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1874] THE TROJAN INSCRIPTIONS. 369
No. 3474, Atlas). The third is round the shoulder of a
vase from the Palace of Priam (No. 3, p. 23; PI. 168,
Nos. 32,73 and 3278, Atlas), where, however, about one-
&*> AXIA'O/^T\ _1^A7\ M
No. 297. Inscription on a Trojan Vase from the Palace (8 M.).
third of the inscription is wanting. The fourth is on a
whorl from the lower limit of the Trojan stratum.
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No. 298. Trojan Whorl, with No. 299. The Inscription developed (10 M.}.
an Inscription (10 M.).
Comp. PI. XXVII., No. 3C9. This also is of very coarse work.
The above record of the process of the investigation
will still possess great historical interest, long after the
results shall have emerged (as we trust) from the cloud
which, for the moment, has come over our hopes; and
we believe that its interest will be increased by stating
the present position of the case in the words of Professor
Gomperz himself*:—■
" Theie is not, and there cannot be, the slightest doubt that Pro-
fessor Haug at Munich was perfectly right, when he first identified the
symbols found on several of the Hissarlik vases, &c, with Cypriote
characters. I was right too in following up the track, and I think still
that I have scarcely once been wrong in identifying those symbols with
these characters. Furthermore, my general inferences drawn from the
fact, that the Cypriote syllabic writing occurs out of Cyprus, and asso-
ciated with what I rightly have called pre-Homeric objects of art, I still
think unassailable. But—I cannot go further than this! My attempt
at decipliering those inscriptions I now look upon as abortive ! I hasten
to add, that I do not think I deserve any reproach in the matter. I
utilized to the best of my abilities the progress which till then had been
wade in the decipherment of the Cypriote inscriptions found in Cyprus.
, * From a letter to the Editor, dated "Vienna, Dec. 9th, 1874, written
In English, as here quoted.
No. 3474, Atlas). The third is round the shoulder of a
vase from the Palace of Priam (No. 3, p. 23; PI. 168,
Nos. 32,73 and 3278, Atlas), where, however, about one-
&*> AXIA'O/^T\ _1^A7\ M
No. 297. Inscription on a Trojan Vase from the Palace (8 M.).
third of the inscription is wanting. The fourth is on a
whorl from the lower limit of the Trojan stratum.
< A l\ FN
No. 298. Trojan Whorl, with No. 299. The Inscription developed (10 M.}.
an Inscription (10 M.).
Comp. PI. XXVII., No. 3C9. This also is of very coarse work.
The above record of the process of the investigation
will still possess great historical interest, long after the
results shall have emerged (as we trust) from the cloud
which, for the moment, has come over our hopes; and
we believe that its interest will be increased by stating
the present position of the case in the words of Professor
Gomperz himself*:—■
" Theie is not, and there cannot be, the slightest doubt that Pro-
fessor Haug at Munich was perfectly right, when he first identified the
symbols found on several of the Hissarlik vases, &c, with Cypriote
characters. I was right too in following up the track, and I think still
that I have scarcely once been wrong in identifying those symbols with
these characters. Furthermore, my general inferences drawn from the
fact, that the Cypriote syllabic writing occurs out of Cyprus, and asso-
ciated with what I rightly have called pre-Homeric objects of art, I still
think unassailable. But—I cannot go further than this! My attempt
at decipliering those inscriptions I now look upon as abortive ! I hasten
to add, that I do not think I deserve any reproach in the matter. I
utilized to the best of my abilities the progress which till then had been
wade in the decipherment of the Cypriote inscriptions found in Cyprus.
, * From a letter to the Editor, dated "Vienna, Dec. 9th, 1874, written
In English, as here quoted.