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clusium. 459
genius and the husband is a long line of figures, with
inscriptions over them, probably names or titles,
or some sentence expressive of lamentation. They
represent the nearest relations endeavouring to
comfort the bereaved husband, and to reconcile him
to his loss. The last figure is a female with some
peculiar machine in her hand, the uses and mean-
ing of which are unknown ; perhaps, it may here-
after be discovered by a scarabeus, as happened in
the case of another instrument, the intention of
which was still doubtful when we left Italy.
The engraving I allude to is upon a cornelian
scarabeus found at Chiusi, and represents a man run-
ning with a number of vases strung upon a rod, and
thrown over his shoulder. Campanari was told by
one of the learned canons, that this string of vases
was supposed to represent a musical instrument
formed of a number of brazen vessels which knocked
against each other as he ran, and was used like a
peal of bells to announce in the olden time some
noted or notable public event. When we were in
the British Museum we saw this very instrument
brought home from the south seas, where it is used
as an announcement bell! It stands in the room
where there are a number of antique bronzes, and
the old public seals of England. «
The upper end of one of the large rooms at
Casuccini's is entirely filled with sarcophagi laid
upon ledges as they were found in the tombs. Some
few were our old friends the Etruscan lucumones, as
large as life or larger, lying in state upon their own
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genius and the husband is a long line of figures, with
inscriptions over them, probably names or titles,
or some sentence expressive of lamentation. They
represent the nearest relations endeavouring to
comfort the bereaved husband, and to reconcile him
to his loss. The last figure is a female with some
peculiar machine in her hand, the uses and mean-
ing of which are unknown ; perhaps, it may here-
after be discovered by a scarabeus, as happened in
the case of another instrument, the intention of
which was still doubtful when we left Italy.
The engraving I allude to is upon a cornelian
scarabeus found at Chiusi, and represents a man run-
ning with a number of vases strung upon a rod, and
thrown over his shoulder. Campanari was told by
one of the learned canons, that this string of vases
was supposed to represent a musical instrument
formed of a number of brazen vessels which knocked
against each other as he ran, and was used like a
peal of bells to announce in the olden time some
noted or notable public event. When we were in
the British Museum we saw this very instrument
brought home from the south seas, where it is used
as an announcement bell! It stands in the room
where there are a number of antique bronzes, and
the old public seals of England. «
The upper end of one of the large rooms at
Casuccini's is entirely filled with sarcophagi laid
upon ledges as they were found in the tombs. Some
few were our old friends the Etruscan lucumones, as
large as life or larger, lying in state upon their own
x 2