Books - Charles Thomas Newton

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: city, called Tria Gephyria, but by far the more important objects in the annexed list were found in an Hellenic Necropolis at Megalommata, near St. Elena, at a few miles' distance from the town of Corfu. It is stated in Mustoxidi, p. 307, that about the year 1846, a built tomb was discovered here, together with lamps, vases, painted with and without figures-, phials, cups, rings, ear-rings, gold wreaths composed of olive- leaves, ornaments, Roman coins of Augustus and Tiberius, and inscribed sepulchral marbles. Mr. Newton visited this spot and took down the depositions of a number of Greek peasants who had discovered tombs there at various periods within the last 16 years. The evidence of these peasants is given (Inclosures 15—28) from notes taken at the time by Mr. Newton. Their testimony was given in the most straightforward manner, and with that intelligence which Mr. Newton has observed to be the characteristic of the Greek peasant in all the islands of which he has had experience. It appears from this evidence that the antiquities found in the tombs at St. Elena, and purchased by Mr. Woodhouse, were a most valuable and interesting collection, consisting of gold ornaments, inlaid glass, bronze figures, mirrors, arms and implements, terra cotta figures, and small painted Greek vases, probably consisting, for the most part, of lekythi and aryballi. The number and variety of the gold ornaments in this list quite correspond with Lady Strangford's description of what she saw in'the Woodbouse Museum in 1863. The number of pairs of gold ear-rings mentioned in these depositions amounts to 83. The number of gold rings to upwards of 250. Among the ornaments were a gold wreath of a most rare form, and quantities of gold leaves from wreaths. One witness deposes to having sold to Mr. Wo...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GREEK SCULPTUKES FROM THE WEST COAST OF ASIA MINOR, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Since the year 1840, the sites of a number of Greek cities on the west coast of Asia Minor and in the Turkish islands of the Archipelago have been explored, chiefly through English and French enterprise. It is not my purpose here to give a history of these expeditions, but to draw attention to their results, to show how much they have added to our knowledge of Greek art. To make this clear, I shall arrange the objects discovered, not geographically, but according to their presumed dates. It is convenient to conceive of Greek art as divided into the following succession of periods : The Archaic period, ending a little after the close of the Persian war, B.c. 450 ; the period of finest art, including the schools of Pheidias and Praxiteles, which may be considered as ranging between B.c. 450 and the death of Alexander the Great, B.c. 324 ; and the Macedonian period, extending from this last date to the accession of Augustus, after which the Greek artist became the hireling of bis Roman conqueror. "The Portfolio," Nos. 54, 55. Now, in regard to the first of these periods, the harvest has been very considerable. Before the year 1840 our knowledge of archaic sculpture was almost limited to a few specimens in Italian museums, most of which are rather hieratic than archaic; that is to say, conventional reproductions of the archaic, executed at a much later period. It is in the sculptures of Athens and from the west coast of Asia Minor and the islands that we can best study the true archaic. The first Greek sculptors, according to Pliny, who attained eminence by working in marble, were two Kretans, Dipoenos and Skyllis, whose date he gives as about B.c. 580. It is in this same period that we must pla...

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1880 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.