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Excavations at Sparta, 1927: § 4.—The Native Pottery from the Acropolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

J. P. Droop
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At the Director's invitation I was at Sparta for the two months' campaign of 1927, and had the opportunity of studying the pottery found on the Acropolis hill in the four seasons of 1924–27, a deposit that doubtless consisted of offerings to the shrine of Athena Chalkioikos.

The fact that the deposit was not a natural growth but an imported filling (B.S.A. xxvi. p. 252) precluded any observable stratification. Thus there was no hope of obtaining a check on the views as to the development and dating of the Sparta pottery that were based twenty years ago on the stratification found at the shrine of Artemis Orthia. The most that could be hoped for was further light on the details of the style at the various periods.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 28 , November 1927 , pp. 49 - 81
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1927

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page 49 note 1 B.S.A. xiii. p. 139Google Scholar.

page 50 note 1 B.S.A. xxvi. p. 277 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 50 note 2 B.S.A. xiii. p. 123Google Scholar.

page 57 note 1 Reasons are given below for supposing that Laconian VI lasted longer than was thought twenty years ago.

page 65 note 1 Cf. Maximova, , Vases Plastiques, I., p. 153 ffGoogle Scholar. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Pays Bas, Fasc. I, IID and IIIc, Pl. I. 4.

page 81 note 1 A kind of parallel from Corinth is in the Antiquarium at Berlin, No. 1338; cf. Maximova, op. cit., ii., Pl. XXXIX, No. 143. I owe this note to Mr. Woodward.