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ITALIC TOMB-GROUPS: VULCI 51

fine texture, red at core, outer surface brown with red
mottlings. Good polish of exterior and interior surface
of rim. Handmade. Handle narrows and becomes
concave at top. Small triangular perforation above
rim. At base of rim a line of rope pattern. Shoulder
fluted.
16. Similar Gup. Pl. XLI1I. M.S.596, H. 0.041
m., D. 0.094 m. Handle broken and rim chipped.
Similar fabric and technique.
17. Similar Gup. PL XLIII. M.S.688, H. 0.038
m., D. 0.082 m. Damage to rim. This vase was cata-
logued with vases from Vulci 42 F., but may be identified
in the record photograph of this tomb. It was evidently
exchanged by mistake with one of the vases catalogued
with this tomb which may be identified in the record
photograph of 42 F. Similar fabric, grey at core, outer
surface black. Good polish on exterior and interior of
rim. Circular perforation of handle, with ribbed edge,
at junction of base and handle. Shoulder fluted and
shallow flutings on floor of vase forming, with a raised
center, a rosette.
18. Shallow Bowl or Lid. PL XLIII. M.S.590,
H. 0.042 m., D. 0.165 m. Mended. Breaks. Interior
of fabric reddish buff, outside reddish brown. Hand-
made. No polish. Three string holes.
Objects Other than Pottery
No bronzes are catalogued as coming from this tomb
but the bits of bronze shown in Pl. XLIII were recovered
from among the ashes in No. 1. They consist of:
19. Links of Chains. M.S.602a. Four or more
types may be distinguished in the photograph.
20. Fragments of Spiral Pendants. M.S.602b.
21. Three Small Buttons with Central Shanks.
M.S. 602a. Now adhering to the links of No. 19.
22. Fragment of Grooved Bronze Band. M.S.
602e, W. 0.019 m.
23. Fragment of a Blue Glass Bead. M.S.602f.
24. Fragment of an Iron Rod. M.S.602g, not
illustrated.
COMPARANDA
4. Cf. two lids from Saturnia, MonAnt. XXX, col.
635, Fig. 25, 3.
6. Cf. Jdl. 1900, p. 173, Fig. 14, from Grave XXV,
Pitigliano.
7-9. Cf. No. 2 from Narce 71 M, Pl. VI, and the
comparanda cited under this number.
13. Cf. No. 12 from Vulci 66, PL XLV.

14. Cf. No. 6 from Vulci 51, PL XLIV.
15 and 16. Cf. Nos. 4-8 from Narce 27 M, PL XIII,
and the comparanda cited under these numbers.
17. Cf. No. 8 from Narce 71 M, Pl. VII and Fig. 9
(which is precisely similar except for the decoration in
thick white pigment on its floor), and the comparanda
cited under this number.
19. Cf. No. 20 from Narce 71 M, Pl. VI, and the
comparanda cited under this number.
20. Cf. Nos. 16-18 from Narce 71 M, Pl. VI, and the
comparanda cited under these numbers.
21. Cf. No. 35 from Vulci 66, Pl. XLVI, and the
comparanda cited under this number.
VULCI 51
There is no record of this tomb except the statement that
it was a well-tomb excavated by Mancinelli.
Pottery
1. Cinerary Urn. Pl. XLIV. M.S.661, H. 0.41
m., D. 0.277 m. Extensive restorations, surface worn.
Fabric of coarse texture, dark grey at core, exterior sur-
face black. Handmade. Medium polish. The neck is
high; and the shoulder, below the neck, bell-shape;
above the level of the handle is a zone of fluting.
2. A bowl with single upright handle and no knobs
appears in the record photograph of this tomb, as cover
for the foregoing, but it cannot be located in the Museum.
A similar bowl with conspicuous knobs was substituted
in its place in the catalogue.
3. Lydion. Pl. XLIV. M.S.654, H. 0.223 m., D.
0.216 m. Restored. Fabric of medium fine texture,
grey at core, red on surface. The exterior surface and
the inside of the foot are covered with a fine, hard, and
slightly lustrous cream slip, on which the design is
painted: a broad red band at the base of the neck, two on
the foot, the upper of which is connected by broad trans-
verse bands with a horizontal band below the main zone,
forming a coarse recticulate pattern. Similar broad
bands divide the main zone into metopes. Within these
the pattern is largely effaced; it seems to have consisted
of hatched hour-glass motives alternately red and black
with a swastika filling one smaller metope. The black
color has deteriorated to a muddy brown. In the
metopes where it is used the triangular spaces on either
side of the hour-glass and the hatchings of the hour-glass
seem to have been black; the latter do not reach quite to
the triangles, and thus leave the hour-glass without an
outline. Perhaps the black pigment was thin and over-
lapping was avoided in its application.