406 THANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



ceding yefir Cyrus was killed by his brother Artaxerxes Mnemon, 

 and the 10,000 Greeks returned from Persia. — Is it not interest- 

 ing that a contemporaneous memorial has been preserved down 

 to this day ? 



2. The Cyprian bowl confirms the testimonials of Aristotle, 

 ChcEremon, Tacitus, Plutarch, Lutatius, Cicero (see these Trans- 

 actions vol. iv. p. — ), that the deities of all ancient nations were 

 the same, to-wit, the seven planets and the twelve signs of the 

 Zodiac, and not at all " geographical phenomena of Greece and 

 Italy. The natives of Italy and Greece differed very much from 

 those of Cyprus, and yet the inhabitants of the latter possessed the 

 same divinities worshipped in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Phoenicia, 

 and Assyria, as the other Cyprian antiquities in Cesnola's collec- 

 lection evidence. The coincidence of th.e Cyprian deities with 

 those of so diflerent nations strengthens Jeremiah's and the Geor- 

 gian chronicle's testimony that all pagan religions originated 

 in Babylonia prior to the dispersion of the primitive nations. — 

 Moreover, the same bronze bowl throws unexpected light upon 

 one of the most obscure chapters of Greek and Roman mythology : 

 we know now what the nine Muses and the three Graces properly 

 represented, and it is to be regretted that the same deities were 

 totally misunderstood in the valuable " Realencyclopadie " pub- 

 lished by Pauly, Stuttgard, 1848. 



3. Finally, the aforesaid four planetary configurations on Cy- 

 prian antiquities show how much of astronomy and' astrologj' 

 were divulged on our globe in ancient times. A great number 

 of such inscriptions, originating in Egypt, Greece and Italy, are 

 known since 1833. To these the Cyprian ones are now to be 

 added. Further, in the British Muselim a number of Persian 

 monuments will be found on which similar planetary configura- 

 tions, likewise represented, will be noticed. The "Golden Horn 

 of Copenhagen," the so-called Cluobdas, the Eddas, etc., demon- 

 strate that this science was likewise cultivated in ancient Germa- 

 ny, Denmark, Norway, etc. (See " Bericht vom J. 1833 an die 

 Mitglieder der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschang vaterliin- 

 discher Aetherthuemer.") In the Zendavesta of the Parsees and 

 the Vedas of the East Indians a number of similar planetary con- 

 figurations have been preserved. (See the writer's "Chronologia 

 Sac." 1846. The same astrology has been practised in East India 



