SEPULCHRAL REMAINS IN BATH. zul 
Frescati, in Italy. Everything is very simple. The urns, 
or chests, are made square shaped, and the cover is ridged. 
This monument is said to be more ancient than any in 
Italy, ofthe same kind, as appears from the character of 
the inscriptions. The inscriptions upon the two urns, or 
chests, are not easy to decipher ; but the true reading ap- 
pears to be—Lucio Turpleio Lueü filio. Turpleio may 
stand for Turpilio, which was the name of a Roman family. 
The other will be Quinto Turpleio Lueü filio.. All the 
other inscriptions are of the Furian family. Fourio is for 
Furio, in the manner of the ancient Romans. 
A question has arisen on the subject of cremation,— 
how it was possible to preserve the ashes of the persons 
apart from the ashes of the pile on which the body was 
burned? There is, in Montfaucon, an interesting letter 
detailing the circumstance of the discovery of a garment, 
or covering, of what the Greeks called Asbestos, in one of 
the sepulchral urns found near Rome. This had been 
subjected to the action of fire, and was found to be scorched 
by the heat, and partially burned ; it was placed, together 
with the bones, in the funereal urn. We may suppose, 
therefore, that in some instances the device was used of 
wrapping the body in this material; but it appears 
probable that the bones, when reduced to ashes, might 
generally be distinguished from the wood ashes. We 
know that when the body had been consumed, and the pile 
reduced to ashes, these were extinguished by having, in 
many instances, wine poured on them, which custom it was 
found necessary afterwards to regulate, as needlessly 
extravagant, and it was made lawful only to use water for 
such purposes. 
It would be very interesting to trace the various modes 
of sepulture which have prevailed at different periods, and 
