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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
old world ate , and IIOAV they ate it , hacl he not seen the vessels of their cookery , as Avell as perused the records of their epicureanism . Archaeology in our day is illustrious by the names of those engaged in examining its mysteries . Layard , and RaAA'linson , and Norrishave not been alone in the care they have bestowed
, on the relics of the great Assyrian empire ; and it seems extremely probable that , before many years have passed away , Ave shall know more of those mighty potentates who swayed the sceptre of the Eastern Avorld than even of the most renowned among our OAvn comparatively recent Anglo-Saxon ancestors . Egypt , too , has given a name to a science of its
OAVU" The Mother of Science and the House of Gods " noAv calls her explorers by the title of " Egyptologists , " and reckons amongst them a Bunsen , a Lepsius , a Wilkinson , and a Lee . Nor are the antiquities of our OAVU country neglected , as they once were . Scotland can show a Wilson , ancl Ave o \ u * selves a Wrightan Akermanand a Roach Smith . It is nothowever
, , , , for the purpose of enumerating a few well-known truths , or of holding up to commendation a feAV successful students , that we have entered upon our present task , and Ave shall proceed to notice , first , certain departments of archaeology in which great advances have been made , and then touch on the means which our day affords for the prosecution of the study .
Perhaps one of the most interesting of these fields of research is opened out to us by the science of numismatics . Day by day new discoveries are made ; nearly all we knoAV of Parthia is displayed by the very curious , and in many cases extremely rare coins of that country ; ancl the best and most connected history of Parthia is to be found in Mr . Lindsay ' s admirable and
profoundly learned Avork on the Parthian coinage . * That distinguished scholar observes , that the only modern Avriter Avho has given us any history of this remarkable nation is Lewis , and his work was published in 1728 ; but the latter part seems very defective , and in many places erroneous , as an examination of the dates on the coins of the Parthian kings is fully capable of
, proving . The Avork before us commences Avith the beginning of the Parthian empire , under Arsaces I ., of AA'hom we have no coins . Some few are found of his successor , Arsaces II . ; and by the time Ave arrive at the reign of Orodes I . ( Arsaces XIV . ) , the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Antiquaries And Antiquities.
old world ate , and IIOAV they ate it , hacl he not seen the vessels of their cookery , as Avell as perused the records of their epicureanism . Archaeology in our day is illustrious by the names of those engaged in examining its mysteries . Layard , and RaAA'linson , and Norrishave not been alone in the care they have bestowed
, on the relics of the great Assyrian empire ; and it seems extremely probable that , before many years have passed away , Ave shall know more of those mighty potentates who swayed the sceptre of the Eastern Avorld than even of the most renowned among our OAvn comparatively recent Anglo-Saxon ancestors . Egypt , too , has given a name to a science of its
OAVU" The Mother of Science and the House of Gods " noAv calls her explorers by the title of " Egyptologists , " and reckons amongst them a Bunsen , a Lepsius , a Wilkinson , and a Lee . Nor are the antiquities of our OAVU country neglected , as they once were . Scotland can show a Wilson , ancl Ave o \ u * selves a Wrightan Akermanand a Roach Smith . It is nothowever
, , , , for the purpose of enumerating a few well-known truths , or of holding up to commendation a feAV successful students , that we have entered upon our present task , and Ave shall proceed to notice , first , certain departments of archaeology in which great advances have been made , and then touch on the means which our day affords for the prosecution of the study .
Perhaps one of the most interesting of these fields of research is opened out to us by the science of numismatics . Day by day new discoveries are made ; nearly all we knoAV of Parthia is displayed by the very curious , and in many cases extremely rare coins of that country ; ancl the best and most connected history of Parthia is to be found in Mr . Lindsay ' s admirable and
profoundly learned Avork on the Parthian coinage . * That distinguished scholar observes , that the only modern Avriter Avho has given us any history of this remarkable nation is Lewis , and his work was published in 1728 ; but the latter part seems very defective , and in many places erroneous , as an examination of the dates on the coins of the Parthian kings is fully capable of
, proving . The Avork before us commences Avith the beginning of the Parthian empire , under Arsaces I ., of AA'hom we have no coins . Some few are found of his successor , Arsaces II . ; and by the time Ave arrive at the reign of Orodes I . ( Arsaces XIV . ) , the