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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 19M
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circle between the legs is modern, and at several points
the ancient metal is reenforced. The rim of the collar
has largely crumbled away.* Each of the legs is com
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posed of three strips which are some 0.025 m. apart where
they are riveted to the collar, but which converge and
become narrower at the bottom until they unite to form
a foot. These legs were strengthened by three horizontal
struts riveted to the middle band of each leg and to a
central horizontal circle. The collar had a narrow hori-
zontal rim both at the top and at the base. Its re-
pouss6 ornament is shown in Fig. 27.
10. Bronze Phiale. PL XVIII. M.S.765, H. ca.
0.055 m., D. 0.194 m. The bottom of the bowl is cor-
roded away and broken into many fragments. There
can be little doubt that the bowl belongs to the tripod
for, where the flutings end, the bottom of the bowl is
slightly raised and the diameter of this raised circle cor-
responds exactly to the diameter of the collar of the tripod.
Inside this raised area are two concentric circular grooves
such as are imitated in clay phialai.
11. Two Fragments of One or More Bronze Fans
(?). PL XIX. M.S.766. The larger flat piece meas-
ures 0.187 m. by 0.172 m. The handle is 0.243 m. in
length. The former is ornamented with alternating
rows of small and larger dots which were impressed be-
fore the curved edge of the piece was shaped, for some
of the dots have been cut in two. Of the central row of
larger dots those nearest the curved edge have been flat-
gened out and along this median axis are three rivet
holes in the central of which still remains a headless rivet
one centimeter in length. In a line parallel to that of
these three holes and one centimeter distant from the
first and third of them are two more holes. It looks
therefore as if the fan, if fan it is, had been inserted in a
socket which would have extended along its curved end
and would have been provided with a central brace on
either face, riveted approximately to the central axis of
the fan. If this socket were made of wood, it might be
one with the handle which could have been wholly of
wood or of bronze with a wooden core. The other frag-
ment consists of a handle made from a strip of bronze
rolled probably about a core of wood to which it was
* In the photograph of this tripod, a disk of paste-board rests
on the collar to support the fragmentary phiale.
fastened by a rivet at either end, one of which is pre-
served. Not all of the strip of bronze was thus rolled;
there was saved at the top a rectangular piece through
which passed six rivets with round heads and a seventh
without an ornamental head. Fastened to this rectangu-
lar piece by the seven rivets is another piece of bronze
which protrudes beyond the rectangular piece. We
might perhaps assume that this piece was added to help
hold the rectangular piece of bronze at the end of the
handle tight against the wooden socket. (Gf. the patch
to hold a rivet tight on No. 7 from Narce 43, Pl. II.)
All this, however, is highly conjectural and there is no
clear proof that the handle belongs to the fan. More-
over it must be admitted that the shape of the fan is
entirely different from that of the only fans which have
been found, namely the splendid examples found by
Minto at Populonia, MonAnt. XXXIV, col. 333, Fig. 10,
col. 335, Fig. 11, and PI. VII, and those which have been
thought on the evidence of bronze sockets to have been
buried in the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, RM. 1907, p. 110,
LXXVIII. No other explanation, however, such as
that the larger fragment belongs to a large belt, or that
it was worn on a necklace (cf. Pottier, Diphilos, PI. V, 140)
fits the evidence equally well.
12. Bronze Sauroter. Pl. XX. M.S.794, L. 0.061
m. Intact. The metal is a millimeter thick and pared
into shape. Two opposite rivet holes near the top.
Probably the tail-piece for a light javelin.
13. Fragment of a Tapering Tube of Horn. Pl.
XX. M.S.793, L. 0.053 m. In the horn is carved a
pattern of diagonals, which does not extend quite to either
end of the piece. Over a part of this ornament is wound
fine bronze wire, apparently to strengthen the horn.
One small circular depression can be seen at the larger
end, evidently for the reception of a brad to fasten the
end of the wire. At the smaller end of the tube beyond
the limits of the carved ornament, the lower edge indi-
cates that it was cut for dovetailing into another member.
Perhaps the end of a sheath; if so it should probably be
connected with No. 54.
14. Six Bronze Pendants. Pl. XX. M.S.784, 785,
786, H. 0.063 m., D. 0.035 m. Flat on one side, convex
on the other. There are small differences among them
due to the fact that the molten metal did not penetrate
in every case into the outermost recesses of the mould.
A fractured surface is noticeable at the top of each
pendant; it looks as if two pendants had been cast in the
same mould and then severed at this point. Such pend-
ants are known to have been attached to the inside of
shields where they might well have made a pleasant
jingling sound, though scarcely the “suono guerriero” as
Pinza, MonAnt. XV, col. 146, suggested. It is also possi-
ble that these pendants hung from the bronze tripod,
No. 9.
