Thirteenth Century. The trustees of the church had already determined to destroy it in order to substitute for it a dome. This is only one proof of the hopeless want of appreciation of such objects. Dr. Lampakes immediately sent for the local authorities and the trustees of the church, and explained to them the preciousness of the roof in question, and that they would be held responsible in the future for any injury which might befall so remarkable a monument of the Venetian church construction and decoration in the Middle Ages.

Extract from the private letter of Dr. Lampakes.

During the excavations which I made at Eretria, we found a large marble statue of a man 1.95. m. [about 6 ft.] in height. In the same place I found the following inscriptions.

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ΚΛΕΟΝΙΚΟΝ ΛΥΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ
ΑΜΦΙΚΡΑΤΗΣ ΛΥΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ
ΤΟΝ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΝ

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ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ

HANH (?)

ΤΙΜΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ

In the same place were found different remains of an antient temple, broken tiles, etc., and in the same village and the neighbourhood I found the following inscriptions.

symbol H is employed to express the aspirated breathing, just as in the inscription HOPOZ AIO2 near the Church of St. Marina at Athens.

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ΦΛ:ΑΠΕΛΛΙΩΝ Ο ΕΥΤΥΧΙΑΝΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩ

ΤΑΤΗΝ ΕΚΠΛΗΡΩΝ ΕΝΤΟΛΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΙΟΥ ΜΟΥ ΑΥΡΙ:ΕΥ
ΓΕΓΡΑΨΑ ΤΗΝ ΛΗΝΟΝ ΕΠΙ ΤΩ ΜΗΔΕΝΑ ΕΤΕΡΟ

ΝΤΗΝ ΤΕΘΗΝΑΙ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΕΜΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΕΙΔΕ ΤΙΣ

ANOIEAI AWCEI TO IEPOTATO TAMEIO XP

I think that XP* here stands for xpuróv.

*This X has a stroke across the middle.-B.

This is upon a sepulchral pillar. The proper name is ΜΑΧΑΤΑΣ. See the Corpus Inscriptionum Græcarum, No. 1799. This is the Genitive.

This also is upon a fragment, to whose broken and irregular shape its condition is due.

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ΟΝΗΣΙΜΗ
ΦΙΛΩΝΟΣ

On a gravestone.

* The Σ in this inscription in all the three cases where it occurs is represented by a peculiar character like a square-cornered C or a bracket [.-Β.

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ΧΡΥΣΑΛΙΣ ΣΗΜΙΟΥ

ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΙ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑ

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ΠΟΛΥΜΝΗΣΤΟ[Σ]

On a sepulchral stone near the village of Bathia.

(13)

ΚΑΛΛΙΠΟΣ

ΜΕΝΑΛΚΗ

Upon a piece of white marble in the antient Church of St. George near the village of Gymnon.

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Λ : ΟΝΕΑΡΧΙΔΟ[Σ]

ΙΝΙ . . ΑΟΝΟΣ

In the Church of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Gymnon.

In the same church.

(15) ... OX...

(16) ΠΟΛΥΚΡΑ[ΤΗΣ]

In the village of Bathia.

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ΟΔΗΜΟΣ Ο ΕΡΕΤ[ΡΙΕΩΝ]

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΤΟΝ ΔΗΜΗ[ΤΡΙΟΝ]

ΑΡΕΤΗΣ ΕΝΕΚΕΝ

ΤΗΣ ΕΙΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙ ΛΙ*

This is also at Bathia, in the Church of the Blessed Virgin there (called the Panagitsa).

(18) ΔΡΟΝΒ (?)

On a piece of polished white marble at Bathia.

...

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ΑΙΑΣ

ΛΟΝΙΣΟΥ

At the monastery of St. Nicolas near Bathia.

* Nos. 24 and 25 hardly leave a doubt that this I is only the first stroke of the H in AHTOI.-B.

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ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ

This is upon a white marble step in front of the Credence (πρόθεσις) in the church of the suppressed monastery of St. George styled ο ̓Αρμάς.

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ΗΒΙΤΗΣ
ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝΕΩ

In the chapel of St. John at the village of Basilikon.

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ΕΦΕΜΟΣ ΑΝΕΘ .

ΝΗΣ

This is upon a pyramidal stone at Chalcis. It will be observed that the words are ΕΥΦΕ[Η]ΜΟΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ, and it is an instance of a βουστροφηδόν inscription.*

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ΓΗΡΑ ΔΗ ΚΛΕΟΝΙΚΕ ΛΙΠΩΝ ΒΙΟΝ ΑΙΝΕΤΟΣ ΑΣΤΟΙΣ

ΚΕΙΣΑΙ ΤΟΝΔΕ ΤΥΜΒΟΝ ΕΦΕΣΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ

Τ:Ε ΙΔΙΑ ΕΚΓΕΙΑ ΩΣ ΛΙΠΑΡΟΣ ΑΤΟΙΟΛΒΟΣ ΟΠΙΣΣ[Ε]
ΠΑΙΔΩΝ ΤΕ ΑΚΜΑΙΑ ΛΕΙΠΕΤΑΙ ΑΛΙΚΙΑ

(Then in larger characters)

ΚΛΕΟΝΙΚΟΣ

ΦΕΙΔΙΟΥ

On a sepulchral stone at Chalcis.

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[Δ]ΗΜΟΣ Ο ΕΡΕΤΡΙΕΩΝ ΤΗΧΙΠΠΟΝ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟ[Ν ?]
ΑΡΕΤΗΣ ΕΝΕΚΕΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΝΟΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΙΣ ΕΑΥΤΟ[Ν]

ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΙ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙ ΛΗΤΟ[1]

On the stair of the tower of the Basilica of St. Paraskeue at Chalcis.

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ΕΡΕ[ΤΡΙΕΩΝ]

ΚΛΕΟ

[Ε]ΝΕΚΕΝ ΚΑΙΕ[ΥΝΟΙΑΣ]

ΕΙΣΕΑΥΤ[ΟΝ]

[ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΗ[ΤΟΙ]

At Chalcis, in a ruin near the fort called Kara-babass.

*The in this inscription is a simple O with a perpendicular bar, and the → contains a regular cross instead of an horizontal bar only.-B.

At Chalcis, in the house of Dr. Baratasses.

The following fourteen inscriptions (Nos. 30-43) I discovered upon stones in use as paving-stones in the court of the house of M. Blachopoulos at Chalcis.