. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. TT y j vuixr. 303 like what has been already described at Tarquiniaand Monterone. I am not aware that any objectsof value were found in this tomb. As it was pro-bably the distinguished sepulchre of some mostillustrious individual or race, it was of course rifledof its contents at an early period by a barbarousRoman, or some little less barbarous Goth, whilethe more private tombs were left undisturbed, tobe objects of curiosity or matter of gain to a Princeof Canino, or a Roman antiquary of the nineteenthcentury. Though the remains of the Cucumellaa
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. TT y j vuixr. 303 like what has been already described at Tarquiniaand Monterone. I am not aware that any objectsof value were found in this tomb. As it was pro-bably the distinguished sepulchre of some mostillustrious individual or race, it was of course rifledof its contents at an early period by a barbarousRoman, or some little less barbarous Goth, whilethe more private tombs were left undisturbed, tobe objects of curiosity or matter of gain to a Princeof Canino, or a Roman antiquary of the nineteenthcentury. Though the remains of the Cucumellaare not very considerable, it is well worth whileto visit it, in order to obtain an idea of one of thestyles of sepulchral architecture by which the bodiesof the most illustrious among the aristocracy ofEtruria were honoured. Painted tombs like thoseof Tarquinia have been found at Vulci, but we didnot see them. Micali describes the Cucumella as he saw it in1830, and it is a very good description of it a third part was laid bare, a
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