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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 23F
that of the disk just mentioned, on the assumption that
it served as the upper covering of the pommel now gone,
and two smaller fragments, c and d, from the blade.
17. Two Fragments of an Iron Knife. Pl. VIII-
M.S.928F. One comprises the tang with traces of the
wooden handle in which it was inserted, and a portion
of the blade set at an angle to the handle. The other
fragment is a bit of the blade.
18. Three Fragments of an Iron Spit. PL VIII.
M.S.928a, b and c., D. 0.01 m. A rod circular in sec-
tion and spirally grooved is flattened and coiled at the
top, a. The second fragment, b, joins. To it now ad-
heres a fragment of what may possibly have been a poker
like that shown in Montelius 179, 11, and a fragment of
a small rod. The third fragment, c, does not join.
19. Fragments of a Support for Spits. Pl. VIII.
M.S.928g, W. of arms 0.057 m. At first glance these
fragments might seem to belong to ‘candelabra’ but the
scale is wrong. A possible identification is suggested
by the support for spits in Montelius, loc. cit., and ren-
dered probable by the fact that the arms of a are similar
in dimension and appearance to the bit of small rod
adhering to No. 18, b.
20. Fragments of Thin Bronze. Pl. VIII. Prob-
ably from a bowl, since one piece looks like a bit of a rim.
21. Two Lumps of Bronze. Pl. VIII. M.S.929.
Their original shape and purpose undetermined.
COMPARANDA
2. Vase-carriers or hypocrateria, of which twenty
examples occur in our tomb-groups from Narce (none
from Vulci), are derived from metal prototypes; cf.
MAAR. Ill, Pl. 58 from the Bernardini Tomb; id. V,
Pl. 29 from the Barberini Tomb; Montelius, Pl. 335, 1
from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb. Since the ornamental
designs on these metal vase-carriers are of Oriental style,
it is assumed that this type of vase is of eastern origin; cf.
Poulsen, p. 122, who regards the Bernardini example as
Phoenician because of its foliate top; Boehlau, JDI. pp.
159-160; and Diimmler, Kleine Schriften III, pp. 190 ff.
Vessels of this type are represented on a mid-seventh
century Assyrian relief depicting Assurbanipal and his
queen celebrating the death of Te-Umman (655 B.G.),
H. R. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculptures in the British
Museum, Pl. XLI. In Greece the type, surmounted by a
cauldron, is represented on a Protocorinthian aryballos,
Payne, PV. Pl. IX, 4, dated to the first quarter of the
seventh century B.C., and on a conical oinochoe in the
Metropolitan Museum, BullMetMus. 1924, p. 98, Fig. 3.
A fragmentary bronze support, which lacks, as restored, a
flaring top was found at Olympia, Olympia, Pl. XLIX, b.
The shape is represented on a bronze relief recently dis-
covered at Olympia, Die Antike, 1939, p. 36, Fig. 21.
Clay imitations of the type are also known in Greece:
a fragmentary support is in the Berlin Museum, AA.
1891, p. 116, 9; a Protocorinthian example is in the
British Museum, Payne, Nec. p. 276, Fig. 119; two come
from Tomb L, Arkades, Crete, An. X-XII, p. 344, Fig.
448, and p. 349, Fig. 457; there are numerous Protoattic
examples, CVA. Berlin 1, Pis. 28, 30, 31, 32 and 34; one
from Rhodes, Vroulia, Pl. 15, 2, and a miniature example,
CVA. Copenhagen 3, Pl. 99, 14, purchased at Athens, of
unknown provenance; cf. also Perachora, Pl. 30, 26.
3. Cf. the butterfly motives above a latticed zone on
No. 1 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV.
4. Cf. No. 4 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV and No. 16
from Narce 27 M, Pl. XIV, and the comparanda cited
under this number.
7 and 8. Cf. Nos. 9 and 10 from Narce 4 F, PL XII
and the comparanda cited under these numbers.
