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528 ROME. [chap. mx.
united by two spheres, and covered with reliefs, in no less
than eleven bands, of animals—lions, sphinxes, griffons,
bulls, and horses—chiefly winged, in a very early and
severe style of art. It was found in the Regulini-Galassi
tomb, at Cervetri; and probably served as a fumigator.4
Here are also two lions in nenfro from Vulci, one on
each side of a doorway. Enter, and you find yourself
in a small dark chamber fitted up in imitation of an
Etruscan tomb. It represents one of the most ordinary
class of sepulchres, having three couches of rock standing
out from the wall, on which the bodies of the deceased are
supposed to have lain, surrounded by articles of pottery
and bronze, which are also suspended from the walls
of the chamber. This meagre copy of an Etruscan
sepulchre may serve to excite, but ought not to satisfy the
traveller's curiosity.
Museo Campaka.
Little inferior to the Gregorian Museum in interest is
the collection of Etruscan antiquities in the possession
of the Cavaliere Campana, at the Monte di Pieta of
Rome. In truth in some points the public collection
cannot rival the private. To gain admission an introduc-
tion to the Cavaliere is requisite, and he will appoint a
convenient day to display his treasures.
The first room you enter is a small cabinet, containing
a great number and variety of terra-cotta figures—statuette,
to borrow a word from the Italian—some of divinities,
from the nine great gods of thunder down to the common
herd of lares and manes; others, votive offerings, so
4 See page 49. In form it is very like without the props. Mus. Gregor. I.
the pot represented at page 58, though tar. XI.
united by two spheres, and covered with reliefs, in no less
than eleven bands, of animals—lions, sphinxes, griffons,
bulls, and horses—chiefly winged, in a very early and
severe style of art. It was found in the Regulini-Galassi
tomb, at Cervetri; and probably served as a fumigator.4
Here are also two lions in nenfro from Vulci, one on
each side of a doorway. Enter, and you find yourself
in a small dark chamber fitted up in imitation of an
Etruscan tomb. It represents one of the most ordinary
class of sepulchres, having three couches of rock standing
out from the wall, on which the bodies of the deceased are
supposed to have lain, surrounded by articles of pottery
and bronze, which are also suspended from the walls
of the chamber. This meagre copy of an Etruscan
sepulchre may serve to excite, but ought not to satisfy the
traveller's curiosity.
Museo Campaka.
Little inferior to the Gregorian Museum in interest is
the collection of Etruscan antiquities in the possession
of the Cavaliere Campana, at the Monte di Pieta of
Rome. In truth in some points the public collection
cannot rival the private. To gain admission an introduc-
tion to the Cavaliere is requisite, and he will appoint a
convenient day to display his treasures.
The first room you enter is a small cabinet, containing
a great number and variety of terra-cotta figures—statuette,
to borrow a word from the Italian—some of divinities,
from the nine great gods of thunder down to the common
herd of lares and manes; others, votive offerings, so
4 See page 49. In form it is very like without the props. Mus. Gregor. I.
the pot represented at page 58, though tar. XI.