[314] Dr. Schliemann’s work records several interesting examples of his first impressions on this point, and he appears more often to have mistaken written characters for mere symbols or ornaments than the other way.
[315] Curtius, Die Ionier vor der Wanderung, Berlin, 1855.
[316] Chabas, Études sur l’Antiquité historique, Paris, 1872, p. 190.
[317] Genesis x. 4, 5. The essential letters of the Hebrew name [Illusration: Hebrew] are identical with the Greek ΙΩΝ (Ion), and both are equivalent to the Yavanas, the “younger race” of the old Aryan traditions, who migrated to the West, while the elder branch remained in the East. On the whole subject the Editor may be permitted to refer to the Student’s Ancient History of the East, especially to [Chapter XX]., on the Nations of Asia Minor, which contains a discussion of the Hellenic affinities of the Phrygians and Trojans in particular.
[318] Brandis, Versuch zur Entzifferung der Kyprioten Schrift, Berlin, 1873. See also the Life of Brandis by Curtius: Johannes Brandis, ein Lebensbild, von Ernst Curtius, 1873.
[319] See see [p. 83], [137], [161].
[320] ‘The Augsburg Gazette’ (Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung), 1874, p. 32.
[321] The whorl on the left hand (the one discussed by Haug and Gomperz) is engraved from M. Burnouf’s more accurate drawing in our lithographed [Plate LI]., No. 496; the other is given at [page 161]; but they are repeated here (from Schliemann’s Atlas, Pl. 13, No. 432, Pl. 6, No. 208) in order to exhibit their identity. It is remarkable that these whorls, belonging to an age when writing was already known, are very coarse, both in material and work.
[322] Professor Gomperz gave an interesting and eloquent account of his labours and their results in two papers in the ‘Vienna Evening Post’ (Wiener Abendpost) for May 6th, and June 26th, 1874.
[323] The ‘Academy’ for June 6th, 1874.