Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Mastarna (King Servius Tullius) freeing Caeles VibennaFresco of CTraeco-Etruscan Art from Tomb at Viilci. Bronze Statuettes from a Praenestine Cista (Fernique) Plate IV ^.i^^ -\^ ROMAN CITIES 29 in this small area is decorated with one hundredand thirty-one small figures of lions, horses,sirens and chimeras, arranged in rows and exe-cuted with the greatest delicacy. Similar tinysphinxes and human-faced lions appear on elec-trum fibulae. The sheaths of his daggers wereof silver with men and animals in relief. Evenmore extraordinary are some similar gold orna
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Mastarna (King Servius Tullius) freeing Caeles VibennaFresco of CTraeco-Etruscan Art from Tomb at Viilci. Bronze Statuettes from a Praenestine Cista (Fernique) Plate IV ^.i^^ -\^ ROMAN CITIES 29 in this small area is decorated with one hundredand thirty-one small figures of lions, horses,sirens and chimeras, arranged in rows and exe-cuted with the greatest delicacy. Similar tinysphinxes and human-faced lions appear on elec-trum fibulae. The sheaths of his daggers wereof silver with men and animals in relief. Evenmore extraordinary are some similar gold orna-ments in the Barberini collection, which mustoriginally have been sewed to garments. Thereare two shoulder pieces formed by a mass of deli-cate parallel strips of gold and silver fringe withtiny doves hanging from the ends; and there is aquadruple line of winged sphinxes attached tothe groundwork and to three parallel bandsnearly a foot long. There are gold and silversacred wands, with lotus decoration, gold claspsand fibulae, gold papyrus cases, gold disks withzones of animals, funerary diadems of gold leaf,quantities of small silver
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