The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-21

Other inscriptions refer to the own
er of the vase, and either mention his
name or bear expressions such as
l"Hail to thee" Happy as possible"
I"Hail and drink. Vases for domestic
use sometimes have the expression
Drink me- as though the goblet IT.
self were speaking. Often the names
of the figures represented on the
vase, especially when, as often Is the
case, they are NEUROLOGICAL persons,
are inscribed.
| Etruscan vases, like the Greek. may
be classified according to their shape
and the use they we're intended for,
as follows:
/. Vases for storing liquids, such
as amphora, with a long cylindrical
body, long neck, and two angular
handles and the pithos, a tall jar
with a full body, wide mouth, a lid
and no handles.
2. Vases for carrying water, like
the hydra and kalpis, with three
handles, two small horizontal at the
shoulders and vertical one at the
neck.
8. Mixing vases, the most common
being the krater, characterized by its
wide mouth for convenience of dip
ping the cups and ladies, and the lebes
shaped like a caldron.
/ 4. Vases for pouring out liquids.
such as the olpe or ever and the
oinochoe.
| 8. Cups and goblets. the most COM
mon in Etruria being the kantharos,
two handled cup; the skyphos,
shaped like a small boat, and the ky
lix, a wide flat bowl on slender
stem
/ 6. Ointment and perfume vases.
The lekythos, or oil flask, which was
laid by the corpse in tombs; the ary-
ballos, used for unguents and carried
on the person by strap for anoint-
ing the body after the bath the; ala
baston, an ointment vase with no
feet. generally in the shape OF ami
mails or of heads or limbs of the
human body and the pyxis, or Jewel
casket.
"A modern art or trade that has
sprung up in connection with Etrus-
can vases consists in mending and re-
storing pottery, which has been dis
covered broken. Generally such res
torations are so skillfully made in
Italy that 1t is often difficult to de-
tect them, and hence in some eases
INSCRIPTIONS workmen have not hes
itated to counterfeit genuine old vases.
| In the Museum OF Corneto Tar
quinia, the old TarQuinii, there Is
beautiful kylix discovered in 1874 with
dark figures on yellow ground rep
resenting within the bowl combat
between two satyrs. This vase was
found broken in three pieces and sub
sequently 1t was carefully repaired.
Some years ago a native of Cor
neto, who initiated ancient vases,
asked permission to copy It, He did
this so we'll that his imitation could
hardly be distinguished from the orig
inal, the more so as he purpose'y
broke 1t into three pieces and repaired
1t in the same way as the original.
1t is said that the copy was sold to
the Louvre museum for $4,000 as
genuine Etruscan vase, and experts
doubt whether the original lSylix is
the one still at Corneto or the one
in Paris. In other words, they can
not ascertain whether substitution
has been effected and the copy was
left instead of the original.
| The writer heard this story from
the custodian OF the Corneto mus
cum and cannot vouch for its ac-
'curacy, but his informant assured him
that the artist is now in America,
where he has made a fortune sell
! ing imitation Etruscan vases as gen.
,uine specimens to museums. Ohio
State Journal