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The large recent discoveries of Etruscan objects have not materially altered the conclusions arrived at a generation ago. It is not so much our appreciation of the broad lines of the manners and arts of the Etruscans that has altered as our understanding of th ...

... lare/' It is now generally agreed that the science of augury is of Italian, not Etruscan, origin. The natural region to look to (or signs of the will of Ju| the sky, where lightning and the flight of birds seemed directed by him as counsel to men. The Utter, h ...

... the original league in Etruria proper (below). In the early history of Rome the Etruscans play a prominent part. According to the semi-historical tradition they were the third of the constituent elements which went to form the city of Rome. The tradition has b ...

... east and south parliamentary divisions, each returning one member. History and Antiquities. — At what date the county of Antrim was formed is not known, but it appears that a certain district bore this name before the reign of Edward II. (early i4th century), ...

... 32, except the Steen, which has been restored and contains a museum of arms and antiquities. After the establishment of Belgian independence Antwerp was defended only by the citadel and an enceinte of about 2} m. round the city. No change occurred till 1859, w ...

... ile the local museum contains over 2000 inscriptions, besides statues and other antiquities. The cathedral, a flat-roofed basilica, was erected by Patriarch Poppo in 1031 on the site of an earlier church, and rebuilt about 1379 in the Gothic style by Patriarch ...

... have also assisted enormously in the advance of archaeology; and similarly, the antiquities exhibited in museums and private collections to illustrate and amplify written records, have in the last generation received much attention on their own account, and ha ...

... ppointment of jurymen, the sortition of the athlolhelae, &c. (but see Gilbert's Antiquities, Eng. trans., p. 251, n. i). On entering upon office the archon (archon eponymus) made proclamation by his herald that he would not interfere with private property. His ...

... rote on the Eastern question, with especial reference to India, the history and antiquities of lona, patronage in the Church of Scotland, and many other subjects. The duke (to whose Scottish title was added a dukedom of the United Kingdom in 1892) died on the ...

... en distinguished in affairs or in learning have been natives of the county. The antiquities comprise monoliths, circles of standing stones, crannogs and cairns. In almost all the burying-grounds — as at Campbeltown, Keil, Soroby, Kilchousland, Kilmun — there a ...

... oundations of which were practically intact. In the local museum are many Roman antiquities collected on the spot, including several large sculptural stones similar to the celebrated monument at Igel near Treves. In the middle ages Arlon was the seat of a powe ...

... visions are three: mid, north and south, each returning one member. History and Antiquities. — Armagh, together with Louth, Monaghan and some smaller districts, formed part of a territory called Orgial or Urial, which was long subject to the occasional incursi ...

... ibrary containing many old works, a theatre, a large concert -hall, a museum of antiquities (as well as a separate collection of Spanish antiquities), a gymnasium, a teachers' and art school, a building (1880) to contain the provincial archives, a hospital (18 ...

ARVAL BROTHERS (Fratrcs Arvales), in Roman antiquities, a college or priesthood, consisting of twelve members, elected for life from the highest ranks in Rome, and always apparently, during the empire, including the emperor. Their chief duty was to offer annua ...

... having ten strings instead of the customary twelve assigned to it by Josephus (Antiquities, vii. 12. 3). See also Mendel and Reissmann, Musikalisches ConversationsLexikon, vol. i. (Berlin, 1881); Sir John Stainer, The Music of the Bible, pp. 35-37; Forkel, Al ...

ATHLETE (Gr. dflXTp^s; Lat. atUeta), in Greek and Roman antiquities, one who contended for a prize (aflXw) in the games; now a general term for any one excelling in physical strength. Originally denoting one who took part in musical, equestrian, gymnastic, or ...

... t. Hi* survey of Surrey was incorporated in K. Kawlinson's Natural lli\lnry and Antiquities of Surrey (1719); hi* antiquarian notes on Wiltshire were printed in Wiltshire; Ike Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, corrected and enlarged by J. E. Jackson (D ...

