is sometimes inscribed on atile. This collection is particularly rich in specimens of bucchero—the primitiveblack ware almost limited to Chinsi and the neighbouring sites, and peculiarlyEtruscan in character. The most remarkable monument in this ware, andthe finest specimen of it yet brought to light, is a large jug twenty incheshigh, studded with grinning masks, and banded with figures, in a group ofsix, repeated three times round the body of Hie vase. The first of thesefigures, ehown in the above woodcut, is a monster in human shape with thehead of .a beast, supposed to be a dog, which, from its resemblance to the CHAP. LIII.) TUB CASUCCINI COLLKCTK »\. 319 Egyptian god, is generally called Anubis. Nex1 to him is a winged di ityprobably Mercury the conductor of souls ; then a Fury with Gorgons head,and wings springing from her

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