The american excavations at Olynthus

Abstract

The third Johns Hopkins University expedition directed by Professor David M. Robinson excavated at Olynthus under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from March 26 to June 2, 1934. Work was concentrated in four quarters of the city (v. sketch Pl. IX) : the northern end of the South Hill, the Riverside Cemetery on the southwestern slope of the North Hill, the top of the North Hill itself together with the depression between the North and South Hills, and the area immediately south and east of the southern tip of the East Spur Hill. The north end of the South Hill yielded the ground plans of small buildings, houses or shops, of rubble construction and a larger building with rubble walls and on the interior cut stone bases for columns supporting the roof. The existence of a transverse wall separating the northern end of the South Hill from the North Hill was establis-