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chap, xu.] FUNERAL PROCESSIONS. 197
procession is manifestly represented, for the deceased is
stretched on a bier, carried on men's shoulders. These
car-scenes, as far as I can learn, are peculiar to Volterra;
for I have seen them on no other site.9
Though cinerary urns are so numerous in this collection,
there are but two sarcophagi, properly so called; both
found in the tomb of the Flavian family in 1760.1 The
recumbent figures on the lids are of opposite sexes. On
the sarcophagus of the male is a procession of several
figures, each with a pair of wands, not twisted like those
in the Grotta Tifone at Corneto, or on the sculptured tomb
of Norchia; except one who bears a short thick staff, which
may be intended for a lictor's fascis. They precede a
figure in a toga, which seems to represent a soul; unless
there be some analogy to the procession of magistrates
already described, and they represent the infernal judge
on his way to sit in sentence.2 For the soul is figured at
guished from the horse-scenes by the and drawn by two mules ; mourners on
absence of Charun and his ministers, or foot are accompanying it, all with their
of attendant genii, and of figures taking hands to their heads in token of grief;
farewell. There is nothing to hint that together with a mhulo with double-
it is more than a representation of pipes, followed by a number of warriors
actual life. In one instance only does lowering their lances. Micali, Ant.
it seem to refer to the passage of the Pop. ItaL III. p. 150, tav. 96,1.
soul, and there the car is preceded by \ The tomb contained moreover forty
a demon with two small shields, and urns all with inscriptions. These are
followed by another with a torch. The the only genuine Etruscan sarcophagi
ear may not in every instance be the Inghirami ever saw from the tombs of
hearse ; in some, where several figures Volterra ; so universal was the custom
are reclining within it, it may answer of burning. Mon. Etrus. I. pp, 9, 34.
to the mourning coach, conveying the 2 Inghirami (I. p. 31, tav. 3) takes
relatives of the deceased, for we know this for a funeral procession preceding
that the Romans used carpenta in funeral the corpse. He represents the three
processions. Sueton. Calig. 15. figures in the middle as holding swords
9 For illustrations see Micali, Ital. in their right hands, and sticks in their
av. Rom. tav. 27, 28. Gori, I. tab. 169; left, and he thinks them gladiators who
III. el. 4, tab. 22. On a vase from were to fight at the tomb or pyre, first
Vulci, in the Archaic style, a scene with sticks, then with more deadly
very similar is depicted. The corpse weapons,
is stretched on a bier, placed on wheels
procession is manifestly represented, for the deceased is
stretched on a bier, carried on men's shoulders. These
car-scenes, as far as I can learn, are peculiar to Volterra;
for I have seen them on no other site.9
Though cinerary urns are so numerous in this collection,
there are but two sarcophagi, properly so called; both
found in the tomb of the Flavian family in 1760.1 The
recumbent figures on the lids are of opposite sexes. On
the sarcophagus of the male is a procession of several
figures, each with a pair of wands, not twisted like those
in the Grotta Tifone at Corneto, or on the sculptured tomb
of Norchia; except one who bears a short thick staff, which
may be intended for a lictor's fascis. They precede a
figure in a toga, which seems to represent a soul; unless
there be some analogy to the procession of magistrates
already described, and they represent the infernal judge
on his way to sit in sentence.2 For the soul is figured at
guished from the horse-scenes by the and drawn by two mules ; mourners on
absence of Charun and his ministers, or foot are accompanying it, all with their
of attendant genii, and of figures taking hands to their heads in token of grief;
farewell. There is nothing to hint that together with a mhulo with double-
it is more than a representation of pipes, followed by a number of warriors
actual life. In one instance only does lowering their lances. Micali, Ant.
it seem to refer to the passage of the Pop. ItaL III. p. 150, tav. 96,1.
soul, and there the car is preceded by \ The tomb contained moreover forty
a demon with two small shields, and urns all with inscriptions. These are
followed by another with a torch. The the only genuine Etruscan sarcophagi
ear may not in every instance be the Inghirami ever saw from the tombs of
hearse ; in some, where several figures Volterra ; so universal was the custom
are reclining within it, it may answer of burning. Mon. Etrus. I. pp, 9, 34.
to the mourning coach, conveying the 2 Inghirami (I. p. 31, tav. 3) takes
relatives of the deceased, for we know this for a funeral procession preceding
that the Romans used carpenta in funeral the corpse. He represents the three
processions. Sueton. Calig. 15. figures in the middle as holding swords
9 For illustrations see Micali, Ital. in their right hands, and sticks in their
av. Rom. tav. 27, 28. Gori, I. tab. 169; left, and he thinks them gladiators who
III. el. 4, tab. 22. On a vase from were to fight at the tomb or pyre, first
Vulci, in the Archaic style, a scene with sticks, then with more deadly
very similar is depicted. The corpse weapons,
is stretched on a bier, placed on wheels