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- from mythology, usually intaglio, or rarely part intaglio, part cameo. Cistae date from the Roman Republic of the fourth and third centuries BC in Etruscan...
- names of the tribes or centuries were drawn out by lot. Another class of cistae, well known from vase paintings and from a number of preserved metal specimens...
- impediri. Quisquis ergo dicit, non citius posse animam volare, quam in fundo cistae denarius possit tinnire, errat. In: D. Martini Lutheri, Opera Latina: Varii...
- impediri. Quisquis ergo dicit, non citius posse animam volare, quam in fundo cistae denarius possit tinnire, errat. In: D. Martini Lutheri, Opera Latina: Varii...
- ornaments beside the skeleton. From these come the famous bronze boxes (cistae) and hand mirrors with inscriptions partly in Etruscan. Also famous is the...
- numbers of pottery items, inscriptions and engraved scenes on the Praenestine cistae (ornate boxes; see under Etruscan language) and on specula (ornate hand...
- instrumentum. Feles vivas accepit omnes differentis magnitudinis, quas cistae cuidam ****c negotio dedita opera fabricatae ita inclusit ut caudae perforamina...
- numbers of pottery, inscriptions and engraved scenes on the Praenestine cistae (ornate boxes; see under Etruscan language) and on specula (ornate hand...
- Veymiers, a classicist, argues that images of devotees of Isis carrying cistae indicate that they were initiates. Devotees of Isis were often portra****...
- respect to the sun. Burial practices were direct inhumation or in lidded cistae. Stone circles and alignments are found. Burial urns were painted with designs...