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chap, lix.] MUSEO GREGORIANO.—VARIETIES. 527
Ranged round the room are sundry relies in stone or
pottery — weightier matters of Etruscan art. A flat
circular cippus, like a millstone, with a sepulchral inscrip-
tion round its edge.9 An upright sarcophagus, like a
round Ionic temple, and with an inscription on the archi-
trave, which recalls the fair Tanaquil —" Eca Suthi
Thanchvilus Masnial."1 The base to a statue, bearing a
Latin inscription, of the date of 305 or 306 after Christ,
found at Vulci, and interesting as determining the name
of the city, whose cemetery has yielded such marvellous
treasures.2 Two stelee of basalt, with Etruscan inscrip-
tions. Many large tall jars, of red or brown ware, fluted,
with reliefs in a very archaic style; from the tombs of
Caere and Veii.3 Braziers of the same character, with
rows of figures round the rim. The well-known vase of
Triptolemus, presented to the Pope by Prince Poniatowski.
A cinerary pot whose lid has the figure of a horse for a
handle.
Chamber op the Tomb.
On the way out from the Bronze Boom, you pass
through a small chamber, where stands a tall and very
singular vase of bronze, composed of two bell-shaped pots,
colouring. The inscriptions are often ' The inscription here, however,
inaccurate, and sometimes omitted; and, seems from the termination to refer to
on the other hand, certain parts which a male ; for the first part of it see Vol.
are now deficient in the originals, are I. p. 242. Mus. Gregor. I tav. CV. 3.
here supplied, either from drawings 2 Mus. Gregor. I. tav. CVI. 2.
made when the paintings were less de-
cayed, or from the imagination of the
copier. It must be remembered that
P„„i, „. , - BILISSIMO .
eacn sheet of canvass represents a sepa-
rate wall of a tomb. caesari ord
It is like that in Campanari's garden
at Toscanella, shown in the woodcut at vvlcentivs
D.N. FLAVIO . VALE
RIO . SEVERO . NO
D . N . M . Q ,
Page 451 of Vol. I. Mus. Gregor. I.
tev- CV. 2. s Mus. Gregor. II. tav. C.
Ranged round the room are sundry relies in stone or
pottery — weightier matters of Etruscan art. A flat
circular cippus, like a millstone, with a sepulchral inscrip-
tion round its edge.9 An upright sarcophagus, like a
round Ionic temple, and with an inscription on the archi-
trave, which recalls the fair Tanaquil —" Eca Suthi
Thanchvilus Masnial."1 The base to a statue, bearing a
Latin inscription, of the date of 305 or 306 after Christ,
found at Vulci, and interesting as determining the name
of the city, whose cemetery has yielded such marvellous
treasures.2 Two stelee of basalt, with Etruscan inscrip-
tions. Many large tall jars, of red or brown ware, fluted,
with reliefs in a very archaic style; from the tombs of
Caere and Veii.3 Braziers of the same character, with
rows of figures round the rim. The well-known vase of
Triptolemus, presented to the Pope by Prince Poniatowski.
A cinerary pot whose lid has the figure of a horse for a
handle.
Chamber op the Tomb.
On the way out from the Bronze Boom, you pass
through a small chamber, where stands a tall and very
singular vase of bronze, composed of two bell-shaped pots,
colouring. The inscriptions are often ' The inscription here, however,
inaccurate, and sometimes omitted; and, seems from the termination to refer to
on the other hand, certain parts which a male ; for the first part of it see Vol.
are now deficient in the originals, are I. p. 242. Mus. Gregor. I tav. CV. 3.
here supplied, either from drawings 2 Mus. Gregor. I. tav. CVI. 2.
made when the paintings were less de-
cayed, or from the imagination of the
copier. It must be remembered that
P„„i, „. , - BILISSIMO .
eacn sheet of canvass represents a sepa-
rate wall of a tomb. caesari ord
It is like that in Campanari's garden
at Toscanella, shown in the woodcut at vvlcentivs
D.N. FLAVIO . VALE
RIO . SEVERO . NO
D . N . M . Q ,
Page 451 of Vol. I. Mus. Gregor. I.
tev- CV. 2. s Mus. Gregor. II. tav. C.