The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . olozzi to the Greek—and he was waiting to con-collection, for which I looked in vain in duct his victim to the Gate of Hell, whichthis Museum. In the centre of the scene yawned close at hand, surrounded with thesat a woman with a babe at her breast, heads of wild beasts, and surmounted bytaking farewell of her husband who stood Furies, brandishing their torches andby her side. Hard by sat Charun, with threatening their expected victim. wonted hammer in one band, and an Inst. 1810, p. 153.—Braun,•ar in the other—a fact which removes all chap, mil]
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . olozzi to the Greek—and he was waiting to con-collection, for which I looked in vain in duct his victim to the Gate of Hell, whichthis Museum. In the centre of the scene yawned close at hand, surrounded with thesat a woman with a babe at her breast, heads of wild beasts, and surmounted bytaking farewell of her husband who stood Furies, brandishing their torches andby her side. Hard by sat Charun, with threatening their expected victim. wonted hammer in one band, and an Inst. 1810, p. 153.—Braun,•ar in the other—a fact which removes all chap, mil] THREE ETRUSCAN ALPHABETS BUOOHEEO. 307 ters, and from the absence of certain letters which are found inthe alphabet ofBomarzo, and in Etruscan inscriptions on monu-ments of later The inner room contains a few good specimens of hucchcro, theearly and coarse black ware of Chiusi and its neighbourhood,which is peculiarly Etruscan, and has been described at length inthe account already given of the Museum of The. FOCOLARE—BLACK WAKE OF CHIUSI. great antiquity and oriental character of this ware cannot bequestioned,9 although there is reason to believe that it continuedto be manufactured throughout the period of Etruscan indeed among the Romans appears to have assignedsuch pottery as this to the earliest days of the City, and to royal use- qmsSimpuvium ridere Numa;, nigrumque catinurn,Et Vaticano fragiles de monte patellas,Ausus erat ?—Juven. Sat. VI. 342. 7 Ann. Inst. 1871, pp. 156-166, L. 8 Vide supra, pp. 75-80, where illus-trations of this ware are also given. Seealso Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. taw. 22-26 ;Mon. Ined. taw. 28-31; Mus. 12, 19-21, 45, 82; Noel ties Vergers,Etrurie et les Etrusques, pi. 17-19. 9 If the early ware of Caere and thecoast should be referred to the Pelasgicinhabitants of the land, rather than to theEtruscans, as Professor Lepsius is of opinion(Tyrrhen. Pelas. p. 44), this of Clusium,whi
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