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CiERE OR AGYLLA.
fore, found arched, and all with a roof-tree across,
Canina places at a later period than this one.—
Some very fine specimens of roof construction, I be-
lieve still visible, were found in Mount Abetone, and
investigated from Rome in 1835. We had not time
to attempt to visit them.
We left with a sigh this relic of Agylla, and went
to the edge upon the other side, which divides it
from the next tumulus, once a twin brother, and
still preserving a likeness; partner in glory, and
partner in decay. It is lowered and pulled to pieces
like Mount Regulini; only, instead of Indian corn, it
is covered with vines. Of course, when excava-
tions are made in it, they must be covered in again
without delay, that the vines may not suffer. Here
a tomb had just been opened of similar construction
and similar riches, but it could not be seen. It was
filled up,andin all likelihood is now utterly destroyed.
It belonged to Signor Calabrese, a rich farmer, who
"could do what he chose with his own," and the only
tax upon whose free will was, that he might not
sell to a stranger without the leave of his govern-
ment. We could get no explicit and satisfactory
description or account of this tumulus. I under-
stood that in it there were several bodies, and that
the principal one was that of a warrior, with a su-
perb mantle thrown over him, worked in gold, like
that of the Larthia; but whether he had lain in a
small central cone, and was by himself, or not, I
could by no means ascertain. The papal govern-
ment was in treaty with Calabrese, to buy from him
CiERE OR AGYLLA.
fore, found arched, and all with a roof-tree across,
Canina places at a later period than this one.—
Some very fine specimens of roof construction, I be-
lieve still visible, were found in Mount Abetone, and
investigated from Rome in 1835. We had not time
to attempt to visit them.
We left with a sigh this relic of Agylla, and went
to the edge upon the other side, which divides it
from the next tumulus, once a twin brother, and
still preserving a likeness; partner in glory, and
partner in decay. It is lowered and pulled to pieces
like Mount Regulini; only, instead of Indian corn, it
is covered with vines. Of course, when excava-
tions are made in it, they must be covered in again
without delay, that the vines may not suffer. Here
a tomb had just been opened of similar construction
and similar riches, but it could not be seen. It was
filled up,andin all likelihood is now utterly destroyed.
It belonged to Signor Calabrese, a rich farmer, who
"could do what he chose with his own," and the only
tax upon whose free will was, that he might not
sell to a stranger without the leave of his govern-
ment. We could get no explicit and satisfactory
description or account of this tumulus. I under-
stood that in it there were several bodies, and that
the principal one was that of a warrior, with a su-
perb mantle thrown over him, worked in gold, like
that of the Larthia; but whether he had lain in a
small central cone, and was by himself, or not, I
could by no means ascertain. The papal govern-
ment was in treaty with Calabrese, to buy from him