206 Etruscan Sculpture. Louvre, and that of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, contain many curious specimens. Terra-cotta objects are also very numerous. Perhaps the most interesting is that called the Lydian Tomb, found at Caere (the modern Cervetri, a corruption of Caere Vetere), and now in the Louvre. It represents a married couple in a semi-recumbent position upon an Assyrian couch. The attitudes are stiff, the treatment of the figures betrays Fig. 86. — Relief from an Etruscan tomb. ignorance of anatomy, and the drapery is wanting in grace ; but with all these faults the group is pleasing and characteristic. The pediments of Etruscan temples appear to have been adorned with terra-cotta reliefs, and the images of the gods were often of the same material. In Rome, before Greek influence became predominant, Etruscan terra-cotta was largely employed. The pediment of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol was adorned with
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