[31] Among recent contributions to our knowledge of this North African group may be mentioned G. B. M. Flamand, ‘Les Pierres Écrites (Hadjrat Mektoubat) du Nord d’Afrique et spécialement de la région d’In-Salah’ (Congrès International d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques, Paris, 1900).
[32] S. Berthelot, Bull. de la Soc. Géogr. de Paris, 1875.
[33] They were first mentioned about 1650 by P. Gioffredo, Storia delle Alpi Marittime.
[34] The Maraviglie were first scientifically described by Mr. F. G. S. Moggridge (Trans. of Congress of Preh. Arch. 1868, pp. 309 seqq.). See, too, L. Clugnet, Matériaux, xii. 1877, pp. 379 seqq.; Issel, Bull. di Pal. It., 1901.
[35] C. Bicknell, The Prehistoric Rock Engravings of the Italian Maritime Alps, Bordighera, 1902 and 1903.
[36] I visited the spot in 1893 under the guidance of Padre Amerano of Finalmarina.
[37] See my remarks in the Athenaeum, December 18, 1897.
[38] C. Bicknell, op. cit., pp. 38, 39.
[39] Ilios, Whorl No. 1983.
[40] Professor Sayce, however, Ilios, p. 696, takes note of the possibility that such inscriptions as go-go-ti-re ‘may be intended for ornament’.