Abstract
In the Leake collection of gems now in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, there is a very curious silver ring brought from Thessaly by Colonel Leake (he has himself engraved Thessaly on the inside) with raised gold letters soldered on the field. The second letter is destroyed in the lower part, and thus the inscription has been read as ΑΣΤϒΛΑΣ. Upon close examination, however, and as will be seen from the accompanying facsimile, we find that in no case could the second letter have been a Σ, of which there is a specimen in the last letter, and that it undoubtedly was a Τ, for there is just a remnant of the gold of the perpendicular stroke under the middle of the horizontal bar.
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