Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-21
HELLENIC ANTIQUITIES.
Old Troy Unearthed-The Grand Reward
of Three Years Work-Priam's Palace
Brought to Light-Great Treasures of
Gold and Silver Discovered.

OF Ihree Years WOrk-Priam's Palace
Brought to Light-Great Treasures of
Gold and Silver Discovered.
GFrom the New York Journal of Commerce, Aug. Al
The following is an extract from
private letter, written by Mrs. Francis,
wife of the American Minister to Greece,
to her daughter residing in this city 1t
conveys the first intelligence which has
reached us of the complete and brilliant
success attending Mr. Schliemann's
long-cOntinued explorations on the site
of ancient Troy. The discoveries here
announced are among the most interest
ing and remarkable contributions of this
century to archaeological lore, and will
be hailed with enthusiasm by scholars
all over the world
''ATHENs, Greece June 25. 1873
Mr.. Schliemann returned from Troy yes
terday. He has completed his excavations
after three years of labor, by grand master
stroke. He has discovered the Palace of Prlam
and large treasure in gold and silver. He has
carried away with him forty large cases con-
tanning various articles. also fifteen baskets of
real treasures. We called upon him to-day. at
his residence, for the purpose of examining
his collection: sawin his house gold goblets
and vases which shine just like the gold of
our age I also saw some beautiful hand-or-
naments made of gold, massive and well made
resembling those now worn by the modern
Greeks. There is a golden goblet weighing
nearly three pounds, also a quantity of small.
round earrings. such used and worn by
children of our days"
From the New York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 5
Our mention yesterday of the extraor-
binary success of Prof. Schliemanns
excavations and searches on what he
believed (and now appears to have
provedD to be the site of Romer's Troy,
are corroborated by Greek papers just
at hand. The Clio, a paper published
Athens in modern Greek, speaks in the
highest terms of Mr.. Schliemann, and
recognizes the great Importance of his
discoveries. The study of Hellenic an
tiquities has latterly been taken up with
great zeal in Greece. The French
School OF Arts at Athens has done much
to stimulate these pursuits, and the
Greek Government and people, though
with little money to give, are well-dis-
posed to lend helping hand to the ar
ch@ologists. On the island of Delos
many of the glories of the chief shrine
of Apollo have been unearthed, and the
inspired hands of Phidias and Praxi-
teles are supposed to be traced in many
fragments Of statuary that have been
found In the sacred isle and elsewhere
within the past few years. The Clio
dwells particularly upon recent discov-
cries in Decelia, frontier village of
Attica, famous in the history of the in
ternecine wars of Greece, and fortified
by the Athenians at the instance of
their greatest statesman as the KEY of
Attica. The King of Greece has his
summer residence exactly, he believes,
in the ancient demos of Decelia. Since
the successes recently noted have be-
come known, it is popularity believed
that sort of Capt. Kidd treasure I'M
derlies the soil of each historic spot in
Hellenic territory, and that the earth
will yield up the treasures of the con-
queror and the conquered as the stub
born spade shall persevere.
The Clio says that, above all, the at
tention of arch@ologists is directed to
the many antiquities which Mr.. Schlie-
mann has brought from Troy. He
identifies the spot where he has wrought
by many close correspondence with the
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and is confident that he has at last found
the somber and high-towered portals of
the Elders of Troy in the day of the
famous duel between Paris and Meme
laus.
Encouraged by his successes in the
Troad, Mr.. Schliemann now asks per-
mission of the Grecian Government to
excavate at Argos and Mycen@, the
capital of Agamemnon. He proposes
to do this at his own expense. He asks
that the Grecian Government allow him
the privilege, with the understanding
that all the treasures of antiquity dis
covered by him in the past and in the
future shall belong to him during his
life, and that at his death they shall
revert to the Greek Government. He
proposes further to establish museum
for exhibition of Homeric antiquities,
at an expense of 200, 900 francs, to be
paid by himself. The sentiment of the
people is represented to be in favor of
the proposition, Notwithstanding that
other arch@ologists have deceived them
upon similar understandings. The
journals of Athens express the utmost
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