Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 129
et seen. In Magna Grecia tombs were built underground (woyaia, orvTvoyua) ; they were built with large cut stones, and rarely con-nected with cement, the walls inside were coated with stucco andadorned with paintings. The corpse was placed on the ground,its feet turned towards the entrance; painted… … GROTTA CAMPANA VEIL Etruscan. — Mr. Fergnsson divides Etruscan tombs into twoclasses: First, those cut in the rock, and resembling dwellinghouses ; secondly, the circular tumuli, by far the most numerousand important class. Each of these may be again subdivided intotwo kinds. The rock-cut tombs…
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