Wright William Engl Orientalist (1 results)

Gr.-8vo. 7 pp. Rosa Papier. An den Sprachforscher und Reisenden Heinrich Frhr. von Maltzan (1826-1874) über Fälschungen von antiken Münzen und Inschriften.21.VI.1872. ". I believe that all those which poor Prof. Lenz last published in the 'Zeitschrift' are forgeries of the kind you specify, and more that I have seen in London. But do you not think that M. Halévy is greatly to blame for allowing the said Jewish Coppersmith to get copies of the inscriptions he had himself copied, well knowing (as he doubtless did) how the rascal would use them? . At Jerusalem a scoundrel named Shapira, and his collegues, are manufacturing Moabite and other stones by the dozen, and sowing them broadcast over the land ." 16.IX.1872. ". This morning I had a letter from Socin (Basel), who hopes to visit Jerusalem this winter, and to get to the bottom of that matter. Forgery is no new trade at Jerusalem, as it pays well with the host of ignorant English visitors . I believe that most of the articles brought home two or three years ago by Mr Deutsch (including the tablet with teh Maccabee alphabet) turned out to be of the same class. Such are the hindrances that beat us at every step in our search after knowledge! .".