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cian Artists , settled in Campania, and on the borders of
the Adriatick, have executed some of these Vafes, as well
as some of the Medals of Etruscan Towns in Campania,
on which the legends are Etruscan at the same time that
the heads of Divinities represented on them, are corre&ly
drawn , and in the true Grecian stile.
It is well ascertained, that the Grecian Colonies in
this Kingdom , cultivated the fine Arts to a great degree,
and that they made a greater progress in those new Colo-
nies, than in Grece itself. If then any of these Vases we-
re made by Etruscans, they must at least have acknow-
ledged the Greeks as their Matters.
During a residence of six and twenty years in this
Kingdom, I have particularly attended to this sort of An-
tiquities , and have endeavored to obtain every information
in my power relative to monuments so very curious and
interesting, and of such a remote Antiquity.
I have been present at the opening of many of those
ancient sepulchres, in which, and no where else, such Va-
ses are found •, both in the neighbourhood of Capua , at
Nola , in different parts of Puglia, and in Sicily. I have
conssantly obseved, that those sepulchres were placed near,
and without the Walls of the Town under ground and at
no great depth from the surface, except at Nola, where the
Volcanic Matter issiied from the neighbouring Mountain
of Vesuvius, seems to have added much to the surface of
the soil since those sepulchres were made*, so that some of
the
cian Artists , settled in Campania, and on the borders of
the Adriatick, have executed some of these Vafes, as well
as some of the Medals of Etruscan Towns in Campania,
on which the legends are Etruscan at the same time that
the heads of Divinities represented on them, are corre&ly
drawn , and in the true Grecian stile.
It is well ascertained, that the Grecian Colonies in
this Kingdom , cultivated the fine Arts to a great degree,
and that they made a greater progress in those new Colo-
nies, than in Grece itself. If then any of these Vases we-
re made by Etruscans, they must at least have acknow-
ledged the Greeks as their Matters.
During a residence of six and twenty years in this
Kingdom, I have particularly attended to this sort of An-
tiquities , and have endeavored to obtain every information
in my power relative to monuments so very curious and
interesting, and of such a remote Antiquity.
I have been present at the opening of many of those
ancient sepulchres, in which, and no where else, such Va-
ses are found •, both in the neighbourhood of Capua , at
Nola , in different parts of Puglia, and in Sicily. I have
conssantly obseved, that those sepulchres were placed near,
and without the Walls of the Town under ground and at
no great depth from the surface, except at Nola, where the
Volcanic Matter issiied from the neighbouring Mountain
of Vesuvius, seems to have added much to the surface of
the soil since those sepulchres were made*, so that some of
the