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chap, l.] THE GABINETTO AND PRIVATE MUSEUMS. 359
archaic articles. Here are three Egyptian-like figures of
fetid limestone, four feet and a half high, extremely like
that from the Grotta d'Iside, at Vulci, and if not by the
same hand, evidently of the same period.2 Here are also
some bas-reliefs,—the chief of them having a banqueting-
scene of very rigid style, the figures in which have red
borders to their robes—one of many illustrations of the
toga prcetewta, which the Romans received from the Etrus-
cans.3 And here, moreover, besides the usual black ware
of Chiusi, are some painted vases — a beautiful patera,
with banqueting-scenes—a pelike, representing Ganymede
holding his hoop, seized by Jupiter—and a large skyphos
with athletce; all in the Perfect style.
The visitor should not omit to see the painted vases in
the possession of the Bishop, taken from his excavations
in the Poggio Paccianesi ;. nor the pottery and bronzes in
the houses of Signor Luccioli and Don Luigi Dei. Signor
Ciofi has also some bronzes; and he who studies beetles
will find no lack of matter in the cabinets of the reverend
canons Carducci, Mazzetti, and Pasquini. As all, or most, of
these gentlemen are willing to part with their treasures, no
offence will be given by inquiring the prices of the articles.4
Bull. Inst. 1843. p. 3 ; Ami. Inst. 1843. 2 See Vol. I. p. 422.
p. 361. Micali takes the small female 3 Liv. I. 8 ; Flor. I. 5 ; Plin. VIII.
figures for Junones; and reminds us 74 ; IX. 63.
that the number seven was a sacred or 4 There was a marble cube in the
mystic number among the Etruscans as Oancmico Carducci's garden, which is
well as among the Jews and other said to be quite sublime for the magni-
people of antiquity, being supposed ficent style of its reliefs. Bull. Inst
to have relation to the term of human 1840, p. 151. Notices of the articles
life. Censorin. de Die Nat. cap. XI ; discovered during the last twenty years
Varro. ap. eund. cap. XIV. Cicero calls at Chiusi and its neighbourhood will be
seven—numerus rerum omnium fere found in the publications of the Ar-
nodus. Repub. VI. 18 ; ap. Macrob. cheeological Institute at Rome.
Somn. Scip. I. 6 ; II. 4.
archaic articles. Here are three Egyptian-like figures of
fetid limestone, four feet and a half high, extremely like
that from the Grotta d'Iside, at Vulci, and if not by the
same hand, evidently of the same period.2 Here are also
some bas-reliefs,—the chief of them having a banqueting-
scene of very rigid style, the figures in which have red
borders to their robes—one of many illustrations of the
toga prcetewta, which the Romans received from the Etrus-
cans.3 And here, moreover, besides the usual black ware
of Chiusi, are some painted vases — a beautiful patera,
with banqueting-scenes—a pelike, representing Ganymede
holding his hoop, seized by Jupiter—and a large skyphos
with athletce; all in the Perfect style.
The visitor should not omit to see the painted vases in
the possession of the Bishop, taken from his excavations
in the Poggio Paccianesi ;. nor the pottery and bronzes in
the houses of Signor Luccioli and Don Luigi Dei. Signor
Ciofi has also some bronzes; and he who studies beetles
will find no lack of matter in the cabinets of the reverend
canons Carducci, Mazzetti, and Pasquini. As all, or most, of
these gentlemen are willing to part with their treasures, no
offence will be given by inquiring the prices of the articles.4
Bull. Inst. 1843. p. 3 ; Ami. Inst. 1843. 2 See Vol. I. p. 422.
p. 361. Micali takes the small female 3 Liv. I. 8 ; Flor. I. 5 ; Plin. VIII.
figures for Junones; and reminds us 74 ; IX. 63.
that the number seven was a sacred or 4 There was a marble cube in the
mystic number among the Etruscans as Oancmico Carducci's garden, which is
well as among the Jews and other said to be quite sublime for the magni-
people of antiquity, being supposed ficent style of its reliefs. Bull. Inst
to have relation to the term of human 1840, p. 151. Notices of the articles
life. Censorin. de Die Nat. cap. XI ; discovered during the last twenty years
Varro. ap. eund. cap. XIV. Cicero calls at Chiusi and its neighbourhood will be
seven—numerus rerum omnium fere found in the publications of the Ar-
nodus. Repub. VI. 18 ; ap. Macrob. cheeological Institute at Rome.
Somn. Scip. I. 6 ; II. 4.