The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . of this blackware of a late date have a metallic varnish, bright as if fresh fromthe potters hands. In this collection are some curious specimens of Canopi, orhead-lidded jars, which are almost peculiar to this district of Etruria. They are of the samefull-bellied form as those of Egypt,but always of pottery, instead ofstone or alabaster; and they aresurmounted, not by the heads ofdogs or other animals, but alwaysby those of men, or what are in-tended for such. The jar itselfrepresents the bust, which is some-times further marked by nipples,and by the arm
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . of this blackware of a late date have a metallic varnish, bright as if fresh fromthe potters hands. In this collection are some curious specimens of Canopi, orhead-lidded jars, which are almost peculiar to this district of Etruria. They are of the samefull-bellied form as those of Egypt,but always of pottery, instead ofstone or alabaster; and they aresurmounted, not by the heads ofdogs or other animals, but alwaysby those of men, or what are in-tended for such. The jar itselfrepresents the bust, which is some-times further marked by nipples,and by the arms either moulded onthe jar, as in the annexed wood-cut,or attached to the shoulders bymetal pins. These are all cineraryurns, and there is a hole eitherin the crown, or at each shoulder,to let off the effluvium of the ashes. The heads are portraits ofthe deceased, though some have imagined them to represent Plutoor Proserpine, according to the sex, seeing that the soul of thedeceased had passed into the charge of those These. KTRUSCAN CANOlUS, MUSEO CHIUSINO. 1 Ingliirami thought the jar symbolisedthe world, and the head the presiding is true that in the Egyptian canopi, thelids are generally the heads of known divinities, hut from the analogy of theEtruscan sarcophagi and urns, and of theheads in terra-cotta, it is much more rea-sonable to suppose them here to be por- CHAr. ETBTJSOAN rANOPI. 309 jars evidently bear a close analogy to the sitting statues, whichare also cinerary urns. The style of art also indicates a similararchaic They are generally in the black ware of thisdistrict, but a few are of yellow clay. The eyes are sometimes represented by coloured stones. Some have been found restingon stools of earthenware; others placed in small chairs, resem-bling in form the rock-hewn seats in certain tombs of Cervetri,and either of terra-cotta or of oak preserved by a calcareous coat-ing;3 these are probably curule chairs, indicative of the di
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