. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. TARQUINIA. 193 figure of an elderly man who seems to be seated onthe ledge of a bath, or, as some of our party thought,was about to be offered up in sacrifice. There arefriezes representing* boar-hunts, the chasseurs beingof different ranks, and with appropriate arms. Thereare also other friezes with equestrian figures appa-rently throwing the javelin, but these were so muchdefaced that we had great difficulty in ascertainingwhat they were. At the end of one wall is a buffetfilled with vases, and interesting as showing howthe ancients themselves di
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. TARQUINIA. 193 figure of an elderly man who seems to be seated onthe ledge of a bath, or, as some of our party thought,was about to be offered up in sacrifice. There arefriezes representing* boar-hunts, the chasseurs beingof different ranks, and with appropriate arms. Thereare also other friezes with equestrian figures appa-rently throwing the javelin, but these were so muchdefaced that we had great difficulty in ascertainingwhat they were. At the end of one wall is a buffetfilled with vases, and interesting as showing howthe ancients themselves disposed them. Three ofthe guests at this feast appear to be listening to thepraises of the dead, which were always sung onthese occasions. Two are drinking wine to hismemory, and two I suppose to be an afflictedmother consoled by her remaining son. This tombis copied in the Gregorian Museum, The description and the drawing of a tazza of greatbeauty and unique style, whichcomes from this necro-polis, and which we were so fortunate as to procur
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