Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Antiquarian Treasures. [ARTICLE]

Antiquarian Treasures.

Recent excavations near Bologna have unearthed ancient tombs containing many pottery vases and a wealth of bronzes—pins, knives, 'razors, horse bits, buckets, and (boxes. The most uncommon find is a small chariot of bronze, which has been mounted in the museum of Bologna. In the Etruscan tumulus ,of Pietrera other excavators have found stores of cup 3 called buccberi, one of which has zones of animals stamped on its sides. Some are covered with gold leaf. Parts of two exquisite gold bracelets with pendants of human heads and figures in embossed gold leaf are in this find, together with a necklace of seventy hollow beads, ribbed, and with ■thirty gold pendants in the shape »of busts of women with breast plates atitached. These and other objects will (be placed in the museum at Florence.