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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
In 1950 the Anastelosis Section of the Greek Archaeological Service began the restoration of the ‘Tomb of Clytemnestra’, Fig., Plate 35. In view of our previous researches on the tomb, Dr. Papademetriou and the Anastelosis Section invited us to observe the work and to collaborate by a careful examination of the threshold and other points. Dr. Papademetriou has already published an account of the work himself, and the following notes with the plan and photographs are offered as a supplement to what he has written. We are much indebted to him for his friendly help.
1 AE 1948–1949 (published 1951), Παρὰρτημα 43 ff.
2 BSA XXV 357 ff., pl. LVIII; Wace, Mycenae 35 ff., fig. 6.
3 This work was carried out by Miss Marigold Pakenham-Walsh, Miss Margaret Dow, and Miss Elizabeth Wace. I have written this account with the aid of the plans and photographs made at the time. My original notebook was lost in passing my papers through the Egyptian Censorship when I left Alexandria University in 1952. Miss Pakenham-Walsh, Miss Dow, and Miss Wace have read this account and checked it with their own notes. I am also much indebted for helpful criticism and comments to my wife, Professor Stillwell, Mr. Herschel Shepard, and other friends, but the responsibility, of course, remains mine.
When it had completed its work in the dromos, the Anastelosis Section replaced the threshold blocks, but in order to make the blocks lie flat their edges were redressed.
4 BSA XXV 357.
5 BSA XXV 297 f., pl. XLVI.
6 Dr. Papademetriou (op. cit., loc. cit.) by a slip calls this the west wall.
7 Wace, Mycenae 123 f.
8 AE 1912, 127 f.
9 Schliemann, Mycenae 118f.
10 This was told me by Mrs. Schliemann when she visited our excavations at Mycenae in 1920.
11 Op. cit. 43 f.
12 JHS 1954, 170.
13 JHS 1952, 98; BCH 1952, 219 f.
14 BSA XXV, pl. VIII; Wace, Mycenae, fig. 6.
15 JHS 1954, 170.
16 P. 209.
17 Itinerary, pl. 3.
18 II 16, 5–7. See also JHS 1954, 170; Schweitzer Festschrift 21, 26.
