only have been a casual cursive: e.g., Naples, Coll. Santangelo, 271; Berlin, 1756; Munich, 17, 19; Boston, 364. Other cases of the same and of later date, where the other letters of the inscriptions are prevailingly, though not universally, written in the Attic alphabet, are Berlin, 1732, 1758; Coll. Spagna, in Kretschmer, p. 138; Naples, Rac. Cumana, 207; Berlin, 2531; Dresden, in Arch. Anz. 1892, p. 166; Berlin, 2529; Palermo, in Klein, l.c., p. 71; etc., etc. In this paper I have endeavored to show (1) that < C form the close of a continuous series of developments of Attic >; (2) that the form was used in inscriptions of a date earlier than that at which the Attic alphabet passed out of use, and as there used in connection with Attic letters may well have been an Attic letter (though not necessarily so); (3) that it could not have been Ionic in origin, since at this time the symbol had another significance in several alphabets closely related to the Ionic; and (4) that it could not have been the Ionic cursive form of <, since this letter had at this time established itself in another and quite different cursive form. The conclusion is therefore forced upon us that sigma lunatum is derived from the three-bar Attic sigma. And in the text-criticism of the earliest autographic copies of the great writers of the classical age, as well as in the transcripts of much later date, we shall hereafter have to deal with the crescent form of sigma. APPENDIX. I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION, PROVIDENCE, R. I., 1896. II. TREASURER'S REPORT (p. iv.). III. IV. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD (p. lxvii.). LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS (p. lxxix.). V. CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION (p. xciv.). VI. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION (p. xcvi.). MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION (PROVIDENCE). Frederic D. Allen, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. George Gillespie Allen, Malden, Mass. Francis G. Allinson, Brown University, Providence, R. I. George K. Bartholomew, English and Classical School, Cincinnati, O. William N. Bates, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. A. L. Bondurant, University of Mississippi, University, Miss. Demarchus C. Brown, Butler College, Irvington, Ind. Mitchell Carroll, Richmond College, Richmond, Va. W. A. Eckels, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. L. H. Elwell, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Arthur Fairbanks, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. H. Rushton Fairclough, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal. Susan B. Franklin, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Julius Goebel, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal. Albert Harkness, Brown University, Providence, R. I. Albert Granger Harkness, Brown University, Providence, R. I. John H. Hewitt, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Henry T. Hildreth, Roanoke College, Salem, Va. William A. Houghton, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. Albert A. Howard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Charles Knapp, Barnard College, New York, N. Y. |