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I.—Excavations At Sparta, 1907: § 8.—The Tombs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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Between the Acropolis hill of Sparta and the northern limits of the modern town lies a stretch of level ground, the greater part of which is covered with olive trees. In the middle of this area (General Plan, K 14 and 15) are a series of four tombs, of which two found undisturbed and one empty belong to the Hellenistic age, while one, now unfortunately almost totally destroyed, appears to have had a greater antiquity. This line of tombs lies along the southern limit of what we suppose to be the site of the Agora, and is thus in the heart of the ancient town. The conspicuous ancient building known as the Tomb of Leonidas lies a short distance away, and the discovery of tombs so close to it, and of a form not greatly dissimilar, opens once more the question of its purpose.
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page 155 note 1 Lycurgus, 27.
page 155 note 2 viii. 30.
page 155 note 3 Plut. Timoleon, 39.
page 155 note 4 Thuc. v. II.
page 156 note 1 Paus. i. 43. 3.
page 156 note 2 Plato, Minos, 315 D.
page 156 note 3 Plut. Arctus, 53, νόμου ὄντος ἀρχαίου, μηδένα θάπτεσθαι τειχέων ἐντός, ἰσχυρα̑ς τε τψ̑ νόμῳ δεισιδαιμονίας προσούσης.
page 156 note 4 Thuc. iii. 104; cf. also Cic. ad Fam. iv. 12, the well-known passage relating to the burial of M. Marcellus.
page 156 note 5 B.S.A. xii. pp. 281, 293.
page 157 note 1 Cf. Tod and Wace, S.M.C. No. 665.
page 157 note 2 Paus. ii. 7. 2.
page 157 note 3 v. 47.
page 157 note 4 Lycurgus, 27.
page 161 note 1 The different burials are referred to by these numbers in the description of the vases below.
page 165 note 1 v. B.M. Cat. Peloponnesus, Pls. VII., VIII., IX. Bracteates of this type from Eretria are in the National Museum, Athens, Nos. 12170, 12426; in the same collection are a large number of bracteates imitating other coins, such as the later tetradrachms of Athens and the types of Lysimachus. A collection of bracteates in the British Museum contains many imitations of Corcyraean coins.
page 167 note 1 Wiegand-Schrader, Priene, p. 428.
page 167 note 2 This at Priene began early in the first century B.C., op. cit. p. 447.
page 167 note 3 Op. cit. p. 458, Fig. 558.
page 167 note 4 Conze, Kleinfunde aus P., p. 13.
page 168 note 1 Ath. Mitt. 1901, pp. 68–102.