Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School has just been given a valuable collection of Cypriote pottery by Prof. Allan Marquand. The collection, which is divided into wheel-made and hand-made specimens, includes a number of vases, amphorae, and lamps from Alambra, a village near the ancient town of Idalium. In addition to these, there are a number of terra cotta heads and masks, some of Greek and others of Pheanician origin. The decorations on all these potteries are incised and not painted on the surface, thus showing that they belong to some pre-historic...
...some distance from the main excavations were brought to light a female head, the torso of a draped statue of a woman, and a tombstone very beautifully inscribed. The good workmanship exhibited by this gravestone, the admirable style of the bas-reliefs, the ancient manner of spelling exemplified in the inscription, makes it probable that these works belong to the period between the fourth century before and the second century after Christ. The three bas-reliefs mentioned above are interesting to the archaeologists. The first of these contains three figures, two standing and one sitting. They represent the scene...
...society of Cairo. The city is situated on a sandy plain near the point of the delta of the Nile and is surrounded by objects of great interest-the Pyramids on the west, the Necropolis of Thebes on the south, and the obelisk marking the site of the ancient Heliopolis on the north. The name Cairo comes from the ancient Arabic and means "Victorious Capital." The city itself is not remarkably old, the first settlement being made in the seventh century in what is now one of the suburbs. For 250 years the Mamelukes in Cairo ruled Egypt with...
...donkey, and the city is full of these strong little beasts, posted at every corner in charge of boys. The population of the city is about 400,000, and the native part is made up of Moslems and Coptic Christians who claim to be the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. The Moslems are very bigoted and distrust foreigners, but are slowly improving under European influence...
...third volume of the "Iconographic Encyclopaedia" has just been published, and contains a comprehensive treatment of the subject of Sculpture and Painting. Professor Alan Marquand is the general editor and has charge of the work, also furnishing the text on Ancient Art. Professor Frothingham conducts the department on early Christian and Mediaeval Art. There are to be some fifteen more volumes published. Dr. McCosh's lectures on AEsthetics and Evolution have also been recently published in book form...