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building itself. This, however, almost certainly had a gable roof, with the row of 

 pillars supporting the roof-tree. It is noticeable that the temple at Thermos in 

 yEtolia, which replace a similar mud-brick building, had a row of pillars down 

 the middle. 



In this primitive building we may see the earliest Dorian style, and the 

 conclusions drawn from its remains point to a building essentially identical with 

 that which Doerpfeld has already reconstructed from the indications afforded by 

 extant monuments of the developed Doric style. 



Much progress has also been made in the excavation and study of the votive 

 offerings. The suggestion that the so-called Cyrenaic pottery is really Laconian 

 has been very fully confirmed by the discovery of Cyrenaic vases, and still more 

 by the series of pottery leading up to and degenerating from the fine Cyrenaic 

 style. 



Of the terra-cotta masks •which were such a feature of the excavation of 

 1906 many more have been found, and they have been proved to belong almost 

 entirely to the late sixth and early fifth century, the period immediately following 

 the building of the later temple. No ivory dates from this time, when its place 

 was taken by bone. All the rich series of carved ivories, this year much 

 increased, belong to the period when the primitive building was still standing. 



6. Beport on Archceological and Ethnological Investigations in Sardinia. 



See Reports, p. 350. 



7. The Sculptiired Stones of Norioay and their relation to some British 

 Monuments. By Dr. Haakon Schetelig. 



The sculptured stones of the Viking Age in Norway are not very numerous 

 but are of great interest, as showing several different types. The standing stone 

 of Kirkoide, in Nordfjord, is covered with symbols : the comb, the serpent, the 

 group of four concentric circles, the crescent, and the radiated sun-disc, which are 

 all found also in the early Christian monuments of Scotland. It is a proof of 

 direct communication between Scotland and Western Norway about a.d. 700. 

 Another stone in the same district bears a ship-figure only, and probably shows 

 an influence from Gotland during the same period — viz., about a.d. 700. Such 

 connections between Gotland, Western Norway, and Scotland have been suggested 

 already by the late Professor Sophus Bugge, from some peculiarities in the form 

 of the runes. Mr. .lacobsen has come to the same conclusion from Norwegian 

 names of places in Shetland. Thus we see that direct communications between 

 Britain and some parts of Scandinavia were opened at a time not a little earlier 

 than the A'iking expeditious recorded in history. A stone from Tu, in Jaederen, 

 bears a runic inscription and simply carved representations of a man and a woman. 

 By comparing them with a certain type of small gold leaves, impressed with 

 figures, it is made out that they represent a mythical scene, probably personifica- 

 tions of the sun and the earth (Frey and Gerd). This monument must be 

 assigned fo the first part of the Viking Age, and, as its runes show the same 

 peculiar character as the runes of the Norwegian crosses in the Isle of Man, its 

 figures may also have been influenced by the sculptures of that island. 



The sculptured stones of the early Christian time are chiefly found in the 

 eastern parts of Norway ; they are of a more ornamental character. Specially 

 are mentioned the representations of Sigurd Favnesbane, a hunting scene, and the 

 Three Kings.' 



8. The Four PrinciiJal Aqueducts of the City of Rome in Classical 2Hmes. 



By T. AsiibV, M.A., D.LitL 



Among the aqueducts which supplied the city of Rome the four which came 

 from the upper valley of the Anio were the most important — the Anio Vetus, 

 the Aqua Marcla, the Aqua Claudia, and the Anio Novus. Of these the first 



