In his paper ‘The “Sophocles” Statue; a Reply,’ Theod. Reinach discusses the small Sophocles bust in the Sala delle Muse of the Vatican, with the fragmentary inscription of the name. In consequence of a communication from his pupil, M. Durry, he declares incorrect the statements in the third edition of Helbig's Führer. As I am responsible for these statements, I wish to say here very briefly that Durry's and Reinach's assertions do not correspond to fact. The upper part of the φ is preserved; but even if it were not, it would be impossible to fill up the given space with fewer or more than precisely three letters. Therefore the conjectures put forward by Reinach of Δι]οκλῆς or Ἐμπεδ]οκλῆς or even of the otherwise possible Ἀριστ]οκλῆς are at once ruled out.

This and other questions raised by Reinach I shall go into fully in a paper which is to appear in the coming number of the Atti of the Accademia Pontificia Romana di Archeologia.