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chap, xxxiii.] GROTTA CAMPANA. 57
east of the Regulini sepulchre, after crossing the Vaccina,
you find a path leading up to the southermost point of the
Monte. Here, at the very edge of the cliff, facing the city,
a tomb was opened in May, 1845, which may be seen with
all its furniture, just as it was found. Flavio Passegiere
keeps the key. The traveller is again indebted, for the
conservation of this monument, to the good taste of the
Cavaliere Campana—a gentleman, whose zealous exertions
in the field of Etruscan research, and in the advancement
of archaeological science in general, are too well recognised
to require laudation from me. This tomb is, or should be,
known by the name of
Gkotta Campana.
It bears considerable similarity to that of the same
appellation at Veii—not so much in itself as in its contents.
It lies beneath a crumbled tumulus, girt with masonry.2
There is but a single sepulchral chamber, but it is divided,
by Doric-like pilasters, into three compartments. The
first has a fan-like ornament in relief on its ceiling, just as
exists in a tomb in the Banditaccia, and in another at
Vulci,3 and which being here found in connection with very
archaic furniture, raises a presumption in favour of its
being a most ancient style of decoration. Just within the
entrance, on one hand, is a large jar, resting on a stumpy
column of tufo, which is curiously adorned with reliefs of
stripes and stars, though not in the approved Transatlantic
arrangement. In the opposite corner is a squared mass of
2 The entrance, as usual in the tombs two side-chambers which open on the
of Cervetri, is lined with masonry. The entrance-passage of this tomb, the walls
doorway is cut in the rock in an arched also are panelled in relief with the very
form, and around it is a groove, into same pattern as decorates the said tomb
which fitted the ancient door, a slab of of the Sun and Moon at Vulci. The
stone. two-fold coincidence in this sepulchre
3 Ut supra, page 33. In one of the is remarkable.
east of the Regulini sepulchre, after crossing the Vaccina,
you find a path leading up to the southermost point of the
Monte. Here, at the very edge of the cliff, facing the city,
a tomb was opened in May, 1845, which may be seen with
all its furniture, just as it was found. Flavio Passegiere
keeps the key. The traveller is again indebted, for the
conservation of this monument, to the good taste of the
Cavaliere Campana—a gentleman, whose zealous exertions
in the field of Etruscan research, and in the advancement
of archaeological science in general, are too well recognised
to require laudation from me. This tomb is, or should be,
known by the name of
Gkotta Campana.
It bears considerable similarity to that of the same
appellation at Veii—not so much in itself as in its contents.
It lies beneath a crumbled tumulus, girt with masonry.2
There is but a single sepulchral chamber, but it is divided,
by Doric-like pilasters, into three compartments. The
first has a fan-like ornament in relief on its ceiling, just as
exists in a tomb in the Banditaccia, and in another at
Vulci,3 and which being here found in connection with very
archaic furniture, raises a presumption in favour of its
being a most ancient style of decoration. Just within the
entrance, on one hand, is a large jar, resting on a stumpy
column of tufo, which is curiously adorned with reliefs of
stripes and stars, though not in the approved Transatlantic
arrangement. In the opposite corner is a squared mass of
2 The entrance, as usual in the tombs two side-chambers which open on the
of Cervetri, is lined with masonry. The entrance-passage of this tomb, the walls
doorway is cut in the rock in an arched also are panelled in relief with the very
form, and around it is a groove, into same pattern as decorates the said tomb
which fitted the ancient door, a slab of of the Sun and Moon at Vulci. The
stone. two-fold coincidence in this sepulchre
3 Ut supra, page 33. In one of the is remarkable.