A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy / By Mrs. Maria Guthrie ... described in a series of letters to her husband, the editor, Matthew Guthrie, M.D. The whole illustrated by a map ... with engravings of a great number of ancient coins, medals, monuments, inscriptions, and other curious objects.
- Guthrie, Maria.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy / By Mrs. Maria Guthrie ... described in a series of letters to her husband, the editor, Matthew Guthrie, M.D. The whole illustrated by a map ... with engravings of a great number of ancient coins, medals, monuments, inscriptions, and other curious objects. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Firft, by the ftile of the workmanfhip, as juft defcribed ; fe- condly, by the profile being Grecian ; thirdly, by the buft being formed with the fingers from wet clay, and afterwards baked, which, he fays, was a Grecian pradlice ; and, fourthly, by the hair being formed into a crefcent, the diftinguifhing mark of Diana. Thefe are the arguments by which he fupports his opinion ; and he might have added, as a confirmation of it, that the banks of the Tyras, as far up as it is navigable, or about 17 miles, were once covered with Greek colonies ; but what makes greatly in favour of his hypothefis, and what I am furprifed efcaped him, is, the three Greek letters which I obferved on each vafe in the very flketch that he fent me, AXIS. In fhort, Monfieur de Wollant concludes his remarks by faying, that he regards the fine buft in queftion as a Pe- nates, or houfhold god, buried with the pious pagan. In my next I fhall give you the opinions on the Roman fide of the queftion ; taking it for granted, that you make it a rule to hear both fides in every caufe before you decide; more efpecially as it is upon the ftrength of the fecond fet of arguments, that the antique tomb [fee the Engraving below] is fufpedled to be that of Ovid, and that the new fort and city has been named Ovidopot, or the city of Ovid. a. Vafes of baked earth, 3 feet high. 1. Lamp of baked earth, unglazed, c. Depofitory of the burnt bones. d. Schiftous ftones, forming the tomb j each done being about 2f feet fquare, and 4 inches thick.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22010506_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
