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 396 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. Page 32, foot-note. Whoever may have been the author of the treatise of Jsis and Osiris, attributed to Plutarch, there is no doubt as to his having thoroughly grasped the under-current of ideas that pervaded the religious rites referred to. " The Phrygians believe," he writes ( 69), " that the god sleeps in winter and wakes in summer. In their orgiac festivities they now celebrate his going to sleep (KarewaoyAous), now his 'awaking (eu/eye/joreis). The Paphlagonians declare that in winter he is held in fetters and a prisoner, but that he breaks his iron chains in spring and moves again." Page 58, note i. M. Humann has published a new edition of the pamphlet cited by us, with illustrations, in Mittheilungen of the Institute at Athens, 1888, p. 22, under the heading, " Die Tantalosburg im Sipylos." Page 114 and following. As already observed, the restoration made by Pro- fessor Ramsay of the Broken Tomb agrees in every respect with our own. We submitted the results reached in consequence of his sketches, and we are happy to find that, at least in this instance, he acknowledges our having used them correctly (Journal, vol. ix. pp. 354-364, Figs. 1-9). His inner restoration coincides, so to speak, with every touch of M. Chipiez' inner perspective view. Page 120. In Journal, vol. x. pp. 164, 165, Fig. 18, Professor Ramsay en- graves another specimen, the Yapuldak tomb, of which a plan and two sections will be found p. 181, Fig. 18. -Our Fig. 75 represents the fagade alone. Page 146 and following. For the description of Midas city and its remains, whether of roads, walls, buildings, altars, or cisterns, see RAMSAY, Journal, vol. ix. pp. 374-379, Figs, u, 12. The plan (Fig. n) was laid down with great accuracy. In it are carefully indicated the traces left by the wall that once surrounded the plateau; the stones have disappeared, but the place they formerly occupied is shown by the grooves cut in the rock to receive them. Page 223. Professor Ramsay does not share our view with regard to the Broken Tomb and the Lions' (rampant) Tomb. He would place them, in time, before the Midas monument (Journal, vol. ix. pp. 364-377 ; x. pp. 152-154). We adhere to our expressed opinion, that those tombs grouped around the Midas monument, exhibiting geometrical and vegetable decorative forms, are, like the monument itself, older than the exemplars of the Ayazeen necropolis, whereon are sculptured animal and human figures, lions and warriors. In our estimation it is scarcely compatible with analogy to suppose that a decorative scheme wholly made up of linear elements, which everywhere else belongs to the beginnings of art, should have followed here a period during which the presentment of the living form was handled with a certain degree of freedom. Then, too, the shaft or well deliberately chosen, as means of approach to the vault in the majority of specimens forming the group of tombs embellished with meanders and lozenges, is a disposition of a more primitive character than the ornate doorway. Page 242, note i. Professor Sayce thinks that he has found a Lydian inscrip- tion. It consists of three lines engraved in small characters on a soft, dark- coloured stone, supposed to have been picked up among the ruins of Sardes. Such was the statement made to the Rev. Greville Chester, when, in 1887, he acquired the monument at Smyrna for the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The letters of the inscription seem to belong to the Carian alphabet, to which Professor Sayce has devoted so much attention. We leave the care of commenting and publishing the text to the accomplished philologist Page 244. Inscriptions have fully confirmed the assertion of Herodotus (i. 92), to the effect that most of the columns in the temple of Ephesus were