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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 399 sible that the sculpture is older than the fall of the Lydian empire. Should it be called Lydian work ? However that may be, it was used in the decoration of a Lydian building. Page 287. The most elegant vases seem to have been manufactured in Lydia. The specimen found by M. George Dennis in one of the tumuli of Bin Tepe belongs to this superior style of pottery (Fig. 283). The form is not wanting in elegance, but its claim to originality resides in the style of its orna- mentation, which consists of wavy black lines standing out on the red ground of the clay, evidently imitated from the chevronne glass products of Egypt and Phoenicia (Hist, of Art, torn. iii. p. 732, Plate VIII. Figs. 1-3; Plate IX. Fig. i.) The FIG. 283. Lydian vase. Height, 15 c. British Museum. painter was not content with the mere tracing of the chevrons ; by varying the intensity of his black pigments, he succeeded in obtaining the effect of glass. The upper edge of the vase is adorned in the same taste. This happy adoption of devices proper to glass testifies to the dexterity of the Lydian potter. Page 328. The affirmation contained in these lines has ceased to be true. In 1887 M. Bent visited Cape Krio, near Cnidos. "At the point," he writes, " where the promontory contracts into a narrow isthmus, we saw traces of tombs recently laid bare by tropical rains, in which we found a number of small marble figures, like those I collected at Antiparos and described in this Journal (vol. v. p. 50). One represents a personage seated in a chair playing on a harp, the