Identifier: citiescemeterie02denn (find matches)
Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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—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. 123.— JUel-chiorri ; 1842, p. 126.—Grenarelli. Abeken(Mittelitalien, p. 2Sb) does not considerthe wheel, or the other devices on Etruscancoins, to mark any particular sites, and heregards the distribution of these coins to ametropolis and its dependencies to be quitearbitrary. rilAP. T,X.) THE BRONZE 1,\MI\ •103 nothing else to be seen at Cortona, this alone would demand avisit. It merits therefore a more detailed description than I have
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generally given to individual articles. It is circular, abouttwent)r-three inches in diameter, hollow like a bowl, but from thecentre rises a sort of conical chimney or tube, to which must D D 2 404 COETONA. (chap. lx. have been attached a chain for its suspension. Round the rim-are sixteen lamps, of classic form, fed by oil from the great bowl,,and adorned with foliage in relief. Alternating with them areheads of the horned and bearded Bacchus (see the woodcut, page403). At the bottom of each lamp is a figure in relief—alter-nately a draped Siren with wings outspread, and a naked Satyrplaying the double pipes, or the syrinx (see the woodcut at page894, which represents a small section of the bottom of this curious,lamp.) The bottom is hollowed in the centre, and contains ahuge Gorgons face; not such as Da Vinci painted it, with . The melodious hue of beauty thrownAthwart the darkness and the glare of pain,Which humanise and harmonise the strain. Here all is horror. The visage of a

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