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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. I. p. 316. Fig. 102. Instead of "above" the grave, read "underneath " it. II. p. 7. The terra-cotta vat represented in vol. i. p. 438, is again figured, vol. ii. p. 7. In order to show the inner decoration beheld on Fig. 1 69, the front wall of the vase has been left out. II. p. 10. M. Tsoundas recognizes a pit-offering in the excavation which occurs at the entrance to the Vaphio tomb {Mvicfjyaif p. 149). II. p. 13. No sign of cremation has been traced in the island necropoles. But as they are too small to have accommodated whole bodies, it is probable that only bare bones tumbling to pieces were deposited in them (Bent, Hellenic Studies^ vol. v.). II. p. 28. On the pit-graves that have been discovered at Eleusis, Anticyra, near Tiryns, and on the acropolis of Athens, see Tsoundas, Mw^Kat, p. 96, ;/. i . II. p. 36. In the lateral vault Tsoundas lighted upon a hole having dowels at the bottom, which served to fix a pillar whose function was to support and keep in place the alabaster slabs of the ceiling (Mvic^wit, p. 128). He is the only one who appears to have remarked the detail. II. pp. 95, 96. A place of worship, as far back as the Mycenian epoch, may have stood on the site whereon subsequently rose the famous temple of Argian Hera. This site, according to M. Waldstein, should be recognized on the plateau which com- mands the area of the later temple, and which is supported by a Cyclopaean wall. Both on the plateau and over the second temple were found heaps of ashes, animal bones, and sherds of Mycenian pottery, the result of sacrifices ; part of the refuse is still in place, and part has glided down from the upper on to the lower esplanade {Excavations of tlu American School at Athetis^ 1892, by C. Waldstein). So far we have but a mere announcement of the discovery. We must fain wait for a fuller account shortly to be published by the excavator. II. p. 195. Max Mayer sees a mourner in the bronze statuette Fig. 345, now in the Berlin Museum ; and he also ascribes the like function to a number of clay figures, which he compares with the bronze example {Jahrbuch^ p. 192). II. pp. 254, 255. I forgot to mention that the strange clay vases from Rhodes, i'ig^- 370, 371, w'ere brought to my notice by Bruckner. The paste is reddish-brown, and the surface of the vases is divided into polished bands like the oldest Trojan pottery. There are traces of dull white about the eyes and teeth. II. p. 308. Fig. 426 is also engraved on Fig. 424, 3. ^I' P' 337* '^'0 the list of Mycenian bronzes given in the note should be added two male statuettes with long hair from Crete, preserved in the Imperial Museum at Vienna. They are nude, except for a loin-cloth fastened in front with a band, and are executed, writes Furtwangler, in genuine Mycenian style. They have been published in the Arch. Anzeiger^ 1892.