San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-27
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS.

RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS.
Basic. Switzerland, is celebrating
the four hundredth anniversary of
Hans Holbein's death by an exhibit
zion of his paintings and drawings, to
which other Swiss museums have con-
tributed.
While making some repairs to Held
elberg Castle recently, some workmen
came across window the style OF
which revealed the fact that the castle
was not begun in AL, as heretofore
believed. but two hundred years earl
Ter. Certainly, 10 all appearances, it
has always seemed to date from
much earlier period than the beginning
of the fifteenth century.
The French school at Delphi has
lately unearthed two slabs of lime
stone which bear an inscription
which is of great interest, dating, as
| 1t does, from the fourth centary be-
fore Christ. This Inscription, which
consists of about two hundred lines,
gives the price of work for building
operations in Greece at the period
named. and from 1t we learn that an
| architect was paid at Che rate of $3.50
per annum. This is not a great sum,
even if its purchasing power is multi
piled, it should be, by five or six.
Three important finds of manu-
script from the lost cities of central
Asia are reported by the Asiatic So
| ciety of Bengal. They were found in
sand-buried tombs and orher buildings
in Chinese Turkestan, and were pick
ed up by peasants and passed ON to
traders. They vary in age, and con-
sist of bark, palm leaves, or very
| coarse paper, sometimes coated with
gypsum, and often very flimsy. DR..
Hoernle, president of the society at
Calcutta, after examining them. be-
lieves that they relate mainly to re-
ligious ceremonies.
SkiaS has been conducting eXcava
tons on the left bank OF the Ilissus
in the neighborhood of the Kallirrhoe.
About one hundred steps from the
| spring he discovered the foundations
of the celebrated Ionic temple on the
| Ilissus," which was seen and drawn
by Stuart and Revett in the last GEN.
fury. Thereafter the tempt disap-
peared. and its destruction was so
complete that the present ruins would
scarcely be regarded as the founda-
tions of temple but for the drawings
of'Stuart and Revett, with which they
correspond exactly. Dorpfeld regards
This as THE temple of Artemis Agro-
terra, which Pausanias mentions imme-
diately after he had crossed the Ills
sus. and before he turned toward the
Stadium. -.3.-
A considerable part of lost play
by Menander has just been published
at Geneva under the title of lie La
boureur de Monandre." Hitherto,
with the exception of quotations en-
shrined in the works of other authors.
the only authenticated specimen Of
| Menander's work was a fragment of
twenty verses that was discovered by
Tischendorf. Now jules Nicole has
brought papyri from Cairo which
prove to be part of one of Menan.
, daf's most celebrated plays. These
papyri contain nearly hundred yers-
es containing the essence OF the plot,
enabling reconstruction of the ORA
L
| OF the comedy. The authorship is es-
tablshed by the occurrence Of three
passages that are quoted by ancient
Writer'S as being from the play in Ques-
ton. s,.
A correspondent of the English Col
liery Guardian writes that the site of
the prehistoric Celtic lake village. near
Glastonbury, has been further exca.
waited since July last. under the SUI
perintendence of the discoyerer, Mr.
Arthur Bulleid. The sites of the
dwellings are marked by mounds.
One of these contained the greatest
depth of clay yet found, no less than
8 feet. the accumulation of successive
hearths which were found necessary
as the weight of the clay gradually
compressed the peat beneath. This
mound contained 300 tons of clay, all
of which must have been brought in
their boats by the Inhabitants from the
neighboring hills. Under the mound
was found the framework Of loom |
with brushwood and wattlework to |
form the foundation. Another mound |
was very rich in fragments of pottery |
and other evidences of the manufac- |
ture of hardware A neatly cut iron |
file about 8 inches long was found. |
Parts of three broken millstones We're |
unearthed, and in one mound a clay |
oven measuring feet by 0 inches. |
One glass article only was brought to |
light this year, blue glass bead with
wavy line of dark blue running