In the last number of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (vol. xxxiv. p. 122) Mr. Guy Dickins begins his article on the Holkham Head and the Parthenon Pediment by saying that, before accepting my own arguments as contained in my article (J.H.S. vol. xxxiii, p. 276), ‘we have the right to demand from him [myself] some evidence on the following points:—

(1) That there is reason to connect the head with Athens and the Acropolis,

(2) That the material is identical with the other pediment marbles,

(3) That the style is Pheidian, or at any rate fifth-century Attic, and

(4) That it is an architectural and not an independent piece of sculpture.'

I will not needlessly occupy space by repeating what I have already written fully in my article, and I will merely take Mr. Dickins's four objections seriatim and deal with them as concisely as possible; but I must ask my readers, after they have read Mr. Dickins's exposition of his views, again to read my article carefully in order to appreciate the relative value of the evidence furnished.

The following summary of the more important books and articles in the field of Greek Epigraphy which have been published during the year ending with the close of June 1914 continues the series of similar reviews which have appeared in the last eight issues of the Year's Work in Classical Studies, in which it has proved impossible, owing to pressure of material, any longer to devote a chapter annually to Greek Inscriptions. My sincere thanks are due to the Editor of this Journal for offering the shelter of these pages to a waif which otherwise must have come to a speedy, but I venture to hope not altogether unregretted, end.

General.—The past year has witnessed the publication of a number of works which will prove invaluable to the Greek epigraphist and historian. Of the three new volumes of the Inscriptiones Graecae something will be said below. To the Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, now nearing its completion, has been added a further section, edited by O. Hoffmann and P. Gärtchen, which contains the more important Ionic inscriptions published since 1905, addenda and corrigenda to those which appeared in G.D.I, iii. 2, 5, together with a grammar and index to the whole group.