^{page 231 note 1} The ruins at Pressos are described by Coronelli in his Isolarlo, quoted by Pashley, (Travels in Crete, i. p. 290Google Scholar) and in the list of Cretan cities extracted by Flaminio Cornelio from a MS. chronicle of Cornelio, Andreas (Creta Sacra i. p. 117Google Scholar, Venice 1755). The latter passage runs: Pressos, cujus ruinae super collem a Sethia procul viii, mille passibus apparent, eamque everterunt Hierapytnii, ut scribit Strabo, qui et refert Eteocretum urbem fuisse, ex qua adducebantur canes celeberrimi. It appears as Prassus in a list of the villages of Sitia in a MS. at Venice, dated 1630 (Basilicata, Francesco, Relatione di tutto il Regno di Candia, Library of S. Mark's, H. vii. 1683)Google Scholar, and in an anonymous MS. Descrittione dell'Isola di Creta of about the same period. For both references I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Gerola of the Italian Mission.

^{page 232 note 1} Sieber, who was here in June, 1817 (Reise nach Kreta i. p. 361), heard of the site, which he calls Preses, but did not visit it. Pashley visited it in August 1834: he discovered and published the Praesos-Itanos boundary-inscription at Toplu monastery (Travels in Crete, i. p. 290). Spratt was here in the fifties, and published his book in 1865 (Travels and Researches in Crete, i. p. 164.)

^{page 232 note 2} Professor Halbherr contributed an article on Praesos to the Antiquary for May, 1902, and a preliminary account of his excavations to the American Journal of Archaeology, ix. (1894) p. 543, and to the Athenœum, 1895, i. p. 812. A brief description by ProfessorMariani, will be found in Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei, vi. pp. 283–5Google Scholar; on p. 287 a useful map of the region to the East.

^{page 233 note 1} American Journal of Archaeology, v. (1901) pp. 371–392.

^{page 233 note 2} The name Δίδυμοι preserved as that of a river or rivers in Crete by the author of a metrical description of Greece (Dionysius Calliphontis in Müller's, Geogr. Gr. Min. ii. p. 242Google Scholar), is appropriate to the two confluents of the Praesos-Sitia river and has been applied to it, but is better avoided. Diodorus (v. 75) mentions two islands called Dionysiades on the Cretan coast ἐπὶ τῶν καλουμένων Διδύμων κόλπων evidently the islands called by sailors Giannitzades and by the country-people Διονυσάδες off the gulf of Sitia.

^{page 240 note 1} To the right of the entrance are two blocks resting on earth containing broken pottery. One is a round drum ·51 m. in diameter, ·17 high, with a circular sinking on its upper face ·32 in diameter and ·04 deep. A similar stone was found near the entrance. Were these basins for libations? One of the geometric tombs at Knossos contained ‘a cylindrical stone, I ft. high and I ft. 4 in. in diameter, with a central hollow 6 in. in diameter,’ explained by MrHogarth, (B.S.A. vi. p. 83)Google Scholar as a funerary altar. The other is a rectangular block (·85 m. ·50 ·27 deep), with a raised margin on three sides of the upper surface, which is sloped away towards the fourth side, forming an inclined trough, ·05 m. deep at the upper or closed end, ·15 deep at the open end.

^{page 243 note 1} Compare a vase from Anopolis published by Wide, Geometrische Vasen aus Griechenland, p. 12, Fig. 17.

^{page 254 note 1} In A.J.A. v. (1901), pp. 375–384. It should be noticed that in his plan (Fig. 6—The Summit of the Acropolis C at Praesos) North is turned to the left, East to the top of the page, while in our plan (Fig. 27) North is to the top. His plan includes the full extent of the hill-top from North to South, omitting the western part; ours gives the full extent from East to West, omitting the southern part where we found no depth of earth and no remains. On our map of the site (Pl. VII) the temenos-wall has, by an unaccountable error, been made to face the precipice on the East instead of the slope on the North

^{page 256 note 1} The earliest object found on the hill is a steatite bowl, probably of Mycenaean date. There was no Mycenaean pottery, however, and the bowl may have been brought there at any time. Last year I found a similar steatite vessel, which had been discovered in an early grave, in use as a lamp in a church near Palaikastro.

^{page 257 note 1} A.J.A. l. c. p. 379.

^{page 257 note 2} First discovered by Prof. Halbherr, who saw in it the meeting-place of a sacred assembly, or a place for ritual dancing.

^{page 260 note 1} The ἀνδρεῖον is mentioned in C.I.G. 2554, 1. 51 (Treaty between Olous and Lato), and 2556, 1. 37 (treaty between Hierapetra and Priansus).