This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...model, or from Greek art, we may look in vain. The products of Greek art, imported into the island, have not been found in abundance. A certain number of fine examples, mostly consisting of vases and other small objects, have been discovered, especially at Poli-tes-Chrysochou, but of larger sculpture almost nothing. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...model, or from Greek art, we may look in vain. The products of Greek art, imported into the island, have not been found in abundance. A certain number of fine examples, mostly consisting of vases and other small objects, have been discovered, especially at Poli-tes-Chrysochou, but of larger sculpture almost nothing. The search for antiquities is subject to Law IV., 1905, under which has been constituted a 'Museum Committee, ' composed of four official and five elective members, by whom will be administered (inter alia) the fund raised by public subscription, in memory of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, for the erection of a Museum; and who wiy control the collection now stored in a house in Nicosia, consisting of over 6,000 objects which have fallen to the share of the Island Government since 1878. Antiquities (the term does not include coins of Byzantine, Lusignan, and Venetian times) are declared the absolute property of Government. Of movable antiquities Accidentally discovered one-third is assigned to Government, one-third to the owner of the soil, and one-third to the finder. Exportation is restricted: antiquities now in the Cyprus Museum, or which may be hereafter acquired, are to be held in trust for the public. Three buildings of prehistoric date deserve separate notice We can hardly guess at their use--temples, tombs, or treasuries; but their cyclopean construction and the enormous size and weight of the stones employed, make them well worthy of examination. The largest, not far west from the ruins of Salamis, is known as the prison of S. Catharine; the second, a little west of Larnaca, is called the Hagia Phaneromene; and the third, on the edge of the Larnaca Salt Lake, forms the tomb of Umm Haram, a lady of the kin of Mohammed, who died near this...
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