Earthen Vases Imown hy the name of Etruscan. 367 
Curnce., as well as near S. Agatha Sothorum, along with others 
of a black colour 
In the second class, we shall place those in which the natural 
colour of the clay is somewhat heightened by their having a very 
thin glaze or coating f. 
To the third class, belong those vases which have been manu- 
factured of clay intermixed with black matter. These vases are 
found, either simple, that is, without ornaments and paintings-; 
or decorated with ornaments, either impressed or in relief; or 
they are painted with a white or yellowish colour. Of this de- 
scription are many of the vases dug up, not only in Lower Italy, 
but also in the districts of ancient Etruria. 
To the fourth class belong those vases whose clay is evidently 
covered over with a black glaze or coating. Like those of the 
third class, they are either simple, or with ornaments either im- 
pressed, or painted with a white, yellowish, or red covering. ' 
'Th^ffth class may contain those vases, in which, upon a basis 
of clay, either of the natural colour, or with a somewhat brighter 
glaze, there are ornaments or painted figures of a black colour, 
sometimes with impressed lines. These vases, which have been 
dug up in various places, although they commonly go by the 
name of Sicilian, are either simply painted with black, or orna- 
mented with figures, in which the red and white colours are 
covered over with black ; of which kind some exquisite vases 
have been found, as for example in the vicinity of Psestum. 
To the sixth class we shall refer those painted vases, the most 
common of all, which have figures and ornaments either of the 
natural colour of clay or somewhat heightened, the general 
ground, however, and some lines, being black : some of them 
are of more simple construction, others are ornamented with 
white, red, yellowish or dusky colours. 
The seventh class includes those vases of rarer occurrence^ in 
which the ground is black, and the figures which are red are laid 
* Sul metodo degli Antichi nel dipingere i vasi. Due Lettere del Canonico 
Andrea de Jorio al Sig. Cav. M. Galdi, p. 4. 
■f Jorio, loc. cit. p. 8. 
