The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ges ; indeed, it is among thebest known of Etruscan sepulchres. Yet though applied to basepurposes, it has received little injury; probably owing to thehardness of the travertine. 6 Similar altar-like masses exist in asepulchre at Sovana, and also in the Grotta?Cardinale and other tombs at Corneto. Gori (Mus. Etrus. III. p. 81) andPasseri (ap. eund. III. p. 100) took it fora sepulchre. So also Abeken, Mittelitalien,p. 250. 8 The analogy and connection betweentemples and tombs is well sepulchre was in fact the shrine of theManes, who were r
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ges ; indeed, it is among thebest known of Etruscan sepulchres. Yet though applied to basepurposes, it has received little injury; probably owing to thehardness of the travertine. 6 Similar altar-like masses exist in asepulchre at Sovana, and also in the Grotta?Cardinale and other tombs at Corneto. Gori (Mus. Etrus. III. p. 81) andPasseri (ap. eund. III. p. 100) took it fora sepulchre. So also Abeken, Mittelitalien,p. 250. 8 The analogy and connection betweentemples and tombs is well sepulchre was in fact the shrine of theManes, who were regarded as gods. Virg. .En. III. 63, 305 ; IV. 457 ; V. 48, (adv. Nat. VI. 6, 7) gives numer-ous proofs of the relation between temple?and sepulchres, among the Greeks andRomans. 9 This inscription has been published byBuonarroti, p. 98, ap. Dempster, II. ; byGori, Mus. Etrus. III. class. II. tav. V. ;Passeri, ap. eund. III. p. 107 ; and Lanzi,Saggio, II. p. 514. Also by Conestabile,Monumenti di Perugia, tav. 30. «; G 2. PERFECT STYLE. CHAPTER LXIII. ROME. Vidi artes, veterumque manus, variisque metallaViva modis. Labor est auri memorare figuras,Aut ebur, aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas ;Quicquid et argento primum vel in seve MyronisLusit, et est experta manus. Statius. These are sad and sepulchral pitchers, silently expressing old mortality, the ruins offorgotten times.—Sir Thomas Browne. I might treat of Rome as an Etruscan city, pointing out factsboth in her early history, and in her local remains, whichauthorise us so to regard her. But this would lead me intotoo discursive a field for the limits of this work, and I amcompelled to confine myself to notice the Etruscan relics storedin her museums. These are the Museo Gregoriano of theVatican, the Etruscan Museum of the Capitol, and the Kir-cherian Museum. MUSEO GEEGORIANO. This magnificent collection is principally the fruit of thepartnership in excavations established, some fort}r or fifty years-ago, bet
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