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tion reads "No stranger is to enter within the balustrade round the Temple and the inclosure.  Whoever is caught will be responsible to himself for his death."   In the account of Herod's Temple by Josephus (Antiq. XV. II, 5.)  an inscription is mentioned which forbade "any foreigner to enter the enclosure on pain of death".  And in the second description [[strikethrough]](War[[/strikethrough]] (Wars V. 5, 2.) he states that the warnings were written "some in Greek and some in Roman letters".   Through this discovery light is also thrown on the episode in  Acts 21, 28-31 where Paul was accused of bringing Trophimus an Ephesian within the balustrade; and "all the City was moved and the people ran together, and they laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the Temple "and they were seeking to kill him".   According to Clermont-Granneau this is the most ancient as well as the most interesting Greek inscription which archaeological investigation in Jerusalem has produced.

Mr. Theodore Graf of Vienna presented to the Museum a set of photographs and a selection of heliogravures of his collection of Graeco-Egyptian portraits.   The originals were discovered near Fayum at a place called Rubaiyet, in July 1887.

In producing these portraits the brush was not used, the encaustic or distemper processes being resorted to.   The ar-