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APPENDIX. 439 Page 386. Note 5. On the question of Syrian topography the work of M. J. DE BERTON may be consulted with advantage ; it is entitled : La Topographie de Tyr d'apres les derniers explorateurs (in the Mfmoires pre'sente's d f Academic des Inscriptions par divers savants, first series, vol. ix., second part, pp. 275-309). VOL. II. Page 35. There seems to be no longer any doubt as to the Sardinian origin of this bronze. It is only on figurines from that island that the peculiar dagger-shaped object it wears on its breast is to be found. Page 52, line 4 from foot, for Vol. i. Fig. 142, read Fig. 47. Line 3, for Ib. Fig. 223, readVo. i. Fig. 142. FIG. 366. Terra-cothi mask, front face. Height 4$ inches. Page 68. With the mask in the Louvre we may compare a terra-cotta mask found by M. Salomon Reinach (Figs. 366-367). It was found at a depth of about twelve feet, in a reservoir, in a trench cut between Byrsa and the site of the military port. It is neither so firm in execution nor so well preserved as the other specimen, but it seems to be Carthaginian also and to belong to the same class of works. In its dryncss and hardness it recalls in the most striking way the female head figured on the large electrum coins of Carthage. M. Reinach was good enough to send us a photograph of the mask directly after its discovery', but our chapter on Phoenician