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Show HOMERIC CITY ON ISLAND OF ITHACA? i , BERLIN,' March 9. The announcement that'Wllhelm Derpfeld, head of the Ger-f man Archaeological Institute at Athens, has discovered in the island of Ithaca what he believes to be the remains of a Homeric city, has greatly Interested archaeologists. Remnants of the walls and of. monochrome decorated earthenware, earthen-ware, as well as a number of more elaborately elab-orately ornamented Vases, have been discovered. dis-covered. Some distance from the ruins of the cltv was found & cavern contain- ing evidences of prehistoric inhabitants. Under the. convent of St. John, . Herr Dorpfeld found a temple with Doric and . Ionic columns. . 1 |