Two Tomb-Groups from Selinus

In the course of a study of Etruscan bucchero, I had an opportunity in the spring of 1937 to examine the contents of the graves from Selinus in the museum at Palermo. For permission to publish these I wish to express my thanks to Dr. P. Mingazzini, then Director of the Museum, who most courteously gave me every facility for studying them, and provided me with the photographs here reproduced. I gladly availed myself of the opportunity to publish the contents of two of the early tombs (nos. 27 and 55), not only because they contain bucchero and other pottery closely resembling bucchero, as well as Corinthian vases, but also in view of the fact that although the dating of more than one category of Greek pottery rests on the foundation date of Selinus, none of the early tombs from this site has been published in detail. The published information on this material is contained in an article by Cavallari in the Bulletino della Commissione di Antichità e Belle Arti in Sicilia , no. 5 (1872), pp. 10 f

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