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circle between the legs is modern, and at several points
the ancient metal is reenforced. The rim of the collar
has largely crumbled away.* Each of the legs is com
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Fig. 27
posed of three strips which are some 0.025 m. apart where
they are riveted to the collar, but which converge and
become narrower at the bottom until they unite to form
a foot. These legs were strengthened by three horizontal
struts riveted to the middle band of each leg and to a
central horizontal circle. The collar had a narrow hori-
zontal rim both at the top and at the base. Its re-
pouss6 ornament is shown in Fig. 27.
10. Bronze Phiale. PL XVIII. M.S.765, H. ca.
0.055 m., D. 0.194 m. The bottom of the bowl is cor-
roded away and broken into many fragments. There
can be little doubt that the bowl belongs to the tripod
for, where the flutings end, the bottom of the bowl is
slightly raised and the diameter of this raised circle cor-
responds exactly to the diameter of the collar of the tripod.
Inside this raised area are two concentric circular grooves
such as are imitated in clay phialai.
11. Two Fragments of One or More Bronze Fans
(?). PL XIX. M.S.766. The larger flat piece meas-
ures 0.187 m. by 0.172 m. The handle is 0.243 m. in
length. The former is ornamented with alternating
rows of small and larger dots which were impressed be-
fore the curved edge of the piece was shaped, for some
of the dots have been cut in two. Of the central row of
larger dots those nearest the curved edge have been flat-
gened out and along this median axis are three rivet
holes in the central of which still remains a headless rivet
one centimeter in length. In a line parallel to that of
these three holes and one centimeter distant from the
first and third of them are two more holes. It looks
therefore as if the fan, if fan it is, had been inserted in a
socket which would have extended along its curved end
and would have been provided with a central brace on
either face, riveted approximately to the central axis of
the fan. If this socket were made of wood, it might be
one with the handle which could have been wholly of
wood or of bronze with a wooden core. The other frag-
ment consists of a handle made from a strip of bronze
rolled probably about a core of wood to which it was
* In the photograph of this tripod, a disk of paste-board rests
on the collar to support the fragmentary phiale.
fastened by a rivet at either end, one of which is pre-
served. Not all of the strip of bronze was thus rolled;
there was saved at the top a rectangular piece through
which passed six rivets with round heads and a seventh
without an ornamental head. Fastened to this rectangu-
lar piece by the seven rivets is another piece of bronze
which protrudes beyond the rectangular piece. We
might perhaps assume that this piece was added to help
hold the rectangular piece of bronze at the end of the
handle tight against the wooden socket. (Gf. the patch
to hold a rivet tight on No. 7 from Narce 43, Pl. II.)
All this, however, is highly conjectural and there is no
clear proof that the handle belongs to the fan. More-
over it must be admitted that the shape of the fan is
entirely different from that of the only fans which have
been found, namely the splendid examples found by
Minto at Populonia, MonAnt. XXXIV, col. 333, Fig. 10,
col. 335, Fig. 11, and PI. VII, and those which have been
thought on the evidence of bronze sockets to have been
buried in the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, RM. 1907, p. 110,
LXXVIII. No other explanation, however, such as
that the larger fragment belongs to a large belt, or that
it was worn on a necklace (cf. Pottier, Diphilos, PI. V, 140)
fits the evidence equally well.
12. Bronze Sauroter. Pl. XX. M.S.794, L. 0.061
m. Intact. The metal is a millimeter thick and pared
into shape. Two opposite rivet holes near the top.
Probably the tail-piece for a light javelin.
13. Fragment of a Tapering Tube of Horn. Pl.
XX. M.S.793, L. 0.053 m. In the horn is carved a
pattern of diagonals, which does not extend quite to either
end of the piece. Over a part of this ornament is wound
fine bronze wire, apparently to strengthen the horn.
One small circular depression can be seen at the larger
end, evidently for the reception of a brad to fasten the
end of the wire. At the smaller end of the tube beyond
the limits of the carved ornament, the lower edge indi-
cates that it was cut for dovetailing into another member.
Perhaps the end of a sheath; if so it should probably be
connected with No. 54.
14. Six Bronze Pendants. Pl. XX. M.S.784, 785,
786, H. 0.063 m., D. 0.035 m. Flat on one side, convex
on the other. There are small differences among them
due to the fact that the molten metal did not penetrate
in every case into the outermost recesses of the mould.
A fractured surface is noticeable at the top of each
pendant; it looks as if two pendants had been cast in the
same mould and then severed at this point. Such pend-
ants are known to have been attached to the inside of
shields where they might well have made a pleasant
jingling sound, though scarcely the “suono guerriero” as
Pinza, MonAnt. XV, col. 146, suggested. It is also possi-
ble that these pendants hung from the bronze tripod,
No. 9.