DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3463, 30 January 1880, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES.

."The Chersonese," writes the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily News on November 3rd, "appears still to be rich in antiquities, notwithstanding the explorations and plundering^ that have taken place by Huns, Tartars, and Cossacks during hundreds of years. In thi# city the Hermitage contains a very interesting and valuable collection of costly relics, many of them in gold, beautiful specimens of Greek art found in some of the tombs in the neighborhood of Kertch. Among the choicest are the laurel" leaves of the finest gold which adorned the victor's brow, with other objects, carrying the observer back to the every day life of the period. In the tomb of a woman were found the very box of vermillion and the stencil with which the owner added to her charms some 2000 | years ago, her ' household gods' buried with her. and now unburied, showing that the customs of the fair sex of 20 centuries past were identical with modern times in the matter of outward adornments. From an account published in the Journal de St. Petersburg, it appears that valuable) treasures are yet to be obtained in this rich fieldof antiquities, as will be seen from the detail of very costly gold ornaments that have just been discovered by the fortunate director of the Kertch Museum. Me found in the early part of September, near the road between Temruk and the station of Sennaia, a tomb of the third century, before the Christian era, in the reign of Peraidas II (?), King of the Bosphorus. The tomb must have been that of a hishlv-born damsel. It was found to contain a gold collar of the thickness of an ordinary. lead pencil,-in one piece, ornamented with a lion's head at each end"; a gold crown an inch wide, the outer part formed of rings linked together and ornamented with fine stones; in the centre is a swan, with Cupid on his wings j gold earrings, with two pomegranates of oval form and a small piece of malachite in the centre ; a gold chain, with figures of a sheep's head at the ends; gold earrings, with pomegranates; a very heavy chain, earrings of very fine workmanship, two bracelets of heavy work, a round gold brooch and pin representing Venus holding Cupid in her arms, four gold leaves, a pearl collar with clasp, amulets, three very small gold rings, a silver flagon, a silver lachrymatory, a silver vase, cup, silver spoon, remains of silver articles, and ft tooth of the young girl.