Excerpt from Greek Inscriptions
The Catalogue of Greek and Roman Inscriptions was mainly prepared in the winter of 1899. Various circumstances prevented its being printed for some time after that date: and in the meantime so many additions and alterations had become necessary, that it seemed most (Convenient to forsake the original plan of giving the inscriptions in the order of the numbers assigned to them, and to re-arrange the Catalogue under classified headings. So far as regards the numbers, it is hoped that the Table prefixed to the Catalogue will make it easy to find any inscription.
A further complication has been introduced by the decision that certain bilingual inscriptions, which were originally excluded from the scope of this Catalogue, should be inserted so far as regards their Greek or Latin texts: and that the inscriptions on a number of stelae, which have been specially described in the Catalogue of Greek Sculpture, should for the sake of completeness be noticed. These inscriptions have been placed under the numbers assigned to them in the volumes for which they were first catalogued. Certain stelae, however, which were included in this Catalogue before that of Greek Sculpture was planned, have been retained under their original numbers; the illustrations of these stelae are also in this volume, and fuller descriptions of the scenes represented upon them have been left in the text.
A few monuments, which were catalogued in 1899, were transferred to the Alexandria Museum during the removal of the collections from Gizeh to Cairo. A list of these is given in an Appendix, as certain references have been made to them in published articles under the numbers assigned in 1899.
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