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English: Antiquities from Kertch, deposited in the British Museum. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 16 June 1855.

Antiquities from Kertch. The curious relics which we have engraved are from Kertch (the ancient Panticapaeum), and form part of a collection which was brought to this country a few years since by Mrs. Cattley, and deposited in the British Museum; and they may be said to have acquired a new interest by our recent capture of the locality in which they were discovered. They were procured from tombs opened during some extensive excavations in the immediate vicinity of the present town, and consist of the fillowing specimens :-1. Necklace of glass beads. 2. Copper coin of Mithridates. 3. Part of a wooden comb. 4. Fragment of stone moulding. 5. silver coin of an ancient King of Kertch. 6. Plate-moulding, coloured. 7. Piece of wood-carving. 8. Ancient gold fibula, found in a tomb. 9. Ancient gold ear-ring, found in a tomb. 10. Wood-carved leg of a chair. According to history it appears that the kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosphorus was founded by Archxanax, about 485 B.C., and passed, in 438 B.C., into the hands of the Thracian Spartacus, whose descendants reigned over it till the year 115 B C.. when Mithridates the Great, at that time King of the neighbouring country of Pontus, received it from the last of the preceding dynasty. Panticapaeum itself was probably founded in the sixth century B.C. and continued under the kings of the Bosphorus, the capital of the country. down to the time of Justinian. Under Justinian, the town was surrounded by new walls; and, though it was taken twice (in tthe years A.D. 465, and A.D. 528) by the Hungarians and the Huns, it was too valuable an appanage of the Constantinopolitan empire, not to be immediately retaken by the Russians From the time of the Council of Nice, I'antieap itu bt , ie on, th% wit of a bilshoplric, anl wa' the lc-id tnce of the especial IIi.ho p of tilh' lGlths, hich in the ninth cenLtury was cl tedl into an ar'lhil-.,,op'.. In A 11 1Ii33 this town 0a1, the ,at of at Latin arehbi-hoipr, ivhio. jari'dictioi c tll rnh ittd ( orgia. Ili the fuIrteetith centrlly tie ' i on -se took posst'si.on If it, l.t from ithat tilmle l'antieipealln beatr i I: dt' int titles if Ci ce. 1O.tpro, 'Pa.idico, and A-prontonte; in 1711; 1t; 1ti -ks obtained it, and ich:nitid the ratlle again to Ghersnte, whince 1 pro.iabil dernvel its prie: ut title of lertsch, or Ikirtchi", which it lt l bornie tnce its l1st clapture b the Iullilins, i 17 71. The pl-it:on of K, rt1h i, peuliharly beautiful. it is ilt.,e.i at the foot if a ' lntal till, c.lled Mount 7,Iithridate., on thile i' s of the t'iLntnihrian ot-lhtiU: klhine t't nl tile ý-eaI of Aolf into the l kacl ea, anlld tile coupSd', l t the trai e lher w ht, cones bi Sial etllibrai te I :';ia- l'ttal, tile towIn. tihe il.oiit:it of 11V Mlt-uin tliit half-way up the ibl a, ;ud t mtie rnotaph tai.-l to tilt n.t llc t il a lt1 ti'mer g l inort, Steinlpki.l, , . 1: ut Mli usetmi is i it t: : r :.Ilk, i tlit ig fir a it laee so reto:ell . It :- ini 'v. "t r ioiy of tle 't ite t l To I, t -' ' t at n , m. od is appro'lhleI b, lime .': c' --ie t""act'- o" -tne. It i- orn l nllt lwith "lt ' thn , o!t ,c, Ill o :u,, it i- ti llr :t I t i t 'he cn.< of :nei it l'.uticapi t lil- l .i 11 i.1ll.dlmine Pi : Ofal \.' ,it li. . ottw bt tie i . ellra:, iPrince 10t 111 lI oI the I o nut:c,-und the town of Inert i- ar. t -.t nony, in tht l ':wh T" et it ; t , . or l'ra-c,, to the long exi-:, n_ r oil t't t -p,) of iI t i, t, i l- and ttalitv populationl; while the ii 1-v oit the part of 3I 'ilt itl.lit:lt, I hith ic it I the c t is neltl in t :1,t Ill 1-- of biroke I 11 tt . i lt t i' ; l 1; t.h a hllt' tlit it, as It n d .i tt -, lwhen-e r!!3 l' I , . .C , - 8 Ut h il t to v-I r t llt 1 'I LtiUt'in, till titl', t1 nt-t il ttu.citnI t tinurs have had ter t,xtttl e ,e-li tblise, ainte :~r Slt ni:antlum l( of flottery, D)urinl reetat it :u, N, ;, Can iderabhe I , 1" ] I- u ' l iii Ill Ind l'an ici:at:tii , l a' V t cllic tioltn of , . u.,oh I t . 1 hi i, ll t .G euicti d ie .- t tet i ta laturge: tmIlb<. It e ' m n0 i - t" e: , 1 !at.G ' t hr Ih local namel of I-arlky-kour.:0n and I)otll;a In thlt ola-t .,luhtalty sI monl 1 Mll othul vahmndt antiquities I i , ' 1 It t w th-- nlt of w hich appear to have gone t t 0t. I'< ter-,llelr -1 t t to b'tb n 11 1 r te, in the 11useu ml at Iertrc , iit tl;, r'..ittr part to ] :.t Li n -ititl d bS, ti.u e who sIt broke into thlt toul ,,.rial to ha ", ei 1. "til nI tl " l p. acenial to I tr:.gt r " " !<t1! w orld bu 1t I bulli hul at ýt 'et h url I1, " 31. Sabatier, it1, 1 t I "' ,ut,S t Lirr to :1e itch," il w hich are .eclral adturable cngravin_t i .t i1 t it the Iil,( et this rs y;Ii(4 have been di.c, se rc t thert , ;011d espc i td s < Ia l Ith ld ar;i hagu1 of stool which is ple 't\<d ill ti. 3Mu-tetlu .L : t i :.tt', t :i in iuL." u cpe eltiail ut :ttl o le't O wor :. A u t e b i'ti , td to c'a ,:. -- t htope th.t the l',,' uttatck .,n tetchll b1 tl,. Al:t L;,s I,,t r1 loltte I i the ,itltot dtetructi;ti of' it work, of amtc't t or n odti l !1t in th to,.ln itselfi; but that, at the .'im, time, a c.tre!ul 11. b h ill It i it,-:{ tid in the private houri- t the lIll tnlbl 1 tt1 , Ill l ith I! it - \ .1 hl...Nl t :: th, t , arc. -till a great l on ,'.,r of valuable objects taken from the tombs.
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Volume: 26 , Issue: 748. page 597 (Pages 5 & 6 of issue).