654 LUCE— BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 



for the advances he made in our knowledge, although his work was 

 not as epochmaking as that of Otto Jahn, of whom I shall speak 

 later. 



Gerhard's most famous publication is his great album, published 

 between 1840 and 1858, called " Auserlesene Griechische Vasen- 

 bilder," known usually to archaeologists as A.V. Here, in 330 

 plates, he publishes about 350 vases, in every case giving the shape 

 and the design as accurately as it was at that time possible to give 

 it, with an explanatory text giving the location of each vase. It 

 marked a great advance over any album previously published, and 

 over the contemporary " filite des Monuments Ceramographiques " 

 by the Frenchmen, Lenormant and De Witte. These volumes of 

 Gerhard's are still important, and are fascinating to the archaeolo- 

 gist, for the following reason : 



Many of the vases published by Gerhard were seen by him " in 

 the trade in Rome " and were there drawn. Of these many have 

 since disappeared, and so we call them " lost vases." Anyone who 

 has worked with vases long and faithfully is pretty likely to ac- 

 quire a mental photograph of the more important " lost vases," 

 which he carries around with him, aided by the actual republica- 

 tion of the A.V. in small line-drawings, by Reinsch, in the second 

 volume of his "Repertoire des Vases Points," in 1900. If I, for in- 

 stance, go to a new, or an uncatalogued museum, I look instinctively 

 for " lost vases," which are mostly taken from Gerhard. In this 

 way it has been my fortune to find many of them, in uncatalogued 

 museums in America and Europe. 



To return to our subject. Gerhard's next most important 

 achievement was the foundation in Berlin of a new archaeological 

 periodical, the Archacologisclie Zeitimg, which lasted from 1843 till 

 1885. This was largely given over to vases. In the meantime, the 

 Institute di Corrispondenza was growing in importance, and other 

 archaeological societies were founded. In Greece, for instance, the 

 'ApxaLoXoyLKT] 'Eraipta was established in 1837, and in 1846, the French 

 School at Athens, the first archaeological school in order of founda- 

 tion. 



Gerhard was one of the first people to adopt a system of chron- 

 ology for vases. He recognized an earliest " orientalizing " class, a 



