Douze inscriptions complètes

iO. Collection de fragments d'architecture ; architrave avec basrelief et inscription, provenant du théâtre.

Nous donnerons plus tard la liste des morceaux qui ont été attribués au Musée de Berlin.

L'article suivant a paru dans la revue The ISation, New-York, iO juillet 1884 » :

ARCHiEOLOGY AND THE TURKISH OFFICIALS

To THE Editor of The Nation :

Sir : I wish lo add a few brief remarks to Ihe sharp and able paragraph in your nuniber of May 29, relaling to the conduct of Turkish officiais in the partition of archœological discoveries made at Assos. No later than June, 1883, having been direclly informed by Baltazzi Bey, commissary to the Turkish Government, of the arrangement agreed upon belwen himself and the American delegates, I immedialely wrote in the Eevue Archéologique (1883, ii., p. 263) to protest against the terms of that arrangement, and insisl upon the highiy déplorable resulls which it involved for archaeology al large. My chief thème was the foUowing, which I can do no better than to repeat hcre. The excavations at Assos were begun with a firman, issued at a time when the Turkish law about antiquities, promulgated in 1874, was still in vigor. Now, that law, the French text of which may be found in the Ottoman Codes of Nicolaïdes, expressly spécifies that indivisible discoveries shalL not be divided, but valued, and that the Porte will accept for its share two-thirds of the entire estimate. Again, the archaic frieze of the Doric temple in Assos, an important part of which was found by the American mission, must certainly be styled indivisible ; and the best proof that the Turkish Government understands a frieze to form an indivisible whole, is that M. Benndorf was allowed, in 1882, to carry away the entire séries of reliefs from the Mausoleum of Gjôlbaschi in Lycia, a telegram from Gonstantinople having ordered, in answer to his inquiries, that ** indivisible antiquities should not be divi-