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Etruscan Bologna

A Study.

By

Richard F. Burton,

Author Of Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Mecca,

City Of The Saints And Rocky Mountains To California, And Others.

London:

Smith, Elder, And Company, 15 Waterloo Place.

1876.

[All Rights Reserved.]

 

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Athenaeum Club,

Pall Mall.

November 1, 1875.

 

Dear Lady Otway,

 

Be pleased to consider this little volume a sign that the Wanderer in Bologna has not forgotten your gracious and graceful hospitality, and believe me

 

Ever yours sincerely,

 

Richard F. Burton.

 

Lady Otway.

 

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ETRUSCAN BOLOGNA

 

{foldout plate facing title page}

 

Synoptical Table Of The Paleoethnological Remains Of Central Italy.

By The Knight M. E. di Rossi, 1866‑1867.

 

1.

Silex Implements From The Tiber Bed.

Number 1.

Cross Section Of A Valley.

Number 2.

Cross Section Of A Valley.

Number 3.

Flint Point.

Number 4.

Flint Point.

Number 5.

Flint Point.

Number 6.

Flint Point.

Number 7.

Flint Point.

Number 8.

Flint Point.

Number 9.

Flint Point.

Number 10.

Flint Point.

Number 11.

Flint Point.

Number 12.

Flint Point.

Number 13.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 14.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 15.

Flint Point.

Number 16.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 17.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 18.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 19.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 20.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 21.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 22.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 23.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 24.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 25.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 26.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 27.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 28.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 29.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 30.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 31.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 32.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 33.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 34.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

 

2.

Manufacture Of Silex Implements Near Corniculum.

Number 35.

Apparently A Find Map.

Number 36.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 37.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 38.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 39.

Antler (?).

Number 40.

Horn From A BOS (?).

Number 41.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 42.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 43.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 44.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 45.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 46.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 47.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

Number 48.

Cross Section Of A Valley.

 

3.

Silex Implements From Latium.

Number 49.

Flint Point Or Scraper.

 

Geological Section Of The Volcanoes Of Latium.

 

4.

Neolithic Tombs Of Cantalupo.

Number 50.

A CALVARIA.

Number 51.

A CALVARIA.

Number 52.

Number 53.

A CALVARIVM.

Number 54.

A CALVARIVM.

Number 55.

Number 56.

A CALVARIVM.

Number 57.

A CALVARIVM.

Number 58.

Number 59.

A Flint Point.

Number 60.

A Flint Point.

Number 61.

A Flint Point.

Number 62.

A Flint Point.

Number 63.

A Flint Scraper.

Number 64.

A Flint Point.

Number 65.

A Flint Point.

Number 66.

A Flint Point.

Number 67.

A Flint Point.

 

5.

Instruments Scattered About The Campagna.

Number 68.

A Flint Point.

Number 69.

A Flint Point.

Number 70.

A Flint Point.

Number 71.

A Flint Point.

Number 72.

A Flint Point.

Number 73.

A Flint Point.

Number 74.

A Flint Point.

Number 75.

A Flint Point (Damaged?).

Number 76.

A Flint Point.

Number 77.

A Flint Point.

Number 78.

A Flint Point.

Number 79.

A Flint Point.

Number 80.

A Flint Point.

Number 81.

A Flint Point.

Number 82.

Number 83.

Number 84.

Number 85.

Number 86.

Number 87.

A Flint Point.

Number 88.

A Flint Point (Damaged?).

Number 89.

Number 90.

Number 91.

A Flint Point.

Number 92.

A Flint Point.

Number 93.

A Flint Point.

Number 94.

A Flint Point.

Number 95.

Number 96.

Number 97.

Number 98.

A Flint Point.

Number 99.

A Flint Point.

Number 100.

A Flint Point.

Number 101.

A Flint Point.

Number 102.

A Flint Point.

Number 103.

A Flint Point.

Number 104.

A Flint Point.

Number 105.

A Flint Point (Damaged?).

Number 106.

A Flint Point.

 

6.

Traces Of The Bronze Age Amongst The Romans.

7.

Arms Of The Bronze Age.

Number 107.

Bronze Sword Blade.

