Fowler H.N. Archeological News 1905 Jul. Sep.

Archaeological News
Author(s): Harold N. Fowler

Source: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1905), pp. 335-388
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1905
January - July
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS1
NOTES ON RECENT EXCAVATIONS AND
DISCOVERIES; OTHER NEWS
HAROLD N. FOWLER, Editor

lVestern Reserve University, Cleveland, O.
GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY IN TURKESTAN.
-In Rec. Past, IV, 1905 (June), pp. 179-185 (4 figs.), are
by R. PUMPELLY from Explorations in Turkestan (publi
negie Institution), describing the tumuli (Kurgans), th
and in general the field for archaeological research in
pp. 186-188 (fig.), similar abstracts by W. M. DAVIS desc
logical remains in the Tian Shan, Turkestan. These incl
the Kugart terrace, stone circles near Son Kul, old canals n
various monuments in the Issik Kul district.
BURIED CITIES OF CENTRAL ASIA.--In Rec. Past, May, 1905,
pp. 144-1.50 (3 figs.), abstracts from SVEN HEDIN'S Central Asia and Tibet;
Toward the Holy City of Lassa are published, describing the ruins of the
deserted cities of Lop Nov, northeast of Tibet, especially the city of Lou-lan.
The changes in the flow of water left these towns in a desert of drifting
sand. Chinese coins and writings found here belong chiefly to the first
three centuries after Christ. Lou-lan seems to have been destroyed in the
fourth century.
ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN SERVIA. -In Jh. Oesterr. Arch. I.
VIII, 1905, Beilage, cols. 1-24 (2 figs.; many facsimiles o
N. VULI6 publishes the results of archaeological excursi
1904. AMoesia Superior. Praovo: two headless female dr
granite shaft of a column, a simple mosaic, terra-cotta
1 The departments of Archaeological News and Discussions and o
are conducted by Professor FOWLER. Editor-in-charge, assisted by
BUCKINGHAM, Professor HARRY E. BURTON, Mr. HAROLD R. HASTINGS, Professor
ELMER T. MERRILL, Professor FRANK G. MOORE, Mr. CHARLES R. MOREY, Pro-
fessor LEWIS B. PATON, and the Editors, especially Professor MARQUAND.
No attempt is made to include in this number of the JOURNAL material published
after June 30, 1905.
For an explanation of the abbreviations, see pp. 145, 146.
335
336 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY [VOL. IX, 1905
several coins. Cuppae: a tile stamp. Viminacum: eleven more or less

fragmentary dedicatory and funerary inscriptions; thirteen tiles with
stamps, three with drawings, one plain; a lead tessera (insc. Aug. n.); a
sarcophagus, the reliefs of which represent on one end a seated woman, on
the other a horseman, on the long sides nude youths, garlands, and Medusa
heads; several other reliefs and fragmentary sculptures of marble and lime-
stone; a round bronze plaque with relief representing a draped female
figure, two horsemen, several other figures and attributes; two leaden sar-
cophagi; a leaden rod with two bronze caps; and a number of coins.
Municipium (Kaliite): part of a sandstone block with heads in relief; a
bronze thumb; a bronze weight; a hunter's whistle; an antefix with head
in relief; six coins. Kamenac: fragment of inscription. Svilajnac:
altar inscribed . O0.] M I et g[enio] su . . . Timacum Minus (Ravna):
part of inscription from the gravestone of a legionary of legion VII
Claudia; C.I.L. III, 8262; lower part of a small statue of Aphrodite.
Cocev Kamen: small relief representing Mercury. Dalmatia. Stojnik
and its Neighborhood: three inscriptions, one I. O. M. [pr]o salute
[Caes]ar. n., one a gravestone, the third Nvvmohta I OvdXevrt ] -arpOw I vi-
OrlKa I Vla XjdpLv in late letters; a fragmentary relief from a gravestone;
several unimportant lesser objects, and two coins. A small statue of Aphro-
dite (which has been sold and has disappeared) inscribed Xa[2]pe Oca
Kv7rpi1oyevaj KAepla d&eolptat and a terra-cotta lamp are of unknown
provenance.
NECROLOGY. - Eugbne Guillaume. - Eugene Guillaume, a distin-
guished sculptor and writer, Director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Professor
of Aesthetics in the Collage de France, and Director of the French Academy
at Rome, died, March 1, 1905. He was born in 1822. His Eltudes d'Art
Antique et Moderne is a notable book. (Athen. March 4, 1905.)
Wilhelm Gurlitt. - The death, in his sixty-first year, is announced
from Graz of the archaeologist Professor Wilhelm Gurlitt, the Director of
the Steyermark Museum. His most important works were De Tetrapoli
Attica, Alter und Bauzeit des sogenannten Theseion in Athen, Ueber Pau-
sanias, etc. (Athen. February 25, 1905.)
Henri Herluison. - Henri Herluison, born at Orleans in 1835, died at
the same place, March 8, 1905. He was a careful and accurate writer on
local history and French art. (Chron. d. Arts, May 27, 1905.)
Edouard Aristide Houssaye. - One of the founders of the Gazette
des Beaux-Arts (in 1859), founder of the Chron. d. Arts (1861), and
of the Courier de l'Aisne, Idouard Aristide Houssaye, who was born in
1829, died at Grandvilliers, March 14, 1905. (Chron. d. A rts, April 15,
1905.)
August Kalkmann. - Professor August Kalkmann died at Berlin, Feb-
ruary 17, 1905. He was born at Hamburg in 1853. He studied chiefly at
Bonn, under Biicheler, Usener, and Kekule. His writings on the represen-
tations of the legend of Hippolytus, Pausanias the Periegete (1886), the
sources of Pliny's chapters on the history of art, and the proportions of
the face in Greek art (1893) are well known. (Chron. d. Arts, March 11,
1905. See Arch. Anz. 1905, p. 32 f.)
Gustav Ludwig. - The historian of art, Gustav Ludwig, whose labors
have shed much light upon the history of Venetian art and civilization, died
EGYPT] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 337
at Venice, January 16, 1905, fifty-two years of age. He was bo

heim, in Hesse. (Chron. d. Arts, February 18, 1905.)
Alfred Gotthold Meyer.--Professor Alfred Gotthold Meyer
of excellent works on the sculpture of the early Italian rena
Canova, Begas, and Donatello, died at Berlin, December 17, 19
age of forty years. (Chron. d. Arts, January 14, 1905.)
The Marquis de Nadaillac. --Jean-Franqois-Albert, du Pouge
quis de Nadaillac, was born in 1818, and died October 1, 1904. H
distinguished scholar in prehistoric archaeology, ethnology, and
archaeology. His most important publications appeared between
the time of his death. (R. Arch. IV, 1904, p. 418.)
Alois Riegl. - The death, in his forty-eighth year, is annou
Dr. Alois Riegl, Professor of the History of Art at the Unive
Vienna. His studies on the textile fabrics of the East and their influence
on art are of great interest. His most important works are Die spditrii-
mische Kunstindustrie in Oesterreich, Stilfragen, and Das holldndische Gruppen-
portrit. (A then. July 1, 1905.)
Georges Rohault de Fleury.--Georges Rohault de Fleury, born at
Paris in 1835, died at Paris, November 12, 1904. He was a learned, able,
and industrious writer, devoted especially to the study of mediaeval art in
Italy. Among his works are: Les Monuments de Pise au MIoyen-Age (1862),
La Toscane au Moyen-Age (1874), Le Latran (1862), Les Evangiles (1872),
La Sainte Vierge (1878), La Messe (1883-1889), Les Saints de la Messe
(1893-1900). His last work, Gallia dominicana, is unfinished. (R. Arch.
IV, 1904, pp. 419 f.)
Curt Wachsmuth. - The death of Professor Curt Wachsmuth has just
taken place at Leipsic. He was born at Naumburg in 1835. He taught at
the universities of Bonn, Marburg, G6ttingen, Heidelberg, and Leipsic.
Among his best-known works are Die Stadt Athen im Alterthum and Das Alte
Griechenland im Neuen. (Chron. d. Arts, June 17, 1905.)
INDEX TO NOTES IN R. ARCH.--In R. Arch. V, 1905, pp. 139-
143, S. R(EINACH) gives a summary index of the notes, varieties, news,
and correspondence which have appeared in the R. Arch. since 1896, when
the Chroniques d'Orient ceased to be published.
EGYPT
ABUSIR. - German Excavations. - In the Mitteilungen der Deutsc
Orient-Gesellschaft, No. 24, L. BORCHARDT reports his excavations in 19
at Abusir. The chief result was the discovery of the platform, wi
gateway, at the edge of the valley and accessible by boat, connected
the tomb-temple by a covered passage. This shows how the funera
anniversary processions passed from the river to the temple. The py
was originally of brick. Measurements fix the Egyptian ell at 0.525
The outer facing of the pyramid was put in place from the bottomn u
polished from the top down. (Berl. Phil. W. February 4, 1905.)
AKHMIM. - Greek Mummy-labels. - A large collection of mumm
labels obtained at Akhinim is now in the British Museum. These are
scribed by H. R. HALL in S. Bibl. Arch. 1905, pp. 13-20, 48-56, 83-
Mummies were constantly despatched by water to some distant necr
for burial. To them wooden tickets were tied bearing the name of
338 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY [VoL. IX, 1905
deceased, those of his parents, and often the name of the place from which
he had come or to which lhe was going. These tickets, being written both
in Greek and Demotic Egyptian, throw much light upon the pronunciation
of Egyptian in the Roman period. They also show the proportion of
Greeks to Egyptians in the population and the influence of Egyptian re-
ligion upon the Greeks. All the tickets date from the Roman period. The
oldest one belongs to the reign of Trajan. There are a few Christian
mummy-tickets.
ELEPHANTINE. - A Latin Inscription. - In C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905,
pp. 73-75, A. HllRON DE VILLEFOSSE publishes the following inscription
from Elephantine: M. Opellio Antonino I Diadumeniano, nobilissimo I Caesari,
principi iu(v)entutis, I Aug(usti) n(ostri) jilio, sub lulio I Basilianopraef (ecto)
A eg(ypti), coh(ors) iii j Cilicum eq(uitata), curante Furnio Diabone, centurione
leg(ionis) ii Tr(aianae) fort(is). This gives the name of the Prefect of
Egypt in 217 A.D., Julius Basilianus, who became Praefectus Praetorii in
218. The copy of this inscription, with copies of the similar inscriptions,
C.I.L. III, 14147, 1-4, was sent by the Abbd Thidenat.
GIZEH. - The Excavations of the University of California. - In
Rec. Past, May, 1905, pp. 129-141 (11 figs.), the American excavations
1903-04 at Gizeh are described from reports by Dr. G. A. REISNER. In
Wady to the north of the great cemetery mnastabas of the third and fou
dynasties were excavated. They are built of rough stones and mud br
and roofed with barrel vaults. The earliest and lowest are small, isolated
single-burial mastabas, with two, usually simple, offering niches on the val-
ley side. In front of the niches is a small court with a low mud wall. The
later type is similar, but larger, and the sbuthern niche is usually compound.
These mastabas frequently contain more than one burial. In the great
cemetery (fourth to seventh dynasty) many stone mastabas were excavated.
Those of the fourth dynasty are large, filled mastabas, with an external
offering chamber on the valley side. The chapel centres about the southern
niche, and is built on to the finished mastaba. The chapels all show signs
of enlargement and repairs. The pits of all the main mastabas had been
opened. Nevertheless, many interesting sculptures and other objects were
found. The work at various points since 1899 is briefly sketched. (See Am.
J. Arch. 1901, pp. 97, 343; 1905, p. 79.)
New Names of Officials. - In the excavations made last winter near
the pyramids of Gizeh many inscriptions of hitherto unknown offic
the fourth and sixth dynasties were discovered. These are publis
J. F. DENNIS in S. Bibl. A rch. 1905, i, pp. 32-34.
NAUCRATIS.- Investigations in 1903.- What are probably final
excavations at Naucratis, supplementing those of 1899, are reported by
D. G. HOGARTH, H. L. LORIMER, and C. C. EDGAR, in J.H.S. XXV, 1905,
pp. 105-136 (3 pls.; 14 cuts). It now seems clear that the southern part
of the site was occupied, both before and after 570 B.C., chiefly by Egyp-
tians; that the so-called Great Temenos in this quarter was not a walled
enclosure, but a depression surrounded by houses and containing public
buildings; that the north half of the city alone belonged to the Greeks,
and that the Hellenion is to be identified With an enclosed precinct here, in
which many dedications to the Greek gods are found. The painted pottery,
all found in this northern part, proves the presence of Milesian, Samian,
EGYPT] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 339
and probably Clazomenian elements in the population ; and th

ware from late black-figured over the early red-figured indi
commercial relations from the invasion of Cambyses until af
troubles of Greece. The rougher pottery shows the import
modities in jars from Cyprus and Phoenicia, and probably act
from those countries. The manufacture here of scarabs and o
faience and of Greek terra-cottas is certain. Small objects
symbolic Isis figures intetided to provide wives for the de
world, like the marble idols of the Cyclades, show mixed infl
Egyptian. The appropriation of the site to the Greeks by A
B.C. seems to have been rather a reorganization than a beginn
settlement here. The town still appeared as a place of impo
third, fourth, and sixth centuries after Christ, relapsing int
at about the tenth century. Probably the Nile stream, not
passed the site.
OXYRHYNCHUS.- New Papyri. -In the Biblical World, March,
1905, pp. 228-232, E. J. GOODSPEED gives an account of the most important
of the papyri lately discovered at Oxyrhynchus and published by Grenfe
and Hunt in Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV, 1904. One of these is a roll contain-
ing about one-third of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Others are fragment
of the Septuagint, a portion of an apocryphal gospel, and a certificate from
the time of Decius's persecution, stating that a certain person has performed
the required sacrifices to the gods.
TELL EL-HERR. - A Jewish Coin. - At Tell el-Herr, between the
Suez canal and Faramna, excavations have been begun under the direction
of M. Cldat. Monuments of Saite times will certainly be found. Late
Greek inscriptions have come to light. A coin with the Hebrew inscription,
" Year IV of the Independence of Zion," shows that a Jewish settlement
existed here, probably Magdolum (Migdol). The probable date of the coin
is the period of the Hasmonian Maccabees. (CLERMONT-GANNEAU, C. R.
A cad. Insc. 1905, pp. 55 f.)
THEBES. - Tomb of Yua and Thua.- In the Valley of the Tombs
of the Kings, at Thebes, Mr. Theodore M. Davis found, on February 12,
1905, the tomb of Yua and Thua, parents of Queen Teie, wife of Amen-
hotep III. They were not of noble birth, and were apparently of foreign
origin. The tomb was apparently entered by robbers soon after its com-
pletion, but they were frightened away and left the riches of the tomb
almost undisturbed. The chamber is about 30 feet long, 15 feet wide, and
8 feet high. Near the entrance were two wooden sarcophagi, painted black
and gold. Within were double mummy cases, both plated outside with
gold. The inside of the outer case was of silver, of the inner case gold.
Among other objects in the tomb were jars of wine or oil, boxes of pro-
visions, a chariot richly painted and encrusted with gold, four fine canopic
jars and two other vases of alabaster, numerous boxes containing ushabti
figures, two of which were of gold and two of silver, two wands of office,
and three chairs. The ostentatious display of wealth in this tomb is most
remarkable. The Pharaoh is even represented as seated upon the symbol of
" gold," and the goddess Isis, at the foot of Thua's coffin, is pictured in the
same position. This discovery is of exceptional importance. It adds to
our knowledge of Egyptian life under the eighteenth dynasty and of Egyp-
tian artistic taste and skill. (Correspondence in London Times, weekly edi-
tion, March 17, 1905; New York Eiening Post, March 25; ELEANOR .11.
FERGUSON, Nation, May 16, 1905; Rec. Past, May, 1905, pp. 141-144.)
LAST SEASON'S WORK. - A summary of the results of last year's
archaeological research in Egypt is given by J. H. BREASTED in the Biblical
World, January, 1905, pp. 66-69.
BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

ASSUR. - Inscriptions and Sculptures. - In the Mitteilungen der
Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, No. 25, are reports by W. ANDRAES, on the
excavations at Assur (figs.). Inscriptions prove the identity of ITitar and
Ninmah and show that temple A was that of the god of Assur, Eharsagkur-
kurra. An inscription of twenty-nine lines contains royal names and
architectural terms. Many graves were found. Clay tablets were found in
jars. The graves with brick walls are certainly Assyrian. A cylinder
found in September, 1904, with old Babylonian inscription, gives the names
of eight rulers, six at least of whom were unknown. The building in which
the excavations are conducted belonged to the palace of Salmanassar I.
(Berl. Phil. W. February 4, 1905.) A brief account of the excavations is
given by F. DELITZSCH, Beilage zur Miinch. Allgem. Zeitung, 1905, No. 49.
BABYLON. - Results of the German Excavations.- A brief de-
scription of ancient Babylon, so far as it has been made kn
German explorers, is given in Der alte Orient, 1904, iv, by H. W
This includes a brief historical sketch of early explorations, a d
the ruins and an account of the city walls, gates, palaces, tem
canals, trenches, and quarters of the city in the light of the
exploration.
NIPPUR. - A Topographical Map. - On a tablet found by D
at Nippur, and now in the Free Museum at Philadelphia, is
topographical map, giving the positions and names of eight o
It is published in the Transactions of the Free Museum of Scien
University of Pennsylvania, I, iii, 1905, pp. 223-225 (pl.; 2 fig
CLAY, who assigns it to the second millennium B.C.
SENKEREH. - The Ruins of Ancient Larsa. - In the Biblical World,
May, 1905, pp. 389-392, E. J. BANKS describes the site of ancient Larsa.
The ruins are almost circular in shape, and are not far from a mile in
diameter. The main features are two large hills. On the summit of the
north hill, about 18 m. above the plain, the walls of the temple of the sun-
god Shamash still remain as Loftus left them fifty years ago. A little to
the north are the ruins of a fallen ziggurat. Everywhere are thousands of
shapeless holes dug by the neighboring Arabs in their search for antiquities.
Of all the ruins in Babylonia it is the most promising.
SUSA. - The Temple of Susinak. - In Harper's Monthly M agqazine,
May, 1905, pp. 875-884 (17 figs.), is a popular account by J. DE MORGAN Of
the discoveries at the temple of Susinak, at Susa. The date of the original
foundation is very remote. Spoils brought from Babylonia about 2280 B.c.
and many later objects were found, which had not been removed when
Assurbanipal sacked the city about 640 B.c. The bricks of a column bear
the name of King Shutruk-Nankhundi, of the twelfth century B.C. Beneath
the pavement of the twelfth century were rich foundation deposits, some of
SYRIA] ARCHIAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 341
the objects found being clearly much earlier than the pavem
give a high idea of the art of Susiana long before the twelfth cen
TELLO. --Discoveries of Captain Cros. - The French ex
under Captain Cros has determined the entire plan of the ancient
its walls, gates, and port connected with the river by a canal. For
time an ancient Babylonian necropolis has been discovered and
Many antiquities have been found, among them a statuette in b
bearing the name of a king of Ur, Sou-mou-ilou, who reigned
twenty-second century B.C. The statuette represents a great hu
(L. HEUZEY, C. R. Acad. Insc. 1905, pp. 75 f.)
WARKA. - The Ruins of Erech. - In the Biblical World, April
E. J. BANKS describes the site of ancient Erech. The ruins are
a canal into two unequal parts. The mounds cover an area six
circumference. To excavate it thoroughly would be an enormou
probably no ruin in Babylon conceals a greater number of an
The ruin is public land. There are no tombs or buildings upon it and
water is abundant. The principal difficulty would be the hostility of the
neighboring Arabs.
MOST RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.-In Am.
Ant. January, 1905, J. OFFORD describes the statue o

discusses the most recent books on Babylonian archaeolo
tablet of Tukultininib I recently acquired by the Britis
an account of the most recent discoveries made by the
Susa. Nearly all the important objects found are trophie
Babylon by the Elamites. One of the latest discoveries
life-size statue of Napir-asu, wife of King Untashgal, w
about 1600 B.C. A number of bronze doorsteps have al
prove the high antiquity of the art of casting bronz
given of the Assyrian tablet discovered by Mr. Macalist
SYRIA AND PALESTINE

LATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.- A summary of
the discoveries made at Tell el-Hesy, Gezer, Taanach, and Megiddo as illus-
trative of life in Canaan before the coming of the Hebrews, is made by
A. H. SAYCE in the .Biblical World, February, 1905, pp. 125-133. Special
emphasis is laid upon the cuneiform tablets discovered, and the expectation
is expressed that still more extensive finds of the same sort will be made.
'ABDEH. - Rock-hewn Tombs. - A description of the Nabataean
tombs of 'Abdeh in the Negeb, which for the most part have been turned
into dwelling-houses, is given by Fathers JANSENN, SAUGAUE, and VINCENT
in R. Bibl. January, 1905.
AMWAS. - Recent Excavations. - A discussion of the explorations
that have been carried on by the Dominicans at Amwas, and of the question
of the identification of Amwas with Emmaus, is given by Pbre VINCENT in
R. Bibl. XII, iv.
BYBLUS. - A Statue of Poseidon. - In R. A rch. V, 1905, pp. 55-56,
L. JALABERT publishes a large marble statue of the type of the Poseidon of
Cherchel (Reinach, Rev. de la Statuaire, II, 30, 3), found at Byblus, in
1903, and now in the museum at Constantinople. The head is fine and
majestic, the rest of the statue is ordinary.
GEZER. - Excavation of the Mound. - The most important object

found last summer was a cuneiform tablet dated in the year after the
eponymate of As~ur-dura-usur, 649 B.C. Its discovery in a stratum con-
temporary with the Hebrew monarchy is described by Mr. MACALISTER in
the Quarterly Statement of the Pal. Ex. Fund, July, 1904, where it is also
presented in photograph, transcription, transliteration, and translation by
Mr. PINCHES, and is commented on by Professors SAYCE and JOHNS. The
document is a deed of sale of an estate with buildings and slaves. It is
very similar to contract tablets found at Nineveh. Mr. MACALISTER gives
a fuller account of the finding in the October Quarterly Statement, pp. 355-
357. Gezer was evidently occupied by an Assyrian garrison during the
reign of AA'urbanipal, and this tablet is a relic of this occupation. Ibid.,
pp. 320-354, MACALISTER describes his investigation of the necropolis of
Gezer. Tombs of all periods have been found from the earliest to the latest
occupation. The Canaanite tombs consist of one small chamber at the bot-
torn of a vertical shaft. Later Semitic tombs are caverns entered by a hole
in the roof. Maccabaean tombs have all vertical doors cut in the side of the
tomb. In these the receptacles for the dead are koklim, or narrow shaft
running at right angles to the walls. After decomposition of the bodies
the bones were removed from the kokim and placed in ossuaries. Christian
tombs differ front Maccabaean in the substitution of arcosolia for kok/im.
Food and drink deposits cease in the Maccabaean and Christian periods
and glass vessels for perfumes and cosmetics take their place. The fines
specimens of glass belong to the Christian period. In the Quarterly State
ment, January, 1905, pp. 16-33, and April, 1905, pp. 97-115, MACALISTE
describes his excavations on the western peak of the mound of Gezer. A
paved causeway entering the city and a fortress filling a breach in the ol
city walls have been uncovered. This fortress belongs to the Maccabaean
period, and is identified by the discoverer with the stronghold built by
Simon after his capture of Gezer (1 Mac. xiii). This theory is supporte
by the discovery of a Greek graffito reading "Pampra(s), may he bring
down f(ire ?) oni the palace of Simon."
is JERASH. -.The
a description Ruins.
of the - In of
remains Rec.
thePast. IV, Gerasa,
ancient 1905, pp. 35-47
taken (10a figs.)
from forth
coming book, The Jordan Valley and Petra, by WILLIAM LIBBEY (G. P
Putnam's Sons, New York). The extent and splendor of the remains,
which are hardly, if at all, inferior to those of Baalbec or Palmyra, are
evident.
JERUSALEM. - The High-level Aqueduct. - In the Quarterly State-

ment of the Pal. Ex. Fund, January, 1905, p. 75, Sir C. W. WILSON describes
sections of a stone syphon bearing centurial intscriptions recenttly found by
Mr. Dickson near Rachel's Tomb. These, like similar sections previously dis-
covered near Jerusalem, evidently belong to the so-called High-level Aque-
duct. This was constructed by Greek engineers to furnish water for Herod's
palace, and the inscriptions date from a time when the aqueduct was repaired
by Roman legionaries after the destruction of the city and the occupation
of the west hill by a Roman camp.
MOAB.- The Roman Road between Kerak and Madeba. - In the
Quarterly Statement of the Pal. Ex. Fund, October, 1904, a
April, 1905, G. A. SMITH describes an exploring trip made
SYRIA] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 343
spring of 1904. The articles contain a number of geographical an

cal items supplementary to Briinnow's Die Provincia Arabia.
PALMYRA. - Inscriptions. - A new and complete collection of the
inscriptions in the temples of Palmyra was made by Puchstein in 1902.
These are published in facsimile, transcription, and translation, with an
account of their locations, by M. SOBERNHEIM in Mitth. Vorderas. Ges.
1905, ii. In J. Am. Or. S. XXV, pp. 314-319, photographs and translations
of three Palmyrene tablets are given by H. H. SPOER. The first is a tomb
inscription; the second is a Greek votive tablet; and the third a Palmyrene
votive tablet.
Si.--Work of the Princeton Expedition. - The Princeton expedition

to Syria investigated the temple of Ba'al Shamin at Si' in December, 1904.
This had a nearly square inner shrine, within which four columns apparently
once stood to support the roof. This inner shrine was surrounded by a
passage, 4 m. wide, between it and the outer wall. The pasgage was prob-
ably roofed with slabs of stone. A colonnaded court to the east is referred
to in an inscription as the "theatron." The entrance to this was through
an ornamented gate of pre-Roman style, on the axis of the porch of the
temple. At the southwest angle of the middle court the lower parts of a
temple facing north, of the same style as the main temple, were found. It
measures 14 m. across the facade. All the details of the superstructure were
found. The temple on the highest terrace, perhaps later than the temple of
Ba'al Shamin, but still pre-Roman, is prostyle tetrastyle in plan. A Roman
bath was found. Many houses were found to be pre-Roman. The gates
and the necropolis were examined. (H. C. BUTLER, R. Arch. V, 1905, pp.
404-409.) Sixteen inscriptions, one Greek and Nabataean, four Nabataean,
the rest Greek, are published by E. LITTMANN (ibid. pp. 409-412). They
are for the most part fragmentary building inscriptions and dedications.
SIDON. - Excavations in the Temple of Eshmun.--In Mitth. Vorderas.
Ges. 1905, i, W. voN LANDAU gives a preliminary account of the excavations
carried on at Sidon during July, August, and September, 1904. The founda-
tions of the temple of Eshmun have been laid bare, and the principal dis-
covery has been nine inscriptions of King Bod-Ashtart parallel to the broken
inscription preserved in the museum of the American College at Beirut.
By means of this find the text of this standard inscription is completely
restored, and it is proved that wa before ben in the first line is not a textual
error. This fact creates great difficulty in the translation. Von Landau
proposes to translate " King Bod-Ashtart and his son Sadiq-yatan." Ac-
cording to this, Sadiq-yatan would be the son of Bod-Ashtart, not his father,
as was previously supposed. Another account of these excavations at Sidon
by MIAKRIDY BEY is found in R. Bibl. 1904, III.
Inscribed Glasses. - In B. Soc. A nt. Fr. 1904, pp. 277-280, A. H',noN
DE VILLEFOSSE describes some glass goblets from Saida with the inscription
Aafle r'Tv vqEKnv. The N of rrv is reversed. Similar instances of single
reversed letters, which may have served as trademarks, are mentioned.
TELL EL-MUTESELLIM. - Excavations in the Spring of 1904.-
In Mitth. d. Pal. V. 1905, i, ii, G. SCHUMACHER describes the excavations
of the German Palestine Exploration Society at the ancient Megiddo. A
Roman camp has been discovered on the top of one of the hills and an
ancient Canaanitish fortress in the principal mound. This citadel is similar
to that at Zenjirli and is probably one of the structures called "Hilani" by

the Assyrians. The pottery and bronze implements indicate a date between
2500 and 2000 B.C. Beneath the foundations was found the skeleton of a
fifteen-year-old girl who had evidently been slain as a foundation sacrif
Outside of the walls two other skeletons were found that seem to have been
offered as sacrifices after the completion of the citadel. A menhir was found
that was used as an altar, and a trench near by was filled with remains of
sacrifices. Both the altar and the stones enclosing the trench were built
of unhewn stone. Near the altar stood a huge stone bowl and an immense
clay caldron that apparently was used for cooking the sacrificial meat.
Cisterns for oil, apparently used in connection with the sacrifices, were also
found near by, and a number of standing stones. The city wall has been
laid bare for part of its course. It was built of sun-dried bricks and had a
thickness of 8.60 m. The old high place outside of the city was discovered,
the stones of which had been cast down by some reformer. A number of
crude figures in the so-called snow-man technique have been found and two
upright posts set in stone bases that probably correspond with the Asherabs
of the Old Testament. Nothing has been found so far in the main mound
that is later than the sixth century B.C. The city was probably unoccupied
after that date.
(A summary by Sir C. W. WILSON is given in Pal. Ex. Fund, January,
1905.)
ASIA MINOR
AGHATCHA-KALE. - A Greek and Aramaic Inscription. - In
C. R. Acad. Insc. 1905, pp. 93-104 (fig.), F. CUMONT publishes a bi-ling
inscription found at Aghatcha-Kald, in Turkish Armenia, by M. Grena
French consul at Sivas, in 1900. The Greek text reads: 'AOdva[
lLVw,'iEa I 7rap" EcV[O]E/E'Lots Ia pa- 'rltv cKErie'aL 'OpopavrLt T)E'r AptoiK
Kat 'Aptoov' L W V (PIXo vt . O) VEKE [ElV pav 8oipjI^v 'KrtUr[a], Xepo-aa I Xa
(T ?]yOvr TE Ka O[v^ 6tILX Tc' Xrc . The text is stoichedon. The names
evidently Persian. The date is the third century B.c.; this is then th
earliest Greek inscription found east of the Halys. The translation propo
is " These immortal monuments shall belong to the legitimate (or equitab
satraps Oromanes, son of Arioukes, and his dear son Arioukes. Theref
in building a sanctuary I founded it in a desert place which I have occupi
and I built the sumptuous walls of a fine sepulchre." In Berl. Phil. W
June 24, 1905, H. SCHENKL discusses the meaning. He believes that th
inscription records the gratitude of some one to the two satraps for allow
him to settle and build his house. Arioukes may be the same name as t
read 'Apro'Xac in Xenophon, Anab. iv, 3, 4, and possibly shows the survi
of the same family for two centuries.
APHRODISIAS. - Buildings and Sculptures. - In C. R. A cad. Insc.
1904, pp. 703-711 (5 pls.), M. COLLIGNON describes the excavations con-
ducted August 5 to September 15 by Mr. Paul Gaudin, at Aphrodisias, in
Mysia. The city walls, of late construction, have been examined and the
three chief gates uncovered. In the temple the excavations have as yet not
gone below the Byzantine level. In its neighborhood the second propylaea,
with columns and fragments of a rich frieze adorned with cupids on horse-
back, hunting scenes, etc., have been uncovered. The building near the
agora, called by Texier a basilica, proves to be a bath of Roman date. The
ASIA MINOR] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 345
sculptured adornment was extremely rich and magnificent, resembling th

of the temple at Didyma. The human figures introduced into the architec-
tural members are very striking. At the gymnasium a fountain was found
with reliefs representing the battle of the gods and giants. The influenc
of the great altar at Pergamon is evident. Fragments of another gigan-
tomachy and many other remains of sculpture have already come to light.
ARISSAMA. - Hittite Inscriptions. - Professors Ramsay and Cal-
lander have lately discovered a Hittite city at Arissama which is probably
the Ardistama of classical geography. Here three Hittite inscriptions were
discovered. These are published with attempted translation and commen-
tary by A. H. SAYCE in S. Bibl. Arch. 1905, pp. 21-31, 43-47.
COS. --Excavations. - A report by R. HERzo on the final work at
the Asclepieum (1904) is published in Arch. Anz. 1905, pp. 1-15 (7 figs.),
with a brief history of the place. The oldest, perhaps pre-Hellenic, shrine,
that of Apollo, was on the irregular middle terrace, below the sacred grove
of cypresses and above the healing springs. A Doric temple of poros, of the
sixth century, can be traced here. Asclepius was established in possession
by Thessalian immigranlts. The great temple was built in the grove on the
upper terrace in the third century n.c., and the third or lowest terrace was
occupied as a " Kurplatz." The magnificent porticoes and rows of chambers
that surrounded these two terraces, the great retaining walls and flights of
steps and the fountains, were built at various times. Much of the splendor
was due to Xenophon, the physician and murderer of the Emperor Claudius,
and still other renovations belong to late imperial times. The great Roman
baths below the lowest terrace belong to this period, and also the rows of
basement rooms opening on this lowest level, which contain somne pleasing
wall-paintings. There was a monumental propylaeum at the entrance to
the lowest terrace, but there are no great festival buildings, theatre, stadium,
etc., as at Epidaurus, because the city itself was near enough to supply all
those needs. Limekilns and later building have consumed most of the
architectural members and sculptures, but enough remains to determine
the style of most of the buildings and to reconstruct the great temple, which
was Doric, and its surrounding porticoes, which were Doric with semi-Ionic
shafts. Some fine bits of sculpture have also survived, among them a colos-
sal helmeted head, perhaps an idealized Alexander. Terra-cottas, lamps,
handles, and other small objects, especially coins, are not lacking, and the
inscriptions are of great importance. There are about a hundred, beginning
with a fifth-century stoichedon record of the sacred law. The system of
medicine seems to have been genuinely scientific, without the miraculous
character usual in such places. The sources of the waters of the Asclepieum
have not been ascertained. The place continued to be used as a health
resort after the pagan worship was superseded by Christianity, but was
finally abandoned in the earthquake of 554 A.D. The great hall of the
Roman baths has now been fitted up as a museum, and an adjoining build-
ing as a house for the guardian. The fountain of Burinna, the oldest
building on the island, was also explored, and in connection with the for-
tress of the Knights of St. John at Cos, their fine Gothic castle at Budrum
(Halicarnassus), the citadel at Ialysus, and such of their buildings in the
city of Rhodes as are not used for barracks or prison were thoroughly
studied.
EPHESUS. - Inscriptions of Physicians. - In Jh. Oesterr. Arch. I.

VIII, 1905, pp. 128-138, J. KEIL publishes (facsimiles) nine inscriptions
found in the "double church" at Ephesus. They record victories in con-
tests of physicians. Evidently the physicians had an association connected
with the temple of Asclepius and with a museum (ol d'7rb o0 Movrcdov
larpol). The contests were in XrEpovpyta (surgery), 'pyava (invention and
perfecting of instruments), o-'vrayFua (probably the composition of a medical
treatise or book), and 7rp6dXrjpla (the solution of some problem especially
proposed). Probably the prizes were awarded for the best work done dur-
ing the year. The title jpXtarpd,, which occurs in these inscriptions, desig-
nates physicians publicly appointed, not simply physicians of distinguished
excellence. The date of the inscriptions is probably not very far from
200 A.D.
LINDUS. -Danish Excavations.- A short notice of the Danish ex-
cavations at Lindus is given by HILLER VON GARTRINGEN in
1904, pp. 208-214 (6 figs.). The most important finds so far are t
tions. Through artist inscriptions dated by the priests of Ath
and parts of a list of these priests, many questions of chronol
illuminated, among them that of the Laocoon, and that of Boet
of the Boy with the Goose. A sacred history of the temple of
gins with legendary names and comes down to historic person
tions of native historiographers. This composition is uncommonly
Athenian influence. Within the court of the citadel, which has s
Knights of St. John and the Turks as well, is the monument
hero who is represented standing on the prow of a ship, like the
Sanmothrace. In the same place a certain priest of Athena, of l
times, has writ himself down an ass, all over the walls. The arch
the acropolis shows marked Athenian influence.
PAPHLAGONIA. - Prehistoric Monuments. - During his travels in
Paphlagonia, R. LEONHARD has studied especially the rock monuments in
the mountains of that country. On a height of 1900 m. is one which re-
sembles Mycenaean beehive tombs, and the same analogy is suggested for
the richly sculptured fa;ade of one of the numerous tombs cut horizontally
into the rock. These cavelike rooms, many of which are on almost inac-
cessible heights, may be connected with the worship of Cybele, the hole-
divinity, whom Leonhard considers especially a goddess of the earthquake.
(January meeting of Berlin Arch. Gesellsch. Arch. Anz. 1905, p. 31.)
PERGAMON.- Excavations in 1904. - Excavations were conducted
in 1901 during September, October, and November. Between
agora and the gymnasium, on the southern slope of the hill,
unknown purpose and a large Greek dwelling-house were fou
the latter that the Hermes of Alcamenes came to light. A h
bore the inscription: "ArrakXoa oTro rTqviES OEJv rravv7rEtpoxo
ptafwv v7raTog 7rpoo-rroXo Eo'rtL Oea's, showing that the lost bronz
sented a Roman consul Attalus who had set up a statue of
house evidently belonged to an important family. The chief
the gymnasium. The excavation of the middle terrace was c
that of the great upper terrace begun. Many inscriptions we
a few statues and reliefs, besides countless fragments. A long s
passage (200 m. x over 6 m.), utlder the southern portico of the
GREECE] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 347
gymnasium, contained many objects. The excavation of the en

sium will require two more seasons. The substructure of the
was cleared of ddbris, and the scene-building of the theatre
examined. The existence of a wooden proscenium in the first
periods of the theatre was proved. In the second period the
was of stone, in Doric style. Later the form familiar in other
atres in Asia was introduced. At Pascha Lydscha (some nine m
east of Pergamon) several rooms of a Roman bath, containi
and incrusted walls, have been uncovered. Prehistoric sherds an
walls have come to light on a hill near the citadel of Teuth
Athen. Mitt. XXIX, 1904, pp. 386-389.) At the March meeti
Berlin Arch. Gesellsch. A. CONZE gave a sketch of the excav
the beginning. (Arch. Anz. 1905, pp. 33-34.)
GREECE
ARGOS. - Temple of Pythaean Apollo. - In C. R. Acad. Insc. 1905,
pp. 10-11, W. VOLLGRAFF briefly describes his excavations at the site of the
temple of Pythaean Apollo and Athena Oxyderkes, on the southwest slope
of the Aspis, at Argos. The temples have disappeared entirely, save some
fragments that are built into later walls. But their positions, on terraces
connected by steps, are approximately ascertained. A rectangular building,
of brick, with stone foundation, apparently of the fourth century B.C.,
may be the manteion of Apollo. A stele of the second century B.C. bears
the text of an oracle commanding the Messenians to sacrifice to the Great
Gods and to celebrate the mysteries; a stele of the fourth century B.C. bears
a dedication to Leto; three small altars bear the names of Aphrodite,
Demeter Pylaea, and Zeus Panoptas. In the plain, west of the church of
St. Constantine, a large Roman mosaic, surrounded by walls and colon-
nades, has been found. This may be the site of the gymnasium of
Cylarabis.
ATHENS. - The Archaeological Congress. - The first archaeological
congress met at Athens, April 7-13, 1905. A full report is given by G.
RADET, R. J.t. A nc. VII, 1905, pp. 197-218 (see also L. DYER, in The Na.
tion, May 4 and 11, 1905; Miss H. A. BOYD, in llapOevWv, Boston, June 3,
1905). The congress was divided into seven sections, each with three presi-
dents: I. CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Max. Collignon, Carl Robert, Percy
Gardi~er; II. PREHISTORIC AND ORIENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, G. Maspero, A.
Furtwlingler, Arthur J. Evans; III. EXCAVATIONS AND MUSEUMS, PRES-
ERVATION OF MONUMENTS, Charles Waldstein, Cecil Smith, Oscar Monte-
lius; IV. EPIGRAPHY AND NUMISMATICS, U. v. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff,
L. Milani, E. Babelon; V. GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY, L. Pigorini,
Bruno Keil, G. Radet; VI. BYZANTINE ARCHAEOLOGY, Th. Ouspensky,
0. Marucchi, J. Strzygowsky; VII. TEACHING OF ARCHAEOLOGY, A. Conze,
J. R. Wheeler, Fr. v. Duhn. Four additional presidents were J. P. Mahaffy,
E. v. Stein, E. Reisch, and J. Hampel.
The inaugural meeting was held in the Parthenon, in the afternoon of
April 7, Prince Constantine presiding, in the presence of King George and
the royal family. Addresses were delivered by Prince Constantine, Mr.
Carapanos, Mr. Cavvadias, and the directors of the foreign archaeological
schools. Saturday morning, April 8, the congress was formally opened in
the great hall of the University, in presence of the royal family, the crown
prince presiding. Addresses were delivered by the rector of the University,
Mr. Spyr. Lambros, by Mr. M. Collignon, in the name of the foreign insti.
tutions and learned bodies, and by Mr. P. Gardner, in the name of the uni-
versities of Europe and America. The papers read before the various sections
were as follows:
I. CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.- Saturday, April 8, evening: (1) W.
D6)RPFELD, 'Incineration and Inhumation of the Dead in Ancient Greece';
(2) TH. HOMOLLE, 'The Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi'; (3) P.
CAVVADIAS, 'The Temple of Apollo at Phigaleia.' -Monday, April 10,
morning: (1) M. COLLIGNON, 'An Attic Lecythus in the Louvre with
Polychroine Paintings'; (2) D. PHILIOS, 'On the Apoxyomenos of Poly-
clitus'; (3) C. WALDSTEIN, ' Alcamenes, Paeonius, and Phidias; Pediment
Sculptures of Olympia and of the Parthenon'; (4) C. JORGENSEN, 'On a
New Arrangement of the Figures of the Western Pediment at Olympia.'
Evening: (1) R. HEBERDEY, 'Ancient Library Buildings'; (2) N. BA-
LANOS, 'Remarks on the Construction of the Parthenon and the Erech-
theurn'; (3) A. L. FROTHINGHAM, JR.,' The Real Meaning of the Roman
Commemorative Monuments called Arches of Triumph.' - Tuesday, April
11, morning: (1) V. STAlS, ' Chronological Classification of the Antiquities
from Anticythera'; (2) IM. CLERC. 'The Stelae from Marseilles in the
Musde Bordly'; (3) 0. MARUCCHI, 'On Some Recent Acquisitions of the
Vatican Museum, especially an Attic Stele of the First Half of the Fifth
Century, found at Rome and Representing an Athlete'; (4) A. S. ARVANI-
TOPOULOS, 'OOn Replicas of the Ganymedes of Leochares at Athens and
Tegea; Copies of the Satyr of Praxiteles and the Apollo Sauroctonus Found
in Arcadia.' Evening: (1) SP. LAMBROS, ' The Stele of an Orthographer';
(2) H. SCHRADER, ' The Frieze of the Cella of the Old Temple of Athena';
(3) R. HEuIZOG, 'On a Head Found at the Asclepieum at Cos in 1904.'
Remarks by C. ROBERT; (4) J. E. HARRISON, ' On the E at Delphi.'--
Wednesday, April 12, morning: (1) L. DYER, ' The Olympian Treasuries,
as Related to Participation in Religious and Festal Rites by the Peoples
Founding Them'; (2) O. DE BASINER, ' Ancient Representations of Deities
of Childbirth'; (3) G. BYZANTINOS, ' Votive Offerings in Ancient Sanctu-
aries'; (4) J. DRAGATSIS, 'The Tomb of Themistocles.' Evening: (1)
G. BALDWIN BROWN, ' Greek Drapery'; (2) C. MITSOPOULOS, 'Mineralogy
among the Greeks'; (3) M. TCHAKYROGLOU, 'Realism in Greek Terra-
cottas'; (4) J. DRAGATSIS, ' On the Pyramidal Stones called Anchots.'
II. PREHISTORIC AND ORIENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY. -Monday, April 10,
morning: (1) Professor LISSAUER, ' The Double Axes of the Bronze Age
in Western Europe'; (2) CHR. TSOUNTAS, 'Excavations at Dimini and
Sesklo.' Evening: (1) 0. MONTELIUS, 'IThe Mycenaean Age'; (2) A. J.
EVANS, 'System of Classification of the Successive Epochs of the Minoan
Civilization'; (3) W. DORPFELD, 'Cretan, Mycenaean, and Homeric Pal-
aces.'- Tuesday, April 11, morning: (1) O. MONTELIUS, ' The Etruscans';
(2) CHR. TSOUNTAS, 'The Tombs of Thessaly'; (3) V. STAIS, ' Remarks
on Funerary Ornaments Found in the Tombs of the Acropolis at Mycenae.'
Evening: (1) L. A. MILANI, 'The Bible before Babel and the Liturgy of
the Pre-Hellenes'; (2) F. v. BISSING,' The History of the Development of
Egyptian Sculpture'; (3) W. SCHMIDT, 'The Chronology of Egyptian
Objects Found in Countries Inhabited by the Greeks'; (4) CLON

