. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. it wasformerly called. That name very probably was Etruscan. It iscurious, however, if that was the Etruscan name that it should so resemble the modern word Toscana. Toscanella lies upon the river Marta,and should you have driven here from Corneto, (tothe South-West of Toscanella) as you may very wellhave done, it will please you to greet an old friendin this familiar river. Toscanella may well bestyled the City of Etruscan Sarcophagi. Morehave been unearthed here than anywhere else, andI am informed,—though I have not yet seen it, thatlast year (190
. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. it wasformerly called. That name very probably was Etruscan. It iscurious, however, if that was the Etruscan name that it should so resemble the modern word Toscana. Toscanella lies upon the river Marta,and should you have driven here from Corneto, (tothe South-West of Toscanella) as you may very wellhave done, it will please you to greet an old friendin this familiar river. Toscanella may well bestyled the City of Etruscan Sarcophagi. Morehave been unearthed here than anywhere else, andI am informed,—though I have not yet seen it, thatlast year (1908) a gilded one was discovered. Evennow they bristle in the town. In the cloister ofS. Maria del Riposo I was shown thirty. And tenare perched upon the walls of the Spedale. 1 Nothing gives us so clear a picture of the universal dominationof Italy by the Etruscans as the geographical names. From Northto South all places are of this origin. W. M. Lindsay in his intro-duction to the recent new edition of Denniss Cities and Sitesof CHAPTER XVIII VITERBO AND ENVIRONS J TOSCANELLA The Secretary of the Municipio told me that he itwas who had sent the fine large lion of peperino tothe Florence Museum. (It is to be seen in the Court-yard of that Museum.) Other statues of lions havebeen found at Toscanella. They were placed overthe tombs, not within them. Several sarcophagi fromToscanella are in the Vatican-Etruscan Museum. Yetno sarcophagus found at Toscanella can equal the Bacchic in the Florence Museum. The recumbentfigure is, I think, a male one although of a femininecharacter, as is often found in representations ofBacchus. The head crowned with grapes is charac-terised by a graceful languor. The form clothed inhighly-worked drapery and with a heavy torque uponthe neck, rests, comfortably supported upon the leftarm, on cushions. The right hand caresses a vasewhich appears to be empty. A beautiful frieze oftwo birds with outspread wings on either side of awreath or garla
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