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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt:... COLUMBIA COLLEGE, Department Of Greek, May gtfi, 1883. President F. A. P. Barnard: Dear Sir,--Your attention having been called some time in January last to certain discrepancies existing between the inscriptions on the bronze crab found under our obelisk at Alexandria and the versions published here,1 Professor Drisler requested me to investigate the matter, which I accordingly did, and now have the honor to submit the following report. As a preliminary, it became necessary to consult Commander Gorringe's "Egyptian Obelisks," where I found the inscriptions given in this form: L. H KAISAPOS ANN0 VI11 BAPBAP02 ANE9HKE AJGVSTI CAESARIS BARBARVS PRAEF APXITEKTON OYNTOS AEGYpTJ IIONTIOY ARCHITECTANTE PONTIO On the 27th of January I visited the Museum, and spent some time in making a transcript from the bronze of all that could be easily deciphered. The condition then presented by the inscriptions as far as I observed will be seen in the accompanying fac-similes (a) (a), with the three exceptions which will be noted below. The portion of the claw of the crab now remaining, upon which the inscriptions are engraved, is eight and three quarters inches in 'So far as I know, these inscriptions were first published here by G. L. Feuardent, from a paper read before the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society of New York, on the 15th of January, 1881, and printed during the same year. This paper is embodied in the main in Commander Gorringe's " Obelisks," the form of the inscriptions being the same in both. At the commencement of this investigation I was not aware that they had ever been published abroad. Vague rumors to the effect that they had appeared in some foreign journal I was unable to verify until my own inquiries were completed. See pp. 34. length, a...