Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 240
At Terra Nuova, in Sicily, supposed to be the ancient Gela, several sepulchres have been lately discovered with fine vases, similar to those of Nolan manufacture, and in one of them the egg of an ostrich was found well preserved. Some of these vases, as I have been assured by a British traveller… … No. 113.— Tomb of Southern Italy, with skeleton and vases. vases. Here the grave assumes the shape of a soros, or sepulchral chest, with a pent-house roof, imitating a pedi- ment, or roof of a small temple. The body is laid on the floor, and the vases round it. The later tombs of the 1 Hamilton, in…
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