PHANOS, 'Pre-Mycenaean Tombs at Naxos and Anthropological T
the Aegean Times.'-- Wednesday, April 12, morning: (1) Mi
BOYD,' The Pottery of Gournia, Vasiliki and other Prehistoric Site
Isthmus of Hierapetra (Crete)'; (2) C. ZENGHELIS, 'The Bronz
Prehistoric Epoch'; (3) (G. SOTERIADIS,' Remarks on Prehistoric
ments inl Boeotia'; (4) L. SAVIGNONI,' On Cretan Ossuaries.' Eve
TH. SKOUPHOS, 'Palaeontological Excavations at Megalopolis and
in Relation to the Existence of Man.'
III. EXCAVATIONS AND ARUSEUMS, PRESERVATION OF MONUMENTS. -
Saturday, April 8, evening: (1) A. FURTWANGLER, ' Details of the Excava-
tions at Aegina'; (2) W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, ' A Temple of Semitic Type
at Sarabit-el-Khadem.' --Monday, April 10, evening: (1) CECIL SMITH,
' Some Suggestions for International Museum Cooperation'; (2) W. M.
FLINDERS PETRIE,' The Necessity of an International Exchange of Copies
of Antiquities of Precious Metals'; (3) R. HERZOG,' The Excavations at
the Asclepieum of Cos'; (4) A. FURTWAiNGLER, ' The Excavations at Ae-
gina (continued), with a New Reconstruction of the Pediment Groups.'
Discussion of the question,' How can Excavations and Museums be made
Useful?'- Tuesday, April 11, morning: (1) TH. WIEGAND, ' Methods of
Excavation and of Preservation of Excavated Monuments'; (2) P. CAV-
VADIAS, ' Measures for the Preservation of the Western Frieze of the
Parthenon'; (3) 0. ROUSSOPOULOs, 'The Cleansing and Preservation of
Antiquities.' Evening: (1) F. HILLER V. GXRTRINGEN, 'Excavations at
Thera'; (2) C. COUROUNIOTES, 'Excavations of the Hippodrome of the
Lyceum'; (3) C. RADOS, ' Submarine Excavations and the Fragments of a
Bronze Instrument from Anticythera'; (4) H. A. METAXA,' Restoration of
the Stadium at Athens.'
IV. EPIGRAPHY AND NUMISMATICS.- Saturday, April 8, evening:
(1) E. BABELON, ' The Origins and First Transformations of the Type
of Athena on Athenian Coins'; (2) TH. REINACH, ' An Unique Coin of Do-
dona.'-- Monday, April 10, morning: (1) J. DE VASCONCELLOS, ' Religious
Significance, in Lusitania, of Certain Pierced Coins'; (2) Rev. JALABERT,
' Collection of Greek and Latin Inscriptions in Syria.' Evening: (1) J. P.
AIAHAFFY, 'Observations on the Greek Texts found in Wrappings of
Coffins in the Fayum of the Ptolemaic Period'; (2) A. KERAMOPOULOS,
' A Delphic Law' (B.C.H. XXIII, 1899, p. 611); (3) B. APOSTOLIDES,
'Asiatic Origin of Prehellenic Inscriptions of Lemnos'; (4) P. JOUGUET,
' On a Papyrus found at Medinet Gh6ran.'- Wednesday, April 12, morn-
ing: (1) E. KORNEMANN,' Remarks on the Number of Beitrdge zur Alten
Geschichte containing Rostovtsew's " Rdmische Blei-Tesserae"'; (2) SP.
VASSIS, ' Leges Valeriae de Provocatione'; (3) A. CHRESTOMANOS, 'The
Chemical Composition of Certain Silver Coins'; (4) E. PHOTIADIS, 'The
Annual Edict (K7pvypLa) of the Eponymous Archon'; (5) A. LAMBRO-
POULOS, (a) 'Inedited Coins of Scione'; (b) 'King Archelaus of Macedon
aiid his Coins.' Evening: (1) F. HILLER V. GiRTRINGEN, 'On the Plan of
a Corpus of Greek Inscriptionls in Small Type'; (2) A. WILHELM, (a) an-
nounced an album of facsimiles of Greek inscriptions characteristic for the
history of the development of writing; (b) discussed two Messenian in-
scriptions and explained the custom of inscribing certain administrative
acts on walls; (3) P. CAVVADIAS, 'The Inscriptions relating to the Cure

of the Sick in Temples of Asclepius.'
V. GEOGRAPIIY AND TOPOGRAPHY.- Tuesday, April 11, morning:
(1) G. RADET,' On a Passage in Pausanias' (VII, 6. 6); (2) N. POLITIS,
'Notes on Athenian Topography; the Orchestra and the Heliastic Courts';
(3) R. LOEPER, 'Mycenaean Epoch in Attica and Historic Traditions';
(4) SP. LAMBROS,' An Inedited Venetian Description of the Antiquities of
Athens in the Seventeenth Century'; (5) D. CAMBOUROGLU, ' The Preser-
vation of Ancient Names of Athenian Monuments.' Evening: (1) PH.
NEGRIS, 'The Atlantis of Plato'; (2) D. AEGINITIS, 'The Climate of
Athens in Antiquity'; (3) P. REDIADIS, 'The Art of Navigation among
the Ancients'; (4) A. GEORGIADIS, ' Topography of Eretria.'- Wednesday,
April 12, morning: (1) G. SOTERIADIS, ' The City of Kallion and the An-
nihilation of the Galatians by the Aetolians'; (2) A. SKIAS, ' The Topogra-
phy of Ancient Corinth' (the agora) ; (3) A. DAMBERGHIS,' Mineral Waters
in the Sanctuaries of Asclepius.' Evening: (1) E. v. STERN, 'Irotonlmyce-
naean Cemeteries of Southern Russia; the Archaic Necropolis of Bdrizane ';
(2) B. W. PHARMAKOWSKY, 'Discoveries in the Region of Kuban (Cau-
casus); Greek Archaism and the Orient'; (3) S. SHEBELEW, ' Greek Mir-
rors from Kuban'; (4) E. PRIDIK, ' Excavations at Kherson '; (5) B. W.
PHARMAKOWSKY, 'Excavations at Olbia'; (6) W. MALMBERG, 'Cherson-
nese; the Objects of Gold of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. and the
Great Wall of the Ancient City'; (7) M. ROSTOVTSEW, ' Panticapaeum; lPoly-
chrome Decoration of Houses of the Hellenistic Period; Decoration of
Tombs and Sarcophagi of the Roman Period.' Remarks by A. FURT-
WiNGLER. The section, on proposition of B. Keil, seconded by Wiegand,
expressed the wish that Kawerau's plans of the Acropolis be published by
the Archaeological Society of Athens.
VI. BYZANTINE ARCHAEOLOGY. - Saturday, April 8, evening: (1) TH.
OUSPENSKY,' The Library of the Seraglio and the Illustrated Octateuch
therein'; (2) J. STRZYGOWSKI,' The Iconography of the Byzantine Em-
perors'; (3) SP. LAMBROS, 'The Iconography of the Byzantine Emperors
in the Ms. of Zonaras at Modeina.' - Tuesday, April 11, morning: A. L.
FROTHINGHAM, JR., 'Byzantine Art before the Fifteenth Century.' Even-
ing: (1) J. STRZYGOWSKI, ' Did Hellas possess a Peculiar Art in the Middle
Ages?' (2) G. MILLET, ' The Publication of a Corpus of Christian Greek
Inscriptionis'; (3) D. CAMBOUROGLU, 'The Epithets of the Virgin Mary
in Athens'; (4) G. LAMBAKIS, ' The Christian Catacombs and Baptistery
at Melos.'- Wednesday, April 12, morning: P. CAROLIDIS,' The Churches
of St. Irene and St. Sophia'; (2) G. LAMBAKIS, 'IOn Various Christian
Monuments' (Philippi, St. Dionysius the Areopagite at Athens, Cenchreae,
Amorgus); (3) C. ZEssIou, (a) 'Greek Painters of the Last Centuries';
(b) ' Two Graffiti from Stephanion near Corinth.'
VII. TEACHING OF ARCHAEOLOGY. - Monday, April 10, morning:
(1) A. CONZE, 'Archaeology and Gymnasium'; (2) J. CSENGERI, 'The
Introduction of Archaeology and the History of Art into Secondary In-
struction'; (3) G. T. PLUNKETT, 'The Means Employed by the Museum
of Dublin to spread in the Schools the Knowledge of Irish Archaeology';
(4) H. C. TOLMAN, 'The Study of Archaeology in the Teaching of
Homer.' Evening: (1) PERCY GARDNER, 'The Use of Coins as an In-
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troduction to Archaeology'; (2) J. E. HARRY, 'The Study of G

Archaeology in American Colleges'; (3) G. SEURE, 'The Teaching of
Greek Language and Archaeology in the Lycees.'-- Wednesday, April 12,
morning: (1) G. MISTRIOTIS, 'On the Purpose of the "Society for the
Representation of Ancient Dramas " in Connection with the Production of
the A ntigone of Sophocles in the Stadium, Monday, April 12, in honor of
the Congress.' Discussion by TH. REINACH; (2 and 3) J. DRAGATSIS and
G. PAPAVASILEIOU, 'On the Teaching of the History of Art in the (-im-
nasia'; (4) H. BULLE, ' An International Bibliography of Archaeology';
(5) A. L. FROTHINGHAM, JR., 'On Illustrated Teaching of Archaeology.'
Evening: (1) S. RZEPINSKI, ' Question of an Archaeological Teaching-cabi-
net in the Gymnasia'; (2) S. Ivos, ' Reply to Th. Reinach's Objections to the
Paper of G. Mistriotis'; (3) H. BULLE, ' International Archaeological Bib-
liography.' A definite project is in preparation by P. Wolters.
April 13, at the final general meeting, Mr. Carapanos presiding, the sec-
retary, Mr. Homolle, submitted resolutions, which were adopted, to the
following effect: (1) The provisional scheme (re'glement) adopted for the
Congress of 1905 shall be followed in future meetings; (2) The commis-
sion of 1905 is a permanent international bureau until relieved by the
second congress; (3) Congresses shall be held at intervals of not less than
two nor more than five years; (4) The next congress shall meet at Cairo
(probably in 1908); (5) International co6peration of museums is urged
(a) to secure uniformity in publications of catalogues, etc., (b) to guard
against disappearance (by fire or theft) of ancient works i'n precious metals
by the distribution of exact facsimiles, (c) to exchange duplicates, (d) to
protect themselves and the public against forgeries and extortionate prices
by spreading information concerning objects offered for sale; (6) A Topo-
nymic Corpus of Attica is recommended.
After the meetings at Athens excursions were made to sites of interest
in Greece, the Greek Islands, and Asia Minor. (See M. L. D'OOGE, The
Nation, June 1, 1905.)
Fragment of a Tribute List.- A new fragment of a tribute list, found
May 22, 1904, near the Erechtheum, is published by M. N. TOD, Ann. Brit.
S. Ath. X (1903-01), pp. 78-82. It fits on the top of C.LG. I, 256, dated
428-427 B.C., and fixes the tribute of the Elaeans at 1000 dr., that of the
Coans at 3 t. 4465 dr.
The Numismatic Museum. - In J. Int. Arch. Num. VII, 1904, pp. 317-
390, J. N. SvORONOs describes the acquisitions of the Numismatic Museum
in the academic year 1903-1904. The total number of coins added is 7016.
The fine collection of Alexander G. Soutsos, containing 2355 coins, is the
greatest single gift, and is described in detail; 284 of these coins are pub-
lished in ten plates. A brief report for 1901-02 (3923 accessions) and
1902-03 (3628 accessions) is added, pp. 391-396.
Byzantine Lead Medals. - In J. Int. Arch. Num. VII, 1904, pp. 161-
176, K. M. KONSTANTINOPOULOS continues (from vol. VI, pp. 333 ff.) his
descriptive catalogue of Byzantine lead medals in the Numismatic Museum
at Athens (nos. 480-550). The catalogue (nos. 551-774) is further continued,
ibid. pp. 255-310.
BOEOTIA. - Inscriptions. - In B.C.H. XXIX, 1905, pp. 99-104,
L. BIZARD publishes nine inscriptions from Boeotia. One, at Siakho, is a
Roman milestone of Trajan's (Tpayeavo^) time, on which the distance dizrb

'AAKo/Uvalov was given. Another, at Bramagas [ArTo]KpdTOpa Kat'oapa
AoKL[ovj I [Ao]jp9Tov AVpXqLav0v EEaoe3[q] [E7rvX] qEflaarTO XaLpo-
vwv I~ Pov [A0] [KaCL ] o84O, is the third known inscription in Greece or
the Aegean islands metntioniiig Aurelian. The seven remaining inscriptions
are epitaphs.
BOURBOURA. - An Inscribed Bowl. - A tiny kettle-shaped bronze
bowl (diameter ca. 0.01 m.) with retrograde votive inscription 'AXOa6o,
found by the bank of a tributary of the Sarantapotamos near the village of
Bourboura, in Cynuria, confirms the statement of Pausanias (VIII, 20, 3)
that the ancients (however mistakenly) regarded the modern Sarantapota-
mos as a part of the Alpheus, which disappeared on the eastern side of the
plain of Tegea to appear again on the western side. (K. ROMAros, 'E.
'ApX. 1904, pp. 139-154; 5 figs.)
CRETE.- CNOSSUS.- Excavations in 1904.- The excavations at
Cnossus in 1904 (see Am. J. Arch. 1905, pp. 109 f.) are descr
by A. J. EVAN'S, Ann. Brit. S. Ath. X (1903-04), pp. 1-62 (2
In the palace the original plan of the west wing was made o
magazines were opened, and many details of the plan at diff
were established. Numerous vases and frescoes, one of which
pillar shrine and human figures, were found. A new series of
tories came to light. The excavations along two paved roads
times brought to light many magazines, in one of which were eig
tablets. Fifty of these refer to chariots. Clay sealings wer
Deposits of arrows may indicate that the magazines where the
were the royal armory.
Excavations in March, 1905. - In the Nation, April 27, 190
writes that in a trial pit sunk in the line of the Mycenaean
beneath the Roman road, at some distance west of the palac
handle of a vase of schist, adorned with carved nautiluses an
found. This may lead to interesting discoveries in that regio
being made in excavating magazines beside the Mycenaean c
evolution of artistic pottery from the stone age to the beginn
civilization is best studied by means of the specimens discover
Their connection with specimens found in Egypt makes them
Egyptologists. The heavy rains have caused some damage i
corridor and the staircase leading to the topmost story. This c
easily, but further necessary repairs will be expensive. The s
seen from the south is imposing, but from the sea it is inco
slight remains of fortifications are at the northern side, towar
CRETE. - GOURNI.A. - Excavations in 1904. - In the T
of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and A
of Pennsylcania, I, iii, 1905, pp. 177-188 (2 pls.; 4 figs.), HAR
describes her excavations at Gournia in 1904. Remains, the mo
of which are the vases, were found belonging to eight differen
the third millennium B.C. to the Iron Age. Miss Boyd discusse
lithic and geometric ware, from rock-shelter burials at Gour
Photia. Ibid. pp. 191-205 (8 pls.; 3 figs.), Miss EDITH H. HA
a new class of pottery decorated with white on black. Ibid
(2 pls.; 6 figs.), R. B. SEAGER describes excavations at Vasilik
niai. Here houses of three periods were found, built of stone, w

wood and plaster. The earliest pottery is subneolithic; the next
painted in Cycladic style, with dark paint on a light ground, and i
poraneous with the earliest house walls; the third (which occurs also
earlier) is a peculiar mottled ware, of red color shading to black and orange,
often highly polished; the fourth class has geometrical designs in white on
a black ground. The last period is that which immediately precedes that of
the fine Kanmires (Middle Minoan) ware of Cnossus. The site of Vasiliki
may have been inhabited from about 2500 to about 2100 B.C.
CRETE. - PALAIKASTRO.-Excavations in 1904. - The excava-
tions at Palaikastro in 1904 are described in Ann. Brit. S. A
pp. 192-226 (pl.; 8 figs.) and 227-231 (3 figs.) by R. M. DAW
CUMRRELLY. The nomenclature in use is described and a t
and non-Cretan synchronisms given. The detailed descript
tions and discoveries follows. At different parts of the sit
'Early Minoan' to 'Late Minoan' times were found, among
vases. A shrine of the snake goddess, with figurines, clay dov
is especially interesting. A group of larnax-burials, the l
both chest and bath-tub shape, is described.
CRETE. - PRAESUS. - A Third Eteocretan Fragment. - In Ann.
Brit. S. Ath. X (190:3-01), pp. 115-124, R. S. CONWAY publishes a fragme
tary inscription (the Neikar-inscription) found at Praesus. It is in the
Ionic alphabet of the beginning of the fourth century B.c., but in the Ete
cretan language. It confirms the previous conclusion that the language w
Indo-European. Additional nmotes by R. M. BURRows are added, pp. 124-12
DELOS. - The Excavations in 1903.-- In B.C. H. XXIX, 1905, pp. 5
54 (7 pls.; 11 figs.), A. JARDI describes in some detail the mercantile quart
south of the sanctuary, the storehouse with columns (magasin de colonnes)
and the house of Kerdon excavated at Delos in 1903 by the French Scho
at Athens. The arrangement of the mercantile houses, with' a courtyar
surrounded by a colonnade, from which the rooms open, and with stai
leading to a second story, is made clear by description and plans. The
house of Kerdon appears to have been the house of a sculptor. Twenty
more or less fragmentary pieces of sculpture, some of which were unfinished,
were found there. Fifteen other sculptures and a terra-cotta brazier ar
described and in part published. The inscriptions mentioned are few, an
unimportant except that some of them prove that reliefs found at the hou
of Kerdon were gravestones, which could hardly have existed at Delos exce
at the shop where they were made.
Excavations in 1904. --In C. R. A cad. Insc. 1904, pp. 726-748 (plan),
is an account, by M. HOLLEAUX, of the excavations carried on at Delos i
1904 by the French School (cf. Am. J. Arch. 1905, p. 112). The eastern
peribolus and the western terrace of the temenos of Apollo, the agora of th
Italians or schola Romanorumn, the establishment of the Posidoniasts, the
portico of Philip, the merchant quarter by the sea, and the quarter nea
the theatre were the scenes of activity. Interesting sculptures and vases,
fine mosaic, and 174 inscriptions were fdund, and new information concerning
the internal arrangement of houses and shops was gained.
Inscriptions.- The publication of the inscriptions found in 1903 (Am.
J. Arch. 1905, p. 112) is continued in B. C. H. XXIX, 1905, pp. 169-257
(5 figs.) by F. DURRBACH and A. JARD. NOS. 61-68 are Attic and foreign
decrees, nos. 69-137 dedicatory and miscellaneous. No. 61 is a decree of
Athens in honor of Pharnaces I, king of Pontus, and his wife Nysa,
daughter of Antiochus and Laodice. The archon is Tychandros, probably
172-1 B.C. Perhaps Nysa was the daughter of Antiochus, son of Antio-
chus III, and his sister Laodice, whom he married in 196-5 B.C. No. 62
is a decree of the Athenian community of Delos in honor of a musician.
No. 67 is a decree of the Cretan cities Lato and Olus, accepting Cnossus as
arbiter of their disagreements. No. 68 seems to be a treaty of alliance
between Mytilene, Antissa, Methymna, and Eresus, in Lesbos. No. 87 com-
pletes the inscription published B.C.H. I, pp. 28:3-281, no. 5, A. Teren-
tiu[m A.]f VarroEnem] Italicei et Graeci quei [D]elei negoti[antur] I [A]ZXov
TepvTrLov A*Xov vlbv Ob[dvppwva] I ['P]ofwov TIraXLKOt Ka' 'EAvE of
KaT OLtKOGVV7E3 . No. 88, C. Iulius C. f. Caesar pro cos., refers to the father of
the dictator, proconsul of Asia between 98 and 90 B.C. No. 89 is a list of
ephebi. No. 90 is also a list of Attic names. Other inscriptions mention
Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Aphrodite, and Dionysus. No. 132 contains a num-
ber of rudely scratched names. No. 133 is a part of a sundial. No. 137 is
a Christian inscription. Considerable remains of Byzantine occupation have
been discovered.
DELPHI. - Destructive Fall of Rocks. -A mass of rock fell at
Delphi, March 26, 1905, and utterly destroyed part of the tem
Pronoia, at the place called " Marmaria," excavated three ye
&Ovwv, Boston, April 22, 1905.)
ELEUSIS. - Athenian Coins of Roman Date. - In 1903 a marble
portrait bust of a Roman and a large number of copper
Athenian of Roman times, were found at Eleusis. Nine hundred and
seventy-two coins were taken to the Numismatic Museum at Athens, which
bought 281. These are described, and 108 are published, by J. N. Svo-
RONOs, J. Int. Arch. Num. VII, 1904, pp. 109-142. Among them are twelve
large coins of Roman emperors.
ITHACA. - Explorations and Excavations. - In B.C.H. XXIX,
1905, pp. 145-168 (27 figs.), IW. VOLLGRAFF describes in detail his excava-
tions at Ithaca (see A nz. J. Arch. 1905, p. 114). He publishes the sculptures
and terra-cottas found, plans of buildings, a specimen of a wall, two stone
cylinders on large bases, which he explains as the lower part of mills, and
twenty inscriptions, mostly short and fragmentary, among them L G. IX,
653.
LACONIA. - Topography and Inscriptions. - In A 4nn. Brit. S. A th.

