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 28o A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud^a. Vol. i. page 327, note 3, add Schick. The aqueducts at Siloam, with map, Quarterly Statements J 1886, pp. 88-91. Vol. i. Page 357, Fig. 250. De Saulcy (" Note sur les projectiles k main creux et en terre cuite." Mhnoires de la Socitte des Antiquaires de France^ vol. xxxv.) points out the mistake made by M. Greville Chester, in ascribing a remote Egyptian origin to the small clay vases which were described by him in the Recovery. De Saulcy lighted upon precisely similar vessels at Tripoli, in Syria, each decorated by four trade-marks which run round the body of the vessel, and each surrounded by an Arabic legend, to the following effect : ^^ Bi Hama, at Hama," i.e, manufactured at F'iG. 391. — Sculptures discovered at Jerabis. Graphic^ December nth, 1880. Hama. The legend is important, inasmuch as it enables us to fix the date of these peculiarly shaped flagons, and this cannot be protracted beyond the middle ages. He thinks, moreover, that they were caps, or fulminates, used in letting off Greek fire, the mercury found in them having been set free by the decomposing action of time. Vol. ii. page 30, Fig. 262. The latest account which reaches us in regard to the boss of Tarkondemos is from the pen of M. Amiaud, entitled. Simple coup dceil sur la bulk de M. Jovanoff sur les Inscriptions Heteennes M. Amiaud is of opinion that the genuineness of the piece is beyond cavil, and older than was at first supposed