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Archaeology in Greece, 1925–26

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. M. Woodward
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This article summarises all excavations in Greek lands of which particulars have reached me since the completion of my report published a year ago.

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At Corinth, Professor T. L. Shear continued his excavations at the Theatre, and at the presumed site of the Sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis. At the former, he has now cleared the entire Orchestra, with the Parodoi leading into it, and uncovered the front part of the stage and the lower rows of the cavea. The wall painted with life-sized figures of men and beasts, which was found in 1925, has now been all laid bare, and on it are preserved novel and interesting scenes in brilliant colours. In one case, a bull, richly bedecked with ribbons and fillets, has rushed on the extended spear held by a crouching gladiator, and blood is shown streaming from a wound in its throat. In another scene, which represents an acrobat making a pole-vault over the back of a charging leopard, both man and beast are depicted at the moment when they are in the air. In another, an athlete, with hands on the ground and head raised, is about to spring over the back of a huge charging lion.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , 1926, pp. 223 - 249
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1926

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References

1 J.H.S., 1925, pp. 210 ff. I must again acknowledge most cordially the generosity of all those who have supplied me with information concerning their unpublished excavation-results.

2 From a report kindly forwarded by Professor Shear.

3 In Bulletin of the Archaeological Institute of America, xvi. (December 1925).

4 Cf. J.H.S., 1925, p. 211.

4a I retain the term L.H. III. in this context and elsewhere, as used by the authors of thereports when summarised.

5 (Reprinted, by kind permission of the Committee, from the Annual Report of the British School at Athens, 1925–26, with trifling alterations and omissions.)

6 This seems a more correct form of the name than Vardarovca (as it was called in the last report).

7 From a report kindly furnished by M. Pierre Roussel, Director of the French School. Cf. B.C.H. xlix. (1925), pp. 462 ff.

8 Cf. J.H.S. 1925, p. 219 f.; B.C.H. 1924, p. 487.

9 Syria, 1925, p. 270 f.

10 Cf. J.H.S. 1924, p. 270.

11 v. 47, 5.

12 Cf. J.H.S. 1924, p. 269; for 1924, B.C.H. 1924, pp. 492 ff.; for 1925, B.C.H. 1925, pp. 470 ff. and Figs. 8–10.

13 I.e. in this area. E.M. pottery was reported among the finds of 1923, J.H.S. 1924, p. 270.

14 The results of the campaign of 1924 are now published, B.C.H. 1925, pp. 281–321.

15 From a report kindly furnished by Professor Busohor, and subsequently printed in Gnomon, ii. (1926), pp. 120 ff.

16 Gnomon, ii. p. 123 f.

17 I am indebted to Dr. K. Kourouniotis (who has replaced Dr. K. Romaios as head of the Archaeological Department in the Ministry of Education) for the generous loan of various reports submitted to himself. The report by Dr. G. P. Oikonomos, Secretary of the Archaeological Society, on the excavations undertaken on the Society's behalf has also been invaluable.

18 Cf. J.H.S. 1925, p. 221.

19 Cf. Ath. Mitt., 1905, p. 23. Dr. Kastriotis also found it east of the Odeion in 1914, Ἀρχ. Ἐφ., 1914, p. 153.

20 Cf. a letter, accompanied by a sketch-plan, in July 25th, 1926.

21 Cf. The Times, August 7th and 21st, 1926.

22 A report by Dr.Kourouniotis, appeared in Ἑστία, July 19th, 1926.Google Scholar

23 Cf. J.H.S. 1925, p. 222.

24 Dr. Romaios most kindly showed me these splendid terra-cottas in the workshop of the National Museum, soon after their arrival there. I hope to describe them more fully in my next report.

25 Cf. B.C.H. 1925, p. 459, Fig. 3.

26 is alone preserved in lettering indicative of the second half of the fifth century B.C. The discoverer would restore the name Strongylion.

27 Dickins, , Acrop. Mus. Cat. i., Nos. 643, 644, 645, 648, 661, 663.Google Scholar

28 A preliminary report on the results of the campaigns of 1922 and 1924 is now published, in French, , in Årsberättelse (Bulletin de la Société Royale des Lettres de Lund), 1924–1925, pp. 23–93Google Scholar, with fortyeight plates. A reference must suffice to the outstanding excellence of the photographs, and to the authors' important discussion of the Early and Middle Helladic pottery from the site. Cf. a short summary of all three campaigns in The Times, August, 6th, 1926.