Wood, John T.: Discoveries at Ephesus: including the site and remains of the Great Temple of Diana (London, 1877)

INTR OD UCTION.

inscriptions: considering that brackets displace the letters
of the text, disjoint the words, and create confusion. Every
letter which does not actually exist on the stones has been
carefully underlined: by this means there is no displace-
ment, and the inscriptions can be more easily read than they
could have been if intercepted by brackets.

I have to thank Mr. Newton, keeper of the Greek and
Roman antiquities in the British Museum, for allowing me,
and several of the scholars who have assisted me, free access
to the room in the basement where the inscriptions are now
placed, and also for his occasional assistance in reading the
text. I append a list of the names of those scholars who have
so kindly and materially aided me with the text and trans-
lations, some of whom, in addition to wholly deciphering and
translating certain inscriptions, have given me valuable advice
and assistance in respect to others.

I am also greatly indebted to the eminent epigraphist and
archaeologist Monsieur Waddington, now French Minister of
Public Instruction, for many valuable suggestions in respect
to the inscriptions; and I take this opportunity of making my
most grateful acknowledgments to all who have assisted me.

J. T. WOOD.
London : October 1876.