ABSTRACT
Di~~, the reputed site of the Soma, and in the eastern cemeteries. Mr. Hogarth's conclusions are, he says, definite, though negative. The results of his work show that an uninteresting deposit, from 15 to 20 feet thick, of the Arab period, lies over all the central part of the Roman town j that the remains of the Roman town are in bad condition, and that their appearance indicates that they have becn ruined systematically j that immediately below, and even above the Roman level, water is tapped, and that the stratum earlier than the Roman must be submerged, the soil having subsided. Such definite facts do away, once and for all, with any hope of the discovelY of papyri.
