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Excavations in Greece, 1886—1887

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

The following list enumerates the chief places in Greece where archaeological investigations are now, or have very recently been carried on, namely, Athens, Piræus, Eleusis, Oropus, Thoricus, Sicyon, Mycenæ, Ptoos, Elateia, Orchomenos, Dimini near Volo, and in the islands of Delos, Thasos, and Cephalonia, to which Tiryns, Olympia, and Epidaurus should be added, although at these places, for the present, the works have been discontinued. There is also the expectation that the French examination of Delphi will be shortly resumed.

In Athens very important results have been obtained. First in interest is the ancient temple on the Acropolis which, although some of its foundations were visible even in 1845, has been practically discovered and the discovery energetically followed up by Dr. Dörpfeld. The position of the temple is shown on the sketchplan (fig. 1) which accompanies this paper. A careful plan of the site and the foundations, and a description, has been contributed by Dr. Dörpfeld to the Mittheilungen in the first part for 1887 (see p. 337, and plate). A plan of the restored temple is given by him in the Antike Denkmaeler of the Kaiserlich Deutsch. Archaeol. Institut, band 1, 1887.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1887

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