History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walters et al.

the alphabet of Western Greece, through Cumae. A vase of _bucchero_ ware found at Vetulonia bears an Etruscan inscription, which can hardly be much later than 700 B.C.,[2280] and we have already seen an instance on a vase from Caere. In the earlier chamber-tombs no _bucchero_ is found, and the pottery is of the same types as in the trench-tombs; but with the enlarged arrangement of the tomb come the Corinthian vases of Orientalising style, to be followed later by the Ionian and later Corinthian fabrics, and finally by the Athenian wares. The vestibule disappears after the sixth century, and all later tombs have the simple δρόμος. The typical contents of a chamber-tomb are, as regards local pottery, in the earlier tombs _impasto Italico_ wares, in the later _bucchero_. The former is hand-made, the shapes similar to those found in the trench-tombs—_i.e._ pots incised with zigzags, circles, and other patterns, or painted in white. The latest varieties are wheel-made, of _bucchero_ forms. The latter wares, which are much more numerous, are evolved from the _impasto_: (1) by the use of the wheel; (2) by the