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A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 168

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-Jigure vases (see below in the Second A^ase Room), and did notcease to be used until after the introduction of the red-iigurestyle (Third Vase Room). Vases from Naucratis. 155 Cases 44-45 also contain examples of porcelain vases, such usthose described in Case E (p. 157). Cases 46-47 and 50-51… … The pottery of Naucratis was found for the most part in heaps•of potsherds, consisting of the fragments of vases dedicated inthe temples, and afterwards broken (to prevent desecration) andthrown away. Most of the frngmeiits have dedicatory inscriptionsincised upon them, such as Swo-rpar.s…

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