A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

INTEODUCTION. 9carried out a series of excavations on the site of Cyrene,and discovered a considerable number of sculptures inmarble, and an admirable bronze portrait head, among theruinsof the temples of Apollo, Dionysos and Aphrodite,and elsewhere.The excavations which were carried on at Ephesus bythe late Mr. John Turtle Wood,^ for the British Museum,began in 1863, and were continued till 1874, the site ofthe great temple of Artemis not having been determinedbefore the spring of 1870.Besides excavating the site ofthe temple, Mr. Wood obtained inscriptions and sculpturesfrom the Odeum, the great Theatre, and the road totemple of Artemis.The site of Naucratis inthethe Egyptian Delta was discoveredby Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie, and was excavated,partly ))y the discoverer, and partly by Mr. E. A. Gardner,at the costof the Egypt Exploration Fund in the years1884-6.2 The most important objects found were fragmentsof pottery, but there were also some architecturalremains, and archaic statuettes of interest.In 1889 and 1891, variousof Eros from Paphos, and a largesculptures, including a headcapital with projectingbulls' heads from the Cyprian Salamis, have been presentedby the Cyprus Exploration Fund.Besides the proceeds of the systematic researchesenumerated above, the collection of sculpture has beenfrequently increased during the present century with thespecimens collected by private travellers in the East.Thus in 1818, H. Gaily Knight (1784-1846), an antiquarianand writer on thehistory of architecture, withN. Fazakerly, presented a statue from Athens.^ In 1820,»See p. 24. « See p. 61. » No. 153.