[306] Plan II.
[308] XIII. p. 599, ed. Forbiger.
[309] Certainly not; but they may have served for burning charcoal or incense.—[Ed.]
[310] See the similar example, No. 208, p. 294.
[311] This refers, of course, to Dr. Schliemann’s Atlas of photographic illustrations, of which all the most valuable are reproduced in the present translation in a greatly improved style of execution.—[Ed.]
[312] Æneid, III. 302-305:—
[313] The gramme = 15·43235 grains; or, approximately, 15-1/4 grains. The ounce (avoirdupois) = 437-1/2 grains; and the pound, 16 oz., = 7000 grs.
[314] Dr. Schliemann’s work records several interesting examples of his first impressions on this point, and he appears more often to have mistaken written characters for mere symbols or ornaments than the other way.
[315] Curtius, Die Ionier vor der Wanderung, Berlin, 1855.
[316] Chabas, Études sur l’Antiquité historique, Paris, 1872, p. 190.
[317] Genesis x. 4, 5. The essential letters of the Hebrew name [Illusration: Hebrew] are identical with the Greek ΙΩΝ (Ion), and both are equivalent to the Yavanas, the “younger race” of the old Aryan traditions, who migrated to the West, while the elder branch remained in the East. On the whole subject the Editor may be permitted to refer to the Student’s Ancient History of the East, especially to Chapter XX., on the Nations of Asia Minor, which contains a discussion of the Hellenic affinities of the Phrygians and Trojans in particular.
[318] Brandis, Versuch zur Entzifferung der Kyprioten Schrift, Berlin, 1873. See also the Life of Brandis by Curtius: Johannes Brandis, ein Lebensbild, von Ernst Curtius, 1873.
[320] ‘The Augsburg Gazette’ (Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung), 1874, p. 32.
[321] The whorl on the left hand (the one discussed by Haug and Gomperz) is engraved from M. Burnouf’s more accurate drawing in our lithographed Plate LI., No. 496; the other is given at page 161; but they are repeated here (from Schliemann’s Atlas, Pl. 13, No. 432, Pl. 6, No. 208) in order to exhibit their identity. It is remarkable that these whorls, belonging to an age when writing was already known, are very coarse, both in material and work.
[322] Professor Gomperz gave an interesting and eloquent account of his labours and their results in two papers in the ‘Vienna Evening Post’ (Wiener Abendpost) for May 6th, and June 26th, 1874.
[323] The ‘Academy’ for June 6th, 1874.
[324] From a letter to the Editor, dated Vienna, Dec. 9th, 1874, written in English, as here quoted.
[325] Professor Gomperz adds that his change of opinion was at once communicated to Moritz Schmidt, and published by him in a postscript to his work, ‘Die Inschrift von Idalion und das Kyprische Syllabar.’ It has also been published by Gomperz’s colleague, Professor Conze, in an article on Schliemann’s discoveries in the ‘Preussische Jahrbücher.’
The Academy of November 28th, 1874 (p. 591), quotes from the Nation the following summary of the proceedings at the meeting of the Oriental Society, held in New York at the end of October:—
“One of the most elaborate and interesting of the papers presented was a review and criticism of the Progress of Decipherment of the Cypriote Inscriptions, with original additions, by Mr. J. H. Hall. The latest and best German investigator in this field, Moritz Schmidt, laments that he has not, in trustworthy form, the material from the Di Cesnola collections; this Mr. Hall has undertaken to furnish him.”
We have now a fresh reason to lament the misfortune by which the Di Cesnola collection was lost to our Museum.
[326] See B. Schröder, Die phonicische Sprache; Halle, 1869, p. 2, fol.
[327] Besides the numbers of our own engravings, those of Schliemann’s Atlas are given, as they have been hitherto used for reference in the discussion by Haug, Gomperz, Max Müller, and other scholars.
[328] Identical design, but different material.