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GREEK ANTIQUITIES. 
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Roman sarcophagus near Crefeld, Rhenish Prussia, consisting of a pair 
of strigils, an oil vase, a glass patera, prsefericulum, &c. 
ROMAN POTTERY WITH VITREOUS GLAZE. 
Case 64. It was long considered that the Romans were 
unacquainted with the art of applying a vitreous glaze to 
pottery. Specimens, however, have from time to time been 
discovered which remove all doubt on the subject. It will 
be seen that they are not numerous, and that the glaze was 
more often applied to fine and ornamental wares than to 
coarse pottery. 
ROMAN RED WARE. 
This collection, which is placed in Cases 39-41 and 
beneath Table Case F, consists of specimens of a peculiar 
bright red ware, made at various places, but which was 
termed by the ancients Samian, having been probably first 
made at Samos. It was the earthenware most in use at the 
tables of the ancients, and exhibits great variety of orna- 
mentation. 
The principal sites of the manufactory were Capua and Arretium in 
Italy, Auvergne in France, where kilns have been found, the borders 
of the Rhine, and Spain. The various designs were impressed with 
small separate stamps on a concave mould, so that the patterns were 
in relief on the vase ; the potters' names were very commonly added. 
CYPRUS POTTERY. 
Cases 33-38 contain a collection of pottery discovered in tombs in 
Cyprus, mostly by General Cesnola. No. I represents a class of 
vases from this island, with incised geometric patterns, and thought 
to be of great antiquity. No. 2 is a bottle of plain red polished ware ; 
vases of this class, and having the same shapes as those of Cyprus, 
have been found in Egypt, and may be seen in Cases 30-32 of the First 
Egyptian Room. No. 3 is identical in shape and in its spiral patterns 
with two vases from lalysus in Rhodes (First Vase Room, Cases 1 3- 
14). Nos. 4-5 are examples of the combination of painted patterns 
with the human form modelled in the round. No. 6, with its frieze of 
animals on a drab ground, in what is called the Graeco-Phoenician 
style, resembles the vases from Camirus in Rhodes, and belongs to a 
style of very rare occurrence in Cyprus. No. 7 is an oenoclioe, with 
the design of a chariot, driven at speed, from which a warrior dis- 
charges an arrow in a backward direction. The design seems copied 
from an Assyrian work of art. No. 8 is a deep cup, representing a 
