MUSEUMS

Objects (apart from coins for which see p. 661) from S. Russia are well represented in the following Museums :—

The Hermitage at St P. receives the best things from the excavations of the Archaeological Commission and largely from chance finds.

The Historical Museum at Moscow has much Palaeolithic and Neolithic material and some Scythic, from the Creek Colonies the Burachkov Collection and many new acquisitions. Attached to the University is the Alexander III Museum of Fine Art.

The Town Museum at Kiev has received the results of Chvojka’s excavations and has incorporated with it the Khanenko Collection and that of Count Bobrinskoj as published in their works, in fact nearly everything from the Kiev district except the Ryzhanovka find which went to the Academy of Science, Cracow.

The Museum of the Odessa Society is the best place for studying Petreny, Tyras, Theodosia, Berezan and perhaps Olbia as it has most of the material from those sites except Pharmacovskij’s finds at Olbia : it has also a good deal from Bosporus. Things published in Trans. Od. Soc. are mostly in this Museum..

'1'he Town Museum at Kherson is concentrating the finds from the lower Dnepr.

Chersonese has two museums, one in the Monastery containing the finds made before the Archaeological Commission began digging, the other those made by it as far as they are not sent to the Hermitage.

Theodosia has a small Museum supported by the Odessa Society.

At Kerch there is the Museum of the Archaeological Commission and its collection of Inscriptions in the Royal Barrow; the Odessa Society has inscriptions in the Melek Chesme Barrow. But the best things go to the Hermitage.

At Kazan the Town Museum has objects illustrating the Volga-Kama culture.

At Minusinsk is the best collection of Siberian bronzes, etc.

The provincial Universities and the St P. and Moscow Archaeological Societies have small museums.

Private Collections of importance are Ct Uvarov’s at Porechje (everything), Ct Stroganov’s at St P. (Permian Plates), Teploukhov’s (Permian Culture) near Perm, Suruchan’s (Greek) at Kishinev, Terlecki’s (Bosporus), Novikov’s (Eltegen) at Kerch, Mavrogordato’s, Konelski’s (Olbia) at Odessa. Vogell’s at Nicolaev (Olbia) was mostly dispersed at Cassel in 1908 (v. p. 339 n. 6), the things chiefly went to German museums. The first museum in S. Russia was established at Nicolaev by the Scottish Admiral Greig.

On the whole things from our area have not found their way outside Russia to any great extent, they are best represented at Berlin, there is little at the Louvre but much from the Caucasus at St Germain.

The British Museum has MacPherson’s and Westmacott’s finds made during the Crimean War and a few purchases : the Ashmolean, Oxford, the things published by E. A. Gardner (JUS. 1884, Pl. xlvi, XLV11) and others since given by Mr Wardrop: the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, three inscriptions (v. App. 67, 68, 69) and one or two stelae brought back by Dr E. D. Clarke.