The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-22

! Mowers and children; Pan and his pipes, Hercules
Roman Senators. Venus worshiPpers anu WONDER
The terra-cotta objects are very numerous, and
| are beth plaln and cOlOred, red and black. Venus
ana her attendants furnish repeated inspiratis
! the Cypran artist. Among other articles in this
line may pe orses anu vo.ve 0nerngs
! cupids, dOphins. birds and animals; feet with
SHOES in which are colored strings toy horses. on
| four wheels; d0hkeys with water jars, liOnesses
| and whelps; bulls, goats and tripods heads Of
Pallas Athena Esopus with = bag dancing gir.s
pounding In mortars and baking bread; charlots
with warriors whose shields bear representations
OF nsh, and wondr0us archaic horsemen
The pottery Is very wonderful. The kyathus or
wine measure. Is there In all sizes, the handle con-
tanning notched scale. There, too, is the
Ing designs in black Other curious exhibitions OF
ancient pottery are found in the stamnos, which Is
wide jar Tor oil and wine, with handles like earS
the kantharos, which consists OF cup, or bowl,
sometimes OF white clay, with standard and
wse ana ehS
sort OF cTuet some specimens OF which nave war;
nished handles, wrought in scroll work, red and
black the aryDall0s jugs frequently Ornamcnted
with ropes and anchors; the hydra, or water jar
OF very remote period, containing representa-.
lions or birds and trees; the kalps, later form or
the hydra, covered with the most unique and
bizarre designs; various archaic amphorn, some
roughly painted in brown with men and birds, and
some red-glazed, with divinites designed in black
tile glazed kylX or cup, with blue designs on RED
has antsd handles and designs In red and blue, and
watch resembles the Italian vase Of the Campo
MAJ
Among the miscellaneous articles not herein
otherwise specified to be discovered terra-cOtta
plates, fower-enameled, OF Persian origin; stone
lions upon the Mihir or winged sun yellow pottery
OF the period 500 b. G.. with ground OF ash-coor,
painted red and brown, with geOmetric figures;
Jugs with tre1oll lips and strainers; vases with
double handles resting on feur loops, painted IN
brown and red, with masks and birds; earthen
bowls with turquoise-blue glaze; Roman lamps and
Egyptian ScaraDei; gold, silver, copper and bronze
coins, Luslgnian, Venetian, Byzantine, Roman,
Judasan, Greek. Cyrlote and Ptolemaic which
dar mia ta thn limbs anal
up by the numismatic student. In stone, the
statues Of PhGnicians, Assyrlans and Egyptians
terra-cotta already specified, we might mention
also the PhGnlcian heads OF the same ma
leads with the boards IN bags ana
their sacrihca victims; vases there are, four leet
high, spendidly colored red and black. and, though
5000 years old, fresh as on their natal day nun
dreds Of vases, large and small, many with sp0uts,
tubes and handles, and some covered with PhGn-
clan Inscriptions; singular PhGnlcian process
sion, which consists Of horseman with water jars,
q chariot with musicians, two donkeys carrying
ana terra-cetta houses, with heads at the windows
and people at the doors. Some OF the Greek vases
are Assyran in character, and represent charots
drawing bow But the statues Will, perhaps,
prove to the average mind more interesting than
any other portion or the antiquities, and we shall
proceed immediately to describe Them and then
take up in turn the various departments until the
list is concluded. The reader must bear in mind
that very often where we speak OF Individual OBJ
jects those objects are to be taken types OF an
tons may exist
THE STATUES.
The greater part OF the statues, about one theu-
discovered among the debris of the Temple OF Col
gos. One-third Of them are the size Of Lille, several
are cyclopean i'll proportion, and many are heroic.
Some degree OF mstiaton Is visible on many. 1t
is these which General d Cesnola intends to range
asng the sides OF the conservatory. This work
has not, OF course yet been done, and will prob
ably be reserved for the last.
In regard to the faces Of these wonderful statues
in
tensey human. They are faces In which we rec
ognize the flesh and blood prototype immediately
faces which find their reflection to-day in those
which we see at the theatre, the hotel the church,
the lecture reoA, on Change and in the street.
Venus is present in hair dozen varieties we
find the Amathanta, or bearded Venus the Aphro-
the Mylitta Of the Babylsnians, the ishtar OF the
Assyrlans and the Mana OF the Chaldeans. One
wonderiul statue represents the Colossus OF COL
an inscription, the beard is III four portions and
encased and the head is adorned with an Assyrian
| thousand years old, and to represent high
priest Of Ishtar. Another splendid statue
arms bare and Muscular, the beard cured,
the head helmeted and the body wrapped in a
loose garment. An enermous head OF Hercules
This head belongs to the PhGnician type. Among
e ha Types female
We find among them lre-size pictures Of the Mace
DOMAIN period, with laurel-bound heads and GYM
like hair; figures OF priests, with bird in enc
hand and globe in the other; female, called an
statues OF children and youths sculptor with his
implements, the priests OF Aphrodlte and numer-
which is a herdsman with cattle. All these statues
are made from the hard, cacareous stone OF Cyprus
and by Cyprian artists. They extend over very
long period, those Of archaic form from 100 TO 500
Of art rom 500 to 200 B. g. and those those
b. c. to the present era. Their fresh conditlon
Is miraculous. They seem to be new from the
chisel, so perfect are color and outline. Perhaps
they are not 81 extraordinary merit as sculptures
| but many have an extremely noble air and betray
fine work. The Cypriote type Of countenance Is
| nose, projecting and rounded chin, small mouth
and full lips, which distinguish the Cypriote OF the
| sometimes lie entire statue is colored and
wet spongS srings out the hue more clearly. Some
OF the nscrp tions on the statues are believed to
be in the native Cyprote language for their char
| aeters are not Assyrian or Phgnician or Greek.
ib tine ype o. the s cary statues y exceeang sun
later forms the arms are separated. These pc
| culiarties, together with the trimming OF the
beard the curl Of the hair the folding and pattern of
/ the costume, the various embems and devices and
the striking types OF countenance, are volumes in
store OF the most absorbing interest. What we
have mentioned here will give but poor idea OF
| them. The general public VIII have to wait until
a striking resemblance TO the First Napoleon.
Brutus and Mayor Havemeyer. respectively.
THE EARTHEN WARE.
with nat handles one side OF the neck ornamented
with human face in basso-relieve; height
eight inches; abbas Ornamented with horizontal
and undulated lines and geometrical patterns
vases in the shape OF bowl, with checkers and
concentric rings crossed by arrows. small n.y.
dria; large cantharii, painted both inside ana
outside with shields and arrows. These canthar
are seven inches in diameter; others are orna-
mented with two PhHnician capitals, very vau-
able for the history OF art They are six and three
quarter inches In diameter. Others, again, have
ornaments initiating the shape OF the four wings
OF a windmill. There Is a cantharus, with stripes
and leaves; one with ornaments resemsling the
indented square tquadrntun tncusu,nl OF ancient
medals; one with similar ornaments and foliage;
one with concentric rings; and q small
c2ntharus, with ornaments resembling the in.
dented square referred to above A barrel has
iunnelshaped neck One Is Ornament ted with con-
centric rings and squares and third with coors
admirably preserved.
A large plohular oennchnn or inn ono n Tho .nnaf