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On the different styles of Pottery found in
earlier inhabitants of SaTs were a Phoenician colony who were banished to make
room for the Greek immigrants. It is certain, at any rate, that the localities
where these cemeteries are found, viz. the eastern and south-eastern parts of
Cyprus, are precisely those in which we know the Phoenicians to have established
themselves. A striking point of resemblance between the race identified with
these graves and that tenanting the first class of tombs lies in the practice of
burying their weapons, bronze or copper spear-heads, with their dead, a practice
which proves them to have been military peoples. Some specimens of these spear-
heads and an axe-head are annexed/ The presence of bronze, which is an alloy of
COPPER IMPLEMENTS FROM CYPRUS.
Scale i linear.
copper and tin, is an additional argument in favour of identifying these tombs as
Phoenician, and, in fact, history informs us that they founded a commercial
colony in Citium as early as the twelfth century b.c. We know, moreover, that
their commercial intercourse with Egypt was even anterior to this..
III. We now come to consider the third class of cemeteries, which the
excavations hitherto made show to have covered a much wider area of the island
than either of the preceding ones, and the progress of discovery tends to establish
the probability of their range being co-extensive with the island itself, though
different localities are distinguished by varieties of the same kind of pottery. The
fact, then, of their extended range, and the further significant circumstance of their
a The celt is in the collection of John Evans, Esq. F.S.A., the remainder of the objects in the British
Museum; they are probably all of copper, nearly pure. For an analysis of Cyprian objects, see Compte
Rendu du Congres Prehistorique de Stockholm, p. 346.
On the different styles of Pottery found in
earlier inhabitants of SaTs were a Phoenician colony who were banished to make
room for the Greek immigrants. It is certain, at any rate, that the localities
where these cemeteries are found, viz. the eastern and south-eastern parts of
Cyprus, are precisely those in which we know the Phoenicians to have established
themselves. A striking point of resemblance between the race identified with
these graves and that tenanting the first class of tombs lies in the practice of
burying their weapons, bronze or copper spear-heads, with their dead, a practice
which proves them to have been military peoples. Some specimens of these spear-
heads and an axe-head are annexed/ The presence of bronze, which is an alloy of
COPPER IMPLEMENTS FROM CYPRUS.
Scale i linear.
copper and tin, is an additional argument in favour of identifying these tombs as
Phoenician, and, in fact, history informs us that they founded a commercial
colony in Citium as early as the twelfth century b.c. We know, moreover, that
their commercial intercourse with Egypt was even anterior to this..
III. We now come to consider the third class of cemeteries, which the
excavations hitherto made show to have covered a much wider area of the island
than either of the preceding ones, and the progress of discovery tends to establish
the probability of their range being co-extensive with the island itself, though
different localities are distinguished by varieties of the same kind of pottery. The
fact, then, of their extended range, and the further significant circumstance of their
a The celt is in the collection of John Evans, Esq. F.S.A., the remainder of the objects in the British
Museum; they are probably all of copper, nearly pure. For an analysis of Cyprian objects, see Compte
Rendu du Congres Prehistorique de Stockholm, p. 346.