This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... 112.--Tomb of Southern Italy, with vases. Etruscan style of wall, in contradistinction to the Cyclo "The most ordinary sepulchres are constructed of rude stones or tiles, and are of a dimension just sufficient to contain the body and five or six vases; a small one near the head, and others between the legs, and on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... 112.--Tomb of Southern Italy, with vases. Etruscan style of wall, in contradistinction to the Cyclo "The most ordinary sepulchres are constructed of rude stones or tiles, and are of a dimension just sufficient to contain the body and five or six vases; a small one near the head, and others between the legs, and on each side, but oftener on the right side than on the left. A vase, like the praefericulum and a patera, are usually found in every sepulchre, but the number, size, and quality of the vases varies, probably according to the dignity of the personage for whom the sepulchre was made. The better sort of sepulchres are of much greater dimensions, and constructed with large hewn stones, generally without cement, but sometimes completed with cement, and the walls stuccoed, and even some little ornaments of painting on them. "In such sepulchres, which have the appearance of small rooms, the body is found on its back on the floor, with the vases placed round it; and sometimes vases with handles have been found hanging upon nails of iron or bronze, attached to' the side walls. An exact representation of such a sepulchre, which I found at Trebbia, not far from Capua, has been published in Mr. D'Hancarville's work, after my first collection of vases; and a representation of an ordinary sepulchre, lately found at Naples, is the subject of the frontispiece of this work. The vases in the larger sepulchres, or subterranean rooms, are always more numerous, of a larger size, and of a superior quality in every respect to those of the ordinary sort of sepulchres, which have little to recommend them except their forms, which are always in some degree elegant, however rude in other respects. At Polignano in Puglia, the Archbishop, showed me last year a large ...
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