Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-08

than anything I have seen in Greek art.
Next year Professor Petrle will embark
on the greatest task ever undertaken In
Egyptian exploration. He has at last ar
ranged the facilities of exchange of land
necessary In order to appropriate the
peasants who now till the site of ancient
Memphis He has calculated that 1t will
cost $4,000 for fifteen years merely to lay
bare the sites of the known temples. such
as those of Ptah and Isis, but the works
of art which will probably be recovered
may exceed in value all that we have
hitherto obtained from ancient Egypt.
Very little space is LEFT me to mention
the results. described In Mondays Times
by Mr. Arthur Evans, of his last years
work at Knossos in Crete. lie is enthusi-
astic over his discoveries. which have
revealed a whole southwestern quarter of
the great palace, the existence of which
had never ever been suspected. He has
also located within the palace itself. on
the western facade of the great central
court. the site of an ancient Minoan
temple. for which he had long been
searching.
The existence OF this temple, consisting
of a high central cell. with two lower
wings. supported on pillars was first
suggested to him by the fragments of GER
lin miniature paintings found within the
palace itself. In those paintings put to-
gether with some difficulty and the help
of Mr.. Gillieron, he found such a Minoan
temple, situated under the terraces and
galleries of some gigantic buildings,
which could hardly be anything but the
ralace itself. This site he has found, as
he expected, on the faicnce figures of the
snake goodness and her same spot where
the marble cross and the votarics had
been discovered. and also the group OF
CLAY tablets. with linear script. which,
when they can he deciphcred. may pro-
baby turn out to be the archives of the
temple itself.
Among the small objects which he has
acquired ie an engraved Minoan Dead-seal
of hcmatite. which he believes to be the
official slgnet ring of tho steward of the
royal granarics. on the upper part of the
| engraved field of this ring appears bet
wcon two guardian grffins a figure which
! he recognized as the autograph of kind
of cereal that appears sometimes in con-
nect!on with form of storohouse on n
| class of clay inventories specially connec-
! ted with the third magazine where, IN
| decd remains of burned corn were also
| found.
| The discovery from which he hopes the
most in the future is that Of a gigantic
| beehive tomb. of a type similar to that
! known under the name OF the treasure
house of Atrun in Mycen1e. which h
came across in excavating the southern
! entrance Of the new southwest quarter OF
the palace This tomb. filed in with later
| debris and shords going back to the carl
| lest Minoan palace (mddle Moan ~ ye
! dates itself much further back still, and
( is supposed by Mr. Evans to be primitive
beehive tomb whose construction must b,
! beyond the age of the Cretan palaces.
| The sum of his discoveries has been It
| add another 5000 square yards to til.
great palace. the explora ton of whic,
| and the solving of the problem of tn
primeval tomb will mean the organizns
of another great campaign in the follow
| ing year
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