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Archaeology in Greece, 1949–1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. M. Cook
J. M. Cook
Affiliation:
The British School at Athens.
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It is a pleasure to record this year that the promise of more substantial results held out in the previous slender reports from Greece has not been disappointed, and that the discoveries made in the latter part of 1949 and the year 1950 challenge comparison with any prewar years. The Archaeological Society has undertaken a number of new excavations in different parts of the country and has already achieved some remarkable successes. The foreign Schools have not lessened their endeavours; the Italian School has resumed its activity in the field, and the French have supplemented their achievements on land by commencing a systematic investigation of inshore waters. The Herákleion Museum is now open again. In Eleusis and Tegea the museums are being reconstituted, and that at Sparta has been reopened; the Hermes of Praxiteles has been brought above ground again at Olympia. A new wing comprising an exhibition gallery and workrooms has been added to the Corinth Museum. The museum in Thera is to be set in order, and the archaeological collection at Syra has been re-assembled in the Town Hall. In Athens, there are now six exhibition galleries open in the National Museum with a splendid selection which ranges from early Hellenic to the fourth century B.C.; a new gallery has been constructed in the Byzantine Museum to hold select exhibits, and a library and rooms for study are being fitted out in the cellars of the main building there. Under Prof. A. Orlandos' direction many Byzantine churches and monasteries which needed attention have been put in order in the last year.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 71 , November 1951 , pp. 233 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1951

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References

1 The following notice is drawn from a bulletin of the direction of the Museum kindly provided by Mrs. Karouzou.

2 This piece is published by Kh. Karouzos in this number of JHS. See above pp. 96–110.

3 By Philadelphefs, in Classical Studies presented to Ed. Capps, 295 ff.Google Scholar, figs. 1–2.

4 Compare the previous photograph Züchner, Griechische Klappspiegel, 170Google Scholar, fig. 83.

5 Meisterwerke, 120 f.; Collignon, , Histoire de la sculpture grecque, 123Google Scholar, fig. 59.

6 A fuller discussion of this is to appear in Hesperia.

7 Züchner, Klappspiegel, figs. 94–95.

8 Marked as a stoa on Judeich's plan.

9 Prof. H. Thompson also draws attention to a tally from the Dipylon with the demotic Xypetaion (IG I2 916).

10 Cf. IG I2. 24–25; Ar. Lys., with its lively presentation of this elderly priestess.

11 Cf. PAE 1948, 81 ff., where a description of the area and of the first results of the excavation is printed.

12 Cf. Eur. I.T. 1464 ff.

13 AE 1912, 127 ff.

14 A notice of the first results has now appeared in PAE 1948, 92 ff.

15 Cf. IG IV2. i. 108, 159 sq.

16 IG IV2. i. 128, 27 sq.

17 Cf. PAE 1948, 97 ff.

18 BCH 1950, 48 ff.

19 (Thessaloníke 1950).

20 Cf. the fuller report on the 1949 campaign, AE 1948–49, 85 ff.

21 AA 1940, 254 ff., fig. 66; cf. JHS 1944, 26.

22 Despite the discrepancies in plan it may be this tomb that is described by Gardner, in BSA xxxiii 15.Google Scholar

23 AA 1940, 275 ff., fig. 82.

24 A brief description of the site, Regel, AM xii 161 ff.Google Scholar; cf. BCH 1942–43, 176, n. 2.

25 I have to thank the superintendent, Mr. Kallipolites, for this notice, which has been supplemented from a report of the American School.

26 Cf. Hesperia 1950, 7 ff.

27 (Mytiléne 1950).

28 (Mytiléne 1949) and (Mytiléne 1950).

29 A fuller report on the campaigns of 1948 and 1949 has been published by Akurgal, E., Bayrakli (Ankara 1950).Google Scholar

30 Archaeology in Greece 1948–49, fig. 9.

31 AA 1930, 134 f.

32 (Athens 1950).

33 Cf. my previous report in JHS 1946, 115.