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DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT STATUE. [CHAP.
ence to what they heard, and of thus deciding the fate
of every measure brought forward8.
Near the monastery I also noticed a trough, and
having elsewhere learnt that an old sarcophagus is fre-
quently made thus to serve the living, now that it is
no longer of any use for the dead9, I examined it closely,
and found recorded on it the name of a certain Phido
the son of Phido:
\l <l> E I A fl N <I>EIAnNOI
On one of the subsequent visits, to which I have
already alluded, when the Isabella, tender to His Ma-
jesty's surveying-vessel Beacon, was remaining with me,
I pointed out, for excavation, a spot to the south of the
monasterv ; and, owing to the zeal with which the work
was executed10, an elegant little winged statue, standing
on a sculptured pedestal, was found. Unfortunately
the head of the youthful god is wanting. On either
side of the neck we notice his long unshorn locks, and
three little Loves, with torches in their hands, are dis-
porting on the pedestal11.
Buondelmonti was the first modern writer who
visited this Palaedkastron. He travelled more than four
hundred years ago, and, after landing at the saltpans
now called Tuzla, ascended to the ruins of this ancient
city, which he supposed to be Minoa. The chief remains
in his time, as now, were fragments of marble, and the
8 See Neumann, Rerum Creticarum Specimen, Lib. n. c. v. p. 90.
fol. Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. in. p. 74—82. But compare Mueller, Dorier,
Vol. ii. p. 70. foil, and Thirlwall, History of Greece, Vol. i. p. 286.
9 At Tjardak on the Hellespont, the site, I have no doubt, of Lamp-
sacus, and near Artaki, the Artace of Strabo, not far from the ancient
Cyzicos, I have seen old sarcophaguses, some adorned with sculptures, others
bearing inscriptions, thus employed. " To what vile uses may we come at
last! "
10 Under the superintendence of Mr T. Sibbald and Mr Aldridge,
R.N.
11 Since I wrote the above, the statue has arrived in England, with
some other ancient marbles found in Greece, and all of which I had left
at Malta.
DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT STATUE. [CHAP.
ence to what they heard, and of thus deciding the fate
of every measure brought forward8.
Near the monastery I also noticed a trough, and
having elsewhere learnt that an old sarcophagus is fre-
quently made thus to serve the living, now that it is
no longer of any use for the dead9, I examined it closely,
and found recorded on it the name of a certain Phido
the son of Phido:
\l <l> E I A fl N <I>EIAnNOI
On one of the subsequent visits, to which I have
already alluded, when the Isabella, tender to His Ma-
jesty's surveying-vessel Beacon, was remaining with me,
I pointed out, for excavation, a spot to the south of the
monasterv ; and, owing to the zeal with which the work
was executed10, an elegant little winged statue, standing
on a sculptured pedestal, was found. Unfortunately
the head of the youthful god is wanting. On either
side of the neck we notice his long unshorn locks, and
three little Loves, with torches in their hands, are dis-
porting on the pedestal11.
Buondelmonti was the first modern writer who
visited this Palaedkastron. He travelled more than four
hundred years ago, and, after landing at the saltpans
now called Tuzla, ascended to the ruins of this ancient
city, which he supposed to be Minoa. The chief remains
in his time, as now, were fragments of marble, and the
8 See Neumann, Rerum Creticarum Specimen, Lib. n. c. v. p. 90.
fol. Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. in. p. 74—82. But compare Mueller, Dorier,
Vol. ii. p. 70. foil, and Thirlwall, History of Greece, Vol. i. p. 286.
9 At Tjardak on the Hellespont, the site, I have no doubt, of Lamp-
sacus, and near Artaki, the Artace of Strabo, not far from the ancient
Cyzicos, I have seen old sarcophaguses, some adorned with sculptures, others
bearing inscriptions, thus employed. " To what vile uses may we come at
last! "
10 Under the superintendence of Mr T. Sibbald and Mr Aldridge,
R.N.
11 Since I wrote the above, the statue has arrived in England, with
some other ancient marbles found in Greece, and all of which I had left
at Malta.