The main object of the expedition to Umm-el-Jemal, which was financed by the Walker Trust and sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, in the summer of 1956, was to re-examine the evidence for the history of a church building which had been discovered and summarily surveyed by Professor H. C. Butler and the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Syria in the years 1904–1905. This was the church which the Princeton expedition named after a certain Julianos and dated to the year A.D. 344 on the basis of an inscription which they found lying in the ruins and which they associated (mistakenly, as it now seems) with the foundation of the church.Of the hundreds of church buildings which must have been constructed during the first half of the fourth century, very few are known to us, and a church with a recognisable plan and so early a date is a matter of considerable consequence in the study of the development of church architecture. It therefore seemed well worth while to make a special visit to the site of Julianos' church to verify the facts published by the Princeton Expedition; especially as their survey was a rather summary one and seemed, when the writer visited the site in 1953, to be mistaken in more than one important respect.

Since the publication of The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania a number of additinal inscribed stones have come to light in the province. Many of these have been, or are about to be, published in reports on the surveys or excavations during which they were found. Those that cannot be quickly or conveniently treated in this way are assembled in the first section of this note. Twenty-four of the texts in this section are quite new; the remainder are known texts that have been supplemented by the discovery of new fragments, or modified after re-reading. With them are given a small number of additional comments on published texts. In this section are included a certain number of texts or fragments that were found during the original excavation of the Forum Severianum by Professor Caputo, and rediscovered after the publication of IRT when the Forum was cleared of the debris left by the flood of 1946. These, together with all the known inscriptions of the Forum Severianum, will be the subject of a definitive publication by Professor Attilio Degrassi in an Anglo-Italian publication of the Severan buildings at Lepcis.

The eight inscriptions transcribed and discussed below concern, in the first instance, the early history of Cyrenaica as a Roman province; but since most of them certainly and all of them perhaps involve Pompey and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, one of his legates in 67 B.C., they have a much wider significance in illustrating Pompey's policy and position in that year.1 and 2. Two rectangular marble bases, each inscribed on one face with identical texts. Found at Cyrene, one in 1860, within the Temple of Apollo (now in the British Museum), the other in 1927, in front of the same Temple (left in situ).

Acombined terrestrial and marine seismic investigation has been undertaken of the Inner Mersey Estuary, Halton District, UK, prior to construction of a major new river crossing. Much of the site lies on inter-tidal sand and mud bars accessible only for restricted periods and is unsuited to prolonged physical investigations using heavy plant. The investigation included high-resolution seismic refraction and reflection surveying on the salt marsh and inter-tidal regions, plus sub-bottom profiler investigation of the main river channel. Strategically located boreholes followed the geophysical work. Results show that the current configuration of the Inner Mersey Estuary is largely unrelated to the underlying bedrock geometry. In the area surveyed, the River Mersey is located on the southern flank of a buried elongate depression in the bedrock surface whose approximate position has been investigated previously between Ditton Marsh and Warrington through the interpretation of borehole records. The results also demonstrate a clear increase in compressional ( P ) wave seismic velocity of the Triassic sandstone with age, allowing the possible detection of an important fault. This paper highlights the potential for saving project capital through a properly designed geophysical site investigation prior to the commencement of major civil engineering projects.

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