The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . cut, the tripod is formed bythe bodies of three human figures. Theshafts generally rise directly from the base,and are often fluted, or twisted, or knottedlike the stem of a tree, but a figure some-times intervenes as in the above cut. Itwas a favourite conceit to introduce a cator squirrel chasing a bird up the shaft,and the bowl above has often little birdsaround it, as though it were a nest, so thatthe -whole is then intended to re;a tree. Sometimes a boy or monkey isclimbing the shaft, or a snake is coilinground it. It often terminates above, notin a
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . cut, the tripod is formed bythe bodies of three human figures. Theshafts generally rise directly from the base,and are often fluted, or twisted, or knottedlike the stem of a tree, but a figure some-times intervenes as in the above cut. Itwas a favourite conceit to introduce a cator squirrel chasing a bird up the shaft,and the bowl above has often little birdsaround it, as though it were a nest, so thatthe -whole is then intended to re;a tree. Sometimes a boy or monkey isclimbing the shaft, or a snake is coilinground it. It often terminates above, notin a bowl hut in a number of branches fromwhich lamps were suspended, and in the ] MUSKO GBEGOBIANO—THE BEONZES. 179 Near the bier is ii votive statue of a boy, with a bulla roundhis neck, lie has lost, the Left arm, but on his shoulder are theremains of an Etruscan inscription in tour Hues. This statuewas found ;it Tarquinii, and is supposed to represent Tages, themysterious boy-god, who sprung from the furrows of that
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