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I have added indices (1) of the Lydian words occurring in these texts, (2) of the word-endings, (3) of Lydian glosses, (4) of words possibly Lydian this list sug gested by Professor sayce and (5) of non-greek proper names found in Lydia.
In the transcriptions I have changed the values of the Lydian letters i T.
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