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 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 397 gifts from Croesus. Frag- ments of the first temple of Ephesus, exhumed by the late M. Wood, after having lain forgotten a long time in the British Museum, were pieced together by M. Murray, who succeeded in re- storing one column of the ancient temple. On the fragments of a torus that forms part of a base the profile of which is most curious nine letters were discovered by means of which the votive inscription has been reconstituted: Ba[<rtXtvs] K^POMTOS] di/c- [0r?K]ev. See HICKS, Manual of Greek In- scriptions, No. 4, and A. S. MURRAY, "Re- mains of Archaic Tem- ple of Artemis at Ephesus " (Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. x. pp. i-io). Page 279, 3. This was ready for the press when M. A. S. Murray, Keeper of the Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum, sent me photographs of the two bas-reliefs figured on this and the next page, which form part of the collection under his care (Figs. 281, 282). They came out of one of the tombs that M. Dennis ex- plored at Bin Tepe. They are two long slabs of white marble which appear to have belonged to a frieze. The figures stand out with a slight