The Gryphon’s Skull:
H. N. Turteltaub H. N.Turteltaub is a pen name of Harry Turtledove This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. Copyright 2002 by H. N.Turteltaub Map by Mark Stein Studios The ‘Hellenic Traders’ Series: Over the Wine Dark Sea The Gryphon’s Skull The Sacred Land Owls to Athens The Gryphon’s Skull is dedicated to Jack Horner, whose Dinosaur Lives gave me the idea for it. I owe him special thanks for the pleasure of his conversation, and for his patience with my questions about Protoceratops skulls. Any errors, of course, are purely my own. A Note on Weights, Measures, and Money I have, as best I could, used in this novel the weights, measures, and coinages my characters would have used and encountered in their journey. Here are some approximate equivalents (precise values would have varied from city to city, further complicating things):