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“Si” of the Cypriote in such words as oipPdos (beehive), which 
might be used metaphorically for ‘‘treasure-house’’ (?; and in 
viros (corn), and its compounds, which could readily suggest 
barn. As we have to consider the possibility of some of the 
Disk signs being developed on the acrophonic principle from, 
among others, lonian words, we must not, at this juncture, 
altogether reject any help from Greek sources. In Assyrian 
the word for treasure was ‘‘NISIRTU,” and that for treasure- 
house "BIT-NISIRTI." The later linear sign is inscribed on a 
thick, heavy slab of copper, ®) figured on p. 15 in “Excavations 
in Cyprus” (Murray and others, Brit. Mus., 1900), so, as it 
is in this case, evidently a kind of treasury or foundry mark, 
the identification of the character with a treasure-house cannot 
r wrong. On the other hand, however, it is certainly 
possible that houses of the lake-village type were erected im 
yprus in early times, in view of the fact that the island con- 
tains many marshes, notably those formed by the waters of the 
river Pedia. 
crested head-dress similar in every respect re thar portrayed on 
(? Compare the '"Treasuries" of Mycenae and Orchomenos- t 
an aco pr: Murray says that its weight is 81 Ib. 10 oz., and the 
pm analysis ma y fessor Church shows 98'05 per cen king 
inns r. Cyprus, of course, was the home of the copper-work! 
Industry in ancient times. all 
B of my paper. It is evident that Mr. a 
t ? ed., p. 66, note 3), in dooked 
edes ie about three centuries before this time, has overlo 
a fact the must belong to the Assyrian era. 
