. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. Fig. 3t. SYMPOSIUM IN THE TOMBA GOLINI AT ORVIETO. Fig. 32,. WALL-PAINTING IN THE TOMBA GOLINI 38 TOMBAGOLINI 39 The rest is unintelligible. It is interesting in the inscriptionto come across the name by which the Etruscans calledthemselves, rasneas; Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 30)was therefore justified in saying that the Etruscans calledthemselves Rasenas. The name Larth is common in Etruscaninscriptions. The Romans knew it and called the well-knownEtruscan king by his full name, Lars Porsenna (in Etruscan,Larth Pursna).^ We now
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. Fig. 3t. SYMPOSIUM IN THE TOMBA GOLINI AT ORVIETO. Fig. 32,. WALL-PAINTING IN THE TOMBA GOLINI 38 TOMBAGOLINI 39 The rest is unintelligible. It is interesting in the inscriptionto come across the name by which the Etruscans calledthemselves, rasneas; Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 30)was therefore justified in saying that the Etruscans calledthemselves Rasenas. The name Larth is common in Etruscaninscriptions. The Romans knew it and called the well-knownEtruscan king by his full name, Lars Porsenna (in Etruscan,Larth Pursna).^ We now turn to the inscription above the bearded manon the same couch ; his name is Arnth Leinies, son of Larth,and descendant of Vel ; his official titles follow, and theinscription ends : ru[va] l[ecates velus] amce, i. e., wasbrother of Vel Lecates. Thus we have two brothers recliningon the same couch, and the inscription makes it probablethat the other symposiasts, too, are not chance revellers, butmembers of the same family, united in the picture as theywere in life and in the grave. In the same tomb, to th
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