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British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]
Bronze room — London, 1871

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design. The action of the figures and the cord held in
their hands, suggest the possibility that the motive of this
design was taken from some exercise in the palaestra.
This noble specimen of Etruscan art was found in a tomb
at Vulci, together with a helmet, which passed into the
collection of the Due de Luynes. Height ] ft. 10f in.
Pourtales. Cat. Pourt. No. 718. (See Micali, M. I., pi. xvi.
fig. 11, for a very similar vase.)

Group of Herakles overcoming the horses of Diomedes,
which has ornamented the top of a cista. This group is
an interesting specimen of Etruscan art. The horses are
carefully modelled, but in a style retaining traces of
archaic stiffness ; on their necks are bulla hanging from
collai's. Height 6f in. Palestrina (Praeneste).

Recumbent male figure, bearded, and draped to the feet
in a chiton, over which is a shorter garment, which does not
extend over the right arm and side ; the right hand holds
out a phiale; the left elbow reclines on an inflated skin,
askos; the hair falls on the shoulders behind. This
figure may have ornamented the cover of an oblong bronze
sepulchral cista. Length 1 ft. \\ in. 31.

Peleus wrestling with Atalanta; from the top of a cista.
Height 3| in.

Herakles wearing the lion's skin, the paws of which are
knotted over his breast; in his right hand he has probably
held his club ; in his left some other object. This bronze
is in very fine condition. The treatment is hard and rather
mechanical, as is often the case in Etruscan bronzes.
Height 7% in. Found with about 600 statuettes and other
votive objects in bronze of different periods, in the Lake
of Falterona, in Etruria. It is supposed that they fell
into the lake in a landslip. (See the account of this curious
discovery, Micali, M. I., pp. 86-90, pi. xv.)

Female figure, draped in a chiton, over which hangs a
mantle over both arms ; her hands slightly raised. This
figure is probably of the same age as the preceding one.
Height 5f in. Lake of Falterona. Micali, M. I., pi. xiiu
fig. 1,2.

Mars, a fine specimen of early Etruscan art; the cuirass
is richly decorated; the surface of the body is covered
with a fine brown patina; the left arm, which bears a
buckler, having been detached from the body, is covered
with a green patina; both arms have been separately

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