Pelikáta hill might best be described as a spur of Mt. Exogé, which lies immediately to the west of it; but it is also joined on the south to the central peak of the island (Mt. Anogé) by a narrow ridge on which stands the main street of Stavrós village. Elsewhere it is detached (Pl. 2), and its sides fall in irregular gradations, broken further by terraces, to Afáles bay on the north, Phríkes bay on the east and Pólis bay on the south. From the summit all three bays are visible and any one of them can be reached in a short half-hour. In addition to its command of the three bays, Pelikáta has to-day, and presumably had in the past, a supply of first-rate drinking-water, reached at a depth of a few metres below the surface; and a small level space on the actual summit.

The site lies on the north-west side of the Bay of Pólis (Fig. 1), in a gash on the hillside where rock has fallen away, leaving a sheer face on the south of the site and the débris of undercliff on the north. The sea lies to the east and the entrance to the site on the north is blocked by fallen rocks (Fig. 3). Its position with regard to the other excavations round Stavrós in North Ithaca can be seen on the general plan of the area (Fig. 2 of the preceding article); our Fig. 2 shews the steep hill-side round the site.

The cave was accidentally discovered by the proprietor Louisos when digging a pit for a lime-kiln. Schliemann found the excavation in progress in 1864, but did not realize its importance.

The tripod-lebes is characterized by two round vertical handles cast with a plate behind and a strap in front, both of which are riveted to the cauldron, and by three legs, each cast with a plate, also riveted to the cauldron and supported by struts. Schwendemann asserts that it is properly a cooking-pot, for in Homer a mixing-bowl is a krater, but a big tripod is put on the fire to provide bath-water, and a hog could be seethed in a lebes. The monuments support this view, for the tripod-lebes is not used as a mixing-bowl in a komos scene or the like, even long after it had lost its function—to be set on the fire and then taken off again.

This paper sets forth the chemical analysis of a number of copper objects from Greece of the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages. The majority of these objects were picked up by me during my wanderings, and so are not exactly stratified or datable, but nevertheless may be assigned with tolerable certainty within the limits described. The collection from the Argive Heraeum was found in the temple rubbish-heaps; the pieces of determinate form are paralleled from Geometric times, so it is highly probable that the whole of this deposit is of the same date.

῾῾ φάναι, λιμὴν βαθύς , καὶ νεως ᾿ Απόλλωνος καὶ ἄλσος φοινίκων.᾿᾿ Though the anchorage at Kato Phana is not as good as Strabo implies, there is no doubt that here was the site of his temple, a site which has preserved, with only a slight distortion, its ancient name. From other sources we learn that the Chiots were defeated by the Athenians in a battle there during the summer of 512 b.c. and that the wine grown on the spot was much appreciated. Numerous arrow-heads may or may not be relics of the battle, and a struggling vineyard among sandhills forms a slender link with the nobler vineyards of the past.

Protoattic vases have not been classified to anything like the same extent as the Black Figure vases which follow them, or even the Geometric which precede them. Much has been written on this fabric, in fact a complete bibliography down to the Nessos vase alone would include upwards of ninety publications, some of considerable length; but the standard work is still Boehlau's Frühattische Vasen in J.d.I. 1887, 33 ff. In the forty-nine years since Boehlau wrote, a lot of new material has appeared, and there has long been need for a further, though not yet final, study of the subject.