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An Epigraphical Note-book of Sir Arthur Evans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Extract

Among the papers of the late Sir Arthur Evans was found a note-book, measuring 5¾ X 3⅝ X ⅝ in., bound in red leather and with a metal clasp, comprising 122 pages, inclusive of the inner sides of the cover. Sixteen of these are blank, eight contain notes on Greek coinage and numerals, a list of the Attic tribes, bibliographical references and some mathematical problems, and the remainder bear copies, in Evans' characteristically microscopic handwriting, of a large number of Greek inscriptions, with brief notes added in many cases. All are written in pencil save the mathematical section, which is in ink and appears to be in a different hand. At the request of Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, I have examined the copies of inscriptions and find that, with very few exceptions, the originals are in the British Museum. These exceptions are IG i2. 929, 11. 1-5 (in Paris), IG iii. 1418, IG ii.2 3765 and CIG 3333 (all three in the Ashmolean Museum). Of the rest 105 appear in the Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum; 91 of them are Attic, three (Nos. 159, 160, 162) Boeotian, three (Nos. 373, 375, 376) Tenian, five (Nos. 1003, 1012, 1022-4) Anatolian, one (No. 1398) Italian, and two (Nos. 1107,1123 a) of uncertain provenance.

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Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1941

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