SEYFFARTH PLANETARY CONFIG. ON CYPRIAN ANTiq. 405 



solar disk in the hands of the Moon, indicates that the latter occu- 

 pied the Decuria of the © in the house of X(b ), no solar Decuria 

 existing in Aries. In short, the Moon is put out of X and trans- 

 ferred to T, simply because there was no better place for signi- 

 fying her conjunction with the Sun in X. The Moon's figure, 

 seated upon a throne, is not retrograding^ but retrospective to 

 the Sun, because she belonged to the sign entered by the Sun. 

 Besides, seven hours later the Moon stood both in X and T 

 (9^30° = 10' 0°). 



Computation of the date -397, Dec. 35, ©b P. T. 



ANCIENT OBSERVATION. TABLE RESULTS. 



© 9^ 0° 9^ 0° 



J) 9^ 20°-3o° 9' 26° 



\ 8' i7°-2 1 ° retrograde 8' iS° retrograde 



2/ o^ -f-° retrograde o« 10° retrograde 



J, 1 1« -1-° retrograde 11' 4° retrograde 



J 8 3 +° (near the sun) 9" 0° (near the sun) 



^ 8^-(-° 8^ 6° 



This calculation, though superficial, is sufiicient to fix the date 

 of the observation with mathematical certainty. No similar 

 planetary configurations happen during a period of 2,146 years, 

 in which Saturn performs 74 revolutions, Jupiter 170, Mars 6"] 

 of 32 years each, Venus 268 of 8 years, and Mercury 168 of 13 

 years each. 



CONCLUSION. 



The discovery of our Cyprian antiquities is, in many respects, 

 of interest ; for, 



I. The original mirrors, the ai;ts and sciences of the inhabit- 

 ants of an island known since Gen. x. 14, and repeatedly men- 

 tioned in history since Homer, as the principal work, " Engel's 

 Cyprus," specifies. By the way, it is an error of Gesenius to re- 

 fer the primitive name of Cyprus, viz., y\VF\'^ (Kaphthor), not to 

 Cyprus, but to Creta, for the Tanis-stone translates Capththor by 

 Cyprus. — In 397 b.c. the Greek population must have been 

 numerous in Cyrus ; the arts, sciences, and religious ideas of the 

 Greeks still prevailed in that island. In the same year Socrates 

 died in Athens ; Plato, 28 years old, went over to Megarae ; the 

 Lacedaemonians warred a second titrie against the Elians ; the 

 tribunus militum P. Manlius Vulso ruled in Rome. In the pre- 



