Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . ound more frequently in the environs ofMemphis and in Lower Egypt than in Upper Egypt. There areseveral in the British Museum. Etruscan.—The Etruscans also erected pyramids. According toPliny, the tomb of king Porsena was a monument in rectangularmasonry, each side of which was 300 feet wide, 50 high, and withinthe square of the basement was an inextricable labyrinth. On thatsquare basement stood five pyramids, four at the angles and one inthe centre, each being 70- feet wide at its base, and 150 high, andall so terminating above a
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . ound more frequently in the environs ofMemphis and in Lower Egypt than in Upper Egypt. There areseveral in the British Museum. Etruscan.—The Etruscans also erected pyramids. According toPliny, the tomb of king Porsena was a monument in rectangularmasonry, each side of which was 300 feet wide, 50 high, and withinthe square of the basement was an inextricable labyrinth. On thatsquare basement stood five pyramids, four at the angles and one inthe centre, each being 70- feet wide at its base, and 150 high, andall so terminating above as to support a brazen circle and a petasus,from which were hung by chains certain bells, which, when stirredby the wind, resounded afar off. Greelc.—Pyramids of remote antiquity are also found in best preserved of these pyramids is that of Erasmus, nearArgos. The masonry of this edifice is of an intermediate stylebetween the polygonal and irregular horizontal, consisting of largeirregular blocks, with a tendency, however, to quadrangular forms. PYRAMID OF ERASIKIS. NEAR ARGOS. and horizontal courses ; the inequalities being, as usual, filled up withsmaller pieces. It is supposed to be a monument of the same primi-tive school of art as the Gate of the Lions, and the Royal Sepulchresof Mycenae. Boman.—There is only one Roman pyramid. It is the tomb of THEATRES. 63 Caius Cestius, who was one of seven epulones, appointed to preparethe banquets for the gods at public solemnities, in the time ofAugustus. It is close to the Porta San Paolo, Koine. It is 114 feethigh and 90 feet broad at the base. It is built of brick and tufa,covered with slabs of white marble. In its interior is a chamberadorned with paintings. The Pope, Alexander VII., had itrestored. Section VII.—THEATRES.—, HIP-PODROMES.—NAUMACHI^.—BATHS, OR THERMAE.—TRIUMPHAL ARCHES.—FORA. Theatres. —After the temples the theatres were, among the Greeksand Romans, the most necess
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