Recent Additions to the British Museum (Bloomsbury)

Abstract

AMONG the additions of archaeological interest reported at the meeting of the trustees of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) on January 14, was a collection of bronze age pottery from Cyprus, which had been excavated by Mr. J. R. Stewart from two graves at Vounous in that island. The pottery belongs to the periods Early Cypriote la and Ib, dating from about 2800–2700 B.C., and Early Cypriote IIa, which is placed at approximately two hundred years later. Lieut.-Colonel H. H. R. Deane has presented a collection of examples of Buddhist art, consisting of twenty pieces, mostly small stone figures, belonging to the Gandhara School, dating from the second to fourth centuries A.D. These were collected in the North-West Frontier Province by the late Lieut.-Colonel H. A. Deane.