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90 PISA. [chap, xxxvi.
spot. The eye, experienced in Etruscan remains, at once
recognises them as the roba of Volterra. They were found at
Morrona, in the neighbourhood of that town, and presented
in 1808 to the city of Pisa. There is nothing among them
of remarkable interest. Most are small square cinerary
urns, or "ash chests," as the Germans term them, with
stunted and distorted figures on the lids. One of these
recumbent figures holds an open scroll, with an Etruscan in-
scription in red letters. Among the reliefs are—a banquet;
a sacrifice ; another of the same on a sarcophagus, in good
style; the deathbed scene of a female, with her friends
around her; a soul in a quadriga, conducted to the shades
below by Charun, armed with his hammer; a griffon con-
tending with three warriors ; an Amazon with sword and
shield defending her fallen comrade from a fierce beast like
a tiger, which is emerging from a well; Orestes persecuted
by a Fury ; Polites, with one knee on the altar, defending
himself with an axe against Pyrrhus, who is rushing up,
sword in hand, to slay him, while two demons, one with a
torch, the other with a sword, stand one on each side.
A large sarcophagus has a pair of figures on its lid, and the
hunt of the Calydonian boar in relief below. Perhaps the
most interesting monument is an alabaster urn, on which a
female figure reclines, holding a rhyton, or drinking-cup, in
the shape of a horse's head and fore-quarters; in the relief
below, is represented a female demon or Fury, winged and
was generally in favour of Perusia; Lanzi (Ancient Italy, I. p. 173) also remarks
(Sagg. II. pp. 27,76) seems to hint at the that if we suppose its pronunciation to
ArretiumFidens of Pliny. Sestini (Geog. have been Pithsa, it would not be far
Numis. II. p. 6) was less extravagant from the Pissa of Lycophron. Millingen
in ascribing these coins to Veii (cf. (Numis. Anc. Ital. p. 170) thinks that
Mionnet, Suppl. I. p. 204). They have these coins belong to some forgotten
also been assigned to Pitinum in Urn- town, near Todi in Umbria, because
bria; but MUller (Etrusk. I. p. 338) they are generally found in that neigh-
suggests that Peithesa may be the old bourhood.
Etruscan form of Pissa ; and Cramer
spot. The eye, experienced in Etruscan remains, at once
recognises them as the roba of Volterra. They were found at
Morrona, in the neighbourhood of that town, and presented
in 1808 to the city of Pisa. There is nothing among them
of remarkable interest. Most are small square cinerary
urns, or "ash chests," as the Germans term them, with
stunted and distorted figures on the lids. One of these
recumbent figures holds an open scroll, with an Etruscan in-
scription in red letters. Among the reliefs are—a banquet;
a sacrifice ; another of the same on a sarcophagus, in good
style; the deathbed scene of a female, with her friends
around her; a soul in a quadriga, conducted to the shades
below by Charun, armed with his hammer; a griffon con-
tending with three warriors ; an Amazon with sword and
shield defending her fallen comrade from a fierce beast like
a tiger, which is emerging from a well; Orestes persecuted
by a Fury ; Polites, with one knee on the altar, defending
himself with an axe against Pyrrhus, who is rushing up,
sword in hand, to slay him, while two demons, one with a
torch, the other with a sword, stand one on each side.
A large sarcophagus has a pair of figures on its lid, and the
hunt of the Calydonian boar in relief below. Perhaps the
most interesting monument is an alabaster urn, on which a
female figure reclines, holding a rhyton, or drinking-cup, in
the shape of a horse's head and fore-quarters; in the relief
below, is represented a female demon or Fury, winged and
was generally in favour of Perusia; Lanzi (Ancient Italy, I. p. 173) also remarks
(Sagg. II. pp. 27,76) seems to hint at the that if we suppose its pronunciation to
ArretiumFidens of Pliny. Sestini (Geog. have been Pithsa, it would not be far
Numis. II. p. 6) was less extravagant from the Pissa of Lycophron. Millingen
in ascribing these coins to Veii (cf. (Numis. Anc. Ital. p. 170) thinks that
Mionnet, Suppl. I. p. 204). They have these coins belong to some forgotten
also been assigned to Pitinum in Urn- town, near Todi in Umbria, because
bria; but MUller (Etrusk. I. p. 338) they are generally found in that neigh-
suggests that Peithesa may be the old bourhood.
Etruscan form of Pissa ; and Cramer