Mr. K. Nikolaou, a native of the κωμόπολις of Rizokárpaso in the north-eastern extremity of Cyprus and student of archaeology in the University of London, in a letter dated April 12th, 1956, reports the discovery of an interesting inscription. ‘The stone’, he writes, ‘was brought to my notice just before this last Christmas. I visited the place, about 200 m. south-west of the Church of Ag. Phílon, and having dug all round, I noticed the inscription on top. . . .’ This church, some two miles north of Rizokárpaso, marks the centre of the site of the ancient Karpasia. Of the inscription we offer together the following account, Mr. Nikolaou contributing photographs, squeeze, hand-copy and description of the stone.

In the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, there is a red-figured bell krater of Boeotian fabric (pl. iva, b). The front of the vase shows Thetis riding on a sea-horse with the shield of Achilles on her arm; on the back there is a large female head and a tendril; beneath each handle is an ivy leaf. A border of leaves in BF decorates the rim, and there are tongues round the base of the handles except at the back of one of them, where the leaf that terminates the tendril comes so close to the handle that there is hardly room for them.

I had put together some conclusions I had drawn from a study of Greek ship representations on the attribution of several Attic black-figure vases, but the publication of Sir John Beazley's Attic Black-figure Vase-painters (A.B.V.) has both forestalled and corrected me. I append some comments that might still be of interest.