The Geometrical pottery of Cyprus has already been discussed in its relation to that of Greece (pp. 249, 253)[971]; but there is yet another region which passed through a Geometrical period similar to that of Greece, and that is Etruria (see Chapter XVIII.). It is, however, better illustrated by the metal products of the Villanova period, such as the bronze discs and large cinerary urns, than by the local pottery, which never reached the same level as in Greece; in the former the same combinations of elaborate ornament with rude animals and yet ruder human figures may be witnessed, and it is possible that importations from Greece may have had a share in influencing these products. They cover the period from the tenth to the eighth century B.C. § 2. ATTICA, BOEOTIA, AND MELOS Following on to the Geometrical vases both in chronological and artistic sequence is a small class of Athenian vases, which, more for convenience than with regard to strict accuracy, have been styled =Proto-Attic=. The term has this much of truth in it, that the group may be said to stand at the head of, and in direct relation to, the long series of painted vases produced in the Athenian potteries for some two centuries afterwards. It is only of late years that a sufficient number of these vases has become known for them to be studied as a separate class, and even when Böhlau first drew attention to them, in 1887, only two or three were known. The list up to date is as follows (the order being roughly chronological):— 1. Athens 467 (_Couve’s Amphora Kerameikos _Ath. Mitth._ 1892, pl. Cat._) 10. 2. Berlin 56 Amphora Hymettos _Jahrbuch_, 1887, pl. 5. 3. Athens 468 Hydria Analatos _ibid._ pls. 3, 4. (Phaleron) 4. Athens 464 Lebes Thebes _ibid._ pl. 4. 5. Athens 469 Amphora Pikrodaphni _Bull. de Corr. Hell._ 1893, pls. 2, 3. 6. Athens Mus. Amphora Kynosarges _J.H.S._ xxii. pls. 2–4. 7. Athens 650 Fragment Aegina Benndorf, _Gr. u. Sic._ _Vasenb._ pl. 54. 8. Athens 657 Amphora Kerameikos _Ant. Denkm._ i. pl. 57. 9. Athens 651 Amphora Peiraeus Ἐφ. Ἀρχ. 1897, pl. 5. 10. Berlin 1682 Lebes Aegina _Arch. Zeit._ 1882, pls. 9, 10. 11. B.M. A 535 Lebes Athens Rayet and Collignon, p. 43 = Fig. 87. We may also add to this list Athens 652–664, a vase from Aegina (_Ath. Mitth._ 1897, pl. 8), B.M. A 1531 (_Bull. de Corr. Hell._ 1898, p. 285), and another at Athens (_ibid._ p. 283).