. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. - vu lci. 301 a corn-field, we were escorted by a soldier of thegarrison. The entrance to them was by a descentof some steps, and a very low stone door, throughwinch we crept with considerable difficulty, andwhich admitted us into a small chamber where wecould not stand upright, the walls and roof of whichwere not painted, but were adorned with pilastersand roof-trees of a sort of corded ornament. Inone of these tombs an interior low door led into aninner chamber of largerfsize and similar another the roof exhibited a peculiarity of o
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. - vu lci. 301 a corn-field, we were escorted by a soldier of thegarrison. The entrance to them was by a descentof some steps, and a very low stone door, throughwinch we crept with considerable difficulty, andwhich admitted us into a small chamber where wecould not stand upright, the walls and roof of whichwere not painted, but were adorned with pilastersand roof-trees of a sort of corded ornament. Inone of these tombs an interior low door led into aninner chamber of largerfsize and similar another the roof exhibited a peculiarity of orna-ment, that part nearest the entrance forming a sortof vestibule, coming out in a fan-like shape withcurious carving. Some sepulchres have been recently discovered,remarkable from the number of chambers into whichthey were divided, and from their roofs, which wereconstructed in imitation of those in ordinary these some idea may be formed from the accom-panying drawing. (Figs. 4, 5.) It would almostseem as if the Etruscans had a pre
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