Cf. also an elegant oinochoë with white ground in the British Museum (B 631). On a similar jug at Munich (334 = Brunn-Lau, _Gr. Vasen_, pl. 22) the palmettes are enclosed in heart-shaped borders. For other vases which, like these, have palmettes for their sole decoration, see British Museum, Second Vase Room, Case 28, and Laborde, _Vases de Lamberg_, ii. pl. 41. Footnote 2048: Cf. Riegl, pp. 201–3, and Vol. I. p. 415. Footnote 2049: They are distinguished by German writers as “Blattrosette” and “Punktrosette.” Footnote 2050: Cf. Furtwaengler and Loeschcke, _Myken. Vasen_, pls. 4, 25, 28, 37, 38; _J.H.S._ xxiii. pl. 5 (Crete). Footnote 2051: _E.g._ C 244 in B.M., and Fig. 76 (Vol. I. p. 254). Footnote 2052: See Riegl, _op. cit._ p. 197. He points out that the rosette, although Assyrian in origin, is not here used in a strictly Assyrian fashion. Footnote 2053: _E.g._ B.M. B 51, B 197 ff.: cf. also the Proto-Attic vase, _Ant. Denkm._ i. 57. Footnote 2054: See what has already been said on this subject in Vol. I. Chapter VII. p. 282: cf. also Perrot, _Hist. de l’Art_, vii. p. 165. Footnote 2055: Cf. a similar pattern on the Daphnae situlae (B.M. B 105–6). Footnote 2056: See generally Wilisch, _Altkor. Thonindustrie_, p. 41 ff., for Corinthian ornamentation. Footnote 2057: See on the ornamentation of the former Thiersch, _Tyrrhen. Amphoren_, p. 69 ff.; on the latter Riegl, p. 187. CHAPTER XVII _INSCRIPTIONS ON GREEK VASES_ Importance of inscriptions on vases—Incised inscriptions—Names and prices incised underneath vases—Owners’ names and dedications—Painted inscriptions—Early Greek alphabets—Painted inscriptions on early vases—Corinthian, Ionic, Boeotian, and Chalcidian inscriptions—Inscriptions on Athenian vases—Dialect—Artists’ signatures—Inscriptions relating to the subjects—Exclamations—Καλός-names—The Attic alphabet and orthography—Chronology of Attic inscriptions—South Italian vases with inscriptions.