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PREFACE.
the classes of objects here shown. The order of arrangement is primarily by the material
employed, things of similar use or appearance being grouped together. Thus it is possible that a
single plate may contain objects from a half a dozen places. This will be found of advantage for
purposes of comparative study, though it has the incidental defect of separating the objects which
were found in or near the same locality. References are made to the pages in my volume on
Cyprus, where the objects are mentioned or more fully described, but no attempt has been made
to cite all of the literature or to mention all of the books in which similar objects preserved
elsewhere have been described or discussed.
The text relating to the inscriptions, Phoenician, Cypriote and Greek, was prepared for this
volume by the late Isaac Hollister Hall, Ph.D., Litt.D., L.H.D., formerly Curator in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, in New York, where he had ample opportunity to study the objects at first
hand.
Owing to the multitude of duties laid upon me by the management and oversight of the
Museum, and the consequent demands upon my time, it has not been possible for me to find that
leisure which I would gladly have devoted to the preparation of this volume. The editing of the
text prepared by Dr. Hall, the preparation of the rest of the text, and the supervision of the pro-
cesses involved in making the plates have been committed to the Rev. Charles Ripley Gillett,
D.D., L.H.D., Librarian of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, who has con-
sulted my desires in all respects, working under my direction and supervision. To him I would
make acknowledgment of my obligations. L. P. di C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Central Park, New York.
March I, 1903
the classes of objects here shown. The order of arrangement is primarily by the material
employed, things of similar use or appearance being grouped together. Thus it is possible that a
single plate may contain objects from a half a dozen places. This will be found of advantage for
purposes of comparative study, though it has the incidental defect of separating the objects which
were found in or near the same locality. References are made to the pages in my volume on
Cyprus, where the objects are mentioned or more fully described, but no attempt has been made
to cite all of the literature or to mention all of the books in which similar objects preserved
elsewhere have been described or discussed.
The text relating to the inscriptions, Phoenician, Cypriote and Greek, was prepared for this
volume by the late Isaac Hollister Hall, Ph.D., Litt.D., L.H.D., formerly Curator in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, in New York, where he had ample opportunity to study the objects at first
hand.
Owing to the multitude of duties laid upon me by the management and oversight of the
Museum, and the consequent demands upon my time, it has not been possible for me to find that
leisure which I would gladly have devoted to the preparation of this volume. The editing of the
text prepared by Dr. Hall, the preparation of the rest of the text, and the supervision of the pro-
cesses involved in making the plates have been committed to the Rev. Charles Ripley Gillett,
D.D., L.H.D., Librarian of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, who has con-
sulted my desires in all respects, working under my direction and supervision. To him I would
make acknowledgment of my obligations. L. P. di C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Central Park, New York.
March I, 1903