In a careful re-reading of Pausanias and Herodotus, I have found a considerable number of passages proving that the Agora often served as a burial-place for persons of very great distinction. For example, the tomb of Orestes was in the Agora of Sparta, near the temple of the Fates; and near this, in the same Agora, were the tombs of Epimenides of Crete and Aphareus, son of Perieres. The tomb of Talthybios, Agamemnon's herald, was pointed out to Pausanias in the Agora of Ægium, in Achaia; and that of Oxylos in the Agora of Elis. In the Agora of Phigalia was the vast common burial-place (πολυάνδριον) of the chosen Oresthasians, to whom funeral sacrifices were offered. The tomb of Podares was in the Agora of Mantinæa. In that of Tegea Pausanias was shown the graves of Lycaon and his wife Mæra, and in that of Elæa, the tomb of Thersandros. It is very interesting to notice that the same honor was conferred upon Herodotus, for he was buried in the Agora of Thyrium (Θουρία), where his tomb was preserved for ages. The Agora of Sikyon contained the heroön of Adrastus; and that of Thebes the Mausoleum of Euphron. * * * * * APPENDIX B. (See pages 133 and 134.) My lamented friend Dr. Moss, of Arctic celebrity, when serving as staff-surgeon on board H. M. S. _Research_, which for some months in the fall of 1878 lay in the Gulf of Besika, visited me daily in my excavations at Troy. He afterward served as staff-surgeon on board the _Atalanta_, and with that unfortunate vessel came to an untimely end. Under date of November 5, 1879, he wrote to me from the _Atalanta_, "My dear Friend: I cannot leave England without asking you--with reference to the most curious object attached to the spears of the warriors depicted on the vase No. 213, p. 133, in your _Mycenæ_--whether the ancient warriors carried their _water-flasks_ slung on their spears, for the strange object can mean nothing else, I think. If so, we can understand why David took Saul's spear and _water-bottle_ (I. Samuel, xxvi. 11 and 16). I fear I may be suggesting what is perfectly well known." * * * * * APPENDIX C. (See page 243.) Mycenæ must have had commercial relations with Egypt, especially as, according to Pausanias (IV. xxxv. 2), Nauplia was an Egyptian colony. [Illustration]