In the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology I have just published a quantity of new evidence with regard to Keftiu, which should be read as an introduction to the present article. The geographical conclusions in that article were drawn from a variety of sources, and were emphatic that this name was applied by the Egyptians to the country comprised within the boundaries of the later Pisidia, Isauria, Lycaonia and Cilicia. Of this tract Cilicia Tracheia seemed to be the centre. We also found ourselves brought into contact on several occasions with the Philistines. This new evidence, therefore, provides a remarkable confirmation of the results drawn from my original archaeological study of the Keftiuans and their civilisation as exhibited to us on the Egyptian frescoes of the XVIIIth Dynasty.

In the autumn of 1929, through the kindness of Professor Giuseppe Lugli, I was able to study the Castellani vase-fragments in the Villa Giulia at Rome. I had never seen them before, and I was much surprised to find that some of them came from the same vases as fragments in another collection, the Campana collection in the Archaeological Museum at Florence. Surprised, because I had never heard of any connection between Campana and Castellani. I afterwards learned from Dr. Minto that after the fall of Campana the residue of his collection long lay sequestered in the Monte di Pietà at Rome: it was eventually bought by Gamurrini for the museum of Florence; but meanwhile Alessandro Castellani, or some agent of his, must have had access to it.

Bibliographical Note.—Of the two Financial Decrees of Kallias inscribed on one stone, one has been known to scholars for 65 years, one for over a century: they have had an enormous literature. They are published in the new Attic Corpus as I.G. I2 91 and 92, and the literature down to 1924 is there given. The three most important writers before that date are, I think, Kirchhoff, Meyer, Beloch: I have only one addition of any importance down to 1924, viz. Beloch's pupil, Max Romstedt, whose Leipzig Dissertation, Die wirtschaftliche Organization des athenischen Reiches (1914), devotes pp. 22–36 to the δεκατε mentioned in line 7 of the first decree. He is strongly for a late date, but I do not find his arguments cogent.

The vase which is the subject of Plate IV was recently presented to the British Museum by Mr. John Tulk of Chertsey, in whose possession it had been for many years. Mr. Tulk states that it was formerly in the possession of Earl Cadogan, and was disposed of at the sale of his antiquities at Christie's in 1865. On the rim of the vase is an impression in red wax of a seal with coat-of-arms. Enough remains of the surrounding inscription (DO · I … RE · SICIL) to show that it is the seal of Ferdinando I, King of the Two Sicilies 1815–25, with the arms of the Kingdom. Either the vase was originally in the possession of this personage, or else it is merely a confirmation of leave to export the vase from Italy. But I can glean no further information about its previous history, and it appears to have remained entirely unknown to archaeologists. It is, however, as will be seen, one of more than usual interest.

The papyrus numbered 59533 in the Catalogue Général of the Cairo Museum is a mere scrap (13 cm. × 12 cm.), on one side of which is written a fragmentary text with suprascript musical signs:

The writing is along the fibres, that is to say, on the recto if the scrap originally formed part of a roll; the verso is blank; and the papyrus has been folded horizontally. The right-hand and the top seem to be the original edges of a sheet or roll; the left-hand is clearly defective, and though the bottom edge may be the original edge of a sheet, it is not the bottom of a roll. The writing is carried to the extreme right-hand edge, without a margin. Below the text there is some scribbling which seems to have no particular significance and is probably to be taken as a probatio pennae rather than as a signature.

Among the gems of history still hidden away in the Public Record Office, in London, is a manuscript account of a transaction in British foreign politics of the year 1829–30 which at least three countries might claim as one of their greatest national jokes. The documents which tell the story have recently been unearthed for the first time. Had they been discovered before, during the century which has elapsed since they were filed and forgotten, they would most certainly have been made public long since—for their story is incredibly funny.

The volume containing them is catalogued baldly as ‘F.O.32/16, Miscellaneous Domestic, 1830.’ It is a leather-bound folio volume of Foreign Office correspondence, comprising sundry reports from British consuls in Greece sent home during that year, and complaints from British subjects anxious to trace missing relatives in Greece.

The slab of dark grey tufa bearing the text copied below was found last summer in the grounds of Petworth House; its origin and history, except as deducible from the stone itself, are unknown; for leave to publish it I am grateful to Lord and Lady Leconfield. The inscription is here drawn from a photograph kindly communicated by Mr. D. O. Malcolm and from notes and squeezes which Mr. S. E. Winbolt was good enough to take; Professor J. G. C. Anderson did me the favour to verify the reading.

The stone is broken on three sides, the top alone being undamaged; the rear surface, which is fairly smooth, seems also to have its ancient finish; height 0·56 m., width 1·04, thickness 0·12 to 0·155, height of the letters 0·03 to 0·35; width of the inscribed tablet 0·73. A vertical cleft has destroyed one or two letters in the middle of each line.