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Antiquities from Thiaki
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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In view of the proposed excavations it may be useful to consider some early finds from the island.
Charles Philippe de Bosset, Swiss by birth but a Colonel in the British army, was the governor of Cephallenia 1810–13 and became the first collector of Mycenaean pottery. There is a large case in the Musée d'Histoire at Neuchâtel containing his finds, each object labelled with its provenience. Cephallenia provided the bulk of the spoil, among it the late Mycenaean vases from this collection that have already been published.
Fig. 1, No. 1 and Fig. 2 shew a short bronze sword (length 15·8 in.), now in the Musée d'Histoire, which I publish by kind permission of the Director, M. de Pury, who gives me the following extract from the old catalogue of the Museum :—“ Il a été découvert dans une des tombes taillées dans le roc avec dalles pour couvertures que le Col. de Bosset a fait ouvrir à Ithaque au pied du Château d'Aito.” There is a note that a similar weapon was sold in England.
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