. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. tta sarcophagus, now in the BritishMuseum,^ a representation in relief, manifestly inspired byGreek mythology, of a battle scene with men and women asspectators ; at one end of the sarcophagus, the left, leave-taking before marching out to battle ; on the back, a ban-queting-scene, evidently representing the funeral feast, sincethe relief on the other end of the sarcophagus shows fourmourning women, two of them holding drinking-bowls intheir hands. A GOOD idea of the different sort of athletic contests atthe great Etruscan funerals is
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. tta sarcophagus, now in the BritishMuseum,^ a representation in relief, manifestly inspired byGreek mythology, of a battle scene with men and women asspectators ; at one end of the sarcophagus, the left, leave-taking before marching out to battle ; on the back, a ban-queting-scene, evidently representing the funeral feast, sincethe relief on the other end of the sarcophagus shows fourmourning women, two of them holding drinking-bowls intheir hands. A GOOD idea of the different sort of athletic contests atthe great Etruscan funerals is given by the wall-paintings inthe Tomba delle Iscrizioni at Corneto, described and copiedby Stackelberg and Kestner in 1827,^ and represented in theNy Carlsberg Glyptotek by facsimiles and coloured drawingsexecuted in 1907, after a chemical treatment of the plasterstucco, which brought out a number of details more plainly. ^ Pauly-Wissowa, iii. 2178. SarcophagiinBritishMttseum, pLix-xi. ^B 630. Figured in Terra-cotta ^ Kestner, ^wna/ji (1829), p. loi CO IS X c 5o CO td JQ <: cq OH td O J
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