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There are many funerary inscriptions, the most important being the inscription in nine lines of the Grotta del Tifone at Tarquinia, the inscription of the hypogeum near the Tower of S. Manno (Perugia), consisting of 28 words, and an inscription on a lid of a sarcophagus at Tarquinia, consisting of nine lines. A gold plate found at Tarquinia also contains nine lines. There are not many other long inscriptions extant, the great majority of the inscriptions consisting of a few words only. They are written on mirrors and domestic utensils, on the walls of tombs, to the
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1. The stele from Vetulonia. 2. The Perugia cippus
left or right or above painted figures, and on statues, the most famous being the inscription on a bronze statue, called the "Orator," discovered in 1566, now in the Archæological Museum, Florence.
