SEYFFARTH — PLANETARY CONFIG. ON CYPRIAN ANTIQ. 395 



Planetary Configurations on Cyprian Antiquities. 



By Prof. Gust. Seyffarth, Phil. & Th. D. 



It is notorious that Gen. L. P. di Cesnola, having served the 

 United States during the civil war, and being a few days prior to 

 President Lincohi's assassination in 1S65, appointed American 

 Consul for Cyprus, discovered a great many Assyrian, Phoenician, 

 Persian, Egyptian, Cyprian, Greek, and Roman antiquities in 

 that island. He made excavations in eight different cities and 

 fifteen temples with such good effect that 35,573 objects came to 

 light. His work, " Cyprus," New York, 1878, specifies the fol- 

 lowing objects : 



Assyrian inscriptions on cylinders 4 



Phoenician " " 30 



Cypriote •' " 62 



Greek " " 10^ 



Coins, gold, silver, and copper -mIo 



Vases 14,240 



Statues 2,110 



Busts and Heads 4,200 



Cippi and Stelae 138 



Bas-reliefs 270 



Sarcophagi, sculptured 4. 



Gems, Cylinders, and Scarabtei 3-719 



Serpentine Stone, Haematite, Egyptian enamelled ware 472 



Objects in gold i , i^g^ 



Objects in silver 370 



Objects in copper and bronze 2,107 



Objects in alabaster and rock-crystal 146 



Objects in ivory, bone, lead, and iron 217 



Terracotta Lamps 2,380 



Total 35.573 



Of these precious relics 5,000 were lost at sea in 1871, others 

 were presented to the Ottoman Government, to the Ottoman 

 Museum at Constantinople, to the R. Museums at Munich and 

 Turin, to the Anthropological Museum at Turin, to the Archaeo- 

 logical Society at Athens, to the Museum at Perugia, to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, to the British Museum, and to the Museums of 

 Petersburg, Berlin, Cambridge, Kensington, and Boston. The 

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