The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . 7 little deities and other figures in bronze ;some of very archaic, even oriental character. Such is the from Perugia, on the Umbrian bank of found after heavy rains, brought down the Tiber, which retains no remains of from the country inland. It was in this .antiquity beyond fragments of its walls, river-bed that the beautiful Hypnos was and some ruins of Roman times. It stands discovered, and here also have been found on a hill, near the Tiber, east of the Ponte many curious objects in coral and amber, <li V;d de Coppi, where is the hamlet now preser
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . 7 little deities and other figures in bronze ;some of very archaic, even oriental character. Such is the from Perugia, on the Umbrian bank of found after heavy rains, brought down the Tiber, which retains no remains of from the country inland. It was in this .antiquity beyond fragments of its walls, river-bed that the beautiful Hypnos was and some ruins of Roman times. It stands discovered, and here also have been found on a hill, near the Tiber, east of the Ponte many curious objects in coral and amber, <li V;d de Coppi, where is the hamlet now preserved in the collection of Signor called Civitella dArna. The hill is washed Mariano Guardabassi, of Perugia. Bull. by the Rio Pilonico, a torrent in whose bed Inst. 1876, pp. of Etruscan antiquity arc often LXI.] ETRUSCAN BBONZES. 427 goddess shown in the annexed woodcut, with twoa tutulus on her head, and a dove on her hand. pairs of wings,Another has a Bingle. ETRUSCAN FOUR-WINGEDGODDESS. pair of wings springing from her bosom. A third is a mermaid, with butone fish-tail, instead of two as usual. All these relics of Etruscan toreutic art,besides others now at Munich, and somereliefs in silver in the British Museum,were found in 1812, at a spot called Castellodi 8. Mariano, four miles from Perugia, aspot celebrated in Perugian annals for avictory obtained in the fifteenth centuryover a band of British eondotticri. Theywere not found in a tomb ; which makes itprobable that they were buried for conceal-ment in ancient They are supposed to have been thedecorations of sacred or sepulchral There are alsoin this Museum, some fragments of a curule chair, turned in anelegant Greek style, resembling the representations of furniturepainted or carved in Etruscan tombs. Of other articles in bronze there are very massive handles,probably of censers or braziers—ponderous hinges—helmets,some with cheek-pieces, as represented on the
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