The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . holding a piece of fruit. A longtress of hair falls on each side over her bosom, and the rest isclubbed together behind her head, and descends quite to herheels, terminating in an ornament like a huge ring and chiton, which is open in front, is covered, both before andbehind, with small square compartments recessed, so as to forma sort of check pattern incised. She rises like a giantess from acircle of eleven Lilliputian females, standing on the lid, likeherself in miniature, similarly draped, tressed, and clubbed, andall with their hands on th
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . holding a piece of fruit. A longtress of hair falls on each side over her bosom, and the rest isclubbed together behind her head, and descends quite to herheels, terminating in an ornament like a huge ring and chiton, which is open in front, is covered, both before andbehind, with small square compartments recessed, so as to forma sort of check pattern incised. She rises like a giantess from acircle of eleven Lilliputian females, standing on the lid, likeherself in miniature, similarly draped, tressed, and clubbed, andall with their hands on their bosoms; and lower still, rangedaround the shoulder of the jar, stand seven other figures, similar G Ut supra, pp. 81, 113 ct scq. It was found at a spot called Fonte Hotel la, about amile west of Cliiusi. chap, liii.] EXTRAORDINARY CINERARY TOT. 311 in every respect, alternating with the heads of huge snakes ordragons, with open jaws. All these figures are removable atpleasure, being merely hung on to the jar by earthen pegs. The. CINERARY POT, FROM CHIUSI. From a Photograph. jar itself is a sepulchral urn, and contained the ashes of the ladywhose effigy stands on the lid; her body is hollow, and theeffluvium passed off through a hole in the crown. This most remarkable monument was discovered by SignorGalanti, in 1842, at a spot called II Romitorio, about two miles 312 CHIUSL—The City. [chap. liii. from Chiusi to the It was found in one of the zirior well-tombs, itself inclosed in a large jar. It stands aboutthree feet in height. Though its details find analogies elsewherein Etruria, as a whole it is unlike airy other monument now tobe seen in that land, and in the uncouth rudeness of its figuresand their fantastic arrangement, you seem to recognise ratherthe work of New Zealand or Hawaii, than a production ofclassical I have said that this urn is unlike anything now to be seen inEtruria. But a monument very similar in character, thoughdiffering in the de
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