9. Red bands edged with black are common in
Cyprus in Gjerstad’s Archaic I period, cf. e.g. CVA.
Copenhagen, Pl. 26a and CVA. Louvre 5, IlCb, Pl. 15.
They also occur in Rhodian ware, Vroulia, Pl. 8, la.
11. Cf. No. 11 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV and the
comparanda cited under this number.
15. For triangular ornament of scabbards, perhaps
inlaid, cf. MonAnt. V, col. 227, Figs. 51 and 52 and col.
360, No. 3, from Tomb 14, a trench-tomb, Novilara.
16. Cf. similar iron disks with openwork step pattern,
No. 26, from Narce 7 F, Pl. XXXVII, and the com-
paranda cited under this number.
18. Slender spits with coiled ends have been found
at Vetulonia in the Tomba del Duce, Montelius, Pl.
186, 8, the Tomba della Straniera, id. Pl. 183, 22, and
the Circoli di Cerrecchio, id. Pl. 179, 11; in Tomb VI,
Marsiliana, Marsiliana, Pl. XLII, 6 and pp. 275-276;
in the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, RM. XXII, p. 112; at
Chiusi, Montelius, Pl. 221, 7.
NARCE 23 F
This trench-tomb acquired through Ficola was dug by
Mancinelli. Frothingham’s diagram of the tomb is
shown in Fig. 12. His notes are as follows:
This tomb was quite far down the declivity of Monte
lo Greco and near the ancient road that led from the
early city on Monte li Santi. It is another peculiar
instance of the interpenetration of the Villanova type of
cinerary urn into the period of the trench-tomb. The
trench was oriented from East to West and was dug to a
depth of two metres. It contained a tufa sarcophagus
with heavy gabled cover. In the south wall was opened
a votive loculus closed with a slab of tufa. This loculus
contained not only the funerary deposit of pottery but
also a cinerary urn similar to those of the well-tombs,
ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 23F
that of the disk just mentioned, on the assumption that
it served as the upper covering of the pommel now gone,
and two smaller fragments, c and d, from the blade.
17. Two Fragments of an Iron Knife. Pl. VIII-
M.S.928F. One comprises the tang with traces of the
wooden handle in which it was inserted, and a portion
of the blade set at an angle to the handle. The other
fragment is a bit of the blade.
18. Three Fragments of an Iron Spit. PL VIII.
M.S.928a, b and c., D. 0.01 m. A rod circular in sec-
tion and spirally grooved is flattened and coiled at the
top, a. The second fragment, b, joins. To it now ad-
heres a fragment of what may possibly have been a poker
like that shown in Montelius 179, 11, and a fragment of
a small rod. The third fragment, c, does not join.
19. Fragments of a Support for Spits. Pl. VIII.
M.S.928g, W. of arms 0.057 m. At first glance these
fragments might seem to belong to ‘candelabra’ but the
scale is wrong. A possible identification is suggested
by the support for spits in Montelius, loc. cit., and ren-
dered probable by the fact that the arms of a are similar
in dimension and appearance to the bit of small rod
adhering to No. 18, b.
20. Fragments of Thin Bronze. Pl. VIII. Prob-
ably from a bowl, since one piece looks like a bit of a rim.
21. Two Lumps of Bronze. Pl. VIII. M.S.929.
Their original shape and purpose undetermined.
COMPARANDA
2. Vase-carriers or hypocrateria, of which twenty
examples occur in our tomb-groups from Narce (none
from Vulci), are derived from metal prototypes; cf.
MAAR. Ill, Pl. 58 from the Bernardini Tomb; id. V,
Pl. 29 from the Barberini Tomb; Montelius, Pl. 335, 1
from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb. Since the ornamental
designs on these metal vase-carriers are of Oriental style,
it is assumed that this type of vase is of eastern origin; cf.
