Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Editor]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 4): Vases of the latest period (London, 1896)

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arc no remains of gold or silver on the Museum examples. The practice of
covering vases with a preparation which gave them a metallic or silvery
appearance was not uncommon, as we learn from Athenaeus (xi. 480 E) :
huicpopoi Kv\i.Ke<; yivovrai teal iv . . . Naiwparet. elcrl yap (poaXwheis pev, ov Kara
ropvov, dXX' axrvrep Sa/crvXa) ireiroirip^evai, koX eyovaiv wra tenapa, irvOpbeva ets
7r\aTo? eKrerafievov' (ttoWoi 8' iv rfj Navtcpdrei icepap,ei<f a,(p' S)V icai r\ irXrjcnov rcov
/cepap,ela>v irvXri IxepapiKrj /caXelrai.) Kal fianrTovraL els to So/celv elvai dpyvpai.