The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . r and elaborationof workmanship as to throw into the shade every toreutic workof this class, yet discovered in the soil of Etruria. Were there. BOY IN BRONZE. CORTONA MUSEUM. 4 Ann. Inst. 1864, pp. 390-393. 5 The coins attributed to Cortona are themost simple of all ancient Italian twelve sides of the series, from the asto the uucia, bear one uniform type —awheel. There is no legend to mark thesecoins as belonging to any particular city,but Marchi and Tessieri see in the wheelt .e symbol of Cortona, whose original namethey take to have been Kutu
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . r and elaborationof workmanship as to throw into the shade every toreutic workof this class, yet discovered in the soil of Etruria. Were there. BOY IN BRONZE. CORTONA MUSEUM. 4 Ann. Inst. 1864, pp. 390-393. 5 The coins attributed to Cortona are themost simple of all ancient Italian twelve sides of the series, from the asto the uucia, bear one uniform type —awheel. There is no legend to mark thesecoins as belonging to any particular city,but Marchi and Tessieri see in the wheelt .e symbol of Cortona, whose original namethey take to have been Kutun (insteadof K-rutun)—a rota—and setting all his-tory aside, they regard it as a colony of theKutuli, who had a similar device on the^rcoins. JEs Grave del Museo Kircheriano,cl III. tav. 3. Professor Lepsius, thoughcondem: ing this explanation as erroneous, assents to the attribution of these coins toCortona, and agrees with the worthy Jesuitsin regarding Cortona as a most ancientmint, and as the metropolis of five othercoining cities, which have a wheel on oneside only. Ann. Inst. 1841, pp. 103, 109;Verbreit. d. Ital. Miinzsyst. pp. 58, 6!).See also Bull. Inst. 1839, p
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