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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: NARCE 65M

tops, and the lead within the staves would then serve to
counterbalance their weight.
24. Four Fragments of Iron Rods from a Candela-
brum. PL XLII. M.S.755a, L. of the longest fragment
0.10 m., of the shortest 0.055 m. To the longest frag-
ment is attached a disk of bronze 0.038 m. in diameter;
to one of the smaller fragments, two smaller disks of
bronze; a third, probably from the top of the candela-
brum, tapers to a point on which may have been stuck
a candle. To three of these fragments adhere bones,
so that it is probable the candelabrum was used in the
cremation rite or was afterward broken and left with
the bones in the jar.
25. Bronze Hook. PL XLII. M.S.751, L. 0.103
m. Probably for suspending a lamp trimmer from the
above candelabrum.
26. Bronze Disk. PL XLII. M.S.755b, D. 0.031
m. Perhaps from a candelabrum.
27. Bronze Perforated Disk. Pl. XLII. M.S.
754, D. 0.051 m. Broken. Perhaps also from a can-
delabrum.
28. Four Bronze Nails. Pl. XLII. M.S.755c, L.
0.021.
29. Iron Ring. Pl. XLII. M.S.755d, D. 0.031 m.
Badly corroded.
30. Bronze Ring. Pl. XLII. M.S.753, D. 0.03 m.
31. Overlapping Bronze Bracelet. Pl. XLII.
M.S.750, D. 0.081 m. Intact. Rectangular in section.
32. Fragments of Similar Overlapping Bracelets.
Pl. XLII. M.S.752. Approximate D. 0.081 m.
33. Lump of Native Copper. Pl. XLII. M.S. 756.
0.07 m. X 0.05 m. X 0.038 m. On chemical analysis
it proved to contain 98.00% copper, .30% tin, .70%
surface dirt.

COMPARANDA
1. On cremation burials in chamber-tombs, see
Holland, pp. 137 ff.
2. Cf. No. 14 from Narce 71 M, Pl. VII, and the com-
paranda cited under this number.
3. Cf. the oinochoai from Tomb XXIII, a chamber-
tomb, Pitigliano, Jdl. 1900, p. 183, No. 3534, and p. 182,
Fig. 23, 2; CVA. British Museum 7, IVBa, PI. 22; Mingaz-
zini, Pl. V, 8 and p. 51, etc.
5. Cf. CVA. British Museum 7, IVBa, Pl. 21, No. 24.
7. Cf. Jdl. 1900, p. 182, Fig. 23, 6 and p. 183, No.
3516; Fairbanks, Pl. LXXXIV, 637. Such cups must
derive from footless cups of the type of No. 18 from
Narce 105 F, PL XXV, No. 8 from Narce 16 F, PL XXIV
etc. For handles similarly surmounted by an animal’s
head, cf. bucchero cups from chamber-tombs at Maz-
zano Romano, NS. 1902, p. 338, Fig. 16 and p. 354,
Fig. 20 bis.
9 and 10. Cf. MonAnt. IV, col. 453, 10-15 and col.
307, Fig. 156, from Barnabei’s Tomb LXXVII.
15 and 16. Cf. id., col. 453, Nos. 8 and 9 and col.
307, Fig. 156 from the same tomb.
19. For shape cf. CVA. Oxford 2, IIIc, Pl. IV, 39,
dated by Payne to the last of the seventh or early sixth
century. The type seems to have lasted well into the
sixth century; Mrs. Stillwell tells me that at Corinth it is
more frequent before 550 than after that date.
20. Our lekythos belongs in the group of shoulder-
lekythoi assigned by Miss Haspels, Attic Black-figured
Lekythoi, pp. 34-39, to the years 540-530 B.C. Charac-
teristic of this group is the echinus lip, the red band over
the ridge between neck and shoulder and the absence of
a ‘drip ring’ and of a black band on the upper shoulder.
Cf. also Mingazzini, Pl. LXXXVI, 1 and 8.
25. Cf. Richter, Bronzes, p. 369, No. 1286.
26. Cf. op. cit., p. 375, No. 1310.