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I.—Excavations Near Angelona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Alan J. B. Wace  and
F. W. Hasluck
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The village of Angelona lies amongst the hills surrounding the plain of Molai, midway between the latter and Monemvasia. About half an hour east of the village is a small plateau known as Kollýri; this plateau is bounded on its south-eastern side by a revma, tributary to the greater ravine which runs down to the sea south of the ruins of Epidaurus Limera. At the head of the revma is a perpetual spring of good water, and in its neighbourhood are many traces of former human occupation; roof tiles of slightly concave section with a rough red-to-black glaze, and sherds of black-glazed and coarse red pottery are common. A few hundred yards above (west of) the spring an anta capital of poros (Fig. 1) lies on the surface; the block measures 0·82 m. in length, 0·80 in breadth and 0·23 in thickness, and is remarkable because the profile is continuous on the long side but only extends for 0·33 m. on the other. On one end there are traces of an attempt to work the profile, and on the top a series of rough toolings (dowel holes?) parallel to the breadth.

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Laconia
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 11 , November 1905 , pp. 81 - 90
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1905

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page 81 note 1 A trial pit on the spot where it was found yielded no results.

page 86 note 1 The smaller (right-hand top corner) was recovered on the site by Mr. Hasluck during his first visit.

page 87 note 1 v. below, p. 101, Fig. 3.

page 88 note 1 Sparta Museum Cat. Introd. to Sculpture, § 4.

page 88 note 2 Ibid. loc. cit. § 7.

page 88 note 3 Ibid. loc. cit. § 4; Schröder, Ath. Mitth. 1904, p. 42.

page 88 note 4 E.g on the Attic relief in the Louvre, Mon. Inst. iv. PI. 22 B.

page 88 note 5 F. W. 1073; Roscher ii. p. 2559, Fig. 5, cf. also Fig. I, p. 146.

page 88 note 6 Ibid. § 4, I; E. V. 1265; Nat. Mus. 1417, cf. a hero-relief at Sparta, Mus. Cat. 4.

page 88 note 7 Ath. Mitth. 1904, p. 48, PI. 3. See page 103 for a further discussion of this question.

page 88 note 8 Ibid. p. 48; Arch. Studien H. Brunn dargebr. PI. 2.

page 89 note 1 v. p. 103.

page 89 note 2 Olympia, ii. pp. 56, 105.

page 89 note 3 Curtius-Kaupert, , Karten v. Attica i. p. 37Google Scholar, ii. p. 12 (Milchhoefer).

page 89 note 4 Hist. u. phil. Aufsätze Curtius gewidm. p. 8, Lolling.

page 89 note 5 Benndorf, Heroon v. Trysa.

page 89 note 6 v. Roscher ii. p. 2493 seqq. (Deneken). The extant heroa are of too elaborate a type to be of any use in comparison, ib. p. 2496.

page 89 note 7 Cf. ᾿Αθήναιον v. p. 161. 23.

page 89 note 8 The Greeks believed that in the process of decomposition the marrow of the spine turned into a snake (Plut. Cleom. 39; Ovid, , Metani, xv. 389Google Scholar; Plin. x. 56, 86; Aelian, , Hist. An. 1, 51Google Scholar; Servius, , Aen. v. 95Google Scholar; Orig. c. Cels. 5. 203).

page 90 note 1 Sparta Mus. Cat. Introd. to Sculpture § 3. M.

page 90 note 2 Ibid. Introd. to Misc. Ant. § 4.

page 90 note 3 Ath. Mitth. 1877, p. 303. I: this relief was found standing upright, the place was undoubtedly a similar heroon. The inscription ΒΕΡΜΑΝΟΣ found near by probably gives the name of the hero.

page 90 note 4 Ath. Mitth. 1877, p. 300; Loring, J.H.S. 1895, p. 43.

page 90 note 5 A rough drawing of a vase from Geraki was at once recognised by the villagers of Kosmas.

page 90 note 6 Vases were dedicated to heroes, cf. the Mycenae vase-fragment, Milchhoefer, , Ath. Mitth. 1876, p. 313Google Scholar; Roehl, I.G.A. 293.