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28 PROCEEDINGS OF THEby his gift of thirty-three specimens of Ko\\v(3oi. On theother hand, the British School of Archaeology in Egypt haspresented, through Professor Flinders Petrie, a little hoardof thirty- nine Athenian " owls " found in the Ptah temenosat Memphis. They are interesting both from their remarkablygood style and from the fact that many of them showpunch-marks, recalling those on Persian sigloi.A small bronze coin of Aegeae in Lykaonia shows a newtype of portrait head on which Mr. Hill detects the characteristiclong chin of Alexander Balas which Imhoof-Blumerhas failed to recognize in this A series.drachm of Cappadocianfabric gives the name and portrait of a hitherto unknownking, Attalos Epiphanes. A small bronze coin ofDemetrios I belongs to a curious little group showing headsof animals " which suggest that Demetrios took an interestin natural history". Those on this piece are described byMr. Lydekker as "a mastiff-like hound and an animalwith long pointed ears resembling a karakal ". Lions,boars,and stags also occur on this series.A Parthian tetradrachm is the second known with thename and portrait of Orodes III (A. D. 5-6). Among therecent acquisitions of Abyssinian coins there are also severalcurious specimens, some with Greek inscriptions.A tetradrachm of Syracuse, formerly in the HeadlamCollection, presents an olive branch beneath the chariot.Dr. Headlam has compared this with a similar symbol beneatha chariot on a tetradrachm of Gela,1where olivewreaths are of frequent occurrence, and would trace in ita reference to the Congress of Gela of 424 B. c., described byThucydides. The association would be interesting if established,but the difference in style between the walkingquadriga on this piece and that of the "medallions", struckex hypofhesi in 413, is such that it is hard to conceive of such1Num. Chron., 1908, pp. 1-9.