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Excavations at Naukratis A. Site and Buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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Mr. Ernest Gardner, summing up in 1889 the results of the excavations at Naukratis which Mr. Flinders Petrie had begun in 1884, was of opinion that something still remained to be done on the site. This opinion was shared by Mr. Petrie and has been expressed by him more than once, when Greek remains in Egypt were under discussion. A further campaign, therefore, has long been contemplated; and when I heard late in 1898 that very serious encroachments were being made upon the mounds of Gaif, it seemed that it was time to act. Paying a flying visit to the place in December, I found that, compared with Mr. Petrie's map of fourteen years before, the Mounds showed a greatly changed appearance. The “Great Temenos” at the south end had become a cornfield: the “Arab village” shown in the map on the north-east edge of the mound was now divided from the uncultivated land by a broad belt of green, which in the east centre had been pushed far out into the hollow heart of the site by an artificial embankment twelve to fifteen feet high.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1899

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page 26 note 1 Naukratis, ii., p. 73.

page 26 note 2 I had already been informed that the Egypt Exploration Fund was not prepared, in view or its heavy obligations elsewhere, to come to the rescue; and that neither Mr. Petrie nor Mr. Gardner in their private capacity wished to resume the work.

page 28 note 1 We lived in hope of a visit from Mr. Petrie, during which we could have verified many topographical points: but illness prevented his coming.

page 31 note 1 Cf. Petrie in Academy July 16, 1887 for this earliest layer, and cf. infra p. 36.

page 31 note 2 Cf. Nauk. ii. p. 35.

page 31 note 3 Nauk. i. p. 9, ii. p. 12.

page 31 note 4 Nauk., i. p. 89.

page 32 note 1 There were traces of disturbance in one or two other spots about here. Mr. Gardner tells me that he made some trial trenches in this region, and perhaps these disturbed spots are a result of them.

page 33 note 1 Cf. Nauk, I. p. 36 for Cypriote influence on this site.

page 36 note 1 We established its existence also at the S. of our “north area” 39–42–40 where the sebakhdiggers had not worked so low as in the centre. It appeared everywhere to the N. E. and was present also in the region 46–49 on the west.

page 36 note 2 The argument as to the great decline or even temporary abandonment of the site in the late fifth and the fourth centuries B.c. based by Mr. Petrie on the fact that he did not find red-figured ware, has been disposed of this season by our finding plenty of red-figured sherds of all periods.

page 36 note 3 Nauk. i. pp. 8, 66.

page 36 note 4 Nauk. i. p. 10.

page 37 note 1 Nauk. i. p. 20.

page 37 note 2 Probably the chambers without doors or windows, found in the ‘Great Temenos’ by Mr. Petrie, were designed to counteract dampness rather than human foes.

page 37 note 3 Cp. Mr. Petrie's inference as to the bed of the Apollo Temple Nauk. i. p. 12Google Scholar, and Mr. Gardner's as to the artificial raising of the local Aphrodite shrine, Nauk. ii. p. 36.

page 37 note 4 Nauk. i. 12, ii. 11.

page 38 note 1 Like the temple of the Milesian Apollo hard by. Nauk. i. p. 13.

page 38 note 2 v. forthcoming volume on the Fayûm to be issued by the Egypt Exploration Fund, Graeco-Roman Branch.

page 41 note 1 Left at Ghizeh.

page 44 note 1 Cf. P. Gardner, New Chapters in Greek History, p. 209.

page 45 note 1 The view of the pre-existence ot an Egyptian town at Naukratis is at least as old as Smith's Diet. of Geeg., s.v.