History of ancient pottery by Birch Samuel 1813-1885

Author:Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pottery, Ancient -- History
Publisher: London : Murray
Published: 1858-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

latest style found in the Basilicata, the Terra di Lavoro, and the ancient Campania and Lucania.

Later than this they could not have been made, for, in the days of Augustus, all the towns of Magna Grsecia, except Rhegium, Naples, and Tarentum, had relapsed into barbarism. 1

Other writers, as M. Kramer, 2 conjecture that the vases of the oldest style were made from Olympiad L. = B.C. 577, to Olympiad LXXX — B.C. 457; those of the second, or "hard style" of art, from 01. LXXX = B.C. 457, to 01. xc. == B.C. 417; and those of the fine style, from 01. xc. — B.C. 417, to 01. c. = B.C. 377. For the last class of vases he names no period. 3

CEITEEIA.

The following are the principal criteria for determining the age of vases. Those of the Doric style, with maroon figures upon a yellow ground, resemble the mural paintings in the old sepulchres at Veii, which city submitted to the Roman arms A.u.c. 358, or B.C. 390. The backgrounds with flowers appear, indeed, to have been copied from oriental or Assyrian art, which had ceased to exist in the sixth century B.C. ; while the Asiatic style of the friezes, which resemble those of Solomon's temple and the Babylonian tapestries, likewise indicates an epoch of great antiquity. The animals represented are similar to those seen on coins issued by cities of Southern Italy in the

1 Strabo, vi. 253. Seroux d'Agincourt, Recueil, p. 93.

2 Handbuch, sa. 75, 2. Creuzer, 3 Ueber den Styl und dio Herkunft. following Muller, Briefe, s. 123, throws 8vo, Berlin, 1837, s. 70, 71, 91, 92, 95, the epoch farther back, and so does 96, 113, 116,121, 122, 210.

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