340 ATHENS. 
CHAP, necks, and other parts of earthen vases of a 
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very superior quality and workmanship : some 
of these were fluted, and of a jet black colour ; 
others of a bright red, similar to those innume- 
rable fragments of terra cotta found upon the site 
of all Grecian cities ; especially in the outer Cera- 
micus 1 , and in the sepulchres of Athens since 
opened, as well as those of Italy and of Sicily* 
While this work was going on, a lamp was 
brought to us, without any information of the 
place where it was found, but of such singular 
beauty and interest, that the author would be 
guilty of an unpardonable omission if he neg- 
lected to insert its particular description: he 
has an additional motive for so doing ; namely, 
(l) By collecting upon the spot these fragments of Grecian pottery, 
and comparing afterwards the fragments found upon the site of one 
antient city with those discovered upon the site of another, a very 
marked difference of manufacture may be observed. The Corinthiaiit 
seemed to have used a particularly heavy and coarse black ware ; that 
of Athens was the lightest and most elegant ; that of Sicyon the rudest 
and most antient. The most perfect pottery of Modern Greece is the 
earthenware of Larissa, where it may be found almost equal in beauty 
to the antient terra cotta. Mr. Cripps discovered at Athens, upon the 
outside of the city, fragments of the finest antient vases, lying as in 
a quarry, and sufficient in quantity to prove that a very large esta- 
blishment for the manufacture of earthenware once existed upon the 
spot. As it remains there at this hour, it may assist in deciding the 
disputed position of the outer CERAMICUS. "Fecit et Calcosthenes 
cruda opera Athenis ; qui locus ab officind ej'us, Ceramicos apptllatur." 
Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. xxxv. c. 12. L. Bat. 1635. 
