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Archaeology in Greece (1907–1908)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

R. M. Dawkins
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If the famous sites on the mainland of Greece have been largely exhausted—and the only great classical cities now being excavated are Sparta and Corinth—the outlying parts of the Greek world continue to yield a harvest of discoveries, increasingly interesting as they are added to a constantly increasing body of archaeological knowledge. Thus Crete, Delos, Rhodes, and the great cities of Asia such as Miletus and Pergamon continue to give up fresh treasures, and the neolithic and bronze age remains of north Greece and the island of Leukas are adding a new chapter to the book of Greek prehistoric archaeology.

The one great mainland site not yet fully excavated is the most interesting of all, but owing to material difficulties Athens for the present reserves her secrets. The excavation of the Agora, the great task before the Greek Archaeological Society, has now indeed been begun by the clearing of an area east of the Theseum, and ancient walls have been found, but they cannot be identified with any known buildings, nor do the inscriptions discovered give any topographical indications. This is, however, only a beginning, and the area ultimately to be excavated is very much larger.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 1908 , pp. 319 - 336
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1908

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References

1 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1908, p. 135, Pls. VI., VII.

2 Published in Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1908, p. 1, Pls. I.–IV.

3 J.H.S. xxvii, p. 284.

4 The work of the Greek Society is briefly reported in 1907, for a proof of which I am indebted to Dr. Kavvadhias.

5 Excavated for the Greek Archaeological Society by Dr. Sotiriadhis, and published in the

6 The results of these excavations are published every year in the Annual of the British School at Athens.

7 These notes are mainly from the report of a paper read by Professor Burrows before the Hellenic Society in November 1907.

8 The excavation will be published in the Annual of the British School at Athens.

9 The excavation has been published in the latest number of the 1908, p. 65. See also Ath. Mitth. 1905, 1906. For the present information I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Sotiriadhis.

10 These notes are from an account published in the Times by Dr. Evans.

11 J.H.S. xxvii. p. 291.

12 This account of these unpublished excavations I owe to notes very kindly sent me by Mr. Seager.

13 Dr. Xanthondhidhis has very kindly sent me notes of these excavations. The only published material is a brief account of the work of 1907 in the Athenian periodical Παναθήναια Nov. 15, 1907.

14 ‘L'Antica Creta, Centro di Cultura e di Arte’ (Scavi Italiani a Creta, 1906–1908), Luigi Pernier. Estratto dal N. 33 del Giornale, Il Marzocco, Firenza, 1908Google Scholar.

15 B.S.A. xi. p. 262.

16 J.H.S. xxvii. p. 290.

17 Comptes rendus de l' Acad. d. inscrip. et belles lettres, 1907, p. 615; 1908, p. 171.

18 J.H.S. xxvii. p. 296, and below.

19 See Ath. Mitth. xxxiii. p. 185.

20 Ath. Mitth. xxxiii. p. 295. This report gives many interesting structural details. For a previous notice see J.H.S. xxvii. p. 296.

21 A preliminary report is given in Ath. Mitth. xxxiii. p. 323.

22 Doerpfeld, Wilhelm, Vierter Brief über Leukas-Ithaka: die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen von 1907. Athens, 1908Google Scholar. For the notes on the work of 1908 I am indebted to a letter from Dr. Doerpfeld.

23 Vollgraff, W., ‘Dulichion-Leukas,’ Neue Jahrbücher, 1907, p. 617Google Scholar.

24 4, 10.

25 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1908, pp. 65 ff. and Fig. 14, p. 90.

26 J.H.S. xxvii. p. 296.

27 The work at Miletus and Didyma for 1906 and 1907 has now been published as the Sechster vorlaeufiger Bericht ueber die vom dem Koeniglichen Museum in Milet und Didyma untergenommenen Ausgrabungen, Berlin, 1908, from which these notes are taken.

28 J.H.S. xxiii. p. 298.