DI CESNOLAS DISCOVERIES AT CURIUM. . 75 



Gold, precious stones, cylinders, and scarabei 511 



Silver and silver-gilt objects, Cyprus coins, etc 272 



Objects in bronze, copper, lead, iron, and coins 440 



Objects in alabaster, ivory, marble and serpentine 125 



Ej?yptian, Greek and Eoman lamps 555 



Terra cotta statuettes — heads, groups, etc 800 



Stone statues, bass-reliefs, heads, statuettes, etc 1150 



Glassware — ointment cups, bottles, bowls, etc 750 



Phoenician, Greek and Koman vases 2400 



Cypriote, Phoenician and Greek inscriptions 45 



Egyptian blue-glazed idols and armlets 110 



Sundry articles — mosaic, etc 50 



"My archaeological labors in Cyprus are very soon terminated, and I 

 hope before the end of next year to be able to leave this island. 



"L. P. Di Cesnola. 

 "Larnaca, December 23, 1875." 



The London Saturday Review, in speaking of Gen. Di Cesnola's discov- 

 eries, says: 



"The tale of the finding of the temple treasure at Curium ia like a page 

 from the 'Arabian ISTights,' while the story of its brief stay in England is 

 merely a repetition of passages too well known in the history of English 

 collections. After selling his former collection to the trustees of the Metro- 

 politan Museum, in New York, for some $60,000, Gen. Di Cesnola returned 

 to Cyprus and began to excavate on the sites of various buried cities. Sa- 

 lamis, as he says in a letter to a contemporary, yielded him next to nothing, 

 for the Princes of the house of Lasignan had been there before him. Cu- 

 rium seemed less promising; it was a town of which little is known. The 

 Argives founded it, according to a rumor mentioned by Herodotus, though 

 Stej)hanos of Byzantium holds out for a Phoenician or Syrian eponymous 

 settler, Steasanor, the tyrant of the city, went over to the Persian side, as 

 we learn from Herodotus, in the battle in the plain of Salamis. We also 

 know that Curium was one of the j)laces which furnished decorators and 

 other artists to Esar-Haddon. It is impossible to say how it came to perish 

 so utterly that Gen. Di Cesnola was among the first explorers who identified 

 the site. 



"The importance of Cyprus as a link in the history of art has for some 

 years been fully recognized. One of the tributaries of Thothmes III, the 

 island felt Egyptian influences before it came into the hands of Assyrians. 

 Whether the Cyprians were originally a 'Japhetic race,' as Mr. Eawlinson 

 calls them, or not, there were several early colonies of Greeks in the Qoun- 

 try, and Phoenician factories were not rare, while Greek and Phcenician 

 merchants were constantly coming and going. Now the temple at Curium, 

 if one may judge by the treasures, had been enriched by members of many 

 races for a period of at least one thousand years. Few among the offerings 

 can perhaps be proved to be later than the great golden bracelets which 

 bear, in Cypriote characters, the name of Evandros, King of Paphos, in the 