Poulsen, p. 122, who regards the Bernardini example as
Phoenician because of its foliate top; Boehlau, JDI. pp.
159-160; and Diimmler, Kleine Schriften III, pp. 190 ff.
Vessels of this type are represented on a mid-seventh
century Assyrian relief depicting Assurbanipal and his
queen celebrating the death of Te-Umman (655 B.G.),
H. R. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculptures in the British
Museum, Pl. XLI. In Greece the type, surmounted by a
cauldron, is represented on a Protocorinthian aryballos,
Payne, PV. Pl. IX, 4, dated to the first quarter of the
seventh century B.C., and on a conical oinochoe in the
Metropolitan Museum, BullMetMus. 1924, p. 98, Fig. 3.
A fragmentary bronze support, which lacks, as restored, a
flaring top was found at Olympia, Olympia, Pl. XLIX, b.
The shape is represented on a bronze relief recently dis-
covered at Olympia, Die Antike, 1939, p. 36, Fig. 21.
Clay imitations of the type are also known in Greece:
a fragmentary support is in the Berlin Museum, AA.
1891, p. 116, 9; a Protocorinthian example is in the
British Museum, Payne, Nec. p. 276, Fig. 119; two come
from Tomb L, Arkades, Crete, An. X-XII, p. 344, Fig.
448, and p. 349, Fig. 457; there are numerous Protoattic
examples, CVA. Berlin 1, Pis. 28, 30, 31, 32 and 34; one
from Rhodes, Vroulia, Pl. 15, 2, and a miniature example,
CVA. Copenhagen 3, Pl. 99, 14, purchased at Athens, of
unknown provenance; cf. also Perachora, Pl. 30, 26.
3. Cf. the butterfly motives above a latticed zone on
No. 1 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV.
4. Cf. No. 4 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV and No. 16
from Narce 27 M, Pl. XIV, and the comparanda cited
under this number.
7 and 8. Cf. Nos. 9 and 10 from Narce 4 F, PL XII
and the comparanda cited under these numbers.
9. Red bands edged with black are common in
Cyprus in Gjerstad’s Archaic I period, cf. e.g. CVA.
Copenhagen, Pl. 26a and CVA. Louvre 5, IlCb, Pl. 15.
They also occur in Rhodian ware, Vroulia, Pl. 8, la.
11. Cf. No. 11 from Narce 42 M, Pl. XV and the
comparanda cited under this number.
15. For triangular ornament of scabbards, perhaps
inlaid, cf. MonAnt. V, col. 227, Figs. 51 and 52 and col.
360, No. 3, from Tomb 14, a trench-tomb, Novilara.
16. Cf. similar iron disks with openwork step pattern,
No. 26, from Narce 7 F, Pl. XXXVII, and the com-
paranda cited under this number.
18. Slender spits with coiled ends have been found
at Vetulonia in the Tomba del Duce, Montelius, Pl.
186, 8, the Tomba della Straniera, id. Pl. 183, 22, and
the Circoli di Cerrecchio, id. Pl. 179, 11; in Tomb VI,
Marsiliana, Marsiliana, Pl. XLII, 6 and pp. 275-276;
in the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, RM. XXII, p. 112; at
Chiusi, Montelius, Pl. 221, 7.
NARCE 23 F
This trench-tomb acquired through Ficola was dug by
Mancinelli. Frothingham’s diagram of the tomb is
shown in Fig. 12. His notes are as follows:
This tomb was quite far down the declivity of Monte
lo Greco and near the ancient road that led from the
early city on Monte li Santi. It is another peculiar
instance of the interpenetration of the Villanova type of
cinerary urn into the period of the trench-tomb. The
trench was oriented from East to West and was dug to a
depth of two metres. It contained a tufa sarcophagus
with heavy gabled cover. In the south wall was opened
a votive loculus closed with a slab of tufa. This loculus
contained not only the funerary deposit of pottery but
also a cinerary urn similar to those of the well-tombs,