Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 . I have described as shown at GeneralGalassis, consisting of two disks, with animalscarved upon them, and two gold fillets ; and sunkdown below the stone, or half leaning upon it, wasthe superb golden breastplate which I have alsoalready mentioned. On each side, where the wristshad once depended, lay broad golden bracelets, rich-ly worked in relievo; close to the breastplate lay aclasp composed of three spheres of gold, and atvarious distances between the stones were the littlelumps of the same precious metal which had beenwoven into the grand ceremo
Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 . I have described as shown at GeneralGalassis, consisting of two disks, with animalscarved upon them, and two gold fillets ; and sunkdown below the stone, or half leaning upon it, wasthe superb golden breastplate which I have alsoalready mentioned. On each side, where the wristshad once depended, lay broad golden bracelets, rich-ly worked in relievo; close to the breastplate lay aclasp composed of three spheres of gold, and atvarious distances between the stones were the littlelumps of the same precious metal which had beenwoven into the grand ceremonial dress of departedroyalty. Now comes the wonder,—this had been awoman ! Whether a warrior queen or a priestess,none can tell, but my belief is the former. Greatlyhonoured and sovereign in power she had certainlybeen, and her name was Larthia, which, as lars means sovereign, or greatly exalted man,probably means sovereign or greatly exalted wo-man. Attached to the wall behind her head hadbeen two silver vessels, which had fallen down ;. §u ^ ^ ^ ^ -^ , C^RE OR AGYLLA. 349 they were both covered with Egyptian figures—theone was a small silver bucket, and the other a cupwithout handles. A quantity of vases were in thetomb, some of them bearing the names of Larthia,and others of Mi Larthia, AI®^Avi ^^^4l©^AvJi^i—which antiquarians have decidedto mean the person to whom they belonged, andnot the person who made them. Between thegraves of these two bodies, and just before entering-the closed-up door, were two side-chambers of anoval form, supposed to be of posterior constructionto that of the Larthia; they were round, and notoblong like the two just described, and containedneither bodies nor sarcophagi, but funeral urnsfilled with ashes. In the one were two rows ofsmall terra cotta figures between the urns, and inthe other a number of figured vases and bronzevessels, but no lares. Upon the lid of one ofthe urns was the image of a horse, exactly like whatis often placed u
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