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Excavations at Olynthus, Part X: Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds, an Original Contribution to Greek Life

Excavations at Olynthus, Part X: Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds, an Original Contribution to Greek Life

<italic>Excavations at Olynthus</italic>. Part X, <italic>Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds: An Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New, Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus)</italic>. By David M. Robinson. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, edited by David M. Robinson.

<italic>Excavations at Olynthus</italic>. Part X, <italic>Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds: An Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New, Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus)</italic>. By David M. Robinson. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, edited by David M. Robinson.

Excavations at Olynthus. Part X, Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds: An Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New, Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus)

Excavations at Olynthus. Part X, Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds: An Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New, Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus)

Excavations at Olynthus, Part X. Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds. By David M. Robinson. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, No. 31.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 120s.

Excavations at Olynthus, Part X. Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds. By David M. Robinson. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, No. 31.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 120<i>s</i>.

Excavations at Olynthus, Part X, Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds. By David M. Robinson.

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§ 5. Miscellaneous Finds

A Fragment of a Cosmetic Bowl of Egyptian type comes from Praisos, but I have been unable to identify it in the Museums containing Palaikastro material. Bosanquet left some notes on this object, and two restored drawings of it (fig. I), but did not state the material, or the circumstances of its discovery. Probably it was a chance find purchased by Bosanquet from some local proprietor.

Excavations at Sparta, 1926: § 3.—The Inscriptions

The campaign of 1926 was rewarded by no very important discoveries in the department of epigraphy, but interesting documents of many different periods came to light. The completion of the task of excavating the East Parodos brought to light several more complete blocks which had fallen from the inscribed portion of the wall, and more than a dozen small fragments, some of which, as will be seen, prove to join blocks or fragments found previously. We found, moreover, that the wall of the bastion carrying the outer staircase bore four inscriptions in situ, of which the longest (F 3) is also for its contents the most valuable of all the inscriptions from the wall. At the south-west corner of the bastion we also found in situ a rough columnar statue-base bearing an elegiac epigram, inscribed over the remains of an earlier text, also metrical, but almost entirely erased (No. 35). Two decrees of Hellenistic date, from each of which substantial portions have survived, an incomplete archaic dedication by an athletic victor (No. 37) and two statue-bases of Imperial date (Nos. 33, 34) are the most interesting of the miscellaneous finds. A few small additions to our—by now considerable—number of inscribed blocks from cornices and architraves will be published later, in conjunction with a study of the architectural marbles as a whole, for which further work on the site is still required.

The Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, 1911: § 7.—Miscellaneous Finds

Evidence of the local use of bronze or copper appeared amongst the deposits in H 5 1 in the shape of several pieces of small clay crucibles. None of them were complete, but the two best examples, shewn on Plate VII give the shape. They were spoon-shaped vessels about ·24 m. long by ·16 m. wide, made of coarse dark clay with a spout at one end; this is seen in the left-hand example on the plate. They stood on three short legs so arranged that the crucible could be tilted forward and cause the molten metal to flow out of the spout into the mould. That they had seen some service was proved by the remains of metal which clung to their inner surface. A fragment of such a crucible was found in the old excavation and two broken stone moulds, one for a Double Axe. Such a Double Axe, shewn on Pl. XIV, 59, was found this year together with a bronze spear-head, in a cleft between two stones almost immediately above the rock underneath a floor-level in H 4 15. They had the appearance of being in a sort of cache and probably belonged to a later period than that of the First City, to which their actual level would assign them. The only other bronzes found were the arrowhead and knife shewn on Pl. XIV (Nos. 58 and 60).