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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: VULCI 5
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that of the lions from the Barberini Tomb MAAR. V,
PI. 17; the silver skyphos, Montelius, PI. 365, 10 is like
that of the skyphos from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb,
Montelius, PI. 339, 3. Our girdle plate would seem,
therefore, to be approximately contemporary with these
three great tombs. Cf. also the horses on a bronze shield
from Perugia, Montelius, PI. 251, 9, and on a bronze
flask in the Vatican, Museo Etrusco al Vaticano, PI. LX
(= Montelius, PI. 377, 3).
26. Cf. the spits from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb,
RM. 1907, pp. 107 and 112, nos. LXIX, LXX and
LXXXII and Montelius, PI. 336, 9; some of these spits
have tips like those on our spits, longer than that of the spit
illustrated by Montelius. Somewhat similar spits with
a different type of point were found at Populonia in the
chamber-tomb of the Flabelli di Bronzo, MonAnt. XXXIV,
PI. XIII, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. The closest analogies to
our specimens are afforded by a pair of spits of late
Hallstatt period from Beilngries, Dechelette, 2, p. 798,
Fig. 317. Of the hundreds of bronze spits found in the
Argive Heraeum, many are quadrangular in section,
Argive Heraeum, II, p. 305, but none, as far as they are
preserved, have lanceolate ends. Spits with lanceolate
ends are found also in representations on black-figured
Italic vases of an armed dance, G. Van Hoorn, Wapendans
en Mysterien optocht op Italische Vasen, Mededeelingen van het
Nederlandsch Historisch Instituut te Rome, VII, 1927, pp. 17-
26. Dr. Robert Zahn very kindly calls my attention to
this fact and adds to Van Hoorn’s list a black-figured
hydria in the Faina collection, published in the Leipziger
Tageblatt, Oct. 14th, 1933, and Micali, ,Storia, PI.
LXXXII and p. 125, 3. That the weapons cited by
Van Hoorn are spits not spears is verified by comparing
their butts with the butt of a spear with which a Greek
is defending himself in a scene on the neck of a volute
krater by the Painter of the Shaggy Silene in the Metro-
politan Museum, New York, FR., PI. 116 and Richter,
Red-Figured Athenian Vases, p. 126 and PI. 98. In this
scene centaurs have broken in on the wedding-feast of
Perithoos and the Greeks have seized the weapons closest
at hand.
VULCI 5
A description of this tomb in Mancinelli’s handwriting,
and a diagram, also made by Mancinelli, Fig. 65, are
preserved. The description is as follows:
Era nel lato sinistro del quadrato, ove si accedeva col mezzo
di un tramite largo m. 1.50 e profondo m. 3.
Vincavo quadrato aveva la forma delle tombe a fossa ret-
tangolari, ma di proporzioni pih grandi e sulle sue pareti vi erano
tre camere sepolcrali.
Avanti la porta della tomba fu rinvenuta una lastra di tufo
scuro-grigio che la serrava; soltanto un buco nella sommita di
questa chiudenda, accennava che ivi fossero passati gli antichi
esploratori per manometterla.
II soffitto della tomba n'era in parte franato, e gli oggetti si
raccolsero disordinati sotto lo sterro che aveva ripiena la camera.
Anche le ossa dei morti si rinvennero sotto le banchinefra gli
oggetti.
NelPinterno vi erano due banchine, una che comprendeva una
parte della parete sinistra ed una parte della parete di fronte alia
porta, P altra nella parete destra.
Valtezza della camera era di m. 2 e vi [«] raccolsero i
seguenti oggetti.
1. Uno grande anfora con iscrizione sul collo.
2. Altra simile.
3. Un grande boccale corinzio.
4. Altro simile.
5. Un ascos di bucchero.
6. Un bombylios corinzio a bulla.
7. Ascos piccolo corinzio a ciambella.
8. Altro simile.
9. Ascos di terra figulina sotto forma di cervo.
10. Anfora corinzia a due anse dipinta con tre ordini di
figure.
11. Olpe corinzia ornata di pitture rappresentanti vari
quadrupedi.
12. Altra simile.
13. Vasetto di terra figulina ornato di meandri.
14. Altro simile.
15. Tazza a due maniche corinzia.
16. Altra simile.
17. Altra simile.
This list tallies with the vases catalogued from this
tomb except that there are only two Corinthian bowls
whereas there are three olpai with zones of quadrupeds.
In other words his item 17 should have been 13 in his list.
This I take to be a simple mistake on Mancinelli’s part
which can be overlooked, especially as two Corinthian
cups and three olpai appear in the record photograph of
the tomb. In his drawing of the contents of the tomb,
Fig. 65, Nos. 6 and 9 are omitted.
It will be noted that Mancinelli uses the term ‘ascos’
indiscriminately. If No. 7 or No. 9 can be called an
‘ascos,’ it is probably justifiable to identify his No. 5
with the bucchero chalice of PI. LII. This bucchero vase,
however, does not appear in the record photograph of
this tomb. But since this Vulci tomb was among the
first of Mancinelli’s purchases, it may well be that the
unusually careful list was compiled before the contents
of the tomb were photographed, and may thus be pri-
mary evidence for the contents of the tomb. The buc-
chero chalice, therefore, has been retained in this tomb-
group, although it must be admitted that its membership
in this group is not so well established as that of the other
vases from this tomb.
The seventeen vases, arranged for convenience in the
order of Mancinelli’s list, are as follows:
1. Amphora. PI. LI. M.S.562, H. 0.662 m., D.
0.444 m. Intact. Fabric of medium fine texture,
cinder grey at core, outer portions buff. Wheel-made.
