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Board: Etruria
Topic: Etruscan Views on Death 
Topic Editor: Fabrisia Fabius
Topic Description: quote from D. H. Lawrence's 'Etruscan Places' pub....

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Message: Etruscan spirit boat
Author: musician - tanaquil Lupus 
Date: Nov 21, 2000 23:13
      Some years ago I ordered a model of an "Etruscan spirit boat" from a 
      catalogue (Smithsonian or one of the museums). 

      It's a beautiful little thing, bronze, head of a long-antlered 
      antelope-like animal at the prow, doglike creatures at the railings, two 
      deer at the stern.   I've never seen a picture of anything like it in 
      books on Etruscan art, though; only a vague reference in D. H. Lawrence. 

      Does anybody know anything about it?  (And is the right topic to post it 
      under?)








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