Since my paper on Iasos and its history appeared in this Journal in 1887, some fresh epigraphical materials from Iasos have come to light in an unexpected manner.

In the Bulletin de Corr. Hell. of 1887 (xi. p. 212 foll.) M. Kontoleon has edited a number of inscriptions, of which Nos. 2—11 are from Iasos. All of the ten are honorary dedications or ex votos of the Antonine period, presenting few features of interest. These marbles had been extracted from the ruins of Iasos by a Turkish captain commissioned by the Ottoman government; he had shipped them on board by March 1887, and conveyed them to Constantinople. They were seen there by Mr. Cecil Smith in August 1887, in the courtyard of the Seraglio Museum; he learned that they had newly arrived, and were said to have come from Iasos. The testimony of Mr. Paton settles the question of their provenance; M. Foucart, in ignorance of the facts, had suggested that they might have come from Passala, the port of Mylasa.

Mr. Theodore Bent has just sent me a letter received from Dr. Albert L. Long, of Robert College, Constantinople, dated October 16, 1888. He speaks of the arrival of other inscribed marbles from Iasos, and encloses a MS. copy of them: ‘I think you saw some of the stones which were brought last winter for the work of constructing the Bebek quay. Within the last month another lot has been brought, and among them the two blocks from which the enclosed inscriptions are taken.’ There is no doubt that these marbles also are from Iasos: they have not, so far as I am aware, been published before. They are now printed from Dr. Long's MS.