TERRA-COTTA KOOFINO-TILES. 



71 



Asi:i, it \v;is unnecessuiy to represent that region of the 

 worhl. 



Sources of information. — The precedinji notes have l)eeiulenvod from 

 personal observation in most of tlie countries mentioned, except in 

 India, and Persia and those countries immediately bordering on the 

 Mediterranean. For these countries, particularly Italy and Greece, I 

 have depended upon photographs. Many of tliese examined were of 

 large size, and presented the most reliable details; even wlien of small 



size, the type of tile could be easily made out with the aid of a lens. 

 Repi'oductions from sketches illustrating architectural tours, etc., 

 could not be depended upon, as the roofs in these drawings were 

 usually represented by rough, shaded surfaces or formal lines. The 

 art-galleries in Berlin, Dresden, Loudon and other places were good 

 hunting-grounds to fix the date of the use and distribution of the roof- 

 ing tiles (as, for example, a picture by Botticelli in the Dresden Gal- 

 lery, of the thirteenth century, showing the flat, normal tile of lionie; 



