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Since Mr. Newton delivered his opinion respecting the Hissarlick 
antiquities, the Society of Antiquaries has had the honour of 
receiving from Dr. Schliemann himself an account of his explo- 
rations on the site of the Homeric Troy. A short account of 
these will be read with interest in the ‘“ Proceedings for June, 
1875,” but they will eventually be published at length in the 
Archezologia. On this occasion the Society had the benefit of 
hearing the opinion of the late Prime Minister, Mr. Gladstone, 
so deeply versed in Homeric lore. 
I cannot but express my pleasure that this subject should have 
been taken up at one of the meetings of the Bath Literary and 
Philosophical Association, and a very able paper read on the 
subject by the Principal of Prior Park College.* 
Turning now from the Troad to the city of Ephesus and the 
excavations on the site of the Temple of Diana, conducted by Mr. 
Wood, that gentleman has found on the site of the Temple some 
Archaic sculpture evidently from the first Artemision, the building 
of which was going on about B.c. 560; and this Ephesian 
sculpture, says Mr. Newton, is singularly like in style to that 
from Branchide.t (See Proc. of Soc. of Antig., 1874, Ap. 30, 
p. 22.) Mr. Wood in June last laid before the Society of Anti- 
quaries the result of his excavations, but regretted that the work 
had been arrested for want of funds. We hope that funds may 
soon be forthcoming, as important results may be anticipated -if 
the excavations can be continued 
© Since this was written the energy and perseverance of Dr. Schliemann has 
been further rewarded by discoveries at Mycenz, which surpass anything 
found at Hissarlick. 
+ At the meeting of the Bib. Archzol. Soc., 4th Jan., 1876, Mr. Newton 
gave an account of “‘An ancient inscription discovered at Ephesus.”” The 
inscription was found incised upon a carved stone which had apparently formed 
the base of one of the pillars of the most ancient Temple of Artemis. The 
characters belonged to an alphabet which is at present unknown, but resembles 
the Phenician and was one of the local alphabets of Asia Minor. 
