By Ramazani, Jahan; Feinsod, Harris; Slessarev, Alexandra; Rouzer, Paul F.; Cavanagh, Clare; Greene, Roland; Cushman, Stephen; Marno, David

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Would be in danger of showing A and B as contemporaneous; there might be suspicion of the true state of the case but there would be no certainty. The slower, then, the rate of deposit the thinner must be the sections. It should be remarked here that the use of the level does not imply a hasty generalisation that what is higher up must needs be later in date than what is below. This may, perhaps, be found true of any particular pit, but it is not to be presupposed even there, and far less over the whole site.

Xiv, pp. 13 and 14. II] PARTICULAR IO, once any change in the soil that they may notice, as they would any thrilling find, but as workmen are not to be trusted to pay attention to such trifles, which being beyond their understanding they treat as mere whims of their employer, the employer's eye should never be far off. It follows then that no excavation should ever be left without some capable man in charge, and work should never be carried on over an area wider than can be supervised properly.

No excavation is properly fitted out without a good supply of squeeze paper, the unsized paper used for taking impressions of inscriptions. This I may use as the text of an exhortation, though it is no part of my purpose to give hints for the study of epigraphy, even if I were capable of doing so, for the decipherment and interpretation of inscriptions is a branch of archaeology by itself, and while I do not mean to condemn the epigraphist to be an epigraphist and nothing else, I do mean that the versatile hero whom I have sketched will hardly have time for the special study that alone can give the best results in epigraphy, though he should, of course, have a general acquaintance with the subject.

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