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10, Downing Street
Whitehall
Feh. 3. 1893
Dea/- S,
A thorough examination of your work, which would have bcen my best cxcu.se for compliance
will] your desire, has unförtunately been out of my power, in consequence of the heav} demands
Lipon my time together with some other causes.
Aidedj h.ow.ever, by the references which von kindly supplied', I have made royseh sufficiently
acquainted with it to be deeply impressed with its importance as a substantial contribution to the
great work oi unifying and integrating the archaic knowledge which has recently been obtained in
so many branches, and so many quarters.
Cyprus was 1 apprehend a great advanced post of Phoenician navigation, commerce and
civilisation, and it may prove to have become the richest storehouse of illustrative remains supplied
by that race, which played so momentous a part in human development.
Your views of the Astarte-Aphrodite, so far as 1 have been able to examine them, appear to
me to be in close correspondence with the evidence supplied by the text of Homer. And il ma\ be
worthy of note, with reference to the Gorgoneion, that while the shield of Agamemnon associates il
with Cyprus, the only other mention (if I remember right) of the Gorgon in Homer is in the Under-
world of the Eleventh Odyssey which is as I coneeive altogether exotic, that is to say Phoenician,
in its character.
I could wish that tliis letter was more worthy of its occasion but you will 1 am sure excuse
its insufficiency on aecount of the circumstances under which it is written. I have the honour
to remain
dear Sir
your very faithful and obedient
W. E. Gladstone.
I take the liberty of inclosing a recent paper of my own, somewhat slight in its texture,
which has certain points of relation with your work.
Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter,
Berlin, In den Zelten 13.
Whitehall
Feh. 3. 1893
Dea/- S,
A thorough examination of your work, which would have bcen my best cxcu.se for compliance
will] your desire, has unförtunately been out of my power, in consequence of the heav} demands
Lipon my time together with some other causes.
Aidedj h.ow.ever, by the references which von kindly supplied', I have made royseh sufficiently
acquainted with it to be deeply impressed with its importance as a substantial contribution to the
great work oi unifying and integrating the archaic knowledge which has recently been obtained in
so many branches, and so many quarters.
Cyprus was 1 apprehend a great advanced post of Phoenician navigation, commerce and
civilisation, and it may prove to have become the richest storehouse of illustrative remains supplied
by that race, which played so momentous a part in human development.
Your views of the Astarte-Aphrodite, so far as 1 have been able to examine them, appear to
me to be in close correspondence with the evidence supplied by the text of Homer. And il ma\ be
worthy of note, with reference to the Gorgoneion, that while the shield of Agamemnon associates il
with Cyprus, the only other mention (if I remember right) of the Gorgon in Homer is in the Under-
world of the Eleventh Odyssey which is as I coneeive altogether exotic, that is to say Phoenician,
in its character.
I could wish that tliis letter was more worthy of its occasion but you will 1 am sure excuse
its insufficiency on aecount of the circumstances under which it is written. I have the honour
to remain
dear Sir
your very faithful and obedient
W. E. Gladstone.
I take the liberty of inclosing a recent paper of my own, somewhat slight in its texture,
which has certain points of relation with your work.
Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter,
Berlin, In den Zelten 13.