In my publication of this material in JHS LX 2-21, I stated that no East Greek pottery had been found of a date later than about 600 B.C. (certain fragments of ’Rhodian’ B from levels 5-7), and that this left a gap in the Greek contacts of the site, since the next appearance was the Attic of level 4, the earliest piece of which is dated by Professor Beazley (JHS LIX 1) to about 525 B.C. Sir Leonard Woolley, discussing this gap in JHS LVIII 20 ff., concluded that it was accidental and did not imply that relations had actually ceased during that time. Mr. Sidney Smith, in a most interesting article in the Antiquaries' Journal, XXII, 87 ff., contended that the absence of finds was no accident but represented a real break. While working recently over some of the unpublished fragments, I found one which does something to support Sir Leonard Woolley's view.

Fig. 1 is from a tracing of the interior picture of a r.f. cup, whose whereabouts are not now known. The tracing is preserved in the library of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, and according to a note on it was sent to the Department by a Mr. Goden Smith on 16th February, 1882, the cup being then in the possession of Mr. (afterwards Sir) J. C. Robinson, who had obtained it in Italy.

Mrs. Ure has published two articles on Attic cups which combine incised and stamped decoration with r.f. painting. The first in JHS LXI deals with stemless kylikes of the second half of the fifth century, the second in LXIV describes a group of later cup-kotylai, running from a little before the turn of the century, to the apparent expiration of this particular style about 370 B.C.

When the article on the Minoan Signary (pp. 1-4) was already in paged proof, I received from Professor Bedrich Hrozny of Prague an offprint of his Table of the same Signary in Archiv. Orientalni 16 (1948), 3-4, 162-184. ‘Listes des signes cretois et de leurs valeurs d'après notre déchiffrement’. For comparison with the Cretan signs he figures many Hittite, Indian (Mohenjidaro) Egyptian, Cuneiform, Sinaitic, Phoenician, Sabaean, Greek, and Cypriote signs, and offers phonetic equivalents for all the Minoan signs.

It is as yet too soon to state what corrections or additions should be made to the various figures I gave in my Population of Athens as a result of new evidence since that book was published (1933), although some individual discoveries have been made and Sterling Dow has published his invaluable Prytaneis (Hesperia, Suppl. I, 1937); for the excavations in the Athenian agora are not finished–though it looks as though the hopes I expressed for the discovery of a large number of inscriptions that would throw new light on the problem will be disappointed. But two objections have been made to my treatment of the number of slaves in Athens, by Mr. Hammond in Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc, 1935, p. 1, and by Prof. George Thomson in his edition of The Oresteia, I 70, n. 1 and II 357-9, both of whom maintain that Ktesikles' figure of 400,000 must be accepted; and though the question has again been discussed, convincingly enough to my mind, by Prof. Westerraann in Athenian Studies (Harv. Stud, Suppl. Vol. I, 1940, 451-70), it is worth dealing with certain aspects afresh, especially in answer to Thomson, for some important principles are involved. Not that anything I can say will convince him; for he hopes that ‘the whole subject will be re-examined by someone who is prepared to take the ancient evidence seriously and is free from the suspicion of seeking to minimise the extent of an evil which casts a sinister shadow over the glory that was Greece.’ But I will do my best.