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The Tomb of Porsena at Clusium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

John L. Myres
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The Elder Pliny quotes Varro's description of the Tomb of Porsena:

Sepultus sub urbe Clusio, in quo loco monumentum reliquit lapide quadrato quadratum: singula latera pedum lata tricenum, alta quinquagenum: in qua basi quadrata intus labyrinihum inextricabilem: quo si quis improperet (introire properet v.) sine glomere lini, exitum invenire nequeat. Supra id quadratum pyramides stant quinque, quattuor in angulis, et in medio una, imae latae pedum septuagenum quinum (latae pedum quinum; ita fastigatae ut in summo aeneus petasus omnibus sit impositus M), altae centenum quinquagenum, ut in summo orbis aeneus et petasus unus omnibus sit impositus, ex quo pendeant exapta catenis tintinnabula, quae vento agitata longe sonitus referant, ut Dodonae olim factum. Supra quem orbem (supraque orbem) quattuor pyramides insuper singulae stant altae pedum centenum. Supra quas uno solo quinque pyramides, quarum altitudinem Varronem puduit adicere; fabulae Hetruscae tradunt eandem fuisse, quam totius operis: adeo vesanam dementi quaesisse gloriam impendio, nulli profuturo. Praeterea fatigasse regni vires, ut tamen (tantum v.) laus maior artificis esset.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 46 , November 1951 , pp. 117 - 121
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1951

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References

1 N.H. XXXVI 13.

2 Myres, , PEQ 1948, 14–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Randall-Maclver, , Villanovans and Early Etruscans, Oxford, 1924Google Scholar, passim.

4 Loc. cit., 141.

5 Canina, Etruria Marittima II pl. cvii; Martha, L' Art étrusque, 205, fig. 159. Since excavation in 1829 it has quite disappeared. Full bibliography in Martha.

6 Martha, loc. cit. 159, fig. 126 (‘Castel d'Asso’), 203, fig. 158 (‘Mausoleo’).

7 I 14.

8 I 93.

9 Paton, W. R. and Myres, J. L., JHS XVI 188–270Google Scholar, esp. 270 and figs. 39, 51 (square), figs. 22, 26 (round).

10 Randall-Maclver, op. cit., 122—3.

11 A square pedestal tomb at Vulci is crowned by a single pyramid, Martha, op. cit., 213, fig. 163.

12 Eur., Rhesus, 290–307.

13 O. Montelius, La Civilisation Primitive en Italie, pl. 267, 6A.

14 Myres, J. L., JHS LXI 25–6.Google Scholar

15 Minns, E. H., Scythians and Greeks in South Russia (1913), 154Google Scholar, fig. 41 (Alexandropol), 186, fig. 79 (Volkovtsy), 183, fig. 76 (Romny).

16 II 106.