. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. thosenames, and to be deciphered so easily by the whilom,idling Etruscan schoolboy, and to us so nameless 1Most of these tombs have the customary stone bench,—a mere ledge set against the walls whereon weredeposited urns, vases, &c, and, (one supposes) in thecase of inhumation of the bodies also. The pon-derous nature of the stone doors must be some cases a series of three. None of these tombswere frescoed. To see instances of those we shallhave to go into the country. If the Museums and Collections to be seen inOrvieto are not as remarka
. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. thosenames, and to be deciphered so easily by the whilom,idling Etruscan schoolboy, and to us so nameless 1Most of these tombs have the customary stone bench,—a mere ledge set against the walls whereon weredeposited urns, vases, &c, and, (one supposes) in thecase of inhumation of the bodies also. The pon-derous nature of the stone doors must be some cases a series of three. None of these tombswere frescoed. To see instances of those we shallhave to go into the country. If the Museums and Collections to be seen inOrvieto are not as remarkable for specialities as thoseof Volterra and Tarquinia-Corneto, the contents areabundant and in some instances deserve much instance, the striking remains of some of thedetails of an Etruscan Temple (discovered, I think) inthe Valley to the North of the City. These are ofterra-cotta heads and antefixae of fine workmanship,comparable to and of great resemblance to those froma Temple of Civita Castellana (now in the Etruscan. ORVIETO 261 Museum of Papa Giulio in Rome. An abundanceof the black bucchero-ware is to be expected in acity so near to Chiusi. There are some here withreliefs, especially interesting, as exhibiting designs ofAssyrian or Eastern decoration. I noticed a largeone in particular in high relief. It is of a processionof musicians headed by a sphinx with a male head(full-faced). He is encountered by another sphinxwith the head of a monster. If the musicians and thechariot-driver and other figures be Etruscan, one isled to think that the Etruscans were very like theAssyrians. There are few vases here of the grandstyle,—but a very large number f(to° many of thembroken) of what may roughly be called the secondclass. Many large vases with black figures on buffand saffron coloured backgrounds. And r(the processreversed) many buff figures on a black of the figures upon these vases are warriorsand therefore wear vizors,—which, at first sight,g
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