The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . f theIt is stated by Count (x. C. Conestahile steps were moveable, made so to conceal that in some other tombs of Sovana where another passage leading to a lower chamber. iliis arched recess occurs in the facade, it Conestahile, loc. cit. was occupied by a stone sarcophagus with 2 It is divided into metopes, and what ;t recumbent figure on its lid, vestiges of resemble triglyphs in outline, but not being- which still remain. Bulletino degli Scavi channelled, are not entitled to the name ; -Ill Societa Colombaria, 1859, p. 8. there are no guttce. Each meto
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . f theIt is stated by Count (x. C. Conestahile steps were moveable, made so to conceal that in some other tombs of Sovana where another passage leading to a lower chamber. iliis arched recess occurs in the facade, it Conestahile, loc. cit. was occupied by a stone sarcophagus with 2 It is divided into metopes, and what ;t recumbent figure on its lid, vestiges of resemble triglyphs in outline, but not being- which still remain. Bulletino degli Scavi channelled, are not entitled to the name ; -Ill Societa Colombaria, 1859, p. 8. there are no guttce. Each metope contains Xet it is Btrange that no sarcophagi were a patera. found within the tombs. NULI . IA. VELUVELUS. (map. xxxiv.] LA FONTANA—ETEUSCAN MERMAID. 7 confine them with her The huge coils of her fishes tailsroll away on each side almost to the extremity of the either hand, flying from her with wings outspread, is a malegenius ; the one on her left bears a shield on his arm, and showssome traces of a ROCK-HEWN TOMB CALLED LA FONTANA, AT SOYANA. These figures, which are in prominent relief, are by no meansdistinct. They have suffered from a huge beech, which has takenroot on the summit of the rocky mass, springing from above thehead of the mermaid, which it has almost destroyed, and rivingthe monument to its very base. The antiquaiy may complain,but the artist must rejoice ; for the tree overshadowing the monu-ment renders it eminently 3 Mr. Ainsley took her robes to be wings ;and in truth the resemblance is not slight,and the analogy of similar figures on Etrus-can urns, leads you to expect wings; buthere, the folds of the drapery are distinctly seen covering the left arm. She holds noinstrument in her hand, as usual in suchfigures. 4 Mr. Ainsleys descriptions of this mo-nument will be found in Bull. Inst. 1843, 8 SOVANA. [chap, xxxiv. I agree with Mr. Ainslev in regarding this monument as of alate period in Etruscan art. There is
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