Note 325 — APPENDIX. ON THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT HISSARLIK. By The Editor.
L. Dora Schmitz translation
Professor Gomperz adds that his change of opinion was at once communicated to Moritz Schmidt, and published by him in a postscript to his work, ‘Die Inschrift von Idalion und das Kyprische Syllabar.’ It has also been published by Gomperz’s colleague, Professor Conze, in an article on Schliemann’s discoveries in the ‘Preussische Jahrbücher.’
The Academy of November 28th, 1874 (p. 591), quotes from the Nation the following summary of the proceedings at the meeting of the Oriental Society, held in New York at the end of October:—
“One of the most elaborate and interesting of the papers presented was a review and criticism of the Progress of Decipherment of the Cypriote Inscriptions, with original additions, by Mr. J. H. Hall. The latest and best German investigator in this field, Moritz Schmidt, laments that he has not, in trustworthy form, the material from the Di Cesnola collections; this Mr. Hall has undertaken to furnish him.”
We have now a fresh reason to lament the misfortune by which the Di Cesnola collection was lost to our Museum.