Etruria-Celtica: Etruscan Literature And Antiquities Investigated: Or, the ...
Etruria-Celtica: Etruscan Literature And Antiquities Investigated: Or, the ...
Sir William Betham
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" A judge brought on that day with great lamentation of women^ Vermiglioli ascribes these chambers to the family of the Volumni^ but he does it with fear and doubt, quoting Girolamo Amati, a celebrated Hellenist — " That the body of the Etruscan language, even now inaccessible, will un- doubtedly be found composed of primary roots, Asiatic, Lydian, Phrygian, Thessalian, of which who knows a word V* It was much more probable that in one sole ancient language all its roots were to be found, as it... has in the Celto-Phoenician. The triangular space over the door of entrance in the inside was ornamented in bas-relief, with a radiated crest of the rays of the sun, of which only a portion remains, and two dolphins with their heads downwards. And on Digiti ized by Google FUNEREAL BITEH. 237 the right side of the door is the remains of a large wing, raised in the tufa stone. On the sides of the great chamber there opens eight smaller ones, all constructed upon the same regular plan. On the partition of the right hand cell is the head and neck of a crested dragon, in terra cotta, nearly as high as a man, coloured in fresco, with a tongue of white metal.
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