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Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance (1922)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Andersen, Ingeborg, 1887- · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 98

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ruscan, as a dead and sacred language, had survived thedisappearance of the people by about half a millennium.* ^ Cicero, Pro Milone 26, 74, 87. ^ Thulin, Pauly-Wissowa, vii. 2434. ^ ii. 1. 29. The later authors speak * The best summary view of the of nothing but the corpulency and Etruscan… … Fig. 35. DEMON IN THE TOMBA DELL ORCO 49 TOMBA DELL ORCO 49 XVI To this long, sad period of national decline the latergroup of Etruscan tomb-paintings and reliefs on cineraryurns form a remarkable and melancholy accompaniment. The continuity is unbroken; the new creeps in, at first,without…

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