ARUNDELIAN MARBLES, a series of sculptured marbles discovered by William Petty, who explored the ruins of Greece for Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in the reign of the first Stuart kings, James I and Charles I, and devoted a large portion of his fortune to the collection of monuments illustrative of the arts and of the history of Greece and Rome. These marbles arrived in England in the year 1627 with many statues, busts, sarco phagi, etc. John Selden published some of the inscriptions which he thought most interesting, under the title of 'Marmora Arundeliana' (1628). Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk, grandson of the collector, presented them in 1667 to the University of Oxford, where they still remain. The whole collection of inscrip tions was published by Humphrey Prideaux in 1676; by Michael Mantaire in 1732; by Chan dler in 1763. These inscriptions are records of treaties, public contracts, thanks of the state to patriotic individuals, etc., and many of
a private nature. The most curious and in teresting is one usually known by the name of the Parian Chronicle, from having been kept in the Island of Paros. It is a chronolog ical account of the principal events in Grecian, and particularly in Athenian history, during a period of 1318 years, from the reign of Cecrops (1450 a.c.) to the archbishop of Diognetus (264 B.c.). The authenticity of this chronicle has been called in question, but has been vindi cated by many of the most learned men. The best edition is that of Boeckh, with a full Latin commentary in 'Corpus Inscriptionum Grxca rum' (Berlin 1828-77); the new fragment is published in 'Mitteilungen des kaiserlich deutschen archaologischen Instituts, Athen esche Abteilung (Vol. XXIV, Berlin 1897). Consult Sandys 'A History of Classical Schol arship' (Vol. II, pp. 342-343, Cambridge 1908).