The Antiquary, Vol. 31
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Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 31: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past; January-December, 1895 In our "Notes of the Month" for December we mentioned a small bronze that had turned up at Tullie House, Carlisle, with Kpovos on a paper label on its wooden stand, and a supposed Etruscan inscription cut on the bronze itself. It has since been submitted to the authorities at the British Museum, who pronounce the figure interesting and genuine, a verdict which they decline to extend, in both its branches, to the inscription. The bronze is evidently a part of one of the feet of an Etruscan bronze cista. It represents a satyr with wings, and the wings are explained by the necessity of having a broad surface to make a secure attachment. This figure has become detached from the cista, and fallen into the hands of someone who has sawn off the figure´s legs and mounted it on a wooden stand with Kpovos on a paper label pasted thereon; while on the figure´s breast he has cut the word "Krunus" in Etruscan characters. Two or three things betray the fraud; the lettering is wrong; the word "Krunus" does not appear to have been known to the Etruscans, and an inscription in such a place is very unusual. The fraud is probably the work of some Italian dealer in antiquities, bent upon improving a genuine piece of antiquity into a more saleable article. The condition of the label, and of the wooden stand show that the fraud must be of some age - perhaps a century. The bronze has been in the Museum certainly twenty years, perhaps fifty. A fine carved head, in red sandstone, of Roman date has just been added to the Tullie House collections; it appears to have been found there during the excavations for the foundations, and to have been carried off by one of the navvies, who kept it until stress of circumstances, or thirst for beer, forced him to realize. It represents a face with bold profile; the hair, which is done in small coils, is confined by a narrow fillet round the head, and carried down the side of the face to meet the whiskers and beard, which are dressed in the same manner. Mr. R. Holmes, of Pontefract, draws attention in a local newspaper to an interesting discovery. He says: "The Pontefract water-supply is now being extended to Carleton, or rather to the Pontefract Ward outskirts of that village, and during the excavations necessary for laying the pipes, a very interesting discovery has been made of an old - world bouldered road. This was uncovered on the rising ground between the railway-bridge and the ´Rest-and-be-Thankful,´ which was placed by the late Rev. J. Armitage Rhodes about two-thirds up the hill. "The bouldered road was clearly that ´way to Carleton Cross,´ towards the reparation of which Robert Austwick, by will dated May 7, 1505, bequeathed the sum of 3s. 4d., an amount by no means so insignificant in those days as it appears in the present. The boulders of which the road was composed were of a good granulated sandstone, which had not suffered much from the erosion to which they had been subjected while being converted into boulders, and which, although their rougher surfaces had been worn down, had not assumed the oval form which they would have done had they conic a long distance at a low rate of speed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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