LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. 1, AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. 1.
| inserted by the author to represent the end of a line of carving on a document or monument. Sometimes | occurs in the middle of a word, indicating the word has been split by a line-break.
In the all-caps Greek text, the book preserves some different Greek letter-forms.
Compare the capital theta with a cross theta with cross at the top of p. 77, and theta with a dot theta with dot at the bottom of p. 130.
There is a V-like upsilon on p. 77, l. 7: OLYMP-helmet inscription, and Y-like upsilon on p. 77, l. 12: ΔΑΣΙΜΟΣ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ.
There is a capital lunate sigma: Ϲ, and an alpha with a v-shaped crossbar on p. 202: cap_a ... Sarapi, with old letter-forms ... and on p. 161, as a marking in silver on an ounce weight, inscription, with another symbol x_on_v.
And there is the zeta like a rotated H: Ancient Zeta on p. 6, upper case Ϙ and lower case ϙ Koppa (Qoppa) (Footnote 24 etc.), and the Digamma (wau, stigma) Ϝ, ϝ, ϛ (see below).
C.I.L. is abbreviation for '_Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_'.
'Inscrr.', 'reff.': a double consonant signifies plural.
Some missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.
Any illustration which intersected a paragraph, e.g., at a page turn, has been moved to a more convenient position. Some illustrations have been moved closer to their descriptive text, for better on-line and Ebook clarity.
Page 4, Footnote 2: χαλκόν corrected to χαλκὸν
Page 5, Footnote 3: τὸν δέ corrected to τὸν δὲ
Page 6:
From Wikipedia: "Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece
during the archaic and early classical periods, until they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet
that is the standard today, around 400 BC. All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the
shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician alphabet,...
(https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Summary_table)
The Ancient (before the 5th century B.C.) letter for Zeta resembled an H on its side (Ancient Zeta = Ζ).
"No. 10, the ticket of Thukydides of Upper Lamptrae (fig. 4). He belonged to the sixth section (Ancient Zeta = Ζ = 6). The ticket bears the symbols of an owl within an olive wreath, and a Gorgoneion."
Page 20: ( .·· ) corrected to ( ··· ), for consistency.
Page 56: 'suppose' corrected to 'supposed'.
"... defixiones, because they were supposed to fix down, as it were, the hated enemy."
Page 77 (and Footnote 40): ... in lettering which belongs probably to the end of the sixth century b.c.
inscription on helmet
ΤΑΡΓ[ΕΙ]ΟΙ ΑΝΕΘΕΝ ΤΟΙ ΔΙϜΙ ΤΟΝ ϘΟΡΙΝΘΟΘΕΝ
Footnote 40: Τἀργεῖοι ἀνέθεν τῶι Διϝὶ τῶν Κορινθόθεν.
Page 103: Spearbutts; p. 104: Spear-Butts. Both retained.
Page 111: Superfluous 'a' removed.
"The stem may be fluted, or.... "
Page 114: 'emall' corrected to 'small'.
"Just below the lantern is a small bronze statuette,..."
Page 145: Loom Weight; loom-weights ... various spellings; all retained.
Numerous other instances of words being sometimes hyphenated and sometimes un-hyphenated appear in the text. All have been retained.
Page 150: 'to' corrected to 'so'. "... then turned, and drawn back so as to lift up the pegs.... "
Page 160: 1½oz. corrected to 1⁄12 oz.
"... 1⁄12 oz. = 2 scruples;"
Page 190: extra 'a' removed. "These salves were pounded on the stone into a paste."
Page 192: 'Nos.' corrected to 'No.'. "An example of a rare form is the rolling stamp with the name of Alexander (No. 584; fig. 229)."
Page 198: From Wikipedia (https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma):
Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: Ϝ,
lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ
is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound /w/
but it has principally remained in use as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was
originally called waw or wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is
digamma; as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era and is
now known as stigma after the value of the Byzantine ligature combining σ-τ as
ϛ ....
In modern Greek, this is often replaced by the digraph στ.
Page 205, Footnote 85: τρίς corrected to τρὶς
Page 220, Footnote 105: ὅς τοῖς corrected to ὃς τοῖς