X (1903-1904), pp. 158-189, E. S. FORSTER discusses the topography of
southwestern Laconia, and publishes twenty-four inscriptions from the
region, besides nineteen from Gythium and its neighborhood. Of the last,
several have been published before. Many of the inscriptions are late epi-
taphs; many others are fragmentary. No. 5, from Oetylus, is a list of
names; no. 14, from Koutiphari, is archaic, and reads AL61 Kafldra 7r r-
7rot I f~rCEt Ove tV q [?, '] Lov I r ? ?; no. 15, from Koutiphari, is an archaic
dedication by one Nicosthenidas to Pasiphae; no. 21, from Leuctra, is part
of a Gerenian decree of proxeny.
MOUNT LYKAION.- The Sanctuary of Zeus.-In 1903 K. Kourou-
niotes investigated the altar and precinct of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion with the
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following results. The hemispherical summit of the mount

in height, appears to have been artificially smoothed and
earth to form the great altar. On the top the ashes and bo
cessive sacrifices were kept from being blown away by la
placed upon them. No traces were found of the traditiona
fices. The only datable object here was a coin of Aegina of the
B.C. On the little plateau at the foot of the altar, the pre
which no man might enter was identified by the row of sto
stituted its boundary. About 10 m. to the east were uncovere
the columns which Pausanias says once bore gilded eagles. I
in the precinct were found several interesting bronze statu
crude - evidently native Arcadian - work, ranging from the
fourth century B.C. At least five of the figures represe
figures of Hermes show native imitation of Polyclitan w
greave with fine archaic repousse' relief bears an inscription o
of the fifth century B.c. E~7r]E18aL 3VE[OKE 7Tr AvKaL'W ALL K

(K. KOUROUNIOTEs, 'E4. 'Apx. 1904, pp. 153-214; 4 pls.; 24
TROEZEN.- Topography and Remains. - In B.C.H. XXIX, 1905,
pp. 269-315 (1 pl.; 30 figs.), PH. E. LEGRAND gives the results of his inve
tigations at Troezen in 1890 and 1899. Fourmont's description is appende
(pp. 315-318). The acropolis was on the hill, the present Kastro, where
remains of walls and towers are seen. No architectural remains except a
piece of a triglyph were found there. The probable site of the temple o
Pan is on a terrace above the ravine of St. Athanasius, where traces of a
building, a small draped female torso, the inscriptions published in B.C.H.
XXIV, p. 201, and architectural terra-cottas were found. The ancient city
was fan-shaped, on the right bank of the yiEvpaiov ~e~VLa, the ancient
Chrysoroas. The eight-sided column mentioned by Gell and Curtius was a
funerary monument. Parts of the city walls were found. Not far from the
church of St. George are the foundations of a, temple about 26 m. long by
11 m. wide. Near this point were also vestiges of a bath, and various minor
objects were found in this neighborhood. The church of St. Soteira con-
tained many inscriptions. Several hundred metres west of the Chrysoroas
are the house Kokkinia and the church Palaio-Episkopi. In this region are
various remains of buildings. Here was doubtless the temenos of Hippo-
lytus, with the stadium, and the temples of Apollo and Aphrodite Katasko-
paia (perhaps at Episkopi). A large building, the plan of which can be
made out, was probably a palaestra. Both within the city and in the
neighborhood many small antiquities were found, including a great number
of Proto-Corinthian vases (almost all fragmentary), numerous small terra-
cotta lamps, and many terra-cotta figures, chiefly rude and poor.
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ADRIA. - The New Museo Civico. - The collections formerly the
property of the Bocchi family (Museo Bocchi) have been acquired by
the town of Adria. The new Museo Civico was inaugurated September 1,
1904. The address delivered by G. GHIRARDINI is published in the
N. Arch. Ven. 1905, pp. 114-157. The history of the museum is briefly
sketched. The antiquities in the museum show that Adria was in ancient
times a seaport. The ancient history of the place falls into four periods:
(1) the palaeo-Venetan, from the earliest times to the latter part of the
sixth century B.C.; (2) the Graeco-Etruscan, from the latter part of
the sixth to the middle of the fourth century B.C.; (3) the Graeco-Celtic,
from the middle of the fourth to the middle of the second century B.C.;
(4) the Roman, from the middle of the second century B.c. to the fall of
the Western Empire. All these periods are illustrated by the contents of the
museunm.
BENEVENTO. - Sculptures. - Important discoveries have been mad

on the site of the Temple of Isis-- statues of Minerva, Horus, Apis, Egy
priests, a colossal head of Juno, sphinxes with two heads, an altar
porphyry with a sculptured serpent, besides a dozen Corinthian cap
and other architectural fragments. (G. GATTI, B. Coin. Roma, XX
1904, pp. 364-365.) A marble sarcophagus on which are represented
from the life of Bacchus has been found at Benevento. (A. MEOMAR
Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 227-228.)
FORLI. -An Ancient Necropolis.-- Sepulchral vases have been
earthed at Forli, in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. There was evide
very ancient cemetery here, and bronze fragments found in the neigh
hood indicate a connection with the civilization of Villanova. (A. SA
RELLI, Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 222-225.)
HERCULANEUM. - Prospect of Excavations.-- In R. Arch. V,
1905, pp. 423-426, S. R(EINACH) gives a brief account, with some docu-
ments, of Professor Waldstein's attempt to form an international commis-
sion for the excavation of Herculaneum. As a result of his attempt,
Herculaneum will probably be excavated sooner than would otherwise have
been the case; not, however, by an international commission, but by the
Italian government. The matter is briefly discussed by R. NORTON, The
Independent, July 13, 1905.
PISTICCI.- Greek Vases. - In Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 196-208 (17 figs.),
Q. QUAGLIATI describes vases found in the neighborhood of Pisticci in
Lucania. Some are finely decorated Greek vases of the fifth century,
others are of local manufacture with geometric decoration.
PISTOIA. - Excavations in the Piazza del Duomo. - In Not. Scavi,
1904, pp. 241-270 (plan; 22 figs.), G. PELLEGRINI gives the result of recent
excavations in the Piazza del Duorno at Pistoia. The idea that the cathe-
dral occupies the site of an ancient temple is proved to be incorrect. Below
the pavement of the Piazza were found remains of the Middle Ages - walls
and tombs, coins, vase fragments, etc. Below these were the lower walls
and mosaic floors of a large Roman house. This appears to have been built
at the end of the first century B.C., was rebuilt in the first half of the third
century after Christ, and was destroyed, probably by fire, in the fifth century.
The house was built upon an accumulation of refuse containing vase frag-
ments, and objects of bronze, iron, etc., of various periods, some probably as
early as the fourth century B.C. Below this was the natural soil.
PORTOGRUARO. - Tomb of a Physician.-- Near Portogruaro the
tomb of a physician of the early empire has been found. The urn contained,
among other things, three cylindrical bronze boxes, in one of which were
pincers and a lancet. In the same locality a Roman well has been found,
lined with curved terra-cotta tiles. (G. C. BERTOLINI, Not. Scavi, 1904,
pp. 293-295; fig.)
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RAVENNA. - A Christian Cemetery. - Near Ravenna a Christian

cemetery of the fifth century has been recently excavated. Amphorae,
broken for the reception of the body and then put together again, served
for the burial of children and, in some cases, even for adults. The contents
of the tombs - vases and various other objects - are described by E. BRIzIO
ini Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 177-192 (22 figs.).
ROME. - Excavations at the Clivus Palatinus. - In Berl. Phil. W.
April 1, 1905, pp. 428-430, F. BRUNSWICK describes Comm.
tions in and near the Clivus Capitolinus. The connection b
Clivus and the Sacra Via lies under the southern steps of t
Venus and Rome. The Clivus ran obliquely under the arch o
seems to indicate that the arch was moved to its present posi
time. Above the crossing with the Nova Via a long piece of
laid bare. Here were two foundation walls forming a long co
from the Nova Via. Opposite this corridor were foundation
have been a small tenmplunm in antis. Some other walls, p
drains were also discovered. Under the pavement of the No
of an earlier pavement and drains were found. At the northe
foundation of a large monument in front of the temple of J
the pavement of the forum of the third century B.C. was fo
metres below the later travertine pavement.
The Latest Excavations in the Roman Forum. - In Rec. Past, IV,
1905, pp. 171-179 (7 figs.), TWALTER DENNISON gives an account of the
recent excavations in the Forum.
Various Minor Discoveries. - The following minor discoveries in an
near Rome are reported by G. GATTI, in Not. Scavi, 1904. Near the corn
of Via Nazionale and Via dei Fornari, two stone steps roughly inscribed
with figures of gladiators, tavole lusorie, etc.; walls of brick and opus reti
latum between Via Boncompagni, Via Marche, and Via Sicilia; a mosai
pavement in Viale Aventino. (pp. 153-158; 17 figs. Also B. Com. Ronzm
XXXII, 1904, pp. 341-346; 6 figs.) In Viale Aventino have come to ligh
other fragments of the mosaic pavement, the discovery of which has alrea
been reported. The new fragments represent animals and gladiators.
Sepulchral inscriptions have been found in various parts of the city. (pp.
194-195.) In Via della Navicella, near S. Stefano Rotondo, a female
head in marble and fragmentary inscriptions. In Via Nomentana, two
statues, both seated and lacking the head; one resembles the Demos-
thenes of the Louvre, the other suggests the Anacreon at Copenhagen.
Formerly in the Villa Borghese. In Via Prenestina, fragments of a re-
publican inscription on large travertine slabs. (pp. 225-226. Also B. Com.
Romna, XXXII, 1904, pp. 351-354.) Between Via Navicella and S.
Stefano Rotondo architectural fragments and a votive inscription. On
Via Venti Settembre, near the Grand Hotel, brick walls belonging prob-
ably to the northern part of the Baths of Diocletian. (pp. 272-273.)
Near S. Stefano Rotondo, a tavola lusoria and an honorary inscription of
Septimius Severus. In the ninth region, in the Vicolo de' Soldati, three
ancient granite columns, with bases and capitals. In Lungotevere Raffaello
Sanzio, between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Garibaldi, a fragment of a Christian
sarcophagus, with a Greek inscription. In Via Ostiense, near the Ponte
della Magliana, part of the tufa enclosing-wall of a sepulchral area, and a
sepulchral inscription. In the Corso d' Italia a funerary urn, of travertine,

with an inscription of the late republic. (pp. 296-298.) Between the
northern end of Piazza Navona and the Tiber a large inscribed pedestal
has been found bearing the name of Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus, cos.
438 A.D. (G. GATTI, B. Com. Roma, XXXII, 1904, pp. 346-349.) In
the Vigna Ceccarelli a dedicatory inscription to Fors Fortuna has been
found. It is late republican in date, and of value as fixing the position of
the second temple of the goddess, near the sixth milestone from the Porta
Portuensis; also as proving a collegiate organization of the metal-workers
(aerarii), who made the gift to Fors Fortuna. (G. GATTI, ibid. pp. 317-324.)
SARDINIA. - Various Discoveries. - In Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 158-
170, ANTONIO TARAMELLI gives a list of 871 silver coins recently found at
Terranova Pausania. They date from 268 B.c. to the beginning of the
Christian era, the greater number belonging to the later republican period,
and especially to the coinage of Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, and Augustus.
A large majority are marked with letters or otherwise, for the purpose of
identification. There is one African coin of 'the time of Juba I. ibid. pp.
171-175 (2 figs.), the same writer describes various small objects, including
gold necklaces and earrings, found in the same neighborhood. Ibid. pp. 209-
219 (9 figs.) TARAMELLI describes tombs excavated in the rock, of the
type known as donius de janas, recently explored by him. They are in the
neighborhood of Busachi. The objects found confirm the idea that this
form of burial, which was introduced in the eneolithic period, survived till
the end of the age of bronze. Three bronze statuettes of local manufacture
have been found at Urzulei in the province of Cagliari. One represents an
old shepherd, the two others warriors. (A. TARAMELLI, ibid. pp. 228-237;
6 figs.) Two groups of tombs, one pagan, the other Christian, have been
discovered near Baressa, in the province of Cagliari. The former group
belongs to the end of the republic or the early empire. (F. NISSARDI, ibid.
pp. 237-240.) A Roman necropolis has been found near Mores. (A. TARA-
MELLI, ibid. pp. 291-292.) ibid. pp. 301-351 (39 figs.) A. TARAMELLI de-
scribes with their contents ten large eneolithic tombs recently excavated
near Alghero. The numerous terra-cotta vases, bronze implements, orna-
ments, etc., show a well-advanced civilization, dating, as the writer thinks,
from the end of the third and beginning of the second millennium B.C.
SYRACUSE. - Various Discoveries. - In Not. Scavi, 1904, pp. 275-
291 (17 figs.), P. ORsI gives the result of investigations recently made by
him in Syracuse and its neighborhood. Ancient fragments used in the
construction of mediaeval walls found under the Piazza d' Armi (the ancient
forum) prove that the forum was in ruins at the beginning of the Middle
Ages. The large cavern under the altar of Hiero II was originally smaller
and was used possibly for religious purposes; it was afterwards enlarged in
the process of extracting powdered limestone. Excavation in the eastern
part of the quarry of St. Venera and examination of the niches in the wall
indicate that the place was originally used as a religious meeting-place for
some society of the city. The niches were lined with painted stucco; in one
was found a small relief representing a warrior and his attendant, evidently
a votive offering. Under the railway station a pre-Roman reservoir has
been found. The topography of Euryalus has been studied and fragments
of an important inscription have been found there. In the restoration of the
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church of S. Giovanni, ancient fragments have come to ligh

Greek tomb still intact has been found in the necropolis of the
Three small Christian catacombs have been explored, between
di Gesh and the sea. A fine, large Christian sarcophagus has bee
in the civic hospital.
VARIOUS MINOR DISCOVERIES. - Various minor discoveries
are reported in Not. Scavi, 1901. Remains of a primitive set
fragmnents and stone implements - have been found at Lo
(pp. 147-151; plan.) A tomb of the early empire has been
timiglia, on the site of the ancient town of Albium Intemelium. Of the
numerous objects which it contained the most interesting was a drinking-
glass decorated with vines and grapes in low relief. (pp. 221-222.) Various
antiquities found at Chiagina, near Assisi, indicate the existence of an
extensive necropolis. (pp. 271-272.) Remains of an ancient piscina or
reservoir have been discovered at Grottaferrata. (pp. 273-274.) Several
sepulchral inscriptions have been recently found at Brindisi. (p. 300.)
Remains of a large ancient building of unknown use have come to light at
Trevi in Latium. (p. 298.) The following discoveries are reported in
B. Corn. Roma, XXXII, 1904. At Minturnae a Serapis and Isis inscription
of the time of Hadrian has been unearthed on the right bank of the Garig-
liano. (pp. 366-367.) At Susa, fragments of a gilt-bronze statue of
M. Agrippa have recently been discovered, together with a part of the
inscription, mentioning sons of Cottius. (pp. 365-366.) At Tivoli a large
sepulchral inscription pertaining to a common tomb has been secured by
the Archaeological Commission. (p. 359.)
SPAIN
BIENSERVIDA. -Iberian and Roman Remains.- In C. R. Acad.
Insc. 1905, pp. 21-23, is a letter from P. PARIS, calling att
neglected mountain region of Murcia. At Bienservida, sout
a work of Iberian sculpture, of blackish stone, representin
man's head between his paws. Cut in the rocks near Bienservida are
nearly twenty Latin inscriptions, now for the most part illegible.
MERIDA. - A Mithraeum. - In C. R. Acad. Insc. 1904, pp. 573-575,
is a letter from P. PARIS describing a number of Roman sculptures of poor
style, and giving the text of five inscriptions found at Merida. These prove
that a sanctuary of Mithra existed on the site of the Plaza de Toros at
Merida.
FRANCE
ANDERNOS. - Episcopus Ecclesiae Boiorum. - In R. Et. Anc. VII,
1905, pp. 74-76 (fig.), Count A. DE SARRAU publishes a fragmentary in-
scription found in 1904 at Andernos which he reads: III S[eptemnbris?] I
..... idius . Ep[iscopus I ec]cles.Boio[rum. The date is not far from 400 A.D.
(Cf. C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905, pp. 72 f.)
BORDEAUX. - A New Gallic Jupiter. - A torso of Jupiter, holding
a thunderbolt in his right hand and a wheel in his left hand, was found at
Bordeaux in 1900, and is now in the museum at that place. The work is
rude. The torso (head and neck and the lower part of the legs are lacking)
measures 0.40 m. in height. (C. DE MENSIGNAC, R. -Et. Anc. VII, 1905,
pp. 156 f.; fig.)
CHANTILLY. - A Hellenistic Relief. - A fine Hellenistic relief, rep-

resenting Ariadne, Dionysus, and a Silenus in the Musde Conde at Chan-
tilly, is published in outlines by S. R. in R. Arch. IV, 1904, p. 427.
CORNILLON (GARD).- A Bas-relief. --In B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904,
pp. 298 f., Captain EsPE'RANDIEU describes a relief which, with other objects,
was found at the hamlet of Virune, commune of Cornillon. It represents a
recumbent nude female approached by a winged horseman, behind whom is
an eagle, as large as the horse, holding a thunderbolt in his talons. Possi-
bly Perseus and Andromeda are intended.
ENTRAINS. - A Mithraeum. - In B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904, pp. 288-291
(fig.), Captain ESPERANDIEU calls attention to several reliefs and fragments
of sculpture from Entrains in the Delimnoges collection. These all came
from one spot, doubtless the site of a sanctuary of Mithra. One relief
represents the Sun-god in a quadriga, below him a crater and beside it a
serpent, the whole symbolizing fire, water, and earth.
HYERES.- Gallo-Roman Antiquities.- In B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904,
pp. 255-257, is a communication from F. MOULIN, mentioning four coins
Massilia found at a ruined convent called Almanar, near Hyeres, and oth
objects found in 1903 near the village of Lachau. These include sever
leaden cistae, one bearing the signature Paternus fecit, vases of clay, glass
and bronze, two silver spoons, and a round ivory box adorned with cup
engaged in athletic sports and other occupations.
LE BAILLE.--Marsyas and Apollo. --In R. E1t. Anc. VII, 1905,
p. 73 (pl.), a fragmentary relief, found, with some coins and various fra
ments, at Le Baille or Le Bayle, commune of Eyrans or Anglade, canton
Blaye (Gironde), is published by C. J(ULLIAN). Nearly the whole figu
of Apollo, holding a plectrum and lyre (almost entirely wanting), and par
of the second figure are preserved. The heads are gone. The second fig
ure, here explained as Vulcan, is shown to be Marsyas by A. HARON D
VILLEFOSSE, ibid. p. 155. A bas-relief representing the contest of Apo
and Marsyas in the presence of other deities, now in the nmuseum at Bor
deaux, is published on the same page by C. J.
MEAUX. - Gallic Antefixes. - Some rude antefixes, adorned with a
female head in relief and bearing the inscription VERIANO were found at
Meaux in 1848 and are now in the local museum. They are described by
G. GASSIES, R. lEt. Anc. VII, 1905, p. 158, fig.
NARBONNE. - Latin Inscriptions. - Two inscriptions found at Nar-
bonne are published by R. CAGNET in B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904, p. 266.
(1) Liber[ali] Ia(?)ieso I rem . publicam . s | statuas . totidem ponenlda . cen
(2) Nav[ic]ul[ario C]orneli[us I P]anegyricus et I Cornelius Chryseros
amico optimo.
PARIS..- A Large Roman Building. - In Ami d. Mon. XIX, 1905,
pp. 34-44 (pl.), CH. NORMAND describes the excavations in 1894, 1903,
and 1904, near the Collage de France, in which remains of a large Roman
building were discovered. It contained a circular hall, about 17 um. in
diameter, heated by a hypocaust. Fragments of marble adornment, among
them a composite capital, were found. Probably the building was a bath.
A Library of Photographs and Drawings. - In R. Arch. V, 1905,
pp. 132-137, S. R(EINACH) briefly describes a collection of about eight hun-
dred thousand photographs, drawings, etc., in two thousand albums, collected
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by Mr. Jules Maciet, and accessible to the public at the Bibl

