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PREFACE. 



This catalogue, begun in 1908, was completed by the end of the 

 summer of 1909 and was then delivered to the Museum. The author 

 did not live to superintend its publication. He was assassinated by 

 Arabs at Cyrene, in Northern Africa, on March 11, 191 1, while engaged 

 in the work of the American excavation on that site. 



I have gladly accepted the invitation of the Trustees of the Museum 

 to see the manuscript through the press. The task has been an easy 

 one, for Mr. De Cou was an extraordinarily careful workman. The 

 few slight changes which I have ventured to make in his text affect 

 nothing essential. 



Inasmuch as Mr. De Cou did not have his attention called to the 

 iron implements from Boscoreale in the Museum, I have been requested 

 to catalogue these. For this brief addition I am therefore alone re- 

 sponsible. 



F. B. Tarbell. 



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