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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
As three years have elapsed since the appearance of the last report under this heading, from the pen of Mr. A. J. B. Wace, it is only to be expected that a large amount of material should have accumulated in the interval. The present report attempts to mention all the discoveries, of other than trifling importance, made during 1922 and 1923, together with summaries of such excavations carried out in 1924 as were completed, and of which particulars were available, before the end of August in that year. Naturally it has not been possible to dwell fully on all these undertakings and finds, and where a full report has already been published, I have contented myself with only brief mention of, or at times a mere reference to, the contents. Even so, the author is probably not alone in feeling that this report is unpardonably long. To facilitate reference, the order of arrangement employed in the last report has been retained.
American School
In 1922 Dr. C. W. Blegen continued his excavations of the prehistoric mound at Zygouries near Cleonae, and his discovery of a large store of complete or at least unused vessels of L.H. III. date, and of an adjacent potter's oven, is an important contribution to our knowledge of the domestic wares of this period, as well as an indication of local origin. The other remains of houses were less interesting, but further evidence was obtained with regard to the cemeteries, belonging to almost all periods of the occupation of the site. In 1924, two other sites in the same region, but both of the Classical epoch, were partly explored: at Nemea, where the work will, it is hoped, continue for at least one more season, being financed by supporters of the American School in Cincinnati, a promising start has been made.
1 My indebtedness to the annual reports now published by the French School at Athens, in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (for 1922, xlvi. pp. 484 ff.Google Scholar; for 1923, xlvii, pp. 508 ff.), is beyond measure. For written or oral information about their own discoveries I wish gratefully to acknowledge the kindness of Sir Arthur Evans, Professor Ernst Busehor, Director of the German Institute in Athens, Professor Paul Wolters, Professor A. Persson, Dr. B. H. Hill, Director, and Dr. C. W. Blegen, Assistant-Director, of the American School, M. L. Renaudin, Secretary of the French School, Dr. F. G. Welter-Mauve, and Dr. D. Levi. The last-named most readily allowed me to examine at leisure, in the work-room of the Candia Museum, his important finds of pottery from Afrati.
The principal discoveries of 1922–23, on the Greek mainland, in Macedonia, and Thrace, have been already summarised in my report in The Year's Work in Classical Studies, 1922–23, pp. 77–95.
2 Cf. Art and Archaeology, 1922, pp. 210 ff.
3 A.J.A. xxvii, pp. 438 ff.
4 A.J.A. xxvi. pp. 389 ff.
5 B.C.H. xlvi. p. 549 f.; Bulletin of the Arch. Inst. of America, 1923.
6 J.H.S. xli. pp. 262 ff.; cf. (for 1922) Times Lit. Suppl., Oct. 26th, 1922.
7 In B.S.A. xxv. The chamber-tombs, however, in Archaeologia.
8 Cf. B.S.A. xxiii, pp. 29 ff.; xxiv. 1 ff.
9 Cf. B.S.A. xxiii, pp. 44 S.; B.C.H. xlvi. p. 527 f.
10 For 1922, Antiquaries' Journal, ii. (1922), pp. 319–329; for 1923, Times, August 28th and 29th, 1923; for 1924, Times, June 11th, October 16th and 17th, 1924.
11 I had the privilege of examining these finds (which filled more than eighty trays!) shortly after they had been discovered.
12 Antiquaries' Journal, ii. (1922), p. 319 f.
13 Cf. above, note 1.
14 Cf. B.C.H. xxv. (1901), pp. 105 ff.
15 A.J.A. xxvii. pp. 164–173.
16 B.C.H. xlvii. pp. 387 ff.
17 A.J.A. xxvii. pp. 174 ff.
18 B.C.H. xlvii. pp. 525 ff.; C.R. Acad. Inscr. 1923, p. 238.
19 B.C.H. xlvi. pp. 58–93.
20 B.C.H. xlvii. p. 539, Fig. 10.
21 Op. cit. xlvi. p. 530 f.
22 Op. cit. xxxix. pp. 135–240; xlvi. p. 540 f.
23 Op. cit. xlvii. p. 540 f.
24 Cf. B.C.H. xlvi. pp. 499 ff.; Bulletin de la Société Royale des Lettres de Lund, 1922–23, pp. 25–42. For oral information concerning the discoveries of 1924 I am indebted to Professor Persson and Dr. E. Kjellberg.
25 Ath. Mitt. xlvii. 1922 (publ. July 1924), pp. 81 ff.
26 Ibid., pp. 95 ff. (Cf. Heberdey, op. cit. p. 77.)
27 Ath. Mitt. xlvii. pp. 61 ff. Cf. Year's Work, 1922–23, p. 80 (based on Kunstchronik, 1923 (Buschor), and B.C.H. xlvi. pp. 487 ff.).
28 I am particularly indebted to Professor Paul Wolters for the loan of an advance copy of his interim report.
29 Cf. Year's Work, 1922–23, p. 94 (and Kunstchronik, 1923; B.C.H. xlvi. p. 504 f.).
30 Ath. Mitt. xlvii. pp. 48 ff.
31 Communicated; cf. B.C.H. xlvii. p. 529.
32 B.C.H. xlv. p. 499 f.; xlvi. p. 485 f.; xlvii. p. 506 f. The use of conerete in a column now completed, to replace one of the missing drums, may evoke criticism. One of the wooden tenons on which the column-drums were adjusted was found in situ. I was by chance present at the moment of the discovery; the wood was in fair preservation.
33 Op. cit. xlvii. p. 507.
34 J.H.S. xlii. pp. 104 ff.; B.C.H. xlvi. pp. 1–35 (and bibliography, ibid., p. 489, note 5).
35 B.C.H. xlvii. p. 508.
36 Ibid. p. 510.
37 Ἐφ. Ἀρχ. 1922, pp. 101 ff. (published in 1923).
38 B.C.H. xlvii. p. 521 f.
39 Cf. meanwhile B.C.H. xlvii. p. 511.
40 Bk. II. c. 27, 5; cf. B.C.H. xlvi. p. 503.
41 Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 1922, pp. 1–88, and 227–46.
42 Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 1922.
43 Bollettino d'Arte, December 1922.
44 Loc. cit.; cf. Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1919, pp. 48 ff.
45 A.J.A. 1901, pp. 259 ff.
