Identifier: uphilldowndalein00seym (find matches)
Title: Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Seymour, Frederick H. A
Subjects: Etruria -- Antiquities Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a funeral pyre, and whichwere then distributed into the cinerary urns of thosewho had been consumed together upon the pyre. Itmust have been a puzzle to identify the ashes for eachurn ! The feet on which this dish stands are formedof Gorgons with arms extended and with beaststalons. There are several small idols of bronze,but I think only one of any size. Rather of anEgyptian type and standing upon a bronze base.It is 18 inches in height. Strangely enough arms and armour are very scarce.I imagine that most have gone into other collections.Gold ornaments are rarer still. I think that theLouvre managed to secure a great many. Certainlythere is in that collection a magnificent and famousfibula with a long inscription upon it. Yet it must counterpart of the one at Chiusi. I should say even morebeautiful, and, strange to say, it bears a name similar to that inthe British Museum, Larthia Seianti. It must be another ladyof the same family, or Seianti must represent some wordunfamiliar to us.
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J <3 U. 3 CHIUSI 255 be always remembered that Chiusi, from her promi-nent position, and one easy of access from all parts,has always been particularly exposed to the depreda-tions of thieves and pillagers*;—native ones especially. Two terra-cotta slabs inscribed with Etruscan (?)alphabets are among the more characteristic (anti-quities here. These are said to be very early, yet theyhave to be read from left to right—which is contraryto the alleged Etruscan system of writing. A quadrangular cippus, although much mutilated,representing an Etruscan marriage, is very valuableas giving us an insight into one of the native customs.It is a scene rather turbulent in portions for aceremony with which we connect ideas of calm andself-restraint. We can make out the bridegroom,and the bride,—a figure profusely draped ; the fatherwho gives her away, and the priest distinguishedby his hat,—(it is more than the pileum )—andby a branch of olive in his hand. The inevitable tibicina or su

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