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Chap. II.]
HAND-MADE SUSPENSION VASES.
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Orchomenos in Boeotia;[1] also on three hand-made vases found in the terramare of the Emilia, one of which is preserved in the Museum of Parma, the other two in the Museum of Reggio, of which Professor Gaetano Chierici is the learned keeper. Two more hand-made vases, with vertical tubular holes for suspension, may be seen in the prehistoric collection of the Museo Nazionale in the Collegio Romano at Rome; one of them was found in the terramare of Castello, near Bovolone (province of Verona), the other in the lake-dwellings of the Lago di Garda: another, which was found in an ancient tomb near Corneto (Tarquinii), is preserved in the museum of this latter city. A hand-made vase with a vertical hole for suspension on four sides was found in a terramare of the Stone age near Campeggine, in the province of Reggio in the Emilia.[2] I may also mention some hand-made funereal urns, having the very same contrivance, which were found in ancient tombs near Bovolone (province of Verona), held to be of the same age as the terramare of the Emilia.[3] A vase with a similar system for suspension, found in Umbria, is in the prehistoric collection of the Museum of Bologna; another, found in the cavern of Trou du Frontal-Furfooz, in Belgium, is in the Museum of Brussels. A box of terra-cotta, with a vertical hole for suspension in the cover and in the rim, was found in the district of Guben in Prussia.[4] The prehistoric collection of the Museum of Geneva contains some fragments of vases found in France,[5] which have the same kind of vertical holes for suspension. Finally, I may mention a vase with four excrescences,

  1. ↑ See my Orchomenos, Leipzig, 1881, p. 40, fig. 2, and p. 41. fig. 3.
  2. ↑ Bulletino di Paletnologia Italiana, 1877, pp. 8, 9, Plate I. No. 3.
  3. ↑ Bulletino di Paletnologia Italiana, 1880, pp. 182–192, and Table XII. Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5.
  4. ↑ Zeitschrift für Ethnologic, Organ der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 1882, pp. 392–396.
  5. ↑ The place where this interesting discovery was mide is not indicated.
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