1'Union centrale des Arts d6coratifs in the Rue de Rivoli, Pavillo
The carefully classified collection illustrates the graphic arts and
of archaeology.
Acquisitions of the Louvre in 1903. - Department of Greek
Antiquities: Four marble heads; base of statuette with inscriptio
of Abonotichus, from Antioch; funerary reliefs from Rhode
Frascati, and the Borghese collection; inscriptions from the Fa
hatchet and cup and bronze weapon from Amorgus; ornamental b
head from Sidon; bronze titulus marked CY N AF OF H COP N IO
from the Synagogue of Ornithopolis, Syria; gold ornaments fro
pair of earrings and some stamped heads; small ornamental b
and a large number of objects in terra-cotta and lead (weights, s
plumbs, children's toys, etc.), from the region of Smyrna; f
from Boscoreale and Pompeii; double mina of lead from Seleuc
stamped under the agoranomus Delphion. No vases are include
African and Christian terra-cottas. (A. HE1RON DE VILLEFO
MICHON, Arch. Ainz. 1904, pp. 187-191.)
Aquisitions of the Louvre in 1904. - MARBLE AND STONE.
A. Statues and Busts: (1) Torso of Heracles, half life size, w
skin tied about neck. Head, arms, and legs wanting. From
(2) Roman female head, third century after Christ. Hair in wavy
brought together at the top of the head. From Sousse. B. Bas-
(3) Zeus seated on a chair, under which is an eagle. Artemis st
behind. From Megara (?). (4) Votive stele. In the centre Art
right Demeter, to left Nike, all with inscriptions. In the field,
and an eagle above the lunar crescent. Beneath are traces of the
three persons. From Magnesia ad Sipylum (?). 5. A grave st
relief representing a draped man and woman, standing with a chil
them. In the left corner remains of a small draped figure. (6)
part of a grave stele with pediment. Two rosettes and two crow
the inscriptions 0 AHMO:, EIPHNHN AIlONY:*IOY, MHNO
AlONY1IOY. Traces of other names. This and (5) from Smy
(7) Stele consecrated to ANTAIO by his wife. In the field a gla
with helmet and greaves, holding a shield and dagger. From A
ancient Thyatira. (8) Phrygian grave stele. A knife, double axe,
comb, and distaff in a rectangular field framed by egg and dart. Fr
nia. (9-11) Fragments of a sarcophagus from Denizli, ancient L
(12) Fragment of architecture from Philadelphia on which is th
a beardless man. C. Inscriptions and Mliscellaneous: (13) Greek
tion; list of ephebi. From Selefke (Mysia). (14) Small sarc
with epitaph of the stephanephori Alexandros and Apphias. Fro
(15) Vase, with pointed top, adorned with heads of Medusa. From
(16-18) Three Christian Greek inscriptions from Gaza. (19) Rec
with lid, from a tomb for incineration. It contains the bronze lebe
From Phalerum. (20 and 21) Two fragments of a table of offer
one, traces of characters. Black marble. From the cave of P
Crete. - BRONZES. (22) Archaic winged draped Gorgon. From th
lis, Athens. (23) Lebes, with lid, containing remains of bo
No. 19. From Phalerum. (24) Statuette of a nude youth. Fr
ponnesus. (25) Nude Poseidon, holding in his left hand a fish by the tail.
From Greece. (26) Large disk, with inscription relating to the navicularii of
Arles. (27) Lamp, in the form of a nude winged child, crowned with leaves.
From Egypt. (28 and 29) Tripod and caldron from Narce (Etruria).
(30) Group in relief without background, representing a Roman soldier
overcoming a barbarian. From Italy. - GOLD. (31) Fibula of bow form,
the upper part decorated with scrolls in niello. On one side the inscription
D* N a? collection
From CONSTANTINI ? AVG
in Bonn.- on theOBJECTS.
VARIOUS other VOTIS" X MVLTIS-
A. Bone: XX.
(32) Circular
plaque, on which is engraved Diana, clad in a short tunic and holding a
bow, between a doe at rest and a running dog. B. Painting: (33) Frag-
ment of a Mycenaean painting, representing a female head in black upon a
blue background. Bought near Phaestus, Crete. Cast: (34) Cast of the
colossal statue of Antinous formerly in the Somzie collection. (A. HEIRON
DE VILLEFOSSE and E. MICHON, B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904, pp. 345-351.)
PELLEFIGUE. - A Roman Inscription. - The following inscription
has been found at Pellefigue, canton of Lombez (Gers) : (Obito) G(aio)
Antistio Protogeni j et vitb(ae) Antistiae I Erotien(i) or Erotien(eti) uxori et
(obitae) A ntistia(e) Byblidi Jilia[e. (HIRON DE VILLEFOSSE, B. Soc. A nt.
Fr. 1904, p. 301.)
SAINT-GOUSSAUD. - The Site of Praetorium. - The site of
Praetorium, destroyed by the Saracens in the eighth centui
proved by the Abbd Dercier to have been at Saint-Goussaud, not
(M. GILLET, R. Arch. V. 1905, pp. 365-368; 2 figs.)
VANNES. - Gallo-Roman Antiquities. - In B. Soc. Ant. F
pp. 243-246, AVENEAU DE LA GRANCI:ERE records the discovery
cemetery at Vannes, of various small Gallo-Roman objects, am
many " Samian" vases with potter's stamps, and three coars
with stamps. Sixteen of the stamps were unknown.
GERMANY
LEIPSIC. - Vases in the Kunstgewerbe-Museum. - From the
for 1903 of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum at Leipsic, eight Greek and G
Italian vases are briefly described and a large Magna-Grecian hydr
picture of the Tyndaridae is illustrated, in Arch. Anz. 1904, pp. 216-
NEUSS.- Roman Remains.- The entire double part (111-11
1904 of the Jb. V. Alt. Rh. (462 pp., with many text illustrations,
atlas of 36 plates) is taken up with the discussion of the recent excav
on the site of the Roman Nouaesium. The history of the place is e
tively set forth by H. NISSEN, the general description of the site
C. KOENEN, that of the individual finds by H. LEHNER, and finall
STRACK discusses further the large finds of Roman and Gallic coins
vicinity (amounting to more than three thousand pieces), which h
previously treated, ibid. 1897, no. 101.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
NORTHERN DALMATIA. - Archaeological Investigations. - In
Jh. Oesterr. A rch. I. VIII, 1905, Beilage, cols. 31-60 (2 figs.), A. COL-
NAGO and J. KEIL describe investigations near Obrovazzo, in northern
Dalmatia. On the Cvijina Gradina an ancient town was partly ex-
GREAT BRITAIN] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 368
cavated. A temple, 11.40 x 6.65 m. in dimensions, is very ill-preserv

Marble fragments of a statue and an eagle indicate that Jupiter was the
worshipped. A bath, with remains of heating arrangements, was foun
and many private houses were partially excavated. The coins discovere
range in date from 15 B.C. to 270 A.D. Many utensils and other small
objects were found. No inscriptions, except a series of tile stamps, we
found in the excavations, but several ancient inscribed gravestones are
Obrovazzo. The ancient roads from the Cvijina Gradina were investiga
and Roman remains found at several points, especially at the Gradina
Medvidje. A boundary stone between the Sidrini and the Asseriates of
date between 42 and 69 A.D. was found at Bru'ka (text: Caes[a]ris Au
Germ. I i]nter Sidrinos et I Asseriates Q. Aebu tius Liberalis c. leg. j xi defini
At Bilisane was a small Roman settlement, from which coins and, app
ently, a fine fibula are derived. At Starigrad two gravestones with La
iiiscriptions were found in 1904. Several inscriptions, among them a de
cation Libero Patr(i) on a small altar, are in the Franciscan monastery
Karin. The town on the Cvijina Gradina was the ancient Clambetae, th
on the Gradina of Medvidje was Hadra.
TRIESTE. - An Inscription. - At San Giacomo, a suburb of Trieste,
the following inscription has been found: A. Tullio A. 1. | Philargyro I
Tullia 1. 1 Hilara v.f. | sib. et patrono. (J. DE LAIGUE, B. Soc. Ant. Fr.
1901, p. 271.)
GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON. - Acquisitions of the British Museum in 1903. - A selec-
tion from the official list of April, 1904, is given in Arch. Anz. 1904, pp. 214-
216. EGYPTIAN : Objects from the First Dynasty down, including a
symbolic porcelain hawk with outspread wings, and late magical figures of
wax, papyrus, and hair, such as were burned with incantations. ASSYRIAN:
Tablets from Old Babylonian temple archives, a piece of a Greek-Hebrew
bilingual boundary inscription, and a collection from Cyprus. GREEK AND
ROMAN: An elaborate piece of late Roman goldsmith's work and a cameo
of the birth of Dionysus, from Tunis; silver bezel ring from Ambracia;
unusual fibulae and late Roman bosses, of silver, from the Vale of Tempe;
primitive engraved stones with birds and branches, from Amorgus; scarab
from Cyprus; onyx portrait cameos from Egypt; cameos of Aphrodite and
Eros; Corinthian bronze mirror cover of Maenad before an altar; statuette
of Serapis and swan-handled bronze lamp from Rhodes; piece of temple
inventory from Delos; Tanagra statuettes of an ape grinding corn and a boy
with wreath; terra-cotta statuette of Aphrodite, from Asia Minor; inscribed
iron strigils from Upper Egypt. GIFTS: Panathenaic amphora with picture
of the exercise &KOVTIELV W-' w77rov; late Greek inscribed pillar from Mount
Hermon; terra-cotta pyxis with relief of Aphrodite and Adonis on cover;
terra-cotta statuettes from Tunis and Cyprus; Etruscan bronze Victory, the
handle of a patera; bronze fibulae from Spain; cast of sculptured throne
of Cnossus; specimens of marbles from ancient Roman buildings; frag-
ments of early pottery from Phylakopi, Melos. PREHISTORIC AND EARLY
BRITISH: Stone implements of both periods, from many places in Eng-
land and from other countries, including India and the Malay peninsula;
bronze weapons, some unusually fine specimens, also from England;
brooches of the La Thne type, from Spain; copper tools of the Second
Dynasty, from Abydos; Romano-British colossal head, bronze jug, and

other small objects.
Columns from Mycenae. - The British Museum has received from the
Marquis of Sligo the complete shaft of one of the columns and a consider-
able portion of the second column from the so-called Treasury of Atreus at
Mycenae. The fragments were brought from Greece in 1811. (H. B. W.
in C1. R. 1905, p. 188; London Times, March 13, 1905.)
OXFORD. - Greek Objects added to the Ashmolean Museum. -
In the report of the Keeper for 1903, the following additions to the collect
are noted among others: Fibulae of geometric style from Thebes wit
incised horses, water fowl, and ship; horned fibula of eighth century
and bronze palstave with letters, from Rimini; bronze bowl from Olym
with two zones of pictures, lions and hunters in Assyrian dress, not
any known Assyrian or Phoenician example, but resembling shields from
Idaean cave; two rare fibulae from Thebes with oval plates and repou
Gorgon designs; lead votive figures from Corinth recalling the figure
aryballi; a Megara bowl with Homeric scenes of Achilles, Priam, and
Penthesilea, moulded ware known to the Greeks as Samian; eight or ten
Greek vases and some fragments from various sites in Italy, lent; vase
fragments of all the usual styles and terra-cottas from Mr. Hogarth's recent
excavations at Naucratis, including a curious specimen of white and red
painting on black glaze background and a graffito, H[PO]AOTOY. The
gap in importations from Attica from before the appearance of red-figured
ware until after 450 perhaps indicates that the invasion of Egypt by
Cambyses and the exciting events of the early part of the fifth century at
Athens caused a temporary suspension of trade relations. (Arch. Anz. 1904,
pp. 191-192.)
Vases in the Ashmolean Museum. - In J.H.S. XXIV, 1904, pp. 293-
316 (3 pls.; 32 figs.), and XXV, 1905, pp. 65-85 (4 pls.; 21 figs.), P. GARDNER
describes fifty-two vases acquired by the Ashmolean Museum since 1893.
They include: a double-handled Attic geometric vase; two Boeotian geo-
metric vases; an early " proto-Corinthian " vase with human figures; a
black-figured "affected Tyrrhenian" amphora; two black-figured stamni;
three black-figured Attic lecythi, on one of which Theseus and the Mino-
taur appear in black on a white ground; three red-figured cylixes, one with
black-figured interior; a red-figured stamnus with Heracles and negroes;
a fine red-figured stamnus with the battle of Theseus and the Ama-
zons; two red-figured stamni with sacrificial scenes and allegorical figures;
Attic amphoras with the birth of Pandora, and Oedipus consulting the
Sphinx; representations of Hermes slaying Argos, of groups of warriors,
of nymphs and satyrs, of satyrs and animals, of women with Eros, of
Psyche, Aphrodite, and Eros; sacrificial, toilette, and grave scenes; the
blinding of Thamyris; and Charon. A glazed porcelain vase from Italy,
may be Phoenician, of about 500 B.C.
AFRICA
AIN-FOURNA. - Virius Lupus. - In C. R. A cad. Insc. 1904, pp. 57
580, a letter from Mr. MERLIN records the discovery at Ain-Fourna
fragmentary inscription, mentioning, as consul ordinarius, a Virius Lu
probably the L. Virius Lupus Julianus of C.I.L. VI, 31774.
AFRICA] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 365
CARTHAGE. - The Quarters of the First Urban Cohort. - In C. R.

Acad. Insc. 1904, pp. 695-703, P. GAUCKLER reports the discovery of build-
iiigs anld inscriptions on the top of the hill Bordj-Djedid, at Carthage. The
inscriptions show that the first urban cohort had its quarters here. The
most important building, which belongs to the sixth or seventh century
after Christ, contains extensive mosaics of Byzantine style. One mosaic
represents the cross, two doves, two lambs, and four persons, probably the
four evangelists. The other mosaics are a hunting scene, animals, and a
landscape.
The Theatre.- The excavations in the theatre at Carthage were con-
tituued with success in 1904. In the lower part of the hemicycle the steps,
of white marble, are preserved. The gallery which separated them from
the orchestra had an inscription in letters 0.45 m. high, parts of which have
been found. Twenty-two columns of different colored marbles, sixteen
capitals, numerous friezes, cornices, and fragments of architecture have
come to light, and also the following sculptures: a head of a Greek philoso-
pher or poet, a torso of the Heracles of Lysippus, torsos of the Hermes and
the Satyr pouring wine, by Praxiteles, of the Hermes carrying the infant
Dionysus, and of three other statues, Apollo, Hermes, and the emperor inl
heroic costume. (P. GAUCKLER, C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905, p. 5.)
The Necropolis of St. Monica. - In C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905, p. 134
(3 figs.), A. L. DELATTRE describes in part his excavations in 1904 in the ne-
cropolis of St. Monica. Various Roman walls were uncovered, among them
one practically made of superimposed amphorae. Many Punic tombs were
opened. The most interesting objects found are terra-cotta figurines. Two
of these represent Persephone, two others women with open arms (perhaps
intended to hold burning incense in their hands), one (fragmentary) a
woman with a fan, and one a female head. These are different from other
terra-cottas found at Carthage. Their probable date is the second century
B.C. Ibid. pp. 81 f. (fig.) a Puflic inscription is published, found in one of
the tomb-chambers. It reads, in translation: Tomb o [Hanbi] the high priest-
ess, daughter of Hannibaal, son of Baaljaton, son of Perets.
DOUGGA. - Date of the Temple of Mercury.- In the autumn of
1904 many important inscriptions were found, among them the dedication
of the temple of Mercury, dated in 119, about fifty years before the con-
struction of the capitol. (GAUCKLER, C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905, p. 4.)
EL-DJEM. - A Dedication to Luna. - At El-Djem the following in-
scription has been found: Lunae I pro salute I Imp. Caesaris Au[g] I p.p.
M'. Gavius M'. [f] Gal. Tetricus Aug[ustalis]. Being dedicated for the
welfare of Augustus, this must be earlier than 14 A.D., and therefore one of
the earliest inscriptions found in Africa. (P. GAUCKLER, B. Soc. A nt. Fr.
1904, p. 300.)
SOUSSE. - The Catacombs. - The excavation of the catacombs of
Sousse (Hadrumetum) is energetically carried on by the Abbe Le
New galleries are continually discovered. In one all the loculi are
A sarcophagus of masonry with the inscription A usityce dulcis animna
was recently found. It contained only the skeleton covered with
(Letter of Dr. CARTON, C. R. Acad. Insc. 1905, p. 23.)
UTICA. - Various Monuments. - Several monuments discovered at
and near Utica are reported by P. GAUCKLER in B. Soc. Ant. Fr
pp. 331-333. Chief among them is a fine bust of Diana, ascribed to

second century after Christ. The features may be those of a princes
the time of the Antonines. Several sculptured heads and three inscri
gravestones are briefly described. On one of the latter a ship with a
is represented. The inscription reads: Saturno |Aug. sacr. I L. Cossiu
Cleme l ns sacerdos v. s. 1. a.
UNITED STATES
ANTIQUITIES IN MUSEUMS. - In Sitzb. Miin. A kad. 1905, ii,
pp. 241-280 (9 pls.; 11 figs.), A. FURTWANGLER describes and discusses the
more important works of ancient art which he saw during his recent visit
to St. Louis, with the exception of those in the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston. At St. Louis, in the Museum of Fine Arts, nineteen vases were
worthy of description. At Chicago, in the Art Institute, are a few unim-
portant marble sculptures, a good bronze standing mirror, with Aphrodite
and Erotes, several forged terra-cotta figurines, a remarkably fine terra-cotta
mould, representing Nike, and seven vases. In the Field Columbian Mu-
seum are several Etruscan terra-cotta ash-chests, two Etruscan stone sar-
cophagi, a number of objects from graves at Narce and elsewhere in Italy,
an Etruscan griffin's head, various bronze utensils, two bath-tubs from Bosco
Reale, two Arretine cups stamped with the name of Vitalis, an Italian terra-
cotta figure of a youth with raised left foot, about half life size, a stone
bust of a woman, coarse Italian work of the third or second century B.C.,
an interesting Alexandrine figure about one-third life size, made of marble
and plaster, and a forged vase with reliefs, said to be from Tarenturm. In
Washington the National Museum contains many Cypriote vases, among
them two Mycenaean, Cypriote bronze weapons of the Bronze Age, and
some good Roman lamps. The Smithsonian Institution contains many
antiquities, mostly of little value. Among them are numerous Etruscan
(and some Apulian) vases, many bronze utensils (fibulae, etc.) from Italy,
several forged terra-cottas, and a number of vases, six of which are selected
as worthy of description. Among these is one signed by Tleson and one of
the school of Duris. In Baltimore the Johns Hopkins University possesses
a small, but excellent, collection of vases formerly in the Peabody Institute.
Six are published by Hartwig in the MIeisterschalen. Five others are here
described, as are also some terra-cotta antefixes (Medusa, etc.) from Taren-
tum, some fragments of small limestone reliefs from Tarentum, from battles
of Centaurs and Amazons, and a collection of engraved stones, with some
gold objects, from Cyprus. In Philadelphia the Free Museum of Science
and Art, belonging to the University of Pennsylvania, possesses many Baby-
lonian inscriptions and a few works of Babylonian art. The Egyptian
section is rich in works of the earliest times and contains some good sculp-
tures of the Ptolemaic period. The engraved gems, from the collection of
Maxwell Sommerville, are chiefly forgeries. The objects from graves at
Vulci and Narce, ancient bronze utensils from Italy, acroteria from Caere,
sarcophagi from Viterbo, and Cypriote antiquities are of interest. Twenty-
four Greek vases are described, several of which are unusually interesting.
The marble sculptures are chiefly from the temple of Diana at Lake Nemni.
In New York the Metropolitan Museum possesses many valuable objects,
intermingled with forgeries and other worthless material. The bronze
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chariot from Norcia is of unique value, as are also the paintings from Bos
Reale. The so-called Geta, a bronze statue, is really a Camillus, not late
than the first century after Christ. A fine large bronze represents the stat
of Cybele drawn by two lions. A bronze statuette of a praying boy is
Etruscan work of the fifth century B.C., showing Argive influence. T
collection of Cypriote antiquities is of great importance. The Greek terr
cottas are almost all forgeries. Among the vases, most of which are of lit
value, are a few of importance. The bronze mirror-stand in the Cesnol
collection (Perrot and Chipiez, Hist. de l'Art dans l'Antiq. III, p. 862, fig. 62
is an archaic Greek work. The body has been twisted by pressure of th
earth. Several other objects are selected for description. In Cambridg
the Fogg Museum of Art (Harvard University) contains a good replica
the Meleager statue and of the so-called Narcissus, besides a few othe
sculptures, vases, bronzes, and terracottas.
BOSTON.-- Acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts.--In the
Annual Report for 1904 (Cambridge, The University Press, 1905), BERT H.
HILL, Assistant Curator of Classical Antiquities, reports the following
acquisitions :
PURCHASES. - SCULPTURE.--Except where the contrary is specified,
the material is in all cases marble. 1. Archaic Head of a Girl, in poros,
from Sicyon. There are traces of a pattern in blue on the ear-buttons, and
of red pigment in the hair, on the lips, and on the eyebrows, which are ren-
dered plastically. The workmanship is of great delicacy. Height, 0.175 m.;
length of face, 0.093 m. Shown at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition
of Ancient Greek Art, in 1903 (Catalogue, p. 80, No. 49). 2. Attic Graie
Relief of the latter part of the fifth century B.C., representing a young
woman looking into a mirror which she holds in her left hand. The relief
is enclosed by narrow Doric pilasters supporting a pediment with acroteria.
The lower part of the stele is lost. Height, 0.58 m. 3. Leda springing up
to protect the swan which takes refuge in her lap. She holds him close
with her right arm, while the left was raised, doubtless to ward off the
attack of the pursuing eagle. The figure was intended to be seen from its
right, the drapery on the left side being sketchily rendered and the left
thigh being disproportionately long. Greek work probably of the latter
part of the fifth century, later used to adorn a Roman fountain. Leda's
head, left arm, right hand, toes of the left foot, and right leg from just
above the knee, with the head and neck of the swan, were broken away in
antiquity and replaced. All are now missing, with the lower part of the
drapery, behind, and the base. The work shows at two or three points
somewhat careless (original) use of the drill. Height, 0.885 inm.; length,
0.53 m. The motive is the same as that of the Capitoline Leda (Helbig
Fiihrer 2 I, No. 467). Here, however, the left foot is raised much higher,
there is far greater vigor in the action, the right leg is nude, a heavy Doric
chiton is worn instead of softer chiton and himation, the treatment is
generally simpler and the composition that of a high relief, rather than of
a group in the round. 4. Acroterion from an Attic grave stele, of unusually
elaborate design and fine workmanship. Front and rear are alike, having a
large palmette--in two distinct halves- springing from acanthus leaves
ranged in two rows. Fluted stalks rise from the upper row and develope
upward into one of the half-palmettes, and outward into a volute. The
space at the sides between the front and rear palmettes is covered with
leaves of acanthus. There is a rectangular hole in the bottom for attach-
ment to the stele. The greater part of the acanthus and of the volutes, with
the tips of many of the leaves of the palmette, have been lost. Height,
0.66 m.; width, 0.44 m. 5. Colossal Head of Zeus, from Mylasa in Caria
(Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmidler, Nos. 572 and 573, with comment by Furt-
wingler and Arndt; cf. Mluseum of Fine Arts Bulletin, January, 1905). The
simple arrangement of the beard and hair, the low broad forehead, a certain
calm dignity in the expression, and its mildness - which has here become
positive weakness- may well be reminiscent of the great Phidian Zeus at
Olympia. Probably Attic work of the middle of the fourth century B.c.
The head was made separately for insertion in a statue, which was draped
and probably seated. The face is turned somewhat to the right, and that
side is less carefully worked than the other: the right eye is the lower and
the right nostril the smaller. Holes for dowels in the crown indicate that
some sort of headdress was fastened upon the head. At the left side, behind,
is a small fragment, probably of the garment that passed over the god's
shoulder. The greater part of the nose has been lost, with some chips from
the base of the neck in front, and from the locks of hair falling behind the
ears. Height, 0.48 m.; length of face, 0.26 m. 6. Fragmentary Statue of a
Boy. The right arm is broken off just above the elbow, the left at the
wrist, and both legs in the upper part of the thigh. What remains of the fig-
ure is practically uninjured, but does not suffice to show certainly its motive.
The boy is nude. His weight was borne upon the left leg; the right shoulder
is raised and the arm, which was bent at the elbow, is swung out somewhat.
The left arm hangs at his side. His gaze is directed slightly downward and
to the right. The treatment of the hair - only that close over the forehead
being carefully finished --suggests that the upper part of the head was to
be concealed by a wreath or cap. Probably of the fourth century B.c.; and
certainly Attic work, with much of its characteristic grace and charm.
Height, 0.735 m.; length of face, 0.13 m. 7. Head of Homer. A Hellenistic
work of heroic size, hardly surpassed, if indeed equalled, among the known
portraits of the poet. Blindness and old age are powerfully presented, but
the sensitive face shows none of the querulousness that often comes with
decaying powers. The type resembles most that of the herms in Paris and
Schwerin (Bernouilli, Griechische Ikonographie, I, pp. 10-11, Nos. 10 and 16).
The head was made separately for insertion in a statue. A fragment from
the right side of the neck and much of the nose were broken away in
antiquity; and there is a modern scar over the right eyebrow. Other-
wise the preservation is perfect. (Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of
Ancient Greek Art, 1903, p. 26, No. 39; Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Janu-
ary, 1905.) Height, 0.41 m.; length of face, 0.21 m. 8. Small Greek Relief,
representing the death of Priam; published by Heydemann, R6m. Mitth.
1888, pp. 101-103, pl. iii. Neoptolemus, with his left foot braced against the
altar on which the old king sits, is dragging him from it by the hair with
his left hand while the sword in the other hand is drawn back ready for the
fatal blow. Hekabe (?), kneeling on the altar behind Priam, makes frantic
appeal for mercy. There is much in the relief to -associate it with work of
the late fifth century B.c., though its actual date is probably much later. ITL
Imperial times it was used as a sepulchral relief by a Roman lady who
caused to be inscribed upon the side of the long altar, Aurelia . Secunda
se . viva ? fcit ? sibi - et - sulis. An original inscription appears to have bee
cut away to make place for this. Length, 0.49 m.; height, 0.37 m. 9. He
from a copy in Pentelic marble of the original of the Munich Oil-pour
(MI. F. A., Catalogue of Casts, No. 527; Furtwingler, Beschreibung der Gly
tothek, No. 302, where this head is mentioned at the end of the bibliography)
The lower part of the head - from below the base of the skull to just abo
the chin - has been lost; the rest is admirably preserved. The chief poin
of difference between this head and that of the statue in Munich are the
larger size of the eyes and mouth here, the greater breadth of the upper p
of the nose, and the less painlstaking rendering of the hair. From Athe
Height, 0.23 nm.; distance from mouth to root of hair, 0.12 m. 10. Portr
of a Roman Lady, of the second century after Christ. The eyes are sm
and near together; the nose is rather aquiline, the mouth expressive,
jaw firm. The fine head is admirably poised. The most striking charact
istic is the coiffure, which resembles that affected by the elder Fausti
The preservation is excellent, there being only slight injuries to the tip o
the nose, the ears, and the edge of the bust, with somewhat more seri
damage from a blow over the right eye. Height, 0.48 m.; length of
face, 0.172 m.
BRONZES. - 1. Archaic Hermes Kriophoros, from Arcadia. The god is
bearded, wears the pilos, closely fitting girt chiton, and heavy boots, and walks,
with the left foot now in front, holding a young rain under his left arm and
extending his right hand. The kerykeion there held is missing, and the
god's left foot and the left hind foot of the ram have been broken away;
there is a modern scar on Hermes' right cheek. Uniform greenish gray
patina. Height, 0.167 m. A statuette deserving a very high place among
bronzes of its period. 2. Aphrodite and Erotes in the developed archaic
style: a mirror-stand formerly in the Forman Collection (described by
C. H. Smith in the Sale Catalogue, 1899, p. 10, No. 66, pl. iii). Aphrodite
stands upon a round pedestal, wearing soft boots, an Ionic chiton, and a
peplos fastened at the right shoulder. She raises the edge of it with her
left hand, while the right holds out a flower. Her hair is parted in the
middle and arranged in loops over the temples; it is confined by a stephane
and, loosely tied again at the shoulders, falls to the waist. Erotes on either
side fly (in the archaic running attitude) down toward her head. The little
figures wear low boots but are otherwise nude; their hair is arranged much
like Aphrodite's. The yoke on which the mirror was supported rests upon
her head, but the polished disc has been lost. The modelling of the figures
was done with great delicacy and precision, and the detail very finely
engraved. All is scarcely less sharp than it can have been when the mirror
left the maker's hands. Height, 0.256 m.; of the Aphrodite alone, 0.19 m.
3. Nude Aphrodite; of about the end of the fourth century B.C. Her hair is
gathered in knots at the top and back of her head, like that of the Bartlett
Aphrodite (Report for 1903, p. 57, No. 7). She stands with her weight well
forward on the right foot, the left leg bent and the foot drawn back some-
what; both hands are extended downward and a little to the front, with
the palms open; there is a gentle forward inclination of the head. Delicate
olive-green patina. Height, 0.186 m. (Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibi-
tion, 1903, p. 40, No. 13.) The beautiful figure is mounted upon an ornate
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moulded circular pedestal 0.053 m. high, which originally bore another

