THE POTTER S ART. 



Fig. 9. 



buried immediately in the ground, while elsewhere, as for 

 example, at Avila, they are included in sepulchres ; that the 

 inscriptions on the vases are written in the primitive Greek, to 

 be read from right to left, like Hebrew and other oriental lan- 

 guages ; and, in fine, that the lateness of their discovery is to be 

 explained by the fact that the strata beneath which they were 

 deposited consisted of stone not used for building by the Romans, 

 but used for that purpose in modern times. 



A more distinct notion of the disposition of vases in the 

 ancient tombs may be obtained from the drawings, on a larger 

 scale and with more detail, given by d'Hancarvillc and other 

 antiquarian writers. 



10. As an example of a Campanian sepulchral chamber, we 

 give fig. 9, representing a tomb discovered in the neighbour- 

 hood of Naples, showing the relative position of the body and 

 the vases. 



11. In fig. 10 is represented the tomb of a German family, in- 

 cluding two skeletons with urns, found in the excavation of a 

 tumulus at Unterwelden, near Oberfarrenstadt. 



12. Most of the numerous Greek vases which have been recovered 

 in modern excavations, belong to the sixth or seventh century before 



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