The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884Various
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The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884
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The site has been hitherto but little explored, but considerable
quantities of pottery, articles in bronze, coins, mosaics, &c., are from
time to time turned up by the peasants when cultivating their little
plots of land. These treasures have mostly found their way into the
hands of private collectors, I believe, and until steps are taken to
organise a thorough exploration of the spot, much that would be in the
highest degree interesting to the antiquary and the public will remain
buried in oblivion. At present all that can be seen of ancient Luni may
be summed up briefly thus: (1) Portions of a temple dedicated to
Plantilla, wife of the Emperor Caracalla. (2) The amphitheatre, much
despoiled and overgrown. (3) A circular building, 9 metres in height,
and containing rows of niches. (4) A large building supposed to have
been used as a granary or depôt for military stores. (5) Portions of an
aqueduct. (6) Some prostrate columns, friezes, and capitals. (7) The
ancient well, still furnishing the clearest and coolest water in the
neighbourhood.
For some of the information herein contained I am indebted to Signor S.
Cerini, whose access to various archives and manuscripts has supplied me
with data, and who is the author of a pamphlet on the subject published
two years ago. For the rest I have had to glean the meagre information
contained in this paper as best I could; but my visit to the spot has
increased my desire to know more about it, and my hope is that a day may
soon come when the hidden archæological treasures of the buried Luni
will be unearthed for the instruction and admiration of the public. I
may add that the spot is most picturesque, and well worthy the attention
of artist and antiquary alike. For myself, so long as I live here, I
will do my best not to let the subject drop.
* * * * *
FROM a paper contributed by the veteran scholar, Dr. Edkins, to a recent
number of the _Chinese Recorder_, it appears that about B.C. 2200 the
Chinese possessed a knowledge of the art of writing, a year of 366 days
with an intercalary month, the astrolabe, the zodiac, the cycle of
sixty, of twelve musical reeds forming a gamut, which also constituted
the basis of a denary metrology for measures of length, weight, and
capacity, divination, and a feudal system.
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