Number 108.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 109.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 110.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 111.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 112.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 113.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 114.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 115.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 116.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 117.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor (Damaged?).

Number 118.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 119.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 120.

Bronze Axe Head.

Number 121.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 122.

Bronze Axe Head Or Scraper Or So Called Razor.

Number 123.

End View Of Above Axe Head Number 120.

 

8.

Necropolis Of Albano.

Number 124.

Number 125.

Number 126.

Number 127.

Number 128.

Number 129.

Number 130.

Number 131.

Number 132.

Number 133.

Number 134.

Number 135.

Number 136.

Number 137.

Number 138.

Number 139.

Number 140.

Number 141.

Number 142.

Number 143.

Number 144.

Number 145.

Number 146.

Number 147.

Number 148.

Number 149.

Cinerary Hut Urns.

Number 150.

A Handled CVLTER, Or Knife.

Number 151.

Number 152.

A Great DOLIVM Containing Intact Gravegoods.

Number 153.

Number 154.

Apparently A Wall Painting From A Tomb.

 

9.

Habitations Of Albano.

Number 155.

Number 156.

Number 157.

Number 158.

Number 159.

Number 160.

A Broken FIBVLA, Or Safety Pin.

Number 161.

A Broken FIBVLA, Or Safety Pin.

Number 162.

A Broken FIBVLA, Or Safety Pin.

Number 163.

A FIBVLA, Or Safety Pin.

Number 164.

The Spring From A FIBVLA, Or Safety Pin.

Number 165.

Number 166.

 

Vincent Brooks Day And Son, Lithographists.

 

[Jeff Hill's footnote: it is unclear why Mr. Burton has included this foldout plate in the front of his book, to which he makes no especial reference in his text. The table seems to be incomplete and seems to contain more than one error, for example:

 

1. The table is not of much use because the items are unlabeled.

2. It is unclear why one flint implement seems to be illustrated in box 3, since the title is in the plural, Silex Implements From Latium.

3. It is unclear precisely what parts of Italy are being illustrated in the geological cross sections of boxes 1, 2, and 3.

4. The scale of the items in every box is various and unlabeled. This fact makes it difficult to distinguish smaller arrow heads from larger spearheads, for instance.

5. The items in the table are so small that they are hard to study.

6. The rationale behind the layout is difficult to fathom. It is also unclear why dots are used to fill valuable space -- were they so used by Cavaliere M. E. di Rossi in the original table, or were they inserted by Mr. Richard Burton to indicate items which he was skipping over?

7. It is unclear why one box appears to have two, rather similar, headings: 6. Traces Of The Bronze Age Amongst The Romans, and 7. Arms Of The Bronze Age. A series of items seems to be missing under one or the other of these headings.

8. Box 9 unexpectedly precedes box 8, unless the numbers 8 and 9 are interchanged.

9. It is unclear why a table containing many specified Roman antiquities is included in a book describing Etruscan antiquities.

 

Mr. Burton may have incompletely Englished a small part of a table possibly plagiarised by him from one of the works by Cavaliere M. E. di Rossi which he mentions in the text. However, this is probably not the synoptic table mentioned by Mr. Burton on page 149 below as having been prepared by Senator Ponzi and delivered to the Congress of Bologna.

 

Mr. James Wellard, on page 75 of his In Search Of The Etruscans, observes that this book was written by a man in a hurry! It is also possible that Mr. Richard Burton's publisher inserted this somewhat superfluous table, without permission, because of its apparently similar subject matter to Mr. Burton's text.]

 



Etruscan Bologna, A Study

Contents

    Introduction
    Preface
Part I. The Works Of Man.
  1. New Bologna
  2. Old Bologna
  3. Public Collections Of Etruscan Antiquities At Bologna
  4. Private Collections, Especially The Villanova
Part II. The Abodes Of Man.
  1. Various Finds
  2. Further Afield, The Certosa And Casalecchi
  3. To Marzabotto, Misanello, And Misano
  4. Conclusions
Part III. The Etruscan Man.
  1. The Etruscan Man
  2. The Etruscan Man (Continued)
  3. Craniology
  4. Professor Calori
  5. The Etruscan Language
  6. Inscriptions
  7. Modern Bolognese Tongue

    Appendix
    Index

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