slightly larger statuette. The patina is similar to that of the Aphrodite.
4. Graeco-Roman Hermes, standing with his weight on the right leg, his
right arm extended, and the left, covered by the chlamys he wears on his
shoulder, hanging by his side. The klerykleion has been lost from this hand,
and a purse (?) from the other. Even green patina. Height, 0.15 m.
(Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition, 1903, p. 45, No. 35.)
CLAZOMENIAN 'SARCOPHAGUS. - Painted terra-cotta sarcophagus from
Clazonenae, of ordinary form and technique - the figures on the upper end
being silhouetted in black with details in superposed white, those on the
lower having the heads drawn in outline and the bodies solid black with
interior lines and spaces left in the color of the background. The figured
ornament on the rim is distributed as in the Berlin sarcophagus, published
in Ant. Denk. I, pl. 44 (Antiquarium, No. 3145). The subject of the broad
frieze at the head is the departure of armed men for battle. At the left a
quadriga, with the charioteer and an attendant on foot, waits for the chief,
who is bidding farewell to a group of women and children; a file of four
hoplites marches up from the right. Above, and on either side just below,
is a narrow frieze of animals - lions, panthers, boars, and bulls. The panel
at the top of each side section shows a spearman standing beside a horse;
that at the lower end, a seated sphinx with her head turned back. On the
broad band at the foot of the sarcophagus is painted a bull fallen upon his
back under the attack of a lion and a panther. Practically nothing is now
preserved of the undecorated portions of the sarcophagus, but little is miss-
ing from the rim, though it has been broken into many fragments. The
surface is much crackled and the greater part of the superposed color has
been lost. Length, 2.16 m.; width at top, 1.11 m., at foot, 0.88 m.
ATTIC VASE. - Pyxis (toilet box), with cover bearing an exquisite design,
in the developed fine red-figured style, representing the appearance before
Nausicadi of the shipwrecked Odysseus. With Ino's veil still flung over his
arm, and hiding his nakedness with a branch plucked from the bush behind
him, he follows Athena to the left toward the princess, who " stands firm "
awaiting him, while Phylonoi and Leucippe, who are nearest the intruder,
flee in panic. A third maiden, Cleopatra, is absorbed in washing A garment.
Allthe names are inscribed in white: NAV?IKA, (VAONOH, etc. Vari-
ous details in white, and gilded relief. The knob is missing, and a part of
the rim has been restored, with a small portion of each of the figures. The
box, which is decorated with a laurel wreath, has lost a few small pieces
from its top edge. Diameter, 0.136 m.; height, 0.046 m.
ARRETINE MOULDS.- Each mould is complete unless otherwise speci-
fied; Nos. 3, 6, 10, 13, 14, and 19 are intact. I. From the workshop of
MARCUS PERENNIUS. a. By Tigranes: all signed M.PEREN TIGRANI, except
No. 5, which bears no signature, and No. 8, which has only TIGRANI, half
the mould being lost. 1. M1.Mould of a Large Bowl with Rolling Lip, which,
like the bottom, is adorned with delicate leaf patterns. A " calathiscus "
dancer and five female genii bearing garlands dance ceremoniously among
tripods set on sculptured bases. Diameter, 0.236 m.; height, 0.13 m.
2. Similar M1ould. Apollo Citharoedus, a genius playing flutes, two rnaenads
and a satyr, dancing. Between the figures a tripod and four candelabra.
Diameter, 0.233 m.; height, 0.128 m. These two moulds resemble the fine
fragments, Annual Report, 1898, p. 79, No. 9, and p. 83, No. 31, and 190
p. 84, No. 1. 3. Mould of a Bowl. Four dancing girls between statuettes
surmounting conventional floral ornaments. The figures are like one o
those in Annual Report, 1898, p. 79, No. 9, but they do not wear the sm
calathus on their heads. Diameter, 0.177 m.; height, 0.093 in. 4. Moul
of a Bowl. Decoration in two equal zones: on the lower, birds and flora
ornaments; on the upper, a flute-player and five dancers, all six being pr
cisely like figures which appear in the fragments Nos. 10J to 14, pp. 79-8
Annual Report, 1898. Diameter, 0.163 In.; height, 0.087 m. 5. Mould of
Cover. Figures from the same dies as those in No. 4. Unsigned. Diaimet
0.196 m.; height, 0.038 m. 6. Mould of a Cup, decorated with bucrani
and festoons of fruit. Diameter, 0.143 m.; height, 0.054 m. 7. Mould
a Bowl. Vintage scene: three fauns gathering grapes, three bearded saty
treading out wine. Diameter, 0.192 m.; height, 0.103 mn. (cf. Nos. 1, 2, an
3, Annual Report, 1898, p. 77). 8. Fragment of the Mould of a Bowl, wi
representation of the sacrifice of a pig. Diameter, 0.12 m.; height, 0.09
(cf. No. 32, p. 84 of Annual Report, 1898). b. By Nicephorus:
PERENNI
NICEPHOR
9. Fragmentary Mould of a Bowl. Subject of the s
hunt; one hunter has been brought to the groun
rushes to his rescue. The mould shows clear sign
0.14 m.; height, 0.10 m. 10. Mould of a Bowl. Sy
of youths and hetairae. Diameter, 0.213 m.; hei
very similar to No. 10, three of the groups bein
Diameter, 0.20 m.; height, 0.106 m. c. By Pilade
Mould of a Bowl. Nike, and Sirens with tails in the
playing flute and lyre. Similar in style to Nos. 1
those in Annual Report, 1900, p. 84, No. 1. Signe
Perennius was doubtless on the lost side of the m
height, 0.132 m. - II. From the workshop of RA
RASIN. 13. Mould of a Bowl, decorated with thr
festoons of grapevine. Diameter, 0.167 m.; heig
Mould. Identical Cupids holding necklace festoo
ter, 0.164 m.; height, 0.085 m. b. By Pantagathu
and ATHV in monogram) RASIN. 15. Mould of a
wreath of leaves and fruit and with birds, lizards,
a part of the decoration of the larger mould signed
Report, 1900, p. 84, No. 3. Diameter, 0.164 m.; h
ably by Quartio, workman of Rasinius. 16. Mou
bearded satyrs and fauns, festooned necklaces, th
bling the mould No. 2, p. 84, Annual Report, 1900,
RASIN. Diameter, 0.20 m.; height, 0.10 m. 17. Fra
Length, 0.17 m.; height, 0.115m ni. -III. From th
CORNELIUS. By Primus. 18. Mould of a Bowl. T
fruit from upper border of design: columns bet
festoons of ivy. Signed, PRIMUS and P. CORNE
Diameter, 0.175 m.; height, 0.089 m. - IV. From
19. Mould of a Small Cup, decorated with bucra
Diameter, 0.084 m.; height, 0.049 m.
CoINS. - The number of Greek coins purchased
1904 is 1313. Of these, 975 are from the famous collection of Canon Green-
well and comprise the whole of it, exclusive of a number of duplicates of
coins already possessed by the Museum. Like the Greenwell coins, those
acquired from other sources are also of exceptional beauty and in excellent,
many even in brilliant, preservation. Among the 294 coins from Italy and
Sicily is a series of 35 of Tarentum; one of the very rare staters of Pando-
sia with facing head-of Hera Lacinia; splendidly preserved examples of
the finest types from Thurium, Rhegium, Agrigentum, Camarina, Catana,
Himera, and Naxos, with a beautiful tetradrachmn of Eryx, unusually well
executed. The series of 68 Syracusan tetradrachms with female head in
profile extends from the archaic to the finest period; it includes 17 coins
by known artists: Eumenes, Eukleidas, Evaenetos, Kimon, Phrygillos, Evar-
chidas, and " Parme.. ". There is an example of Kimon's facing Arethusa,
and two of his signed dekadrachnms, as well as the beautifully preserved
dekadrachm of Evaenetos, published by Evans, Syracusan MIedallions, pl. ix.
The notable series among the 346 coins from Continental Greece and the
North are those of Abdera, Aenos, Macedon, and Elis. The whole number
of coins from Asia and Africa is 673. Of first importance here, and indeed
in the whole collection, is the remarkable series of 330 electrum coins of
Asia Minor, 160 of them Cyzicene staters (a few, sixths and twelfths) of 133
different types. This brings the number of Cyzicene electrumr coins in the
Museum to 173, of types to 141. The other electrum issues are 59 Lesbian
hectae, 39 Phocaean hectae, and 62 early coins from Ionian mints for the
most part unknown. For the rest, two series demand special mention: the
22 silver and 15 gold coins of Cyrene, and the 11 gold staters of Lampsacus,
which bring the number of types of these splendid coins represented in the
Museum to 14 (see Canon GREENWELL, ' The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus,'
Num. Chron. 1887, pp. 1-125; pls. i-vi; also Num. Chron. 1880, pl. i; 1885,
pl. i; 1890, pl. iii; 1893, pl. vii; 1897, pls. xi-xiv).
GIFTS.--1. Early Babylonian Cylinder, of hematite, engraved with the
figures of a bearded god and a male and female worshipper - a subject not
uncommon on these seals. Length, 23.5 mm. 2-4. Additions to the BART-
LETT COLLECTION as listed in the Annual Report for 1903: 2. Oval Sard In-
taglio: bust of Sabina, wife of Hadrian. Length, 12.5 mnm. 3. Sardonyx
with intaglio representation of the Three Graces; lenticular in shape, the
lower (onyx) side plane. Diameter, 23 mm. 4. Bronze Statuette of Isis,
standing completely enveloped in a fringed mantle fastened with the "Isiac
knot," and wearing her appropriate headdress- solar disc with uraeus, be-
tween horns and feathers. Only the handles remain of the sistrumn she held
up in her right hand and of the vessel once carried in the left; the tall head-
dress is bent over forward: otherwise the figure is intact. Brown and green
patina. Height, 0.13 m. 5. Etruscan Bronze Handle, from Citth della Pieve.
It has the form of an acrobat making with his body a bridge between two
supports, which rise from an ornate plaque once attached to the side of a
vase. (The other handle of the pair to which this belonged is in Berlin:
Antiquarium mInv. No. 7900.) Length, 0.15 m.; height, 0.16 m. 6. Bronze
Statuette of Mlercury: a slender figure standing with the right hand slightly
advanced, the left raised shoulder-high, and a cloak flung over this arm.
The attribute the right hand held has been lost. Height, 0.13 m. 7. Bronze
Coin of Prusias I of Bithynia. 8, 9, 10, 11. Copies in water color, by Mr.
Joseph Lindon Smith, of three of the "Maidens " in the Acropolis Museu
at Athens - Nos. 674, 684, and 686 (Lechat, Au Muse'e de l'A cropole, pl.
opp. p. 278; fig. 38, p. 369; and fig. 37, p. 367), and the " Ephebus," No. 68
(Lechat, fig. 39, p. 375). 12, 13. Casts of the face of the Petworth Aphr
dite (Furtwingler, Masterpieces, pl. xvii) and of the Satyr with the ch
Dionysus astride his shoulders, in the Museum at Naples (Clarac, pl. 704
No. 1628 A =- Reinach, Repertoire, I, 397/6). A Cast of the "'l'hrone o
Venus " from the Villa Ludovisi, now in the Museo delle Terme, Rome (Riim
Mlitth. 1892, pp. 54-5; pl. ii), has also been acquired by purchase.
Finally, the Department is indebted to Mr. J. Templeman Coolidge, Jr
for the loan of a marble torso of a girl, a charming Greek fragment, late
acquired by him in Europe (published in Mlaus. of Fine Arts Bulletin, Apr
1905).
The curator of the Egyptian Department, A. M. LYTHGOE, reports the fol-
lowing acquisitions: The Sarcophagus of Thothmes I, from the tomb of Queen
Hatshepsut, in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, at Thebes. Presented
by Mr. Theodore M. Davis. The sarcophagus is of massive proportions, and
is of sandstone, polished to a mirror-like surface and ornamented with bands
of inscription in sunken relief (not yet received). Gift from the Beni Hasan
Exploration Society of objects found in the excavations carried on at Beni
Hasan during the past two years by Mr. John Garstang, of Liverpool Uni-
versity, consisting of a complete type-series of pottery of the eleventh to the
twelfth dynasties, a selection of types of pottery of the twenty-second to
the twenty-fifth dynasties, and a painted wooden coffin of the eleventh to
the twelfth dynasties. Gift from the Egypt Exploration Fund of antiquities
from the various branches of work carried on by representatives of the
Fund, - by Professor Petrie at Ehnasya, Professor Naville at Der el-Bahari,
and Drs. Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus (not yet received). With the
purpose of strengthening the collection at its weaker points, representative
examples of sculpture were acquired of several periods previously unrep-
resented, or insufficiently so. These include: 1. Two Seated Statuettes, of
limestone, 36 and 27 cm. in height respectively, of the early fourth dynasty.
Both are in perfect condition and one has well-preserved traces of color.
These antedate the pair of standing statuettes given by the Egypt Explora-
tion Fund in 1897, and are thus the earliest sculptures in the round which
the Museum possesses. 2. A Small Head in limestone, of the fifth or sixth
dynasty, most beautifully modelled. Height, 5 cm. 3. Standing Statue,
of limestone, of the sixth dynasty. Feet missing. Present height, 49 cm.
4. Upper Half of a royal statue, of breccia, eighteenth dynasty. Present
height, 34 cm. 5. Head of a royal statue, of pink granite, nineteenth
dynasty. Height, 15 cm. 6. Head of a royal statuette, lapis-lazuli, nine-
teenth dynasty. Height, 4 cm. 7. Head, of black granite, twenty-second to
twenty-fifth dynasty. Height, 24 cm. 8. Upper Half of a statuette of the
lioness-headed goddess Sechmnet, of quartz veined with lapis-lazuli and iron,
pyrites, twenty-sixth dynasty. Present height, 8.50 cm. 9. Head of a royal
statuette, of limestone, twenty-sixth dynasty. Height, 5 cm. 10. Head, of
green basalt, twenty-sixth dynasty. An example of the finest work of this
period. Height, 20 cm. Two Mastaba-chambers of the fifth dynasty, acquired
from the Egyptian government durintg the past year, cannot be exhibited in
the present Museum building, owing to their great weight and size.
The series of wooden sculptures of the Middle Empire, from Assiut, of

which brief mention was made in the report sent from Egypt just after their
acquisition a year ago, may now be described in greater detail. In addition
to the wooden statue 1.12 m. in height, mentioned at that time, which stands
as an important example of Egyptian sculpture in that material, there are
five single figures and three groups of figures, all of wood. These are:
1. Standing Female Figure, 47 cm. in height; arms straight down at the
sides, feet together. The figure is represented nude, flesh parts un-
painted; hair and sandals black; necklace, bracelets, and anklets pale
green. 2. Female Figure, 67 cm. in height; represented as walking, with
left leg advanced. She has her left arm raised to hold a basket on her
head, and with her right is carrying at her side a pair of geese which she
has grasped securely by the wings. She is clothed in a long garment,
painted white, which reaches from the waist to the ankles and is supported
by a strap over each shoulder. The nude parts are painted yellow, and a
massive wig which falls down her back to the waist is painted black. Two
necklaces are represented in color, one red and the other green. 3. Statu-
ette, 28.50 cm. in height, of most realistic modelling. It represents a male
figure, walking, with left leg in advance; the arms straight down at the
sides; the right hand holding the fold of a flaring skirt which reaches from
the waist to the ankles. Upper part of body nude. Unpainted, except for
the eyes and eyebrows, which are represented in black. 4. Statuette of a
Male Figure, 40 cm. in height, similar in position to last. Left leg advanced,
arms at the sides, right hand grasping a fold of the skirt. Eyes outlined
with a narrow inlay of bronze. 5. Figure of a Steer; height, 20 cm.; length,
27 cm. Painted white, with large black spots. 6. Group of Figures on a
common base, represented in the act of slaughtering an ox for the sacrifice.
The ox is lying on its side with head falling back, its hind legs and left
fore leg tied together. A man with a knife in his hand has just cut off
its right fore leg, which has been laid on an offering-table close at hand,
while three other men are assisting at the ceremony. The base is painted
a drab color, the nude parts of the figures red, and their short skirts white.
7. Group of Six Figures, engaged in some kind of work (brick-making ?).
One man stands at a round table, another is bringing up a jar of water on
his head, and a third advances with two large baskets on his shoulders.
Three women are helping in the work, and are distinguished, as always,
by the coloring of all nude parts in yellow, in contrast to the deep red of
the male figures. Both men and women alike have black wigs and short
white skirts. 8. Model of a Nile Boat. The owner, with an attendant, sits
in a squatting position under a canopy near the middle of the boat. At the
bow stands the captain with three sailors who are managing the boat, while
at the stern squats the steersman. For the Prehistoric Period were acquired
a series of three figurines, one male and two female, of a rare type, with the
arms raised over the head, this position occurring generally only in the rep-
resentations of the human figure on decorated vases of the period. Of the
same date is a box of pink limestone, bound at the corners with gold wire
in a manner commonly employed in binding prehistoric "box-burials";
and also a series of types of " white-line " pottery, and characteristic orna-
ments of alabaster and ivory. Of the Old Empire there are a selection of
fifteen stone vases, of forms which supplement those acquired previously,
and typical examples of beryl and carnelian amulets of the fifth and s
dynasties. The Mliddle Empire is represented by two important limes
stelae, two axe-heads and a spear-head of bronze, and a number of amu
and necklaces of amethyst, garnet, and blue-glazed porcelain. Of the E
New Empire are a bronze mirror with handle of glazed porcelain in the f
of the papyrus-flower column; a portion of an elaborate girdle of gold in
with colored enamels; and three other examples of the finest gold-work
the period. Of the Late New Empire are a small standing figure of Se
met, of glazed steatite, most carefully and delicately worked; glazed por
lain figures of Ptah-Seker-Osiris and a cynocephalus ape; and two bro
figures of Osiris, one of them retaining traces of gilding. The Copti
Christian Period is represented by four grave-reliefs of limestone; forty-th
examples of glassware, mostly of the period of Justinian; a box-cove
shell, bearing in relief the representation of St. George slaying the drag
a bronze chain, with pendant in the form of the cross; two bronze earr
with pendants; one glass bracelet, eight leather and bead bracelets, and f
iron and bronze bracelets; two inscribed iron spoon-handles; and an iv
doll.
CAMBRIDGE. -Casts of Busts of Julius Caesar. - Mr. Frank J.
Scott, of Toledo, Ohio, has presented to Harvard University
of casts of seventeen busts of Julius Caesar. The collection is described,
and the addresses delivered on the occasion of the presentation (Novem-
ber 30, 1904) are published in a small pamphlet printed for the Department
of Classics of Harvard University. (The Scott Collection of Casts of the
Busts of Julius Caesar, Cambridge, 1905, printed by the University. 17 pp.
8vo.)
NEW YORK. --A Statue of Aphrodite. --A statue of Aphrodite
(a replica, with slight variations, of the Venus de' Medici) has been exhib-
ited in New York during the past winter. The claim was made that it was
the original portrait of Phryne by Praxiteles. Much attention was paid it
by the press. See The Nation, March 9, 1905, p. 187.
PHILADELPHIA. - Etruscan Inscriptions. - Ten Etruscan inscrip-
tions in the Free Museum of Science and Art are published by W. N. BATES
in the Transactions of the Dep't of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and
Art, University of Pennsylvania, I, iii (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 165-168
(4 pls.; 11 figs.).
Torso of a Hermes.- A torso, found three years ago near Rome, is
published by ALFRED EMERSON in the Transactions of the Dep't of Archae-
ology, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania, I, iii,
1905, pp. 169-175 (2 p1s.). It is now in the Museum. It represents a
youth in an attitude somewhat resembling that of the Hermes of Praxiteles.
The Greek original was apparently a work of the fourth century B.c., by a
follower of Polyclitus. Probably Hermes was represented. A right leg,
found at the same place as the torso, but not acquired with it, probably
belongs to it. At the same place was also found a replica of a Praxitelean
statue of a youthful satyr playing a flute.
BYZANTINE, MEDIAEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE ART

