662 Gesammtsitziing 



We can hardly suppose it to have been siibseqiient to the 

 Persian war wlien the lemple of Apollo at Branchidae was biirnt 

 by Xerxes or according to other authorities by Darius. KjuX^j.ct 

 is evidentlv and here in its original sense somelhing offered in 

 adornment or honour of a delty. 



M. Birch has pointed out to me a passage C. I. III. 

 p. 1018 n. 6731. which throws light on this use of the word. 



(4) On the rail of the chair of another seated figure in 

 the sacred way 



E../HMOS:MEEnOIEN 



The termination sTtotsu Is new to me. 



(5) On the back of the chair of another seated figure 



NIKH 

 rAAYKOY 



N(«>j T?.c(vnov 



This inscription from the form of the letters and the use 

 of the dipthong ov instead of o appears to be of a later period 

 than the statue on which it is placed. 



On the back of the chair of another figure are several 

 llnes of singuIar writing in which the word in'y.r, occurs but I 

 have not been able to decypher them. I should consider them 

 to be later additions. 



I remain etc. 



Hr. du Bois-Reymond legte eine Mittbeilung von Hrn. 

 Prof. Kirchhoff über die Fraunhofer'schen Linien, 

 d. d. Heidelberg, 20. October 1859, vor. 



Bei Gelegenheit einer noch nicht veröffentlichten, von 

 Bunsen und mir in Gemeinschaft ausgeführten Untersuchung 

 über die Spektren farbiger Flammen, durch welche es uns mög- 



') vielmehr 'Ej^eJpof ps InoUi 



