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Archaeology in Greece, 1951

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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This year, like the last, has been an exceptional one. The Archaeological Society and the Foreign Schools have been engaged in widespread excavation. Among the spectacular discoveries of the season are richly furnished Late Minoan tombs at and near. Knossos, and a new shaft grave—somewhat earlier than those inside the Lion Gate—alongside the Tomb of Clytaemnestra at Mycenae; attention will be focused on Pylos in the coming spring now that the arrangements for the resumption of work there are completed. The German Institute has been re-established with Dr. Kunze as its new director. The reconstitution of the museums is proceeding at a measured pace: but the most manifest achievement this year has been the restoration of monuments in the field, which has been carried out on an unprecedented scale under the direction of Prof. Orlandos with the help of an exceptionally large allocation—unfortunately not to be repeated—from Marshall Aid. The Tomb of Clytaemnestra has been restored, and great improvements have been made at the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina and among the houses of Delos. At Knossos and Phaistos, despite the delay in the transmission to Crete of the sums made available, Mr. de Jong and Dr. Levi, in conjunction with the Ephor, Dr. Platon, have made great progress with the conservation of the two great palaces.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 72 , November 1952 , pp. 92 - 112
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1952

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1 I am obliged to Prof. Orlandos and Dr. Papademetriou, H. Gallet de Santerre and J. L. Caskey for the provision of reports used in this account, and to those colleagues who have kindly furnished me with individual notices of their excavations and discoveries. The drawing Fig. 1 is by A. Papaeliopoulos of the National Museum staff.

2 The chariot comes into the story in the Cypria, which may be the source of this painting.

3 De Ridder 50. This important statuette is to be reinterpreted in a forthcoming issue of the AE.

4 PAE 1950, 41 ff.

5 Cf. the previous discovery in this area of a marble base for a bronze statue in honour of Boulaia, Livia (Hesperia VI, 464).Google Scholar

6 Cf. Hesperia VI, 354.

7 Hesperia V, 21 ff.

8 Hesperia XIX, 325 f.

9 Hesperia Suppl. VIII, 373 ff.

10 Cf. Hesperia XX, 57.

11 Cf. Hesperia VI, 90 ff.

12 The only previously discovered ostrakon of Pericles, Hesperia X, 2 f.Google Scholar, fig. 2.

13 AE 1950–51, 1 ff., where illuminating plans and restora tions are given.

14 Koulikourdi, Georgia and Alexiou, Sp.Αἵγινα (Athens, 1951).Google Scholar

15 Cf. JHS LXXI, 239 f., and the report PAE 1950, 203 ff.

16 Two large chamber tombs were discovered by Tsountas, , and the archaic inscription Hesperia 1946, 115Google Scholar also came to light here.

17 Like that of Atreus, , BSA XXV, Pl. 56.Google Scholar

18 Papakhatzis, N.Μυκῆνες καὶ Τίρυνθα (Athens, 1951).Google Scholar

19 PAE 1950, 201, fig. 11.

20 The mutules have three rows of drops, not two (as reported AA 1940, 236).

21 Cf. the plan BCH LXXV, 130, fig. 22.

22 Cf. BCH LXXV, 138 f.

23 Cf. BCH LXXV, 141 f.

24 Cf. Stählin, , Dos hell. Thessalien, 181.Google Scholar

25 I am indebted to the epimeletes, S. Dakaris, for the notices of new discoveries.

26 AE 1950–51, 40 f.

27 AE 1950–51, 38 ff.

28 Cf. AM LVII, Beil. 20. 4, 5, 6, 8, 10.

29 BSA XXVIII, 158 ff., Heurtley, , Prehistoric Macedonia, 99 ff.Google Scholar

30 AE 1950–51, 44 ff.

31 Cf. the notice JHS LXX, 5 f. and the report in PAE 1949.

32 Cf. PAE 1949, 148 f.

33 Cf. ib. 157, fig. 14.

34 Cf. that discovered in 1914, Oikonomos, De profusionum receptaculis 5Google Scholar, fig. 1.

35 Evthymiou, G. P., Ἀρχεῖον ⊖ρακ. ⊖ησαυροῦ XVI (1951), 113 ff.Google Scholar

36 Cf. BCH LXIII, 319, and LXXI–LXXII, 419.

37 JHS LXXI, 250, fig. 10.

38 Ρόδος, Ἱστορία καὶ Περιπέτειαι (Athens, 1951).

39 Dr. Platon has prepared a special report on the year's work in Crete, on which he has allowed me to draw in advance of its publication in the Κρητικὰ Χρονικά.

40 I am indebted to Prof. Marinatos for this report.

41 Κρητικὰ Χρονικά V (1951), 275 ff.

42 Ἡ Ἀρχαία Pίθυμνα (Candia, 1950).