The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-07

Egypt ana IN crete. The search Tor TN
ancient paphoS established the fact tha
3 the remains ON the supposed site al
! kouklla, in the southwestern corner ~
the island, were not earlier than th'
fourth century before CHRIST at best
and there the matter rested Nationa
nv airy in Archaeology, however. il keen
and 1iie tiermVs rsssiinn 10 "a nave pushed
their way into Cyprus Last May DR.
MAX OnNEFAIsCH RICHTER with another
German and a Cypriote gentleman eS.
amineh the ground and found heaps OF
stones with Cyprian-(ireek syllable in
scriptIons. He now Announces that he
has discover the site IL the ancient
Paphus near place called Rantidi,
vances the claim that the PrIIssian
Academy Of Sciences shall have The
right to excavate the ground
The statements Of DR. RI HIFR. who
Is an archeOiogist Of rcpute. are to be
trusted and are important He saw
stones inscribed with the ancient char
acters scattered over an area Of "a quar-
ter or half mile each way.- The
inference he draws. that the place ia
Paphos, is possible and even probable.
The ingenious three column letter To
the London Time. however. in which
he gives an entertaining account OF his
journey and undertakes To prove his
theory Is a delightful example OF the
mental Processes Of archs'ologists and
a warning ~ to the care that must be
taken in weighing the assertions Of the
h.,st Of them. The substance Of his
story il IA follows:
At the beginning of the year some
peasants who were illegally searching
for antiquities brought some inscribed
stones tn DR.. RICHrER's Cypriote friend !:
he recognized their importance and
notified the archPologist when | saw
and squeezed the first syllabaric in
scriptions and learned where Rantidi
was situated il flashed through my mind
that the shrine of APHRopTTE- Asia RTR
had been discovered at Rantidi. or AZ
least that it must have been there. says
DIR RICHTER With that idea in his
mind he later made toilsOne journey
To the place, where he Jaw the stones.
hut stayed only an hour and a half
The reasons no gives for - brief an
Of a matter 80 important
90 him are amusing. II rained hard and
DIR. RICHTER and his friends hai neither
umbrellas nor mackintoshes: also they
had Ia dodge three mounted policemen.
~ DIR RICHTER apparently feared the
British authorities would interfere with
him and as he was determined AT anv rate
that Berlin should have the first news 81
the discovery. There were other reasons
too. They took no photographs and
no -squeezes, but they did see the
stones and some fragments Of pottery.
and they dId hear reports from the
natives Further: The ground is by
no means level We observed elevations
and slopes with distinct cuttings indi-
eating the presence Of tombs and Of
whole cemeteries They were in
formed that where the valley reached
the shore there was another field Of
similar inscriptions. which DR. RICHTER
axes to be the landing place Of the pill
zrims who came by SEA.
50 far he holds To his observations,
md the oonjeCturs-s he makes are plalisi-
Die. What ground. however. he has for
he statement: by excavation Phani- !
'ian inscriptions and hilingual stones
PhPnlcian and Greek syllabaric will |
Ne found does not appear. and the |
many descriptions Of remains found l
elsewhere in CyI'rls, which he inter
,alatss. are not justified. 50 far ~ can
% seen. by anything the explorers ac-
ually found at Rantidi, whatever may /.
~ hidden underground. .In summing 1
~ Dr. RICHTFR SAYS:
Now assuming II 10 he prove, ,ha, there does .
vi ami cannot ralst anywhere eise In cyprus /
place contAiIinG ~ many ,yIlahafir Inscnp-
Ions A. 81 RAnudL where hundreds cSs, on the
urface and thousands may be brought 70 IEht
y excavation. Assuming it TO te proved. again.
hat At R,nudi alone do the walls OF stone hulld.
izs bear syIlabAric Inscriptions, and. nnaliy.
s.uminG II 10 he proved that the Rantidi remains
re not Of = later date than the fourth century
e II Is even nos certain. without eIcayaunE.
hat q, RAn,idi. . few English miles di-,Sn, from
OukllA the older shrine- Of APHEnVrrE NsrAsrE
lust have existed
He evidently believes that this proves
is point, yet each assumption he makes
, purely arbitrary 50 far rs any dis
overy he tells ~ in his letter il
onccrned. What he has found is a
ew and promising field that very
o~slblv when examined NAV turn out
D be the Paphos sought for What he
rove= above all Is his determination
hai the Germans shall do the exploring
II il To be undertaken For the al
ancement 81 science u - to be desired
hat the work be- taken up soon. regard
~ II national jealorisies. and that
VENUS AsTABrE, child ~ the bitter
Iayes IA ALFRED DE MUssFT called
or, shall become better known
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