equipped for the next world. This tomb is as good as a documentary film; nothing ever found by archaeology brings Etruscan daily life more vividly before our eyes. While the Tomb of the Reliefs is full of homely details of Etruscan life, the Regolini-Galassi tomb, also at Cerveteri, was crammed with objects of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous waste. The tomb is named for its discoverers, General Alessandro Regolini and Fr. Vincenzo Galassi, arch-priest of Cerveteri in 1836. Its contents are datable in the eighth or seventh century B.C. It consists of a long narrow entrance-way or _dromos_, two oval side-chambers, and a long narrow main tomb-chamber roofed with a false vault, “now,” says Dennis, “containing nothing but slime and serpents.” When it was entered through a hole in the roof on April 21, 1836, an incredible treasure of gold, silver, bronze, and ceramics, over 650 objects in all, burst upon the workmen’s gaze. All was cleared with feverish haste in less than twenty-four hours, and no detailed inventory was compiled until seventy years later. The riches are fabulous; to quote Dennis again, “here the youth, the fop, the warrior, the senator, the priest, the belle, might all suit their taste for decoration--in truth a modern fair one need not disdain to heighten her charms with these relics of a long past world.” In those days, Etruscan objects were not allowed to languish in a museum. A report of 1839 states, “a few winters ago the Princess of Canino [wife of Lucien Bonaparte] appeared at some of the [British] ambassador’s fêtes with a _parure_ of Etruscan jewellery which was the envy of the society, and excelled the _chefs-d’oeuvre_ of Paris or Vienna.” Though the contents of the tomb have been now for many years the pride of the Gregorian Museum in the Vatican, the definitive publication did not appear until 1947.