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Excavations at Sparta, 1924–1928: II.—Votive Inscriptions from the Acropolis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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Among the votive inscriptions discovered during the excavations of 1924–27 by far the most numerous are those on vase-fragments, which number upwards of one hundred and twenty, in contrast to the modest total of thirty-four yielded by the previous campaigns on the Acropolis in 1907–08. The latter have been already published, and no further reference need be made to them here, except occasionally for purposes of comparison. As the illustrations shew, as far as possible, the form of the sherd as well as the exact nature of the lettering, detailed descriptions are superfluous, and brief comments will suffice. The items are arranged to some extent according to the types of vases dedicated, but no chronological order is attempted; where, however, a group of vases of more than one shape is found to bear the same dedicator's name, they have been placed together, as on Fig. 2, 1–7.
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page 254 note 1 I am much indebted to Professor J. D. Beazley, to whom I submitted photographs, for his kind help in this connection. He draws my attention to the type of the helmet with a triangular projection on the front, which is of an early, non-Attic type, and resembles those ‘common on Clazomenian vases and sarcophagi, and Rhodian perfume-vases in the shape of helmeted heads’; and assures me also that the Hippodamas vases of Douris and Makron are too late (ca. 490) to allow us to regard [Η] ιποδάμ[ας] here, if rightly restored, as the love-name found on them.