[8] Poulsen, Orient, p. 67.

[9] I am greatly indebted to Professor O. A. Danielsson of Upsala for information about this as well as about other inscriptions, and for numerous linguistic suggestions on the general subject of my treatise.

[10] Παίειν τὰ μέτωπα, Dionys. Halicarn. x. 9; ‘frontem ferire’, Cicero, Epist. ad Attic. i. 1; for other instances see Sittl, Gebärden der Griechen and Römer, p. 21.

[11] Isocrates ix. 1.

[12] With reference to phersu, which is supposed to be synonymous with and the origin of the Latin persona, see Pauly-Wissowa, vi. 775, and S.P. Cortsen, Vocabulorum Etruscorum interpretatio in Nord. Tidsskr. for Filologi, 1917, p. 174.

[13] iv. 153 f.

[14] Tertullian, Ad nation. i. 10.

[15] Pauly-Wissowa, iii. 2178.

[16] B 630. Figured in Terra-cotta Sarcophagi in British Museum, pl. ix-xi.

[17] Kestner, Annali i (1829), p. 101 ff.