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chap, lix.] THE GREGORIAN MUSEUM. 491
are two—the Museo Gregoriano of the Vatican, and the
collection of Cavalier Campana; each in its way unrivalled.
Mfseo Gregoriano.
This magnificent collection is principally the fruit of the
excavating partnership established, some twelve or fifteen
years since, between the Papal Government and the
Campanari of Toscanella ; and will render the memory of
Gregory XVI., who forwarded its formation with more
zeal than he ordinarily displayed, ever honoured by all
interested in antiquarian science. As the excavations
were made in the neighbourhood of Vulci, most of the
articles are from that necropolis; yet the collection has
been considerably enlarged by the addition of others
previously in the possession of the Government, and still
more by recent acquisitions from the Etruscan cemeteries
of Cervetri, Corneto, Bomarzo, Orte, Toscanella, and other
sites within the Papal dominions.
As no catalogue of this Museum is published, the visitor
is thrown on his own personal stock of knowledge or
ignorance, as the case may be, or on the dim and dubious
enlightenment of the custode. I have therefore considered
that something like a guide to this collection would be
acceptable; and I propose to lead my readers through the
eleven rooms seriatim, and to point out the most remark-
able objects in each. If errors should be found in my
statements, they must be received with indulgence, and
laid not so much to my charge as to that of the Govern-
ment, whose jealousy forbids a visitor to make a single
note within the walls.1
1 The appointed guardians of these a scientific investigator of antiquities,
treasures enter fully into the narrow Matters have somewhat improved, how-
spmt of their employers, and do not ever, since the accession of Pius IX.
distinguish between a clodhopper and
are two—the Museo Gregoriano of the Vatican, and the
collection of Cavalier Campana; each in its way unrivalled.
Mfseo Gregoriano.
This magnificent collection is principally the fruit of the
excavating partnership established, some twelve or fifteen
years since, between the Papal Government and the
Campanari of Toscanella ; and will render the memory of
Gregory XVI., who forwarded its formation with more
zeal than he ordinarily displayed, ever honoured by all
interested in antiquarian science. As the excavations
were made in the neighbourhood of Vulci, most of the
articles are from that necropolis; yet the collection has
been considerably enlarged by the addition of others
previously in the possession of the Government, and still
more by recent acquisitions from the Etruscan cemeteries
of Cervetri, Corneto, Bomarzo, Orte, Toscanella, and other
sites within the Papal dominions.
As no catalogue of this Museum is published, the visitor
is thrown on his own personal stock of knowledge or
ignorance, as the case may be, or on the dim and dubious
enlightenment of the custode. I have therefore considered
that something like a guide to this collection would be
acceptable; and I propose to lead my readers through the
eleven rooms seriatim, and to point out the most remark-
able objects in each. If errors should be found in my
statements, they must be received with indulgence, and
laid not so much to my charge as to that of the Govern-
ment, whose jealousy forbids a visitor to make a single
note within the walls.1
1 The appointed guardians of these a scientific investigator of antiquities,
treasures enter fully into the narrow Matters have somewhat improved, how-
spmt of their employers, and do not ever, since the accession of Pius IX.
distinguish between a clodhopper and