Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 ... With numerous illustrationsJ. Hatchard and Son, 1840 - 507 páginas |
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Página 365 - And fortune seems to favor your intent. Not far from hence there stands a hilly town, Of ancient building, and of high renown, Torn from the Tuscans by the Lydian race, Who gave the name of Caere to the place, Once Agyllina call'd.
Página 333 - Here were bronze vases, still hanging on the wall by nails; a tripod containing a vase for perfumes ; a large vase ornamented with massive heads ; some bronze vases of different forms hanging from the roof, and in a sort of recess at the end were two large stones, about five feet from each other, on which had been placed the head and feet of the body buried here.
Página 24 - The breastplate was stamped with a variety of arabesques and small patterns, as usual in the Egyptian style. The head had been crowned with fillets and circular ornaments of pure gold, and a rich mantle had covered the body, flowered with the same material. In this grave also had been found a quantity of arms...
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Página 25 - There were wheels of a car upon which the bier had been brought into the sepulchre, and many other things which I do not remember; but the wonder of all these treasures was a sort of inkstand of terra cotta, which had served as a schoolmaster's ABC On it were the Etruscan letters, first in alphabet, and then in syllables, and both the letters and the syllables are the same as the oldest form of the Greek. It was deciphered by Dr. Lepsius, and is the key to all we at present know, and will be the...
Página 17 - ... of immaterial things. First, the symbol came to be trusted in, instead of the being of whom it was the sign. Then came the bodily conception and manifestation of that being, or his attributes, in the form of idols. Next, the representation of all that belongs to spirits, good and bad. And finally, the deification of every imagination of the heart of man, — a written and accredited system of polytheism, and a monstrous and hydra-headed idolatry.
Página 146 - One of our party told me, that the farmer with whom he was quartered had with hiin a band of 30 shepherds, who slept round the court-yard after the manner of the ancient Tuscans, and whose employment all day was milking and tending the flocks and making cheeses and ricotta (a sort of curd) from the milk of goats and ewes ; and that their food never was anything elst.