... finely decorated rooms with paintings by Johan van Neck, a collection of local antiquities and the archives. Other interesting buildings are the orphanage (1616), containing some 1 7th and iSth century portraits and ancient leather hangings; the weigh-house ( ...

... ich contains further bibliographical references; G. Gilbert, The Constitutional Antiquities of Athens (Eng. tr., 1895); G. Busolt, Die griechischen Stoats- und Rechtsaltertumer (1892); T. Thalheim and J. Ohler in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie der classischen ...

... given in the footnotes ; A. S. Wilkins in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed., 1891) ; E. Belot, Histoire des chevaliers remains (1866-1873) ; H. O. Hirschfeld, Vntersuchungen auf dem Gebiete der romischen Verwaltungsgeschichle (Berlin, ...

... be crossed, or partly crossed and partly rounded, in a single rise. The ancient Etruscans, in exchanging their earthenware and bronzes for the amber found largely in those «t the «nd of the loth. Century inh Milt* o to too too yao 400 500 Boundary of t tit Emp ...

... rote on the Eastern question, with especial reference to India, the history and antiquities of lona, patronage in the Church of Scotland, and many other subjects. The duke (to whose Scottish title was added a dukedom of the United Kingdom in 1892) died on the ...

... tica (2nd cd., London, 1876); and art. "Reservation" in Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, vol. ii. (London, 1893); Guardian newspaper, July 19 and 26, 1899, and May 2, 1900; The Archbishops of Canterbury and York on Reservation of the Sacrament (London, 190 ...

... discoveries have been made within the circuit, both of Phoenician and of Roman antiquities, including several statues2 and inscriptions and many smaller objects, gems, &c., but at present few traces of ancient buildings are left, owing to their continued dest ...

... is the rock-cut church of the Madonna del Parto, developed, no doubt, out of an Etruscan tomb, of which there are many here; and close by is a rock-hewn amphitheatre of the Roman period, with axes of 55 and 44 yds., now most picturesque. The position of Sutri ...

... Anglia sacra, i. 287; T. D. Hardy's Cat. of MSS. i. 513-517; J. Brand's Popular Antiquities; R. Chambers's Book of Days; Ethelwulf's Tithe Charters, nearly all of which refer to St Swithun in the body of the text, may be studied in Haddon and Stubbs's Councils ...

... chen Kultusalterthumer (1890); article in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, revised by L. C. Purser (3rd ed., 1891); A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); L. R. Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, iv. (1906), pp. 268283; J. G. Frazer, Gold ...

... three mosques, formerly Genoese churches. The town also possesses a museum, of antiquities and a picture gallery containing the works of the marine painter Ayvazovsky. Theodosia is an episcopal see of the Orthodox Greek Church. Gardening is one of the leading ...

... ur a italiana. This vast work, in which Italian literature from the time of the Etruscans to the end of the I7th century is traced in detail, occupied eleven years, 1771-1782, and the thirteen quarto volumes embodying it appeared successively at Modena during ...

... hat saint, which is embellished with curious reliefs. The Museo Civico contains antiquities discovered during excavations near the town (in 1880-1884) in the Picene necropolis, dating from ,the 8th-4th centuries B.C. The town is the birthplace of the condottie ...

... in Luther. The town hall, a 16th-century building, houses a collection of Saxon antiquities. Torgau • has two Evangelical churches and a Roman Catholic church. One of the former, the Stadt Kirche, contains paintings by Lucas Cranach and the tomb of Catherine v ...

TRESVIRI, or TRIUMVIRI, in Roman antiquities, a board of three, either ordinary magistrates or extraordinary commissioners. i. Tresviri capilales, whose duty it was to assist the higher officials in their judicial functions, especially criminal, were first app ...

... n the hill of S. Pietro are remains of walling of the Roman period. A number of Etruscan tombs were found by the Campanari brothers in the igth century, and their valuable contents are in various European museums.

... ll (1475) has a fine gable filled with sculpture, and contains some interesting antiquities.