Page 145: Loom Weight; loom-weights ... various spellings; all
retained.
Numerous other instances of words being sometimes hyphenated and
sometimes un-hyphenated appear in the text. All have been retained.
Page 150: 'to' corrected to 'so'.
"... then turned, and drawn back so as to lift up the pegs...."
Page 152: "the keyhole is in the shape" (of an inverted right-angle,
represented by) |¯.
Page 160: 1-1/2oz. corrected to 1/12oz.
"... 1/12oz. = 2 scruples;"
Page 190: extra 'a' removed.
"These salves were pounded on the stone into a paste."
Page 192: 'Nos.' corrected to 'No.'.
"An example of a rare form is the rolling stamp with the name of
Alexander (No. =584=; fig. 229)."
Page 198:
From Wikipedia (https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma):
Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: (F), lowercase: (F), numeral:
[Greek: st]) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet.
It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it has principally
remained in use as a Greek numeral for 6.
Whereas it was originally called waw or wau, its most common
appellation in classical Greek is digamma; as a numeral, it was
called epis[=e]mon during the Byzantine era and is now known as
stigma after the value of the Byzantine ligature combining
[Greek: s-t] ... In modern Greek, this is often replaced by the
digraph [Greek: st].
([=e] represents e-macron)
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating
Greek and Roman Life, by British Museum
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