Newton, Charles Thomas [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Second vase room (London, 1869)

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very few specimens have been preserved. See Perkins,
Dn Moulage en Platre chez les Anciens, Paris, 1869.
Cas<?0.
This Case contains lamps, plates, and other vases, in
moulded black ware.
Among these may be particularly noted the following,
with Greek or early Latin inscriptions:—
A bowl from Vulci, on which is painted in white letters
AECETIAI POCVLOM, in archaic Latin characters. T.
Mommsen, Inscriptiones Latinse Antiq., 1863, p. 33,
No. 43, where several bowls with similar Latin inscriptions
are published.
This class of pottery may be referred to the fifth or sixth
century, A.U.C. when the Latin language and civilization
were introduced by conquest into Southern Italy.
A small one-handled vase inscribed ^q^oruAtou in in-
cised letters, and considered to be the half of the AotaM, a.
liquid measure among the Greeks, equal to about half a
pint. Found in (C9Wyo).
A small vase in the form of a fish, inscribed n-powtuE pt;
"Drink, do not set (me) down." Afayaa Gracia.
Dur. No. f,006.
Two^ThaAs ,* round which are embossed heroes
in chariots driven by Victories; asM, on which are repre-
sented in relief Thetis on a hippocamp, Dionysos on a
tiger, a Msenad with a panther, the infant Ilerakles
strangling two serpents, and other mythological subjects.