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Ornaments and Armour from Kertch in the New Museum at Oxford
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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When Mr. Newton, in 1874, was writing about Greek art in the Kimmerian Bosporos, he was obliged to refer his readers for a sight of the objects he was describing to the Ermitage at St. Petersburg, and to the two magnificent Russian publications in which are reproduced some of the recent acquisitions of that museum. If any are desirous of learning what is the place in the history of Greek art which is filled by the discoveries in the Crimea, and of gaining a general view of the history and results of the excavations carried on in that region by the Russian government, it is needless to say that Mr. Newton's article will still meet their requirements; but for a view of some specimens of the objects therein referred to it is no longer necessary for an Englishman to travel to St. Petersburg, for there is now in the New Museum at Oxford a collection of gold and other ornaments, vases and weapons, which, though of course comparatively insignificant both as to numbers and the magnificence of individual articles, yet offers samples of most of the principal classes of objects discovered in the neighbourhood of the Crimea. The objects of which it consists were all found near Kertch, the ancient Pantikapaion, which has now for some time been famous as the chief centre of the Russian excavations; they were presented to the University of Oxford by Dr. C. W. Siemens.
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page 62 note 1 Portfolio, Nos. 58, 60. Essays on Art and Archaeology, ix.
page 62 note 2 Gillé and Stephani, Antiquités du Bospore Cimmérien: Stephani, Compte Rendu de la Commission Impériale Archéologique. See also Ouvaroff, Antiquités de la Russie Méridionale.
page 64 note 1 Or ‘askion,’ Ann. Inst. 1836. Guhl and Koner, Life of the Greeks and Romans, Fig. 198; 32.
page 64 note 2 Cf. Compte Rendu, 1876, p. 130; a vase of similar shape, with lion and hare.
page 65 note 1 It is uncertain whether this ring belongs to the fifth grave or the first.
page 65 note 2 This is called a gauntlet in the description.
page 66 note 1 More probably they may have served for fastening a leather brim to the helmet. The cavalry of Northern Greece often wore a helmet somewhat in the form of a modern sun-helmet, such as Eucratides, King of Bactria, wears on his coins. Such a helmet, in metal, is at Rugby, in the possession of Mr. Bloxam; but it seems likely that the rim would usually be made, for lightness, of leather.
page 66 note 2 1854–55.
page 66 note 3 Mr. A. J. Evans suggests that No. 3 is the lid of a quiver. The hole at the lower corner would well suit a shoulder-piece, for these often had thongs attached to them and tied lower down. On the other hand, I have not found an example on monuments of a scale armour made with shoulder-pieces of the ordinary type.
page 67 note 1 C. R. Text 1875, pp. 95–100.
page 67 note 2 A camel mounted by a driver occurs as type of a coin of Phoenicia or Judaea (uncertain) of the fourth century B.C.
page 67 note 3 Those in the Ant. Bosp. Cim. are bronze with remains of gilding.
page 69 note 1 Ouvaroff, op. cit. Pl. vi. 5; Antiquités du Bosp. Cim. Pl. xiia. 10; xxi. 16, 21, &c.
page 69 note 2 Ant. du Bosp. Cim. Pl. xx. 2; C.R. 1876, Pl. iii. 9.
page 69 note 3 Ant. du Bosp. Cim. Pl. xxx. 7.
page 69 note 4 Ibid. Pl. xxiv. 9.
page 69 note 5 In 1854–55. Several more have been found since.
page 70 note 1 Cf. also Ant. du Bosp. Cim. Pl. xviii.
page 71 note 1 This is by no means so certain as it appears on the plate; the cross is not clear on any, and no trace of it is visible on most. Perhaps it is merely accidental.
page 72 note 1 Art. cit.