By the kindness of the Rev. H. J. Bidder, we are enabled to publish the following inscription, obtained by him from Βοιαὶ, the modern Neápolis, in Laconia. On a slab of white marble: size 11 in. x 7½ in. x ½ in., height of letters ⅜ in. The slab is broken away at the top and right side; more lines may be lost above; it is also broken across.

The forms of the letters are somewhat inconsistent: thus we find l. 6, l. 11, Ρ twice, l. 15, beside the more characteristic forms. In l. 14, the fifth letter was first inscribed as Ν, by a mere inadvertence, and then corrected.

Before the inscription was cut, faintly scratched lines were ruled to keep the letters in even rows.

The date, from the forms of the letters, seems the second or third century of our era.