. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. Kj 2S <\ M. ^ £S -- ». X >N fek CVERE OR AGYL1A. 349 they were both covered with Egyptian figures—theone was a small silver bucket, and the other a cupwithout handles. A quantity of vases were in thetomb, some of them bearing the names of Larthia,and others of Mi Larthia, 410^4^ anc^ •AIS^AnI l^—which antiquarians have decidedto mean the person to whom they belonged, andnot the person who made them. Between thegraves of these two bodies, and just before enteringthe closed-up door, were two side chambers of anoval form, supposed to be of poste
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. Kj 2S <\ M. ^ £S -- ». X >N fek CVERE OR AGYL1A. 349 they were both covered with Egyptian figures—theone was a small silver bucket, and the other a cupwithout handles. A quantity of vases were in thetomb, some of them bearing the names of Larthia,and others of Mi Larthia, 410^4^ anc^ •AIS^AnI l^—which antiquarians have decidedto mean the person to whom they belonged, andnot the person who made them. Between thegraves of these two bodies, and just before enteringthe closed-up door, were two side chambers of anoval form, supposed to be of posterior constructionto that of the Larthia; they were round, and notoblong like the two just described, and containedneither bodies nor sarcophagi, but funeral urnsfilled with ashes. In the one were two rows ofsmall terra cotta figures between the urns, and inthe other a number of figured vases and bronzevessels, but no lares. Upon the lid of one ofthe urns was the image of a horse, exactly like whatis often placed upon an English racing-cup ; per-hap
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