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492 ROME. [chap. lix.
Vestibule.
Three recumbent figures in terra cotta, a male and two
females, the size of life, forming the lids to sarcophagi.
They are all highly decorated; he with a chaplet of laurel,
a torque, and rings ; the women with chaplets, necklaces,
earrings, rings, and bracelets.2—From Toscanella, the
site most abounding in terra-cotta articles. Two horses'
heads of nenfro, found at the entrance of a tomb at Vulci.
The horse among the Etruscans was a symbol of the
passage of the soul to another world. A large pine-cone
—another funereal emblem. A square cinerary urn of
terra-cotta, with a rounded, overhanging lid, from which
rises, like a handle, a small head, the portrait of the
individual whose ashes he within.—From Veii.3 Many
heads in the same material, portraits of the deceased,
which were placed in tombs, are now embedded in the
walls of this chamber.
Chamber of the Cinerary Urns.
This room contains thirteen urns of alabaster or traver-
tine, principally from Volterra, which were in the Vatican
before the formation of this Museum. They bear the
usual recumbent effigies on the lids, ludicrously stunted ;
most are females, and hold fruit, a scroll, tablets, a fan, or
a patera, in their hands. The principal urn is at the
end of the room, and has a pair of figures on its lid—
the wife reclining fondly in her husband's bosom. The
relief below shows the myth of (Enomaus ovei-thrown
2 The position of two of these figures, repose after the feast. For illustra-
stretched on their backs, with one hand tions see the work entitled Museo Gre-
behind their heads, and one leg tent goriano, I. tar. XCII.
beneath the other, is peculiar ; it is not 3 See Vol. I. p. 57. For an illus-
the attitude of the banquet, but that of tration see Micali, Mon. Ined. tav.
slumber, or, it may be, of the satisfied XLVIII. 5.
Vestibule.
Three recumbent figures in terra cotta, a male and two
females, the size of life, forming the lids to sarcophagi.
They are all highly decorated; he with a chaplet of laurel,
a torque, and rings ; the women with chaplets, necklaces,
earrings, rings, and bracelets.2—From Toscanella, the
site most abounding in terra-cotta articles. Two horses'
heads of nenfro, found at the entrance of a tomb at Vulci.
The horse among the Etruscans was a symbol of the
passage of the soul to another world. A large pine-cone
—another funereal emblem. A square cinerary urn of
terra-cotta, with a rounded, overhanging lid, from which
rises, like a handle, a small head, the portrait of the
individual whose ashes he within.—From Veii.3 Many
heads in the same material, portraits of the deceased,
which were placed in tombs, are now embedded in the
walls of this chamber.
Chamber of the Cinerary Urns.
This room contains thirteen urns of alabaster or traver-
tine, principally from Volterra, which were in the Vatican
before the formation of this Museum. They bear the
usual recumbent effigies on the lids, ludicrously stunted ;
most are females, and hold fruit, a scroll, tablets, a fan, or
a patera, in their hands. The principal urn is at the
end of the room, and has a pair of figures on its lid—
the wife reclining fondly in her husband's bosom. The
relief below shows the myth of (Enomaus ovei-thrown
2 The position of two of these figures, repose after the feast. For illustra-
stretched on their backs, with one hand tions see the work entitled Museo Gre-
behind their heads, and one leg tent goriano, I. tar. XCII.
beneath the other, is peculiar ; it is not 3 See Vol. I. p. 57. For an illus-
the attitude of the banquet, but that of tration see Micali, Mon. Ined. tav.
slumber, or, it may be, of the satisfied XLVIII. 5.