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Archaeology in Greece, 1926–27
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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This article follows the arrangement of its predecessors, and includes an account of all the excavations in Greek lands of which I have received particulars since my last report was completed. As the total number of undertakings concerned amounts to more than thirty, some of my summaries have inevitably suffered in the process of compression, but I trust that nothing of outstanding importance has been passed over.
At Corinth, during the spring and summer of 1926, the American School carried out excavations in four different areas: at the Theatre, on Acrocorinth, on the Temple hill and on the Lechaion Road. An account of Dr. T. L. Shear's work at the Theatre appeared in my last report. On Acrocorinth, Dr. C. W. Blegen examined the highest point of the rock in search of the Temple of Aphrodite mentioned by Pausanias. Though many worked poros blocks were found, it is disappointing that not one was in situ, and cuttings in the rock and numerous architectural fragments are the only indications that there had been a Greek building on this site, which was occupied later by a Byzantine church. The small objects found include Geometric, Protocorinthian and Corinthian pottery, three terra-cotta figurines, two pieces of marble sculpture and a fragmentary inscription.
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1 I wish again to express my gratitude to all those who have supplied me with information concerning their unpublished excavation-results, and for the gift of photographs in addition I am indebted to the Director of the French School, Mdlle. S. Papaspiridis, and Mr. S. Casson.
2 Cf. a summary in A.J.A., 1926, p. 361 f., and Dr. Hill's report, op. cit., 1927, pp. 70 ff.
3 J.H.S., 1926, p. 223 f.
4 Kindly supplied by Dr. B. D. Meritt (who has succeeded Dr. Blegen as Assistant Director of the American School).
5 Cf. J.H.S., 1925, p. 210.
6 Cf. A.J.A., 1927, p. 223.
7 Cf. J.H.S., 1926, p. 226 f.
8 Reprinted, as regards Nos. 1, 2 and 4, from the Annual Report of the British School at Athens, 1926–27, with unimportant omissions. For this privilege I am indebted to the Committee of the School. Mr. Forsdyke has kindly supplied the account of his own excavations.
9 Cf. Rev. Art ancien et moderne, 1927, pp. 135 ff. The results of this study are shortlyto be published in B.C.H., 1927.
10 Cf. J.H.S., 1926, p. 238.
11 Cf. B.C.H., 1907, pp. 498 ff.
12 Syria, 1925, p. 270.
13 Cf. J.H.S., 1926, p. 240.
14 From a report kindly supplied by Professor Buschor (since reprinted in Gnomon, iii. (1927), pp. 188 ff.), supplemented by details of recent results at Tiryns furnished at my request by Professor K. Müller (up to the end of July, 1927), and an account by Dr. Bruckner of his work at the Dipylon.
15 Schliemann, Tiryns, Tafel II.
16 J.H.S., 1926, p. 242; I regret that this was, owing to my carelessness, referred to there as a ‘stuccoed’ instead of a ‘paved’ courtyard.
17 J.H.S., l.c.; Gnomon, ii. p. 122.
18 Stephanos, Th. Wiegand zum 60. Geburtstag dargebracht, Pl. VII; Röm. Mitt., 1920, Pl. I; id., 1923–24, Pl. V.
19 For fuller particulars see Mitteilungen aus dem Kerameikos II, comprising articles by DrBrückner, and ProfessorBuschor, , in Ath. Mitt., 1926, pp. 128–49Google Scholar, which reached me when this article was practically finished.
20 I have not been able to consult the original reports of the excavators concerned, with a few exceptions; I have, however, supplied the deficiency as far as possible with the aid of material published in the A.J.A. and B.C.H.
21 For the particulars here given, and for the photographs reproduced, I am indebted to a report supplied expressly for this article by Mdlle. S. Papaspiridis, of the National Museum.
22 Not to the fourth century B.C. as was originally reported (J.H.S., 1926, p. 244).
23 Cf. a preliminary report in J.H.S., 1926, p. 246, where I omitted to state that the enterprise was supported from this Danish source.
24 It resembles, and even surpasses, the fine head in the Thebes Museum (Van Buren, , Greek Fictile Revetments, Pl. XXXIIIGoogle Scholar Fig. 120).
25 Cf. J.H.S., 1926, p. 246.
26 Cf. J.H.S., 1925, p. 225; 1926, p. 247.
27 From an account published in the Messager d'Athènes, January 3, 1927. Thear from Professor Delia Seta that a fuller report is to appear in Bollettino d'Arte before the end of 1927.
28 B.C.H., 1927, p. 552 f.
29 Op. cit., p. 580.
30 Communicated by Professor Deissmann, through Professor G. Soteriou, to the Academy of Athens, and printed in Πρακτικὰ ᾿Ακαδημίας ᾿Αθηνῶν II. 119 ff.
31 Cf. J.H.S., 1924, p. 276; Ἀρχ. Δελτ., 1922.