The Loeb Collection of Arretine Pottery

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Excerpt from The Loeb Collection of Arretine Pottery: Catalogued With Introduction and Descriptive NotesIt has long been a matter of regret among students of classical antiquity that so little of the pottery of Arretium, which represents unquestionably the highest achievement of the Roman ceramists, has as yet been published. The writings (f Fabroni, Gamurrini, Pasqui, Dragendor¿, and others have indeed done much to place the Arre tine wares in their proper relation to earlier and later fabrics and to show their great importance for the history of Roman art. But the treasures of the Museo Pubblico at Arezzo are still almost unknown except to the fortunate few who have enjoyed the privilege of a con siderable stay in Arezzo itself, and the smaller collections of Arretine ware in other museums are almost wholly unpublished. Under these circumstances, the present catalogue of a fairly representative collec tion of moulds and fragments may not be without its justification. In the Introduction, I have tried to give a summary of the principal results of modern discussions, in the Catalogue proper, to describe as accurately as possible all the pieces of the Collection, and in the plates to reproduce all the more important specimens. I hope the result will prove useful to scholars and interesting to amateurs, and above all that it may help a little in calling attention to a class of monuments which, in this country at least, has up to the present time been too much neglected.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.