344 Capt. Koschkull on the Caucasus, 
taining pigments. There were also statues in terra-cotta rep- 
resenting the following divinities: Cupid, the Three Graces 
150 men for several months, and resulted in complete _ 
From the broken fragments were reconstructed a large vase al 
a flat dish bearing different designs, but referring to one pr 
sode in the history of Greece, Upon the dish was pe 
the meeting of Paris and Helen, and upon the vase the a 
tion of the beautiful wife of Menelaus, From their size, a 
beauty of the conception and the execution of the ornamel 
tion, this vase and dish are unquestionably the finest specimé 
of the kind yet discovered, os 
The mounds containing tombs similar to those desc 
mostly found on the peninsula of Kertsch, in the su 
anticapeeum, and on the peninsula of Taman, near the site 
the aie cities of aad and Phanagoria, of se 
_ almost no other traces remain. : those 
fter the remains of the Greek colonization we 
which belong to the propagation of Christianity. Of = . 
we have traces in nearly all parts of the Caucasus. but they 
ese occupied not only the peninsula of the ea over the 
were scattercd through the valley of the Rion, an th of Mt. 
horthern slope of the Great Caucasian chain nor te of i0- 
Elbruz. The pass of Moroukh served them as @ ee of the 
mountains, Along this route, and in general in all the dm- 
portions of the Isthmus are found ruins of churches 4? nal 