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
BERLIN. - An Acquisition of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum. -

To the Oriental collection of this museum a magnificent Oriental tapestr
has recently been added. It belonged originally to the mosque of Muhi-e
dim at Salihije of Damascus, and was made at the beginning of the thirteent
century at Emessa, Syria, for a prince of the Ayoubid dynasty. It is orn
mented with symbolic animals and plants, accompanied by Arabic inscri
tions. (R. Art Chrdt. May, 1905, p. 214.)
BUDA-PEST.- A Madonna by Nino Pisano.- A. VENTURI, in
L' Arte, 1905, pp. 126-127, describes an unknown Madonna by Nino Pis
which is now in the National Museum at Buda-Pest. It resembles in m
respects the Madonna by the same artist in the Museo dell' Opera a
Orvieto. There are traces of gilding on the hair of the Madonna. T
proportions are rather more slender than is usual with Nino Pisano.
TABARKA (TUNISIA). - Christian Mosaics. -At Tabarka very
interesting Christian mosaics have been found, among them views of the
basilica, in section and elevation, and a portrait of an unknown writer
seated at a table. (P. GAUCKLER, C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905, pp. 4 f.)
UPENNA (TUNISIA).- Mosaics.- About twenty funerary mosaics
with various representations were found in the Byzantine basilica at Upenna
in the late autumn of 1904. The most important is that of the bishop
Honorius, victim of Huneric. His remains were placed in the basilica of
his diocese at the beginning of the sixth century. The cross that surmounts
the epitaph is of gilded cubes, which is rare at this time. (GAUCKLER,
C. R. Acad. Insc. 1905, p. 5, and B. Arch. C. T. December, 1904, pp. 19-23,
January, 1905, pp. 8-10; MONCEAUX, B. Soc. Ant. Fr. 1904, pp. 341-344.)
ITALY
CESENA. - Restoration of a Fresco. - In the refector

vent of S. Francesco at the Malatestiana of Cesena, a fresc
1900, which has been restored by order of the Ministry of
The fresco belongs to the middle of the fifteenth centur
scenes from the life of St. Francis, the Last Supper and a
the Malatesta Family.' In this last the prince Malatesta
An angel stands behind him, and before him is the kn
Pope. Above appears the hand of God. Of the other d
refectory there remain a much-damaged Crucifixion an
the Baptist. (E. CALZINI, L' Arte, January-February, 1
FLORENCE.-A New Donatello. -There is in the possession of
Conte Ugo Goretti-Miniati a Virgin and Child in relief which bears numer-
ous marks of Donatello's workmanship. The relief originally stood in the
Count's castle at Campoli, and from the fact that the Madonna still retains
the reddish preparation for gilding upon the aureole, the edge of her mantle
and the sleeve, it is conjectured that the work may have been left unfin-
ished at Campoli. The similarities to other works of Donatello are numer-
ous, but there is a closer relation with those belonging to his post-Roman
period. The group lacks some of the energy of the master, and it is per-
CHRISTIAN ART] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NE1WS, 1905 377
mitted to assign some share in it to an assistant. (G. DE NICOLA, L' Arte,

March-April, 1905, pp. 124-126.)
New Drawings by Correggio. - In Gaz. B.-A. XXXI, 1905, pp. 20-29,
EMIL JACOBSEN publishes some unedited drawings by Correggio, chiefly
studies for well-known works found in the Uffizi collections. They are a
study for the Jupiter and Antiope of the Louvre, found among the drawings
of Giovanni di San Giovanni, a study for the ' Madonna della Scodella' in
the Museum of Parma, and two studies of angels on either side of a single
sheet, the one calque' or counterdrawn to the other --a labor-saving device
seemingly unworthy of so skilful a craftsman, but used by Michelangelo
himself (cf. the ' Risen Christ,' counterdrawn to the 'Tityos,' among the
Michelangelo drawings at Windsor). These angels were designed for the
famous cupola frescoes in the DuImo at Parma. Among other identifications
of Correggio drawings, Jacobsen mentions a study of two 'putti' back to
back, evidently a first draft for one of the medallions with which Correggio
ornamented the ceiling of S. Paolo in Parma.
Acquisitions of Florentine Galleries. --During 1904 the Uffizi has
acquired a 'Madonna adoring the Child,' attributed to Filippino Lippi; a
'Crucifixion with Saints,' by Perugino and Signorelli; a ' Madonna and
Child,' by Bart. Caporali; a ' Portrait of a Benedictine,' by Guido Reni; and
a ' Portrait of Francesco Galli Bibiena,' by himself. To the Museo Nazio-
nale has been added a Madonna in wood, Sienese of the fourteenth century,
and the ' Madonna with the Child and Angels' of Luca della Robbia, which
used to stand above the door of a house in Via dell' Agnolo. (Chron. d.
Arts, December 17, 1904, p. 326.) The Pitti collection has been increased
by a 'Virgin and Child with Angels,' by Bartolomeo Caporali and a signed
work of Giovanni di Paolo of 1445. The latter is a polyptych representing
the Virgin and Child with angels and four saints. (GERSPACtI, R. Art
Chre't. March, 1905, pp. 113-115.)
GROTTAFERRATA.- The Sterbini Diptych.- The Grottaferrata
exposition brought to notice a diptych belonging to Comm. Sterbini, which
is attributed by some to Cimabue, by others to Duccio di Boninsegna. The
wings are divided horizontally into two compartments. In the upper com-
partment of the left wing are the Virgin, Child, and St. Joseph. Below them
stand St. Lawrence, Philip, and St. John Baptist. The upper compartment
of the right wing contains the Crucifixion; the lower, St. Francis receiving
the stigmata and St. Louis of Toulouse. All the figures are designated by
abbreviated names in Latin. The diptych does not belong to either of the
masters mentioned, but rather to one of Giotto's collaborators in the upper
basilica at Assisi, to which group of artists Pietro Toesca wished to assign
the recently discovered frescoes in Sta. Maria Maggiore at Rome. (See
Am. J. Arch. 1905, p. 138.) (A. VENTURI, L' Arte, 1905, pp. 199-201.)
MILAN. - The Grandi Collection. - In the picture-gallery of the
Fratelli Grandi two pieces have attracted attention: a terra-cotta ' Assump-
tion of St. Mary of Egypt' and a portrait of a man, which belongs to the
Lombard school of the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth
century. The picture is variously attributed to Bartolomeo Veneto, Andrea
Solari, Bernardino dei Conti, and, with more probability, to Boltraffio.
(GIULIO CAROTTI, L' Arte, January-February, 1905, 49-52.) G. CAGNOLA,
Rass. d' Arte, April, 1905, pp. 61-62, announces that the male portrait has
been bought by Sig. Thiemn of San Remo. Cagnola regards the portrait as
certainly the work of Bernardino de' Conti. Another picture in the Grandi
collection, also bought by Thiem, is signed Io. Carianus de Busis Bergo-
mensis, and is evidently a portrait of one of his own family by Cariani
(reproduced in Rass. d' Arte, May, 1905, p. 79).
PADUA.- A Statue by a German Sculptor.- In the church at
MSlontemerlo, seven or eight miles fromn Padua, there stands a group re
senting St. Michael overcoming the demon. The group originally belon
to the church of S. Leonino at Prato della Valle. Upon the demon
hairy, horned creature, half man and half beast - stands the archa
clothed in rich armor and robes, with lance upraised to strike. Verses
the base of the statue tell us that it was made in 1425 by Egidius of N
stadt in Austria. The history of Neustadt contains no mention of t
artist, who nevertheless shows considerable talent in the strong persona
which he has given the features of St. Michael. (C. DE FABRICZY, R
d' Arte, March, 1905, pp. 40-41.)
RIPATRANS ONE. - A New Guercino. - A portrait of S. Carlo Bor-
romeo, apparently painted about 1623 for the altar of that saint in the
cathedral at Ripatransone and paid for by a legacy left in 1613 by a certain
Carlo Ricci, is seen by comparison with the Aurora in the Villa Aurora and
the Santa Petronilla in the Capitoline to be a work of Guercino. (C. GRI-
GIONI, Rass. d' Arte, April-June, 1904, pp. 69-80.)
ROME.--The Cemetery of Commodilla. - Various notices of the
excavations during the past year in the cemetery of Commodilla have
already appeared (see Am. J. Arch. 1904, p. 395). In a general account given
in the single issue of the N. Bull. Arch. Crist. for 1904, pp. 1-160, 0. MARUCCHI
describes the galleries and particularly the " historical crypt " or tomb of Sts.
Felix and Adauctus, martyrs under Diocletian. The crypt was originally a.
simple catacomb gallery. Restored by Damiasus, it was enlarged and deco-
rated by his successor Siricius and again restored by John I, 523-526. The
metrical inscription which Damasus placed in the crypt is known from the
ancient epigraphic collections, and a fragment of the original is preserved
in the Lateran. Siricius's part in the work was not known until the exca-
vations brought to light half of an inscription in hexameters commemora-
ting improvements made by the priest Felix, "salco Siricio papa." To the
decorations added by John I belongs no doubt the large fresco depicting the
"traditio clavium." The burial of St. Emerita near Felix and Adauctus,
indicated by the itineraries, is confirmed by her appearance in this fresco.
The Acts of Emerita mention a companion named Digna, but the fact that
she does not figure in the fresco bears out Delahaye in denying her exist-
ence altogether. Another fresco of the time of John I has been found in
the crypt, painted above the tomb of a woman named Turtura. It repre-
sents the Virgin and Child between St. Felix and St. Adauctus, who com-
mends Turtura to the Virgin, and is in a remarkable state of preservatiol.
A metrical epitaph is painted below the fresco. Another fresco depicts St.
Luke with a bag containing surgical instruments on his arm. An inscrip-
tion painted upon the border of this picture dates it in the reign of Con-
stantine Pogonatus (668-685 A.D.). The portrait of St. Luke and the presence
of St. Stephen in the fresco of the saints show some connection between
the cemetery and the neighboring tomb of St. Paul. These three frescoes
CHRISTIAN ART] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 379
are described by WILPERT (ibid. pp. 161-170). In the crypt and the adja-
cent galleries many inscriptions were found, among them thirty-four wit
consular dates ranging from 367 to 403 A.D. To the right of the crypt
gallery has been excavated which proved to be unusually well preserved
nearly all the "loculi" being closed. On one the following prayer is
inscribed: "Refrigeret tibi Deus et Christus et Domini nostri Adeodatus
(Adauctus) et Felix." This gallefiy was evidently a " retro sanctus" or a
space excavated behind the tombs of saints for the accommodation of those
who coveted a resting-place near them. BONAVENIA (ibid. pp. 171-184)
discusses the inscription of Siricius and proposes a restoration of the miss-
ing right side, with a view to locating the resting-place of Felix and
Adauctus, who were buried in separate parts of the crypt according to him-
self and Wilpert, while Marucchi thinks that the same tomb held them
both. The articles mentioned are illustrated. In L' Arte, January-Febru-
ary, 1905, pp. 55-59, ANTONIO MURoz, discussing the stylistic origin of the
Madonna in the Turtura fresco, points out that the isolation of the figure
in the Mother and Child makes it possible that this group was copied from
another representation. There is a striking similarity to the Madonna in
S. Apollinare Nuovo, which is practically of the same date, and Mufioz
thinks that all such early hieratic Madonnas are Byzantine importations.
A Christian Sarcophagus. - Two large Christian sarcophagi have been
found in Via Lungara. The one has merely ornamental decoration; the
other has three decorated panels in front and one at each end. The middle
panel of the front contains an Orans with a dove and the symbolic plants,
to signify Paradise. In the panel to the right is a Good Shepherd, a lamb
upon his shoulder and one at his feet. The eleven companions of the lat-
ter are at the right end of the sarcophagus, arranged in three rows. The
panel to the left shows a fisherman who draws a fish from the water, and
the corresponding end is decorated with the Baptism. The Baptist is
bearded, clothed with pallium only, and lays his hand upon the child Christ,
who stands knee-deep in the water. (R6m. Quart. 1904, pp. 327-328.)
The Meaning of Crypta Defined. - In an article on inscriptions dis-
covered in the catacomb of St. Priscilla (N. Bull. Arch. Crist. 1904, pp. 205
-220) O. MARUCCHI publishes an epitaph previously, but incorrectly, re-
ported by Boldetti. It is scratched upon the mortar of a loculus in the
lower story of the catacomb and reads: Undecima crypta secunda I pila I
Glegori (sic). It is plainly a topographical designation of the loculus.
Since the loculus was found in precisely the eleventh gallery crossing the
main artery of the lower level, the word crypta must mean " gallery." Pila,
then, designates the wall space between galleries.
Mediaeval Frescoes. - In November, 1904, an ancient oratory was dis-
covered beneath the church of Sta. Maria in Via Lata, decorated with fres-
coes, some of which much resemble the ' Story of Sts. Quiricus and Julitta'
in Sta. Maria Antiqua. Among them are figures of Sts. John and Paul which
are assigned to the ninth or tenth century. Remains of other frescoes have
been found, dating from the thirteenth century. The oratory was aban-
doned in the eleventh century and half filled up in 1594, the contract for
this filling up being still preserved. In September, 1904, a modern statue
of the Madonna was removed from its niche in S. Bartolommeo all' Isola,
with the result that the niche was found to be decorated with a fresco
representing the Madonna enthroned with the Child, and assigned to the
middle of the thirteenth century. (ANTONIO MURoz in L' Arte, 1905,
pp. 59-62; GERSPACH in R. Art Chrdt. 1905, p. 111.)
A New Melozzo da Forli. - Another has been added to the few iden-
tified works of Melozzo, according to PIETRO D' ACHIARDI, in L' A
March-April, 1905, pp. 120-122. The picture belongs to Sig. Pio Fab
Rome and represents a Pontifex, erect, crowned with the triple diade
in the act of blessing. The barely decipherable S. FABIANVS at th
of the picture shows that it is meant to figure St. Fabian (Pope 236
D' Achiardi dates the painting a year or two after the two Saints M
S. Marco at Rome, both of which are assigned to about 1476.
A Bas-relief by Michele Marini.--In L' Arte, May-June, 190
201-205, ARDUINO COLASANTI publishes a relief which adorns a fi
in the Palazzo della Minerva, seat of the Ministry of Public Instru
The relief is in three pieces, of which the first represents St. Sebasti
fore the tribunal; the central piece, Christ seated upon the tomb and f
by two angels; the third, the Flagellation. The modelling and posing
both imitation of the antique and the influence of Perugino. The si
ties to the St. Sebastian of Sta. Maria Sopra Minerva are so many that
santi believes the relief to be the work of the maker of that statue, M
Marini. He suggests that the relief may have come originally from
same church and was possibly united with the St. Sebastian in som
rative scheme.
Acquisitions of the Government.- The Government has bought

from Cav. Tarazzi, who acquired the Santini collection at Ferrara, the fol-
lowing pictures, to be placed in the National Galleries: Cosmni Tura,
'S. Giacomo della Marca'; Michele Coltellini,' Death of the Virgin';
Ortolano, 'Crucifixion'; Maestro dagli occhi spalancati, 'Virgin and
Child'; Ercole de' Roberti, 'St. Michael the Archangel.' The purchase-
price of all five did not exceed 60,000 francs. (L' Arte, May-June, 1905,
p. 227.)
The New Director of the Villa Medici. - Carolus Duran, president of
the Socidtd Nationale des Beaux-Arts has been appointed director of the
French Academy in the Villa Medici at Rome, in place of Eugene Guil-
laume, deceased.
The Sangiorgi Sale.--The antiquary firm of Sangiorgi at Rome sold
last April the Cavalletti, Della Rena, Rinuccini, and Galli-Dunn collections.
The more important of the objects in these collections are reproduced in
L' Arte, May-Junle, 1905, pp. 220-225. They are a Presepe, probably of
Giovanni della Robbia; two groups of infant Bacchantes; a portrait of a
girl by G. B. Greuze; and a series of three pictures representing ' A Visit to
Cythera' by a follower of Piero della Francesca.
Photographic Exposition. - The Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori
di Architettura in Roma (Via delle Muratte, 70) arranged an exposition of
photographs in April, 1905. The general catalogue contains the inaugural
address of the President, M. E. CANNIZZARO and historical and technical
notes on the Palazzetto della Farnesina, in which the exposition was held.
Another pamphlet (7) contains a descriptive catalogue by W. H. GooD-
YEAR, of the photographs exhibited by him. They illustrate his well-
known investigations of the curvatures in mediaeval architecture (31 pp.).
('IIRISTIAN ART] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEW-S, 1905 381
STAGGIA. - Two Unpublished Paintings. - BERNHARD BERENSON,

in Rass. d' Arte, January, 1905, pp. 9-11, publishes two pictures existing in
Staggia, near Siena. The one represents the Ascension of St. Mary of
Egypt, and in Berenson's opinion was designed by Antonio Pollajuolo and
executed by his brother Piero, the technique and coloring being character-
istic of the latter. The other painting is in a tabernacle near the entrance
to the Castle, and represents a Madonna and Child enthroned, with a kneel-
ing angel on either side. The signlature reads Opus Rosselli Francisch. This
gives us the name of the painter of a whole series of anonymous works, such
as the fresco of an ' Apostle and Saint' in S. Miniato at Florence, and a
'Sts. Michael and Catherine' in S. Jacopo at San Miniato al Tedesco in Val
d' Arno (reproduced in the article).
VENICE. - Acquisitions of the Royal Galleries. - The following
pictures have recently entered these collections: Giovanni Bonconsigli,
called il Marescalco, ' Madonna and Child, with Sts. John Baptist and
Catherine'; two paintings by Andrea Schiavone, representing the 'Con-
test between Apollo and the Shepherd decided by King Midas' and
' Deucalion and Pyrrha'; and a portrait by Jacopo Tintoretto. (Rass.
d' Arte, 1905, pp. 1-3.)
Guariento's Fresco in the Doge's Palace.- In L' Arte, September-
October, 1901, pp. 394-397, A. MOSCHETTI publishes a description of the
fresco by Guarieito, which was recently brought to light in the.Sala del
Consiglio of the Doge's Palace. The ' Paradiso,' as the fresco is called, rep-
resents Christ enthroned crowning his mother. On either side of the central
throne rises a double file of angels, arranged in tiers, with regard, evidently,
to hieratic order. The fresco will be detached and removed to the old Sala
dei Cataloghi of the Biblioteca.
A Portrait by Tintoretto burned. - A fire in the palazzo of Count
Giulio Balbi-Valier of Venice recently destroyed nearly all of the portrait
of Francesco Contarini by Tintoretto. The head alone remained intact.
(Rass. d' Arte, February, 1905, p. 30.)
VITERBO. - Restoration of the Papal Palace. - The Palazzo Papale
in Viterbo has recently been restored by the Uficio per la Conservazione dei
Alonumenti. The palazzo was constructed in 1266, and was the scene of the
memorable first papal election by conclave. The building, which is now
the seat of the Bishop of Viterbo, had lapsed into a deplorable condition.
It has now been repaired and restored to an appearance approaching the
original. (PIETRO TOESCA, L' Arte, 1904, pp. 510-513.)
SPAIN
MADRID. - Fifteenth-Century Drawings in the Escurial. - An

album of drawings of the end of the fifteenth century preserved in
Escurial Library will shortly be published by the Austrian Archaeolo
Institute. The drawings are valuable not only in the field of the top
raphy of Rome but also for their reproductions of several sculptures
paintings which have since disappeared. Among these are drawings o
mural paintings found in ancient buildings, called grotte at that per
It was in these paintings (grottesche) that Raphael and Giovanni
d' Udine found their models for the frescoes of the Loggie in the Vatican.
(MICHAELIS, C. R. Acad. Insc. 1904, p. 516.)
A Velasquez. - To the Prado gallery has recently been added a Velas-

quez, one of the famous series of portraits of Philip IV. It is the gift of
the Duchess of Villahermosa. This seems to be the picture mentioned by
Lathrop in his article on the Boston portrait of Philip IV (Burl. Mag.
April, 1905, p. 16). Called by Justi a school copy, it is regarded by some
critics of the Boston picture as the original from which the latter was
copied.
GRENADA. - Saracenic Coins. - In the Gran Via at Granada, four
metres below the site of the ancient palace of Kheti-Meriem, an earthen pot
comtaining six hundred coins came to light. Most of these were dispersed,
but the owner of the land (69, 70, and 71 Gran Via) gained possession of
140 gold pieces of the time of Abu Yusuf Yakub, 1184-1199 A.D. They bear
inscriptions in Naskhi characters. (DIEULAFOY, C. R. A cad. Insc. 1905,
pp. 56-58.)
FRANCE
AMIENS. - PARIS. - Illustrated Manuscripts of the Ninth Cen-

