The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . hem. Thusthey must have combined strengthwith lightness; and if clogs be atest of civilisation, the Italians oftwo thousand years since wereconsiderably in advance of theleading nation of Europe in thenineteenth century, whose pea-santry still clatter along in woodensabots. These clogs were found ina tomb at Vulci; and they are notthe sole specimens of such articlesfrom Etruscan chief glory of this room, however, if not of the Museum,is the revolving cabinet in the centre. What food for astonish-ment and admiration ! Here is a jewellers sh
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . hem. Thusthey must have combined strengthwith lightness; and if clogs be atest of civilisation, the Italians oftwo thousand years since wereconsiderably in advance of theleading nation of Europe in thenineteenth century, whose pea-santry still clatter along in woodensabots. These clogs were found ina tomb at Vulci; and they are notthe sole specimens of such articlesfrom Etruscan chief glory of this room, however, if not of the Museum,is the revolving cabinet in the centre. What food for astonish-ment and admiration ! Here is a jewellers shop—all glitteringwith precious metals and stones, with articles in great variety— Infinite riches in a little room ! and, save that the silver is dimmed and tarnished, it is just sucha stock in trade as an Etruscan Kundell might have displayedthree thousand years since! Here the fop, the warrior, thesenator, the augur, the belle, might all suit their taste for decora-tion,—in truth, a modern fair one need not disdain to heighten. Fig. ] ETRUSCAN JOINTED CLOGS. 8 A facsimile f the inscription is given,Vol. I. p. -71. For the form of the pot BeeMas. ttregor. II. tav. 103, 2. 7 Vol. I. p. 273. Mas. Gregor. II. , 7. :l In fig. 1 is shown the upper part ofthe clog, with the wood in the two eases,and the hinge uniting them. Fig. 2 shows the metal bottom of the same clog, studdedwith nails. Micali gives illustrations ofanother pair of such clogs, found at tav. XVII. 9. There is a-third pair in the coHectisn f SignorAu-gusto Castellani at Rome. And I. haveseen a fourth pair either at Orvieto or atYiterbo. » chap. MUSEO GREGOBIANO THE JEWELLERY. 185 her charms with these relics of a long past Can Egypt,Babylon, Greece, Rome, produce jewellery of such exquisite tasteand workmanship, or even in so great abundance as Etruria ? Your astonishment is increased when you hear that the greaterpart of these articles were the produce of a single toni
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