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PREFACE
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script and in proofreading and indexing. The librarians of the University of Illinois and of the Oriental Institute and the Classics Library at the University of Chicago have been very helpful.
Finally, the whole project was made possible by the late Professor James Henry Breasted, first director of the Oriental Institute, who was never too busy to hear and encourage a young scholar, and by his successor, Professor John A. Wilson, who together have made it possible to devote the time necessary to the preparation of this study.
The portrait of King Mithradates II used as a frontispiece is reproduced about three times original size from a silver drachm in my own collection.
Neilson C. Debevoise
July 29, 1937
