The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . -s;- Entrance from the south. Antechamber or vestibule. \ Recesses. Door to the principal chamber. Circular chamber. Column, hewn from the rock. Cuniculus, or passage cut in the rock, now cleared out, andinto the bill. Cuniculus, leading to chamber aa. Original mouth of the passages. Passages, varying in size, and inclination, but only large enough to admit a nilfours. At * the original cuniculus m seems to have terminated, or to hav<in another direction ; the rest of it to s being narrower and more irregular. Spurious mouth of the passages, opening mu
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . -s;- Entrance from the south. Antechamber or vestibule. \ Recesses. Door to the principal chamber. Circular chamber. Column, hewn from the rock. Cuniculus, or passage cut in the rock, now cleared out, andinto the bill. Cuniculus, leading to chamber aa. Original mouth of the passages. Passages, varying in size, and inclination, but only large enough to admit a nilfours. At * the original cuniculus m seems to have terminated, or to hav<in another direction ; the rest of it to s being narrower and more irregular. Spurious mouth of the passages, opening much higher in the wall than i, Cuniculi, partly unfinished, partly not yet excavated. Antechamber to the group of square tombs, opening to the mining 10 yards further in on all 3 turned aa bbbb Chambers, more or less rude, and all unpainted, with rock-hewn s are the mouths of the cuniculi in and n. Antechamber to A tomb found filled with large , now encumbered with in its walls. The shaded part represents the rock in which the tombs and passages are hewn. From Grunt:,: 352 CHIUSL—Poggio Gajella. [chap, lv. distinguishable. The benches of rock are not left in unmeaningshapelessness ; they are hewn into the form of couches, withpillows or cushions at one end, and the front moulded into seatand legs in relief—so many patterns of Etruscan furniture, moredurable than the articles themselves. Many of these couches aredouble—made for a pair of bodies to recline side by side, as theyare generally represented in the banquets painted on the prove this monument to be of a period when bodies wereburied, rather than burned. The most important tombs are on the lower and second tier
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