ANCIENT MISER’S HOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11

ANCIENT MISER’S HOARD

DUG UP IN OLD CORINTH A miser’s hoard, hidden in the city HI of Corinth 2,200 years ago, was unearthed there by members of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens. That the coins had never been •h circulation was shown by the **ct that they were as bright in 19-jO AD. as when hidden in 330 B.C. The treasure consisted of 10 gold staters Alexander the Great and 41 staters ct bis father. Philip of Macedon. Professor Rhys Carpenter, director, “as Just made public the result of the pool’s excavations for the past year. uncovering a section of the c *ty wall Of Corinth, including two round towers, students discovered a bathing establishment, complete with mosaic tubs, mosaic •bowers and decorative statues. These Ar» supposed to be the baths of "brykles, mentioned by Pausanias as »nest in Corinth. ..A Potter’s factory dating from e fifth and sixth centuries B.C. was “Und near the towers. There were “me 2,000 vases of all shapes ana z ® ! the factory, and they throw cable new light on the Corin15* c ®Tamic industry. ‘he finds included also a heroic 'J? “arble head of the Roman Emif «T ® arac alla, a small marble head of a fi[th centu; y B.C. and a series ~ “T'/ntine plates of the 12th centhe Christian era.

AR-FARM ERS ABROAD.—Followed V succ essful tour of Queensland South Wales, the New Zea--a V,-. rmerß ' Party is spending a week OoatSoT prior to returning: to the • '