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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
A growing interest in the study of archaeology has led in recent years to very substantial developments in the several collections of antiquities in Australia and New Zealand. Pottery has perhaps made the greatest contribution to this expansion, and the total amount of available material here has reached a point at which definitive publication in the Corpus Vasorum has become well worth while. Provision for this has already been made, but in the meantime it seemed to me that some account of the Attic vases in this part of the world might be of service and interest to scholars, since our collections by reason of their remoteness are not well known, although they contain several distinguished pieces, including a few which have been lost to sight for some time. For the sake of brevity, and because they are likely to be of wider interest, I confine myself here to Attic black-figure, red-figure and white-ground.
The main Australian collection of Greek vases is housed in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. The nucleus of this collection was acquired, some 90 years ago, by Sir Charles Nicholson, Chancellor of Sydney University from 1854 to 1862, during his travels in Italy and was catalogued by Miss Louisa Macdonald in 1898. Considerable additions have since been made by gift or purchase, as may be seen from a comparison between the vases listed by Miss Macdonald and those mentioned in the second edition of the Handbook to the Nicholson Museum, published fifty years later.
2 Miss Denise Dettmann of Victoria University College, Wellington, informs me that she will soon be returning there with a small teaching collection of Greek pottery, including a large number of fragments. One b.f. lekythos is included here; the rest will appear in due course in the CV.
3 Referred to as Annual Report. The latest issues have been entitled Otago Museum—Annual Report, and a supplementary Bulletin has been issued annually to the Association of Friends.
4 Vases in the Nicholson Museum are numbered according to Miss Louisa Macdonald's Catalogue, with the earlier (1870) Reeve Catalogue number in brackets; pieces acquired since 1898 bear the Museum inventory number. The Nicholson Museum Handbook (2nd edn., 1948) is throughout referred to as NMH 2. All dimensions are given in centimetres.
5 Cp. 
and δίδοι; see Brugmann-Thumb, , Gr. Grammatik 4, 395.Google Scholar
6 For b.f. olpai, see in particular Haspels, , ABL, 59 ff.Google Scholar and Smith, H. R. W., CV, San Francisco Collection, text pp. 31–2.Google Scholar
7 At the time of writing the whereabouts of the vase were unknown to Robertson, but it has subsequently been located by Miss Richter in a private collection in Paris and published by her in JHS 1949, 73, fig. 1.
8 The colourful alabastron Dunedin E48. 254 (from the A. B. Cook Collection), representing a youth and a girl at a stele, is modern.