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I. The Season's Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

D. G. Hogarth
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The initial stages of the excavation of the prehistoric city near the hamlet of Phylákopi in north-west Melos have been reported in previous issues of the Annual (II. and III.). The development of this exploration in its second season (1897) made it imperative that its continuation should be the principal, indeed the sole, objective of the next campaign of the School; and to that end accordingly our funds and energies were exclusively directed in the spring of 1898.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 4 , November 1898 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1898

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References

page 2 note 1 de Morgan, v. J., Mission au Caucase, i. p. 31.Google Scholar The Levantine obsidian is there wrongly ascribed to Crete.

page 5 note 1 For instance the result of their day was not nearly equal to that attained by an R. E. working party, that was once placed at my disposal in Alexandria. Nor were they equal to Mr. Petrie's picked fellahîm from the Fayûm.

page 5 note 2 Our own observation on this point was fully confirmed by Dr. Dörpfeld when he visited the site.

page 6 note 1 This confusion was not due to any carelessness or omission on the part of those responsible in 1896. The breaking away of the cliff up to within a very few feet of the Strong Wall on the north, as Mr. Mackenzie points out, had caused the accumulation of earth over and beside that structure to slide so steeply in the course of ages that at the cliff edge the latest potsherds occurred actually on the rock itself. A record, therefore, based on levels taken uniformly over the site would prove illusory for the region on which most of the work of 1897 was done. Furthermore, account must be taken of the fact that in laying the foundations of, and building so immense a structure as, the Strong Wall, unusual disturbance of the natural stratification of earlier remains must have taken place.

page 10 note 1 Cp. Mr. Mackenzie's paper infra, pp. 17 sqq.

page 12 note 1 Cf. table annexed, which gives all the distinct forms but is not a catalogue raisonné

page 15 note 1 Cp. pp. 26, 27, infra for fuller description.