tury. - In Bibl. Ec. Chartes, 1904, pp. 354-363 (2 figs.), A. BOINET
describes two of the so-called later copies of the Liber de laudibus sanct
Crucis of Raban Maur, the friend of Alcuin, abbot of Fulda, and afterward
archbishop of Mainz. These copies he declares to be of the same period
and perhaps by the same hand, as the Vienna and Vatican manuscript
One is Manuscript 223 of the Bibliothbque d'Amiens, and came originall
from the Abbey of Corbie. The other is Manuscript Latin 2423 of the
Bibliothbque Nationale, and according to the inscription on the third pag
belonged to St. Raoul, archbishop of Bourges from 840 to 866. The mini
tures in these four exemplars of Vienna, the Vatican, Amiens, and Pari
are almost identical, and were doubtless made at the same time for presen-
tation in various places.
PARIS. - Acquisitions of the Louvre. - The mediaeval collections
have recently been enriched by two Romanesque columns, given by the
Societd des Amis du Louvre; a bas-relief representing St. Matthew writing,
from the school of Chartres of the thirteenth century; a statue of the Virgin
of the early fourteenth century, coming from the vicinity of Sens; a ' Virgin'
in wood from an Annunciation group, probably by Nino Pisano, and for-
merly in the L. Goldschrmidt collection; and statues of Charles V and
Jeanne de Bourbon. The Renaissance sections have gained a stone ' Virgin'
of the early sixteenth century; a kneeling ' Vergine Annunziata,' by Tilman
Riemenschneider (coll. Goldschmidt); a polychrome wooden 'Christ on
the Mount of Olives' of the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the
sixteenth century; a 'Weeping Figure,' from a Burgundian tomb of
the sixteenth century; the famous 'Primitif' picture, the Pieth of Ville-
neuve-l6s-Avignon (given by the Socidtd des Amis du Louvre); and a bronze
'Walking Figure,' Florentine, of the sixteenth century, in imitation of the
antique. Mme. Corroyer has recently arranged for the transfer, with
reserve of usufruct, of her late husband's collection of mediaeval jewellery.
(Cron. d. Arts, May 20, 1905, pp. 154-155.) Two new rooms will be
opened shortly in the Pavillon des Etats. One will be devoted to the
objects coming from De Morgan's excavations at Susa, and in the other will
be reconstructed the Coptic convent of the thirteenth century recently
brought to light by the Institute Archdologique of Cairo. From Mr. Walter
Gay the Louvre has recently received one of the pictures which figured at
the ' Exposition des Primitifs Frangais.' It is attributed to the Maitre de
Moulins, or to Perrial. The subject is a young woman, said to be Yolande
of Savoy by some, by others Mary Tudor.
New Manuscripts with Miniatures by Bourdichon. - EMILE MAU&LE,
in Gaz. B.-A. XXXII, 1904, pp. 441-457, announces the discovery of two
new manuscripts of the end of the fifteenth century with miniatures by
Bourdichon, and attempts a catalogue of illuminated manuscripts which,
while not from the hand of Bourdichon himself, originated in his atelier at
Tours. The first of the manuscripts belongs to Baron Edmond de Roth-
schild. It resembles greatly the ' Hours of Anne of Brittany,' but displays
some novelties. (See Am. J. Arch. 1904, p. 503.) The other ' Book of
Hours,' discovered to be by the hand of Bourdichon, is Manuscript 417
of the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, which was apparently once the property
of a count of Vendame. PAUL DURRIEU, in Chron. d. Arts, May 27, 1905,
pp. 164-165, claims to have added two more manuscripts to Male's list. A
Book of Hours preserved in Sir John Soane's Museum in London has
several miniatures that reveal the hand of Bourdichon, and a manuscript
in the Bibliotheque Nationale, well known as the ' Heures de Charles
d'Orlians' (father of Francis I), has an' Adoration of the Magi,' which
should be ranked as one of his miniatures and classed with the illustrations
of the ' Hours of Anne of Brittany.'
A Tapestry Made for Martin of Aragon. - An altar frontal, formerly
in the Guilhon collection, and recently bought in Paris by M. Jacques Selig-
mann, is published in Burl. Mag. May, 1905, pp. 141-142, by A. V. DE P.
Against a wooden background stand out the figures of St. Martin of Tours,
St. John Baptist, and St. Hugh of Grenoble. On either side of St. Martin
a shield is hung from a shrub, bearing the arms of King Martin of Aragon.
On either side of St. Hugh are shields bearing the escutcheon of Maria de
Luna, King Martin's wife, impaling her husband's arms. The choice of
saints is explained easily. St. Martin was selected as nmmesake and St. Hugh
as a Carthusian, that order being especially favored by Martin's family.
The tapestry dates between 1397 and 1407.
An American Institute in Paris.- The Chiron. d. Arts, December 10,
1904, p. 318, announces that the Municipal Council of Paris has been
asked to furnish a site for a building to be occupied by the American
National Institute, a school of art after the manner of the French Acad-
emy at Rome. The institute owes its inception to Miss Matilda Smedley,
and is supported by influential persons. CH. BEAUCHESNE, Burl. Mayg.
February, 1905, p. 421, says that the Municipal Council is inclined to
favor the plan.
ROUEN. - Model of the Church of St. Maclou. - The beautiful
model of the church of St. Maclou in the archaeological m
has been regarded as a miniature copy of the completed ch
A. L. Frothingham, Jr., has discovered that it is the orig
model. No such model of a Gothic building was supposed to exist in
France. A full publication will be made in the Mon. Me'rm. Acad. Insc.
(Mon. Piot). (Nation, March 9, 1905.)
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND
AMSTERDAM.- Acquisitions of the Rijksmuseum.- This museum

has received on loan a portrait by Rembrandt in his early manner, dated
1631. It represents a young man thinly bearded, in the characteristic
Rembrandt attitude, body turned to right, head full face. Another acquisi-
tion is a picture of a soldier ascribed to the rare Willern Buytenwech,
chiefly on the strength of the signature, W. B. By bequest of the late
Jonkvrouwe von Brakell tot den Brakell, the museum comes into the pos-
session of the deceased's collection, the most important part of which is a
quantity of Chinese and Japanese porcelains. (W. V., Burl. M2lag. February,
1905, p. 423.)
ANTWERP.-A New Museum. -Last December the new Musde
Mayer van den Burgh, organized and dedicated to the mem
by Mine. van den Burgh, was opened at Antwerp. The bui
l'Hopital which it occupies has for fagade the sixteenth cen
tion which the Chevalier Mayer erected in the ' Old Antwerp
sition of 1894. The collections include more than two hun
and exhibits of manuscripts, sculptures, and medals. (H.
B.-A. XXXIII, 1905, pp. 171-172.)
ACQUISITIONS OF BELGIAN MUSEUMS.-- The Brus
has recently acquired two pictures by Aertssen, one of which
and came from an English collection. It represents ' Christ in
Mary and Martha.' The figures are of natural size, and th
which the scene is laid is rendered with richness of detail. T
a figure of a young Flemish woman, is apparently an earl
lery of modern painting of the late Henri van Cutsem of
to the Museum of Tournay. Bruges has recently voted 100,
the erection of a museum. (H. HYMANS, Gaz. B.-A. XX
p. 173.) The Antwerp Museum has acquired an important p
Prevost of the beheadiang of St. Catharine. Prevost was a n
who went in 1515 to Antwerp, where he became a friend of A
(A then. June 10, 1905.)
APPROACHING EXPOSITIONS. - The Universal Exposition of
Liege, organized to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation
of the kingdom of Belgium, will include a display of art both ancient and
modern. Antwerp will open a Jordaens exposition in celebration of the
national fete, and Brussels will have an exposition for ancient tapestries,
pottery, and lace. (H. HYMANS, Gaz. B.-A. XXXIII, 1905, pp. 168-173.)
A PROJECTED INVENTORY OF FLEMISH ARCHIVES. - The
Historical and Archaeological Congress of Belgium, at the
fessor Pirenne, decided recently to undertake the work of
inventory of all the smaller archives of the kingdom. Th
district will be carried out by the local Historical Society
Burl. JMlag. February, 1905, p. 422.)
ENGLAND
HIGHNAM COURT. -An Annunciation by Pesellino. -BERN-

HARD BERENSON announces the discovery, by himself and Roger Fry, of
Annunciation by Pesellino in the collection of Sir Hubert Parry at Highn
Court, near Gloucester. The painting passed for a Filippo Lippi, but the
draperies are modelled in the sculpturesque manner of his pupil, and
the similarities in the face modelling, hands, and ears which appear whe
the Highnam Court picture is compared with Pesellino's Madonna and
Child with Saints in the collection of Captain Holford put the identificatio
beyond question. (Rass. d' Arte, March, 1905, pp. 42-43.)
LONDON. - Pictures at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exposition.
-- HRBERT COOK writes in L' Arte, March-April, 1905, pp. 129-132, of cer-
tain Italian pictures exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club last winter.
A 'Flight into Egypt,' formerly ascribed to Garofalo, has by general con-
sent been assigned to Ercole di Giulio Grandi. It belongs to Sir William
Farrer. Andr'ea Solario's ' St. Sebastian,' belonging to Lord Windsor, is
interesting in that the figure is a copy of the antique Diadumenus and the
Venetian landscape is by another hand. Cook is inclined to assign Mr. Sal-
ting's enigmatical 'Virgin and Child' to Antonello da Messina, taking the
un-Italian type of the Madonna for proof that Antonello visited Spain, as
some writers have suggested.
A Miniature by Frangois Clouet in the Wallace Collection.--
FranCois Clouet has hitherto been represented by one unquestioned work,
the' Elisabeth d'Autriche' of the Louvre. To this Bouchot has added the
seven portrait drawings from the Bibliotheque Nationale exhibited at t
Exposition des Primitifs, one of which, a portrait of Mary Stuart, served
foundation for the miniature at Windsor. In the Wallace collection are
two portraits labelled ' Jean de Thou,' and ' Rende Baillet, dame de Cl
The man's portrait is a mediocre copy after one of the drawings of
Bibliothbque Nationale, but the other is unquestionably a Clouet of
finest quality. The miniatures belong to the last half of the sixtee
century. (CLAUDE PHILLIPS in Burl. Mag. December, 1904, pp. 240-
Miniatures by Giovanni di Paolo in an English Collection.- Ap-
pended to Amaudry's article on the Carvallo collection in Burl. Mag.
January, 1905, appears a note by ROGER FRY on some miniatures by
Giovanni di Paolo found by him in a manuscript of the Divina Commedia
owned by Mr. Henry Yates Thompson. One of these contains a represen-
tation of the city of Florence, in which the Duomo appears with cupola
completed but the lantern- not yet begun. The lantern was begun in 1445,
so that the miniature must be dated shortly before that year. A reproduc-
tion accompanies the note.
The Madonna of Giovanni Francesco da Rimini. - From the Louvre
Collection, sold last January at Christie's, Mr. George Salting bo
Madonna and Child signed Jovanes Franciscus De Rimino Fecit MCC
This picture is a replica of that in the collection of Cav. Angelo Can
Milan. Another exemplar belonged to the ancient Hercolani collect
Bologna. Besides these Madonnas, there are only five known work
Giovanni Francesco extant. The preservation of the Salting picture
cellent, and the flesh tints are surprisingly luminous. (C. J. FF. in L'
May-June, 1905, pp. 212-214.)
An Unknown Master.- HERBERT COOK publishes in Gaz. B.-A.
XXXI, 1905, pp. 303-304, with reproduction, a remarkable 'St. Michael
Slaying the Dragon,' which he dates about 1470, the period indicated by
the coiffure of the donor and the sleeves of his robe. The picture, which is
in the collection of Mr. Wernher at Bath House is signed Bartolomeus rubeus;

the name being written on a cartellino lying at the feet of the donor.
A British Museum Drawing. - A. M. HIND recently found in the
print room of the British Museum a drawing which is unmistakably a
study for the ' Christ Blessing Little Children,' in the National Gallery. The
drawing is recognized as of the school of Rembrandt by tHind. C. J. HOLMES
names Fabritius as the pupil of Rembrandt who was probably its author.
A New Master of the Lombard School. - A Madonna and Child
belonging to Mr. Asher Wertheimer (published in the Bur

1903) bears the signature Antonius da Solario Venetus f. It
work of Andrea Solario. The only Antonio Solario known was a very
different sort of painter who worked in Naples. Hence Berenson was
inclined to regard the signature as faulty, and the picture as a work of
Aidrea. Another picture has now turned up in the collection of Mr. Hum-
phry Ward, signed again Antonius Solarius Venetus 3IDVIII. It represents
the head of John the Baptist on the charger and presents wide divergences
from Andrea, who, curiously enough, painted the same subject in that same
year. The new painter may have been his brother, but at any rate learned
his art like Andrea in Venice and afterward became a member of the
Leonardesque Lombard School. (ROGER FRY, Burl. Mag. April, 190
pp. 75-76.)
The Vasari Society.- This is the name of a new association formed
for the purpose of reproducing drawings by the great artists of the Renais-
sance. For one guinea, the Society furnishes annually about twenty repro-
ductions. The first year's programme includes drawings by Pisanello,
Leonardo, Holbein, and others, the facsimiles to be made by the Oxford
Press. (Burl. Mag. May, 1905, p. 95.)
READING. - A Carved Bone Plaque. - In Reliq. XI, 1905, pp. 53 f.
(pl.), J. ROMILLY ALLEN publishes a carved bone plaque found at Reading
in 1845, and now in the possession of Mr. Hastings Gilford, of Reading.
It is rectangular (11- x 5? in.). On it are carved a king seated between
four standing soldiers at one end of the plaque, and four writing scribes at
the other. Emile Molinier (Histoire gene'rale des Arts applique's a l'Industrie,
vol. I, pl. 13, p. 34, and Gaz. Arch. 1883, p. 109) explains the same scene on
a plaque in the Louvre as King David dictating the Psalms. The Reading
plaque appears to be Carlovingian, not much later than 800 A.D.
UNITED STATES
BOSTON. - Acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts. - The

museum acquired by purchase in 1904 five pictures: (1) Portrait of
IV of Spain, by Velasquez, (2) Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortensio Pala
by El Greco, (3) Portrait of an Unknown Mlan in Armor, by an artis
Venetian influence, (4) Portrait of an Old Woman, by Salomon Konin
(5) Portrait of Admiral Rainier, by Copley. (Annual Report of the M11
of Fine Arts for 1904, Cambridge, 1905, University Press.)
NEW YORK. - Acquisitions of the Metropolitan Museum. - Mr.
J. P. Morgan has lent to the Metropolitan Museum two of his recent pur-
chases, the portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester by Gainsborough and a
'Holy Family' by Andrea del Sarto. The museum has itself acquired a
' Nativity' by Theotocopuli, called ' El Greco.' (Rass. d' Arte, April, 1905,
AMERICAN] ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS, 1905 387
6Cronaca.') Two other new pictures are the peculiar scenes of hunt
filled with grotesque forms of satyrs, nymphs, centaurs, and wild be
which are good types of the grotteschi of Piero di Cosimo. They are
scribed and reproduced by WM. RANKIN in Rass. d' Arte, February,
pp. 25-26. Other interesting acquisitions are: the ' Adams Gold Vase,
gift of Edward D. Adams; the portrait of Baron Arnold Le Roye by
Dyck, and a seaport by Claude Lorrain. From the Rogers fund were
chased thirty-seven specimens of European faience of the sixteenth
tury, an ' Entombment of Christ' in enamelled terra-cotta, dated 1487,
a collection of Japaiese armor. The new policy of the museum, beg
ning with the appointment of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke as directo
already taking effect. There will be a greater number of departments,
each department will have a thoroughly capable director. A collection
resentative of American art will be formed. Legislation has been sec
for a new wing not to exceed in cost $1,250,000 and the full amount of
Jacob S. Rogers bequest has been, realized, amounting to $4,904,811. (
Mlag. June, 1905, p. 246.)
AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
CALIFORNIA.- The Southwest Society of the Archaeological
Institute.--In Out West, January, 1905, is an illustrated article by C. F
LUMMIS (pp. 1-15) on the activity of the Southwest Society of the Archaeo-
logical Institute of America, with special reference to Indian and Spanish
songs. There follows (pp. 16-27) a description, with illustrations, by F. M
PALMER Of the fine Palmner-Campbell collection of antiquities of southern
California, now the property of the Southwest Society of the Institute.
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO THE COLUM-
BIA VALLEY. - In Rec. Past, April, 1905, pp. 119-127 (9 figs.), H. I.
SMITH describes aboriginal remains in the Columbia Valley (Washington).
Stone tombs, similar to those of Ohio and Kentucky, were found, contain-
ing pipes and other objects. Especially interesting is a human figure carved
from an antler. The style and costume resemble those of the plains rather
than those of the northwest coast.
CAVETOWN, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND. - Ex-
ploration of a Cave on Land controlled by Mr. G. M. Bushey. - Under
the auspices of the Department of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Ando-
ver, Massachusetts, Dr. Charles Peabody and Mr. Warren K. Moorehead
conducted explorations in the outer chamber of a cave or cavern. The
work was carried on from May 6 to May 29, 1905. One human bone,
numerous animal bones, stone knives or projectile points, one polished celt,
a few fragments of pottery, and a number of awls or perforators of bone
were found. Charcoal was present in great quantities, but ashes were not
abundant. At the sides and in places on the floor of the cave a stalagmitic
conglomerate of limestone, charcoal, and bones was found. The stalagmitic
floor of the cave was broken through (in places one quarter of a metre in
thickness) and a pit sunk two metres into the "red cave earth" beneath.
In this no traces of man's occupation were found. In a similar red deposit,
outside and to the south of the cave, fossil animal bones were found, whose
identification will lead to the geological determination of that formation.
It is in such a stratum, if anywhere, that ancient, "fossil," or so-called
"glacial " human remains in caves are likely to be found. The full report
will be embodied in a bulletin of the department.
MONTEZUMA, PIKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. - Excavation of
the N. D. McEvers Mound. - The mound was partially explor
D. I. Bushnell, Mr. N. D. McEvers, Mr. J. M. Wulfing, and Dr.
in May, 1905. At the time the mound was about 8 in. high an
diameter. At a depth of over 7 m. a burial " crib " or " cist "
about 4 m. long, 2 m. wide, atd -2 m. high, built of logs. A s
human bones were in this, and a layer of 1195 chipped leaf-sh
ments. From the mound were also taken the following specim
flakes, an obsidian flake, one spear point, fragments of mica, fr
pottery, mussel shells, some perforated, numerous awls of bon
which were between I m. and - m. in length, forty-two pearl bea
two bone heads, animal bones, and ashes. The material of man
chipped leaf-shaped implements is novaculite, possibly from
Springs, Arkansas. (From the preliminary report by DAVID I.
MITLA.- The Temples and Palaces. - In Rec. Past, IV, 1905 (June),
pp. 163-167 (4 figs.), T. R. PORTER describes the ruins of Mitla, in Mexico,
where excavations are to be carried on this summer. The columns, friezes,
and painted hieroglyphics are especially interesting.
WISCONSIN CACHES. --In Rec. Past, IV, 1905, pp. 82-95 (9 figs.),
CHARLES E. BRowN describes, with brief discussion, several caches of
stone and copper implemeilts, chiefly arrow-heads and fishhooks, foutid in
Wisconsin.

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NOTES ON RECENT EXCAVATIONS AND

DISCOVERIES; OTHER NEWS

HAROLD N. FOWLER, Editor

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

several coins. Cuppae: a tile stamp. Viminacum: eleven more or less

at Venice, January 16, 1905, fifty-two years of age. He was bo

and probably Clazomenian elements in the population ; and th

BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

Ant. January, 1905, J. OFFORD describes the statue o

SYRIA AND PALESTINE

GEZER. - Excavation of the Mound. - The most important object

JERUSALEM. - The High-level Aqueduct. - In the Quarterly State-

spring of 1904. The articles contain a number of geographical an

Si.--Work of the Princeton Expedition. - The Princeton expedition

to that at Zenjirli and is probably one of the structures called "Hilani" by

sculptured adornment was extremely rich and magnificent, resembling th

EPHESUS. - Inscriptions of Physicians. - In Jh. Oesterr. Arch. I.

gymnasium, contained many objects. The excavation of the en

Objects Found in Countries Inhabited by the Greeks'; (4) CLON

acts on walls; (3) P. CAVVADIAS, 'The Inscriptions relating to the Cure

troduction to Archaeology'; (2) J. E. HARRY, 'The Study of G

Roman milestone of Trajan's (Tpayeavo^) time, on which the distance dizrb

niai. Here houses of three periods were found, built of stone, w

LACONIA. - Topography and Inscriptions. - In A 4nn. Brit. S. A th.

following results. The hemispherical summit of the mount

of the fifth century B.c. E~7r]E18aL 3VE[OKE 7Tr AvKaL'W ALL K

BENEVENTO. - Sculptures. - Important discoveries have been mad

RAVENNA. - A Christian Cemetery. - Near Ravenna a Christian

sepulchral inscription. In the Corso d' Italia a funerary urn, of travertine,

church of S. Giovanni, ancient fragments have come to ligh

CHANTILLY. - A Hellenistic Relief. - A fine Hellenistic relief, rep-

by Mr. Jules Maciet, and accessible to the public at the Bibl

cavated. A temple, 11.40 x 6.65 m. in dimensions, is very ill-preserv

Dynasty, from Abydos; Romano-British colossal head, bronze jug, and

CARTHAGE. - The Quarters of the First Urban Cohort. - In C. R.

pp. 331-333. Chief among them is a fine bust of Diana, ascribed to

moulded circular pedestal 0.053 m. high, which originally bore another

The series of wooden sculptures of the Middle Empire, from Assiut, of

BYZANTINE, MEDIAEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE ART

BERLIN. - An Acquisition of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum. -

CESENA. - Restoration of a Fresco. - In the refector

mitted to assign some share in it to an assistant. (G. DE NICOLA, L' Arte,

Acquisitions of the Government.- The Government has bought

STAGGIA. - Two Unpublished Paintings. - BERNHARD BERENSON,

MADRID. - Fifteenth-Century Drawings in the Escurial. - An

A Velasquez. - To the Prado gallery has recently been added a Velas-

AMIENS. - PARIS. - Illustrated Manuscripts of the Ninth Cen-

BELGIUM AND HOLLAND

AMSTERDAM.- Acquisitions of the Rijksmuseum.- This museum

HIGHNAM COURT. -An Annunciation by Pesellino. -BERN-

in the collection of Mr. Wernher at Bath House is signed Bartolomeus rubeus;

belonging to Mr. Asher Wertheimer (published in the Bur

BOSTON. - Acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts. - The

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