The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . opher in Hebrew, Kii-rpos in Greek, and the flowerKuirpis, like the goddess of Cyprus; cf. Engel, Kijpros, vol. i. pp. 64-66. The plant was introducedinto Egypt about the middle of the second Theban empire (Loket, La Florij Pharaonique, 2iid edit.,pp. SO, 81). The ancients derived the name of the island from that of the plant (Stepuex ofBtzastiusi, Kvirpos; EcsTATHirs, Com. ad liioity^ium Periegeteu, v. 308, 509, in Mlller-Didot,Geograplii Grxci Miuon-s, vol. ii. p. 312). THE NATUnAL RESOURCES OF CYPRUS. •201 Europe. It is uot easy
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . opher in Hebrew, Kii-rpos in Greek, and the flowerKuirpis, like the goddess of Cyprus; cf. Engel, Kijpros, vol. i. pp. 64-66. The plant was introducedinto Egypt about the middle of the second Theban empire (Loket, La Florij Pharaonique, 2iid edit.,pp. SO, 81). The ancients derived the name of the island from that of the plant (Stepuex ofBtzastiusi, Kvirpos; EcsTATHirs, Com. ad liioity^ium Periegeteu, v. 308, 509, in Mlller-Didot,Geograplii Grxci Miuon-s, vol. ii. p. 312). THE NATUnAL RESOURCES OF CYPRUS. •201 Europe. It is uot easy to determine the race to which tlie first inhabitants of theisland belonged, if we are not to see in them a branch of thelvefatiu, who frequentedthe Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean from a very remote In the timeof Egyptian supremacy they called their country Asi, and this name inclines oneto connect the people with the .Egeans. An examination of the objects foundin the most ancient tombs of the island seems to confirm this opinion. These. consist, for the most part, of weapons and implements of stone—knives, hatchets,hammers, and arrow-heads; and mingled with these rude objects a score ofdififerent kinds of pottery, chiefly hand-made and of coarse design—pitchers withcontorted bowls, shallow buckets, especially of the milk-pail variety, providedwitli spouts and with pairs of rudimentary handles. The pottery is red or blackin colour, and the ornamentation of it consists of incised geometrical and bronze, where we find examples of these metals, do not appear tohave been employed in the manufacture of ornaments or arrow-heads, but For the coiiper mining indii>try iu aacieiit timus, see Engel, Kypros, vol. i. pp. 42-53. - Birch ami Cuaijas saw in Cyprus the Ei,yptiaii name Kafit, Kafiti, Memoire mr une Patereigrjptitnnc du Mitefc du Louvre, pp. 2S-2S, 50-52. Birch thoiiglit that the syllable of Kinposcontaineil the element Kef, Kaf, from
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