^{page 464 note 1} I have followed the dates there given for the sake of convenience. It is however scarcely necessary to state that of the various systems of Egyptian chronology, not one can be accepted for dates much before the 8th century, except as a collection of rare and isolated facts strung together on a string of conjecture.

^{page 465 note 1} Quoted by Winter in Arch. Anz. 1891, p. 39.

^{page 466 note 1} See the account of the excavations on the site of the temple of Athene Cranaia (Bull, de Corr. Hell. 1888, p. 44). Among the fragments of pottery from Kahun (assigned by Mr. Petrie to the twelfth dynasty, 2500 B.C.) are some which compare best with Naukratis vases of sixth century B.C. (see Petrie in J.H.S. xi. pl. 14 ; and A. S. Murray, Handbook p. 30).

^{page 467 note 1} Strom, i. 21, p. 145.

^{page 475 note 1} B. M. Cat. No. 342, 2. Vignette to Mus. Marbles Pt. vii.