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corpus of that of each extreme—Syria and the Isles—is taken. Out of the 
87 Keftiuan objects available for study 60 are found to be of Syrianising types, 
while 27 are peculiar to Keftiu. 
Of the Syrianising types may be mentioned the scale pattern; handles in the 
form of heraldic animals, an idea stretching from Assyria to Mycene; fillers; 
protomai found in Egyptian paintings to be fairly common in Syria; tusks; 
lazuli; copper ingots; silver in rings, as from Syria, but also in blocks. 
In the native types the goat’s head seems to be a favourite motif. The vase- 
handles either rise above the rim in the Avgean style, or are joined flat with it 
in the Syrian style; they also end either in the ANgean spiral or Syrian flower. 
The inlaid bull figure is allied to the Mesopotamian types. The Vaphio cup at 
present must be considered an import, as to-day this type is only known from 
the Aigean. 
The dress of the Keftiuans consists of a pointed ornamented kilt, and some- 
times boots. The hair is worn in locks, and twisted into curls on the head, and 
the beard is generally shaved. 
4. A Contribution to the Archeology of Cyprus. 
By Professor J. L. Myres, M.A. 
Professor J. L. Myres described some contributions to the archeology of 
Cyprus which have resulted from recent re-examination of the Cesnola collec- 
tion of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The 
most important of these are the extension of the upward limit of time for 
the great series of votive statues, which show a period in which the Assyrian 
influence which characterises the early half of the seventh century is not yet 
fully developed, and Syro-Cappadocian affinities are seen; and the discovery 
that Minoan types of costume, both for men and for women, introduced in the 
later Bronze Age, remained in ceremonial use, and probably also in daily life, 
far into the historic period. The Cypriote script now begins to show forms link- 
ing it with the Minoan, and Minoan numerals are shown on a Cypriote tablet 
which seems to be a tribute-list. And among the New York fragments of 
engraved bowls of Oriental design is one which repeats the subject of the well- 
known ‘ Hunting Bowl’ found at Palestrina near Rome, and is probably from 
the same hand and workshop, thus showing the wide distribution of these 
works of art, and the probability that they are the output of a few closely 
related centres of industry. One of these centres may very likely have been in 
Cyprus itself. 
5. Ancient Assyrian Medicine. By R. Camppety THompson, M.A. 
The principal sources of our knowledge of ancient Assyrian medicine are, of 
course, the cuneiform tablets of the seventh century from Assurbanipal’s palace 
in Nineveh, now in the British Museum; there are, however, a few references 
to surgeons in Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, written about four thousand years 
ago, and several incantations for the benefit of sick people dating from the Late 
Babylonian period. Professor Sayce was one of the earliest to comment on 
the medical texts proper, and his work was followed many years later by Prof. 
Kiichler’s publication on three tablets dealing chiefly with stomachic disorders, 
which, as is natural in a progressive study, marked a great advance in our 
knowledge. Since then I have published two small papers on ailments of the 
head and rheumatism; Drs. Von Oefele and Fonahn have discussed many points 
on this subject; and Dr. Harri Holma has lately been at pains to collect all the 
known names of the parts of the body in cuneiform. 
There still remain about 500 tablets or fragments of tablets unpublished in 
the British Museum, which I have been courteously permitted to copy, and hope 
to bring out shortly, and it is with these chiefly that this paper deals. They 
relate to diseases of the head, hair, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, teeth, stomach, and 
other organs; the treatment of pregnancy and difficult travail; poultices, potions, 
and enemas; and the assuaging of snake-bites or scorpion-stings. The drugs in 
use can be numbered by the score (there are considerably more than a hundred 
of them, animal, vegetable, and mineral), but it is obviously often difficult to 
