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AN interesting article by Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter appears in Globus of November 17 (xcviii., pp. 293β7), m which he brings forward data to prove his earlier supposition that the first site of Paphos was in the neighbourhood of Randi, in Cyprus. Certain inscriptions from this vicinity showed that Aphrodite, βthe unconquerable,β sender of Spring, was worshipped, and that an ancient incense-altar had existed there. The block containing the most important inscription is held by Prof. Richard Meister, of Leipzig, to belong to an incense-altar, and he adds that the incense-altar of Aphrodite at Paphos (Homer, VIII., 362; Homeric Hymns, IV., 59) was famous from earliest times.
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H., A. The Incense-Altar of Aphrodite at Paphos . Nature 85, 323 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085323b0
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