The exterior is painted red except the neck, a narrow
band below the handles and a band above the foot which
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that of the lions from the Barberini Tomb MAAR. V,
PI. 17; the silver skyphos, Montelius, PI. 365, 10 is like
that of the skyphos from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb,
Montelius, PI. 339, 3. Our girdle plate would seem,
therefore, to be approximately contemporary with these
three great tombs. Cf. also the horses on a bronze shield
from Perugia, Montelius, PI. 251, 9, and on a bronze
flask in the Vatican, Museo Etrusco al Vaticano, PI. LX
(= Montelius, PI. 377, 3).
26. Cf. the spits from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb,
RM. 1907, pp. 107 and 112, nos. LXIX, LXX and
LXXXII and Montelius, PI. 336, 9; some of these spits
have tips like those on our spits, longer than that of the spit
illustrated by Montelius. Somewhat similar spits with
a different type of point were found at Populonia in the
chamber-tomb of the Flabelli di Bronzo, MonAnt. XXXIV,
PI. XIII, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. The closest analogies to
our specimens are afforded by a pair of spits of late
Hallstatt period from Beilngries, Dechelette, 2, p. 798,
Fig. 317. Of the hundreds of bronze spits found in the
Argive Heraeum, many are quadrangular in section,
Argive Heraeum, II, p. 305, but none, as far as they are
preserved, have lanceolate ends. Spits with lanceolate
ends are found also in representations on black-figured
Italic vases of an armed dance, G. Van Hoorn, Wapendans
en Mysterien optocht op Italische Vasen, Mededeelingen van het
Nederlandsch Historisch Instituut te Rome, VII, 1927, pp. 17-
26. Dr. Robert Zahn very kindly calls my attention to
this fact and adds to Van Hoorn’s list a black-figured
hydria in the Faina collection, published in the Leipziger
Tageblatt, Oct. 14th, 1933, and Micali, ,Storia, PI.
LXXXII and p. 125, 3. That the weapons cited by
Van Hoorn are spits not spears is verified by comparing
their butts with the butt of a spear with which a Greek
is defending himself in a scene on the neck of a volute
krater by the Painter of the Shaggy Silene in the Metro-
politan Museum, New York, FR., PI. 116 and Richter,
Red-Figured Athenian Vases, p. 126 and PI. 98. In this
scene centaurs have broken in on the wedding-feast of
Perithoos and the Greeks have seized the weapons closest
at hand.
VULCI 5
A description of this tomb in Mancinelli’s handwriting,
and a diagram, also made by Mancinelli, Fig. 65, are
preserved. The description is as follows:
Era nel lato sinistro del quadrato, ove si accedeva col mezzo
di un tramite largo m. 1.50 e profondo m. 3.
Vincavo quadrato aveva la forma delle tombe a fossa ret-
tangolari, ma di proporzioni pih grandi e sulle sue pareti vi erano
tre camere sepolcrali.
Avanti la porta della tomba fu rinvenuta una lastra di tufo
scuro-grigio che la serrava; soltanto un buco nella sommita di
questa chiudenda, accennava che ivi fossero passati gli antichi
esploratori per manometterla.
II soffitto della tomba n'era in parte franato, e gli oggetti si
raccolsero disordinati sotto lo sterro che aveva ripiena la camera.
Anche le ossa dei morti si rinvennero sotto le banchinefra gli
oggetti.
NelPinterno vi erano due banchine, una che comprendeva una
parte della parete sinistra ed una parte della parete di fronte alia
porta, P altra nella parete destra.
Valtezza della camera era di m. 2 e vi [«] raccolsero i
seguenti oggetti.
1. Uno grande anfora con iscrizione sul collo.
2. Altra simile.
3. Un grande boccale corinzio.
4. Altro simile.
5. Un ascos di bucchero.
6. Un bombylios corinzio a bulla.
7. Ascos piccolo corinzio a ciambella.
8. Altro simile.
9. Ascos di terra figulina sotto forma di cervo.
10. Anfora corinzia a due anse dipinta con tre ordini di
figure.
11. Olpe corinzia ornata di pitture rappresentanti vari
quadrupedi.
12. Altra simile.
13. Vasetto di terra figulina ornato di meandri.
14. Altro simile.
15. Tazza a due maniche corinzia.
16. Altra simile.
17. Altra simile.
This list tallies with the vases catalogued from this
tomb except that there are only two Corinthian bowls
whereas there are three olpai with zones of quadrupeds.
In other words his item 17 should have been 13 in his list.
This I take to be a simple mistake on Mancinelli’s part
which can be overlooked, especially as two Corinthian
cups and three olpai appear in the record photograph of
the tomb. In his drawing of the contents of the tomb,
Fig. 65, Nos. 6 and 9 are omitted.
It will be noted that Mancinelli uses the term ‘ascos’
indiscriminately. If No. 7 or No. 9 can be called an
‘ascos,’ it is probably justifiable to identify his No. 5
with the bucchero chalice of PI. LII. This bucchero vase,
however, does not appear in the record photograph of
this tomb. But since this Vulci tomb was among the
first of Mancinelli’s purchases, it may well be that the
unusually careful list was compiled before the contents
of the tomb were photographed, and may thus be pri-
mary evidence for the contents of the tomb. The buc-
chero chalice, therefore, has been retained in this tomb-
group, although it must be admitted that its membership
in this group is not so well established as that of the other
vases from this tomb.
The seventeen vases, arranged for convenience in the
order of Mancinelli’s list, are as follows:
1. Amphora. PI. LI. M.S.562, H. 0.662 m., D.
0.444 m. Intact. Fabric of medium fine texture,
cinder grey at core, outer portions buff. Wheel-made.
The exterior is painted red except the neck, a narrow
band below the handles and a band above the foot which