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ETRUSCAN MARINE DEITY.
CHAPTER XLI.
VOLT ERRA.— VOL A TERRA
The Mdsecm.
D' Italia 1' antico
Pregio, e 1' opra che giova.—Filicaja.
Miratur, faeilesque oculos fert omnia cireum
iEneas, capiturque loeis ; et singula leetus
Exquiritque auditque virum monimenta priorum.—Virgil.
Some consolation for the loss of the tombs which have
been opened and reclosed at Volterra is to be derived
from the Museum, to which their contents for the most
part have been removed. Here is treasured up the accu-
mulated sepulchral spoil of more than a century. The
collection was in great part formed by Monsignor Guar-
nacci, a prelate of Volterra, and has since received large
additions, so that it may now claim to be the most
valuable collection of Etruscan antiquities in the world.1
1 The excavations at Volterra were of the interest excited by the publiea-
commenced about 1728, in consequence tions of Dempster and Buonarroti.
CHAPTER XLI.
VOLT ERRA.— VOL A TERRA
The Mdsecm.
D' Italia 1' antico
Pregio, e 1' opra che giova.—Filicaja.
Miratur, faeilesque oculos fert omnia cireum
iEneas, capiturque loeis ; et singula leetus
Exquiritque auditque virum monimenta priorum.—Virgil.
Some consolation for the loss of the tombs which have
been opened and reclosed at Volterra is to be derived
from the Museum, to which their contents for the most
part have been removed. Here is treasured up the accu-
mulated sepulchral spoil of more than a century. The
collection was in great part formed by Monsignor Guar-
nacci, a prelate of Volterra, and has since received large
additions, so that it may now claim to be the most
valuable collection of Etruscan antiquities in the world.1
1 The excavations at Volterra were of the interest excited by the publiea-
commenced about 1728, in consequence tions of Dempster and Buonarroti.