THE first of these papers is reprinted, by permission, from the Hellenic Journal (Vol. xiv. Pt. LI. 1895) with some slight additions and corrections. The account of the Hagios Onuphrios deposit and its bearings on the prehistoric culture of the Aegean world is now issued for the first time. Already in 1893, on the occasion of my paper on 'A Mycenaean Treasure from Aegina' I ventured to announce to the Hellenic Society that I had found what I believed to be a clue to the existence of a system of picture-writing in the Greek lands. The result of my explorations in Crete during the spring of 1894 was not only to confirm this discovery as regards the 'pictographic' system but to add distinct evidence of the existence in the island at a very early period of a linear system of writing standing in a certain relation to the pictorial. A summary report of the results of my researches in Crete in the spring of 1894 was sent by me to the Athenaeum from Candia on April 25 of last year, and appeared in that Journal on June 23. The Times of Aug. 29 published a further account of my Cretan discoveries, written by me at the request of the Editor, and I also read a paper on the subject in the Anthropological Section of the British Association, of which reports appeared in the Academy and other papers. On that occasion I called attention for the first time to certain archaeological evidence connecting the Philistines with Mycenaean Crete. In the second paper of this book and the supplement are incorporated some further materials obtained by me during another Cretan journey undertaken this spring.