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pears to have been a chest formed out of a solid stone, 
and covered with a flat slab or id. Mr. Wright describes 
it as containing in the middle a large square vase of 
fine green glass, containing caleined bones. In a Roman 
cemetery, at Cirencester, was found a stone which had 
been cut into the shape of a short cylindrical column. 
This had been sawn through the middle, and in the centre 
of the lower half was cut a cell to contain the urn, which 
was enclosed by joining the two parts of the column 
together. (See Mr. Wright’s Celt, Roman, and Sazxen, 
p- 306.) 
We find that sepulchral urns were of different sizes and 
forms, and made of various materials, according to the 
wealth of the deceased, whose ashes they were to contain, 
and the taste of the surviving relative. When made of 
marble, they were generally rectangular, adorned with 
bas-reliefs, often of beautiful workmanship, and contained 
inscriptions. 
We are not to expect, on the site of a Roman villa, at 
some distance from a town, and in a Roman province at 
the extremity of the empire, the same amount of art which 
is displayed in the elaborate works preserved in Rome. 
The provincials were, no doubt, content with very humble 
imitations of the customs prevalent in the capital, and in 
rich eities ; a plain stone chest, of small dimensions, would, 
in a country seat in the provinces, perform the part allotted 
to a rich marble sarcophagus in the capital, and be made 
the depository of the remains of what was valued and 
loved while living. 
Montfaucon, Z’Ant. Exp. tome v., pt. 1, p. 55, pl. xviüi, 
gives a drawing containing the facade, the plan, the urns, 
and the inscriptions of a tomb of the family of Furia, 
discovered in 1665, at Camaldules, in the high ground above 
