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some one had entered it. The tomb measured about four metres 

 square, and was about two and one-half metres high. On the left 

 was found a colossal urn of basalt, the enormous lid of which, on 

 the point corresponding to the face of the dead, had a large opening 

 closed with a stone of similar character. The disarrangement of the 

 bones shows that the objects of value had been already abstracted. 

 Facing this, and within a small cell, an urn was found, about a metre 

 in length, full of burnt bones. The lid, however, had been re- 

 moved. Many bronze vases, upset and scattered about the tomb, left 

 no doubt of the noble rank of the person to whom they belonged. 

 These consisted of two large vases, of a singular egg-form, cut in the 

 middle with a fluted pedestal, and ' listelli,' and ' ovoli,' of an elegant 

 style. They rest on a square base, and have fluted handles, which 

 are attached in one of them to four bearded human heads ; and in the 

 other only one handle was found, with female figures, with long hair 

 descending behind the ears. The ornaments are of the most minute 

 description, in imitation of pearls. There were found also two large 

 vases of the kind called seccliie. One of them had handles on one 

 side, with the head of Hercules covered with the skin of a lion, whose 

 mane adorned the cheeks, and whose paws were united beneath the 

 chin. On the side whence issued the water there is also a Baccha- 

 nalian masque, with the front adorned with ivy-leaves. The beard 

 served as a spout, and beneath this .was a bearded man's head. Three 

 jugs described as ' masiterni,' with saucers beneath them, ornamented 

 with a fluted handle, and fashioned at the juncture after the manner 

 of shells; two small ' secchic,' the handles of which have on one 

 side the head of a wolf, the lower lip of which served to pour out the 

 liquid, and on the other the head of Silenus ; two strainers for 

 liquids ; six small vases with handles ; a small mystic glass, which, on 

 the concave side, has two figures, and preserves the primitive gilding, 

 and other vases reduced to fragments by the first excavator. On 

 each there is an Etruscan inscription. The objects just described are 

 in a remarkable state of preservation, both as regards the exterior 

 and the interior." London Athenceum. 



THE MAUSOLEUM. 



An important collection of architectural and sculptural remains, 

 excavated by Mr. Neuton (English consul at Mitylene) on the site 

 of the Mausoleum, have been added during the last year to the Brit- 

 ish Museum. This monument, of which the site was first positively 

 identified by Mr. Xeuton, was erected by Artemisia, Queen of Caria 

 to her deceased husband, Mausolus, about B. C. 350. It was esteemed 

 by the ancients one of the seven wonders of the world, and is recorded 

 to have been embellished by the sculptural skill of Scopas, Thno- 

 theus, Bryaxis, Leochares, and Pythis. 



The remains of the Mausoleum thus far discovered and brought to 

 England consist of 



Five marble fragments, forming, when united, the principal portion 

 of a colossal horse, supposed to have belonged to the Quadriga, sculp- 

 tured by Pythis, on the summit of the pyramid surmounting the build- 

 ing. On the head of the horse remain, though somewhat mutilated, 



