. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. lute-player, with red boots, blue loin-cloth, and red chaplet, and last comes a naked dancing youthwith boots, necklace, and chaplet. Dancers appear in a number of Etruscan tomb-paintings,and abandon themselves to their gambols with a frenzy whichmight seem incompatible with death and entombment. Inthe Tomba del Morto at Corneto, dating from the sameperiod, we find traces of a pirouetting dancer close to thecouch of the dead and the lamenting mourners ; the dancewas thus as important as the funeral lament (fig. 9). Thefinest represent
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. lute-player, with red boots, blue loin-cloth, and red chaplet, and last comes a naked dancing youthwith boots, necklace, and chaplet. Dancers appear in a number of Etruscan tomb-paintings,and abandon themselves to their gambols with a frenzy whichmight seem incompatible with death and entombment. Inthe Tomba del Morto at Corneto, dating from the sameperiod, we find traces of a pirouetting dancer close to thecouch of the dead and the lamenting mourners ; the dancewas thus as important as the funeral lament (fig. 9). Thefinest representations of Etruscan mourning dancers arefound m the Tomba del Triclinio, which dates from thebeginning of the fifth century : the Ny Carlsberg Glyp- ^ Dionys. Halicarn. vii. 72-3. Nordisk Tidsskr. for Filologi, 1917 ; ^ Livy i. 35. 9. no doubt because he considers ^ Hesych. 5. v. The word is not Hesychiuss statement insufficiently mentioned in S. P. Cortsens Voca- authoritative. Cp. Skutsch, Pauly- bulorum Etruscorum interpretatio in Wissowa, vi. o H Q 2s
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