Earthen Vases Imoxen hy the name of Etruscan. 363 
that you might imagine them newly made. Next to the Nola 
vases, are those of Locria and Agrigentum. Many vases have 
also been found near Pestum, the ancient Capua (now S. Ma- 
ria di Capua), Sancta Agatha Sothorum, Trebbia, Aversa, 
Avella, Tarentum, and in some other places of Apulia^ and of 
the Neapolitan province named Abi'iizzo^ the greater number of 
which are remarkable for their beauty. Of late years, vases 
have also been dug up in the vicinity of the cities of Angi and 
Pomarico in Calabria^. The largest and best collection of vases, 
found in these and other places of Lower Italy and Sicily, ar- 
ranged most elegantly and in the best order, is preserved in the 
Royal Museum of Naples; this collection has, of late, been much 
enlarged by the purchase of the extensive one made at Nola, be- 
longing to the family of Vizenzio. Of the private collections at 
Naples, the most remarkable is that of the Archbishop of Ta- 
rentum, which is preserved at his seat near Portici, elegantly 
adorned with the choicest works of ancient and modern art; and 
what renders this collection still more deserving of attention is, 
that it is illustrated by a learned description drawn up by its 
accomplished proprietor himself. A great number of vases, dug- 
up in Lower Italy, have also been deposited in the Vatican 
Library at Rome, and the public Museum of Florence. 
In the middle part of Italy painted vases have been found 
much more rarely. In some places of ancient Etruria, as for 
example, near VQltena sLwdi the cities of Chkisi, Viterbo., and Cor- 
neto, a few were formerly dug up, some of which are preserved 
in the Florentine Museum The true Etruscan vases may 
be distinguished from others by the inferior quality of their ma- 
terials, by the dulness of their coating, but especially by, the 
greater rudeness of their forms and painting, as well as by cer- 
tain characters of the representations peculiar to the ancient 
Etruscan art if. These differences may be very clearly seen in 
* Millingen, Peintures ant. et ined. de Vases Grecs, p. vii. 
*|* Fea ad Winkelmannum^ t. i. p. 215. — Meyer in Boettiger's work, entitled 
Griechische Vasengemalge, i, ii. p. 5. 20— Peintures de vases antiques vulgairement 
appelles Etrusques, gravees par A. Clener ; accomp. d’Explications par A. L. Mil- 
lin. 1808. vol, i. p. 6. note 34. 
J Lanzi de vasi anticlii dipuiti, volgarmente chiamati Etrusclu. Dissertazioni 
tre. p, 23. 
