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^{page 191 note 1} For phialai with Aramaic inscriptions, compare those from Tel el-Maskhuta, noticed on p. 193 below; also, of rather later date, those from Prokhorovka, near Orenburg, described in the Recdlexicon der Vorgeschichte, s.v. Prochorovka; and by Kokovtsov, P. K.apud Kostovtsev, M. I., Materialy po Arkheologii Rossii XXXVII, 1918, p. 82Google Scholar(though from the available photographs they might equally well be Parthian).

^{page 191 note 2} An analogous form, Tiravharna, is found in a Kharosthi inscription, Konow, S., ‘Kabul Museum stone inscription of the year 83’, Ada Orientalia, XVI, 1938, £234–40Google Scholar.

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^{page 196 note 3} Although the evidence connecting these bowls with the site of Canosa appears to be that of the vendor, and somewhat lacking in documentation, it would be plausible to associate the bowls with the chronological horizon noticed by van Buren, A. W. in American Journal of Archaeology LXI, 1957, 379Google Scholar, ‘between the beginning and the middle of the third century B.C.’.

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