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 2io HISTORY OF ART IN PIKKXICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. it is difficult to refuse our assent to this explanation now that the same subject has been found developed on the principal face of the remarkable Pruenician sarcophagus of Amathus, in a bas-relief which recalls the style of these terra-cottas in spite of its general Assyrian character. 1 The tradition passed from the East, with many others, into Etruria, where chariots both for war and peace Tu;, 145. Terra-cotta cliariut. Louvre. Height 8 inches. are often figured on sepulchral monuments. There we even find them led by the genii of death, who escort them to the gates of the infernal regions. 2 In this the Etruscans thrust ideas baldly forward 1 We reproduce this sarcophagus on a future page. '-' Annali dell Institute Archeologico, 1879, p. 2 99 j article by GUST. KORTE, entitled : Vasi Etruschi con Rappresentanze Relative all' Inferno. See also plates iv. and v. in vol. xi. of the Alonimenti.