^{page 31 note 1} Note by Dr. Philip Argenti:—

(i) In this connection the only contrary evidence available is afforded in the writings of the following geographers and travellers:

(a) André Thevet, who visited Chios in 1549, records in his Cosmographie du Levant, an unpublished MS in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris (MSS français No. 15453, Vol. II entitled Le Grand Insulaire, fol. 162 verso) ‘Au milieu [of the island] vous aurez la ville de Chios, qui fut autrefois posée sur le mont estant à présent sur la marine belle marchande et peu forte.…’

(b) Albert Jouvin de Rochefort, who was in Chios in 1668 and in his work Le voyageur d'Europe oú est le voyage de Turquie, Paris, 1676, Vol. VII, p. 302, writes ‘La Coronata Couvent des Dominiquains n'en [from Nea Moni] est pas fort éloigné.’

(c) Dapper, Olfert in his Description exacte des isles de l'Archipel, Amsterdam, 1703, p. 214Google Scholar, when writing in 1688, affirms that ‘La capitale de l'île etoit autrefois bâtie sur le sommet d'une montagne; mais sa situation paraissent incommode à ses habitants, ils se changèrent au bord de la mer, oú ils commencèrent à s'habitüer. Il y a un couvent au pié de cette montagne apellé Coronata.’

(d) Coronelli, Vincenzio Maria in his Isolario, Venezia 1696 (Vol. II of Atlante Veneto) p. 270Google Scholar tells us that ‘La città ch'è situata nella parte di Catomerea alla costa Orientale, era anticamente fabbricata sul Monte vicino col nome Chiopolis, ma fú poi ridotta nella pianura alla Sponda del suo gran Porto, al quale con la magnificenza delle Fabbriche forma Teatro, e tiene il nome dell'Isola.’

If these authorities may be in any way considered as reliable, a summary of their information would be: the ancient town of Chios, Chiopolis, would have been situated near Nea Moni at the top of a hill on the lower slopes of which was later the Dominican Monastery of Coronata.

This would place the ancient town to the North-West of the present one.

^{page 32 note 1} It is perhaps the same as that mentioned by Pococke (Description of the East I ch. i) under the name of Μαρμὰρου τρὰπεζα which supplied the red marble for Nea Moni.

^{page 33 note 1} It is also mentioned in the inscription referring to a donation by Attalus ('Αθηνᾶ 1908 no. 3 col. A 27–8; cf. Plassart and Picard BCH XXXVII p. 211 [Αδ]μητὶδαις Λευκωνὶοις.

^{page 33 note 2} Or, according to Zolotas, loc. cit. p. 176, Leuconia. The name will be derived from the colour of the soil. The Mastic Country is still divided into two regions, known as the Aspra Chomata and the Kokkina Chomata, according to the colour of the soil—the ‘White soil’ region is on the east side, the ‘Red soil’ on the west.

^{page 34 note 1} For a later description with sketch, cf. Corize, Philologus XIV pp. 156–7.

^{page 36 note 1} Or alternatively, and perhaps more probably, the settlement was in the hollow by the spring, in a place, where there is evidence of inhabitants, though of what date it is as yet impossible to determine.

^{page 37 note 1} This seems to run - -]ιένεω ἱερἑα πελλ - - -, ]ιενεω being the termination of the patronymic, πελλ - - - suggests Pella, but what can be seen of the last letter, a portion of a curve, is against any such restoration as Πελλ[αίου Διός uel simile] or, to give a more local touch, Πελλ[ιναίου Διός]. The mountain is now spelt Πελίναιον but the derivation from πελλός or πελός ‘dark’ seems to show that either spelling was possible.

^{page 38 note 1} Emporios is mentioned by Aegidius van Egmont (or de Nijenberg), who visited it in 1757, and seems to have seen more important traces than are now visible. ‘Not far from hence [Pyrghi] the sea forms a small bay and on the adjacent plain are the ruins of a temple, probably that of Apollo; for Strabo says that this structure stood in the south part of the island.’ In this he is mistaken, the temple of Apollo mentioned by Strabo has been definitely located at Phaná.… ‘This castle is called Emporium.’

^{page 47 note 1} οἱ δἐ τέσσαρες κεχρυσωμένοι ἴπποι, οἱ ὒπερθεν τῶν καγκέλλων ὁρώμενοι, ἐκ τῆς Χίου ῆξασιν ἐπὶ Θεοδοσίου τοῦ μικροῦ. Codinus, loc. cit.

^{page 48 note 1} Corrections in Mediterranean Pilot, p. 277, line 2 read: ‘The population of the island in 1927 was 75,680.’ Line 8 for ‘khaki’ read ‘rhaki.’ Line 16 for ‘Kalamuti’ read ‘Kalamotí.’