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INTRODUCTION.
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carried out a series of excavations on the site of Cyrene,
and discovered a considerable number of sculptures in
marble, and an admirable bronze portrait head, among the
ruins of the temples of Apollo, Dionysos and Aphrodite,
and elsewhere.
The excavations which were carried on at Ephesus by
the late Mr. John Turtle Wood,1 for the British Museum,
began in 1863, and were continued till 1874, the site of
the great temple of Artemis not having been determined
before the spring of 1870. Besides excavating the site of
the temple, Mr. Wood obtained inscriptions and sculptures
from the Odeum, the great Theatre, and the road to the
temple of Artemis.
The site of Naucratis in the Egyptian Delta was dis-
covered by Mr. W. M. Flinders Betrie, and was excavated,
partly by the discoverer, and partly by Mr. E. A. Gardner,
at the cost of the Egypt Exploration Fund in the years
1884-6.2 The most important objects found were frag-
ments of pottery, but there were also some architectural
remains, and archaic statuettes of interest.
In 1889 and 1891, various sculptures, including a head
of Eros from Faphos, and a large capital with projecting
bulls' heads from the Cyprian Salamis, have been presented
by the Cyprus Exploration Fund.
Besides the proceeds of the systematic researches
enumerated above, the collection of sculpture has been
frequently increased during the present century with the
specimens collected by private travellers in the East.
Thus in 1818, H. Gaily Knight (1784-1846), an anti-
quarian and writer on the history of architecture, with
N. Fazakerly, presented a statue from Athens.3 In 1820,
1 See p. 24. 2 See p. 61. 3 No. 153.
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carried out a series of excavations on the site of Cyrene,
and discovered a considerable number of sculptures in
marble, and an admirable bronze portrait head, among the
ruins of the temples of Apollo, Dionysos and Aphrodite,
and elsewhere.
The excavations which were carried on at Ephesus by
the late Mr. John Turtle Wood,1 for the British Museum,
began in 1863, and were continued till 1874, the site of
the great temple of Artemis not having been determined
before the spring of 1870. Besides excavating the site of
the temple, Mr. Wood obtained inscriptions and sculptures
from the Odeum, the great Theatre, and the road to the
temple of Artemis.
The site of Naucratis in the Egyptian Delta was dis-
covered by Mr. W. M. Flinders Betrie, and was excavated,
partly by the discoverer, and partly by Mr. E. A. Gardner,
at the cost of the Egypt Exploration Fund in the years
1884-6.2 The most important objects found were frag-
ments of pottery, but there were also some architectural
remains, and archaic statuettes of interest.
In 1889 and 1891, various sculptures, including a head
of Eros from Faphos, and a large capital with projecting
bulls' heads from the Cyprian Salamis, have been presented
by the Cyprus Exploration Fund.
Besides the proceeds of the systematic researches
enumerated above, the collection of sculpture has been
frequently increased during the present century with the
specimens collected by private travellers in the East.
Thus in 1818, H. Gaily Knight (1784-1846), an anti-
quarian and writer on the history of architecture, with
N. Fazakerly, presented a statue from Athens.3 In 1820,
1 See p. 24. 2 See p. 61. 3 No. 153.