Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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likewise found at a depth of 23 feet; and the third letter
also upon two small funnels of terra-cotta, from a depth of

10 feet (see p. 191). I further found
in the royal palace the excellent
engraved inscription on a piece of
red slate; but I see here only one
character resembling one of the
letters of the inscription on the
above-mentioned seal. My friend
the great Indian scholar, Emile
Burnouf, conjectures that all these
characters belong to a very ancient
Graeco-Asiatic local alphabet. Professor H.Brunn, of Munich,
writes to me that he has shown these inscriptions to Professor
Haug, and that he has pointed out their relationship and con-

No. 4-

Inscribed Terra-cotta Seal
(7 «•)■

No. 5. Piece of Red Slate, perhaps a Whetstone, with an Inscription (7 M.).

nection with the Phoenician alphabet (from which the Greek
alphabet is however derived), and has found certain analogies
between them and the inscription on the bronze table which
was found at Idalium in Cyprus, and is now in the Cabinet
des MCdailles in Paris. Professor Brunn adds that the con-
nection of things found at Troy with those found in Cyprus
is in no way surprising, but may be very well reconciled with
Homer, and that at all events particular attention should
be paid to this connection, for, in his opinion, Cyprus is the

of these Trojan inscriptions have been more certainly determined to be
real inscriptions in the Cyprian syllabic character, through the researches
of Dr. Martin Haug and Professor Gomperz of Vienna. (See the
Appendix.)—[Ed.]