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THIS publication constitutes a fascicle of the seventh volume of the anthropological series of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. The objects described in this “Catalogue” are reproductions in bronze of originals in the National Museum of Naples from the Campanian cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. With a few exceptions “these objects constitute a fairly representative selection from among the bronze utensils, instruments, and articles of furniture in the great Neapolitan collection; and, while not exact in every particular, they do, nevertheless, give a fairly correct idea of the originals.” As no complete and scientific account of the Naples bronzes “has ever been issued, it has seemed worth while to prepare a somewhat detailed catalogue, with illustrations, of these reproductions.” The catalogue enumerates and describes with considerable detail some 300 different objects, of which seventeen are designated “pre-Roman,” and illustrates almost the entire series in 117 excellent plates. To archaeological students and such other Americans as may have no opporunity of visiting Naples, these reproductions will be almost as valuable as the originals, and from them the museum will receive grateful acknowledgment, both for having had the reproductions made and for this excellent account of. them, of which European students will not fail to appreciate the value when in face of the original collection in Naples.
Catalogue of Bronzes, &c., in Field Museum of Natural History. Reproduced from Originals in the National Museum of Naples.
By Prof. F. B. Tarbell. (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1909.)
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Catalogue of Bronzes, &c, in Field Museum of Natural History Reproduced from Originals in the National Museum of Naples . Nature 83, 396 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083396a0
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