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Salaminia (Cyprus): The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus (second edition)

Alexander Palma di Cesnola (introduction by Samuel Birch)

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Salaminia (Cyprus): The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus is Alexander Palma di Cesnola's account of the antiquities he excavated in Cyprus from 1876, with an introduction by Samuel Birch of the British Museum. This copy is the second edition, published by Whiting & Co. in London in 1884, revised with further finds and newer readings of some inscriptions.

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In the preface to the first edition Cesnola calls himself "an enthusiastic digger-up of antiquities". He records that he was in Cyprus in 1873–1874 and returned at the end of July 1876 with money from Edwin H. Lawrence, on condition that a collection worth the name be offered to England first, and that he dug from a house at Ormidia near Kition, Idalion and Salamis.

After a chapter on Salamis and one on Cypriote antiquities in general, the chapters go by class of object: bronze and iron, ivory, bone and shell, cylinders, cones, scarabs and beads, gems and coins. The title page announces more than seven hundred illustrations and a map of ancient Cyprus.

Sources

  • Cesnola, A. P. di 1884. Salaminia (Cyprus): The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus. 2nd edn, with an introduction by S. Birch. London: Whiting & Co., Prefaces to the first and second editions.

Contents

From the book’s own headings

  1. SriaMinia:scan 2
  2. я: р: Dr: c@snoia:scan 2
  3. SALAMINIAscan 10
  4. THE HISTORY, TREASURES, & ANTIQUITIESscan 10
  5. I NTRO DU C T I O N.scan 14
  6. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.scan 24
  7. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.scan 36
  8. CONTENTS OF CHAPTERS.scan 41
  9. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.scan 43
  10. COLOURED PLATE.scan 43
  11. THREE PLATES.scan 43
  12. PLATE I.scan 43
  13. PLATE II.scan 44
  14. PLATE III.scan 45
  15. PLATE IV.scan 46
  16. PLATE V.scan 46
  17. PLATE VI.scan 47
  18. LEADEN OBJECTSscan 47
  19. PLATE VII.scan 47
  20. PLATE VIIIscan 48
  21. PLATE IX.scan 48
  22. PLATE X.scan 48
  23. PLATE XI.scan 48
  24. PLATE XII.scan 49
  25. PLATE XIII.scan 49
  26. PLATE XIV.scan 49
  27. PLATE XV.scan 49
  28. PLATE XVI.Pl. XVI
  29. PLATE XVII.Pl. XVI
  30. PLATE XVIII.Pl. XVI
  31. PLATE XIX.Pl. XIX
  32. PLATE XX.Pl. XIX
  33. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.scan 52
  34. CHAPTER I.scan 62
  35. SALAMIS.scan 62
  36. CHAPTER II.scan 71
  37. GENERAL IDEA OF CYPRIOTE ANTIQUITIES.scan 71
  38. CHAPTER III.scan 82
  39. CHAPTER IV.scan 117
  40. CHAPTER V.scan 124
  41. BRONZE AND IRON REMAINS.scan 124
  42. Bronze.scan 124
  43. CHAPTER VII.scan 153
  44. IVORY OBJECTS.scan 153
  45. Bone.scan 161
  46. Shell.scan 162
  47. CHAPTER IX.scan 167
  48. ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΙ ΠΑΡΑΛΙΑ ΑΠΕΛΛΗΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ,scan 183
  49. “To Diana Paralia Apelles has offered this.”scan 183
  50. CWTHPAscan 184
  51. XPH∑TEscan 184
  52. XAIPEscan 184
  53. “Farewell, dearest Soteira!”scan 184
  54. ATTOKPATOPIscan 194
  55. ....T. I. PROCONSVL. P. SERGE.....scan 199
  56. CHAPTER X.scan 203
  57. CHAPTER XI.scan 209
  58. SERPENTINE.scan 209
  59. CRYSTAL.scan 209
  60. CHAPTER XII.scan 212
  61. CYLINDERS.scan 212
  62. CONES.scan 233
  63. Scarabaei.scan 236
  64. Beads and Inlaying Pieces, etc.scan 243
  65. CHAPTER XV.scan 245
  66. “‘Scriptum signat equus, mittit vir, devehit ales.’”scan 255
  67. CHAPTER XVIscan 260
  68. CH ALCEDONY, ETC.scan 260
  69. CHAPTER XVIIscan 268
  70. CHAPTER XVIII.scan 290
  71. THI KAEOIIATPAI BAΣIAIΣΣAI,scan 318
  72. CHAPTER XIX.scan 328
  73. CHAPTER XXI.scan 354
  74. CHAPTER XXII.scan 385
  75. CHAPTER XXIII.scan 393
  76. COINS.scan 393
  77. INDEX.scan 410
  78. JACKAL,scan 413
  79. Karapanos, M.,scan 413
  80. CARTULARIUM SAXONICUM:scan 418
  81. Messrs. WHITING & CO., Limited,scan 418
  82. Older England:scan 419
  83. LONDON MUNICIPAL REFORM.scan 419
  84. WHITING & CO., Limited.scan 419

Plates and figures

98 pages with pictures, in scan order

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  5. scan 28
  6. scan 43
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  10. scan 47
  11. scan 48
  12. scan 49
  13. Pl. XVI
  14. scan 96
  15. scan 105
  16. scan 118
  17. scan 128
  18. scan 132
  19. scan 138
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  21. scan 148
  22. scan 156
  23. scan 157
  24. scan 158

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