ost important are the British Museum, the
Louvre and the Berlin Museum. Next to these come the collections at
Athens, Naples, Munich, Vienna, Rome and St Petersburg; isolated
specimens of importance are to be found in other museums, as at
Florence, Madrid or the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. Most of the
great private collections of the two preceding centuries have now been
dispersed. In recent years the Boston Museum has raised America to a
level with Europe in this respect; and the Metropolitan Museum at New
York contains a vast collection of Cypriote pottery.

LITERATURE.--Important original articles are to be found in various
archaeological journals such as _American Journal of Archaeology_
(1885, &c); _Annual of the British School at Athens_ (1894, &c.);
_Athenische Mitteilungen_ (1876, &c.); _Bulletin de correspondance
hellenique_ (1877, &c.); _Comptes rendus de la commission imperiale
archeologique_ (St Petersburg, 1859-1888); _Gazette archeologique_
(Paris, 1875-1889); _Jahrbuch des kaiserlichen deutschen
archaologischen Instituts, Berlin_ (1886, &c.); _Journal of Hellenic
Studies_ (1880, &c.); _Monumenti antichi_ (Milan, 1890, &c.);
_Monuments grecs_ (Paris, 1872-1898); _Monuments Piot_ (Paris, 1894,
&c.); _Revue archeologique_ (Paris, 1844, &c.). The older works have
been recently superseded by important publications embodying the
latest views such as Hartwig, _Die griechischen Meisterschalen des
strengen rotfigurigen Stils_ (1893); Louvre, _Catalogue des vases
antiques de terre cuite_, by E. Pottier (1896, &c.); S. Reinach,
_Repertoire des vases peints_ (Paris, 1899-1900); H. B. Walters,
_History of Ancient Pottery_ (Greek, Etruscan and Roman), 1905, with
an excellent bibliographical list; also art. "Hischylos" in _J.H.S._
xxix. (1909) p. 103.

ETRUSCAN POTTERY--Parallel with the development of the art of pottery in
Greece runs the course of the art in Etruria, though with far inferior
results; in its later stages it is actually no more than a feeble
imitation of the Greek. The period of time which we must consider
extends from the Bronze age (1000 B.C. or earlier) down to the 3rd
century B.C., when Etruscan civilization was merged into Roman.

The earliest civilization traced in Italy is not, strictly speaking,
Etruscan, but may perhaps be more accurately styled "Umbrian." It is
usually referred to as the "Terramare" period from the remains
discovere