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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EVERY conscientious effort has been made to give due acknowledgement and full credit for borrowed material, but if through any unwitting oversight some trespass has been committed, by quoting from secondary sources, forgiveness is sought in advance, apology is freely offered, and correction promised in any subsequent editions.
Thanks are gratefully given to the following persons, institutions and publishers, for some of the illustrations used in this volume:
Director of Archæology, H. E. H. the Nizam's Government, HyderabadDeccan.
Director of the British Museum, London.
Director of the Manx Museum, Douglas.
Society of Archæology and Society for Coptic Archæology, Cairo.
Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, Saigon.
Wellcome-Marston Archæological Expedition to the Near East, London. Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Antiquity, Gloucester.
Archiv Orientálni, Prague.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Messrs. Schapiro, Valentine and Co., London.
Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., London.
Casa Editrice Barbèra and Rinascimento del Libro, Florence.
Prof. I. C. Ward, Dr. A. V. Kunst and Mr. A. Master, of the London School of Oriental and African Studies.
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