Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . e existed there pre-vious to the Greek period a more ancient city,the remains of which bear evidence of an ar-chaic civilization precisely corresponding withthat, specimens of which have been found atVetulonia, Civita Castellana, Corneto, and va-rious points in other parts of the peninsula,and in some details with the finds in thelacustrine deposits of the
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . e existed there pre-vious to the Greek period a more ancient city,the remains of which bear evidence of an ar-chaic civilization precisely corresponding withthat, specimens of which have been found atVetulonia, Civita Castellana, Corneto, and va-rious points in other parts of the peninsula,and in some details with the finds in thelacustrine deposits of the northern the most striking specimens of ancientarchaic art, are the cinerary urns of the hut type, such as have been found on the Albanmountains under two strata of volcanic depos-its, and which, with the well-tombs, are char-acteristic features at Corneto (or Tarquinia).The urns are vessels of the rudest forms ofpottery, hand-made and half-baked ; and withthem in one of the well tombs at Corneto werefound bronze helmets of most skillful fabricand swords of bronze or iron ; and in some ofthe tombs copies of the helmets in clay, madefor covers to the round urns, a use to whichthe original helmets seem to have been put. ROMAN BATH, AT BATH, ENGLAND. after the death of their owner. In the samenecropolis with these are found the corridortombs and chambers, the latest and bestknown form of the Etruscan tomb, the paint-ings on some of which at Corneto form a seriescoming down to Roman times. Conflictingviews have been expressed concerning the ori-gin of these objects. Helbig believes that theyare all Etruscan, and represent only differentphases of Etruscan civilization; and while toa certain extent there were overlappings in themethod of disposing of the dead, there was inno case a break, such as would be caused bythe intrusion of a strange race introducing newarts. The bronze arms and implements he con-siders of Phoenician and Carthaginian origin,of date not earlier
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