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Excavations of the British School at Melos: the Site of the ‘Three Churches’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Duncan Mackenzie
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The field bearing the name of is one of several small sites which Mr. R. C. Bosanquet and I examined in April 1896. It is marked E in the map, J.H.S. xvi. p. 348. We were afterwards joined by Mr. C. R. R. Clark, architect to the British School, to whose skill and diligence is due the plan which accompanies this paper. In describing the course of the excavation I have had the free use of Mr. Bosanquet's day-book. The inscriptions from our site are Nos. 21, 39, 40, 41. of Mr. Cecil Smith's ‘Inscriptions from Melos,’ published in the present number of this Journal. Our inscription 4 will appear in a second series. Some remarks on the early cruciform font which came to light here will be found in the British School Annual ii. p. 161, 168, in a paper on tne Churches of Melos, by Messrs. H. M. Fletcher and S. D. Kitson. The ‘Three Churches’ field was early included in our list of likely sites. Its prominent position, and ancient retaining walls, as well as the reports of frequent finds of ancient masonry and marble, all pointed to an important public place having existed on the site, which thus afforded exceptional inducements to excavation.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 17 , November 1897 , pp. 122 - 133
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1897

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page 124 note 1 It is possible that some of the marks of fixing are due to an earlier use of the same block: marble being unknown in Melos would be costly, and a block might often be re-used. Cf. the Samokles inscription at Katergari, which seems to be a palimpsest.

page 128 note Mr. Bosanquet points out to me that Prokesch, , Denkwürdigkeiten, i. 537Google Scholar, describes the baptistery and saw a small Christian church here as late as 1825.

page 130 note 1 See Messrs. Fletcher and Kitson's paper already referred to.

page 130 note 2 Under block E was a square sinking in the rocky virgin soil, filled with soft earth, and much smaller than the block over it.

page 132 note 1 This evidence from converging roads was collected by Mr. Bosanquet.

page 133 note 1 The view propounded is the same as that independently arrived at by Mr. Bosanquet in his discussion of the Melian fortifications in the British School Annual, ii. p. 81.