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188 S. W. GROSE.as provedthis artistic intercourse between the southItalian towns, some of them did not cross to Sicily ?That, conversely, the great Sicilian artists of the signedtetradrachms at Syracuse did not work for a rich townlike Tarentum ? At Terina, indeed, Sir Arthur Evanshas discovered the first four letters of the name of theartist Euainetos written in very tiny characters onthe nymph's ampyx. He claims this discovery as aproof that the letters and F are correctly regardedas artists' signatures, and takes the opportunityof confirming his theory as set forth in the earlierwork on Tarentum (see Num. Chron., 1912, p. 42,and for Tarentum, p. 40). Bat the lesson to be learntfrom EYAI on the coin of Terina israther that thebest artists signed in almost imperceptible characters,and although this may often be true of 4> and P atTerina and Thurium, it is rarely so in the greatmajority of Sir A. Evans's examples. 15 In any case,the absence of the great Sicilian names, apart fromisolated instances, on the coins of South Italy, seems tome very remarkable if all these letters and abbreviationsrepresent the signatures of artists. And althoughthey have not all been claimed as such, how can weaccept A, , K, KAA, API, 4>l, &c. as artists, whileignoring the claims of A0A, AHP, Nl, and manyothers ? No explanation can be regarded as satisfactoryunless it covers the whole ground.It may be presumed that when the chronological diesequenceshave been worked out for the south Italiantowns, especially for Metapontum and Velia, a betterjudgement on this question will be possible, but it is15Compare, however, Evans, op. cit., p. 78, IV. Type G, p. 79,K, and p. 80, L for KAA and 4>| in minute letters at Tarentum.