DOI Artikel:
Miller, Walter: The Theatre of Thoricus: preliminary report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8561#0015
THE THEATRE OF THORICUS.
PRELIMINARY REPORT.
In the spring of 1886 funds were granted by the Managing
Committee of the American School for excavating the theatre in the
old Attic deme of Thoricus. We were thus enabled to bring to light
a Greek theatre of very peculiar construction.
The work was begun in April by Professor Allen, and was continued
by students of the school for about a week. It was taken up by
myself on the 5th of May, and carried on until the 2d of June, when
the advance of summer interrupted the work. The main features of
the structure had been opened to view, but most of the earth in the
orchestra and some debris upon the seats still remained to be re-
moved ; the inner wall also needed to be more thoroughly uncovered.
This was reserved for the autumn. The work was resumed about the
first of November, in the directorship of Professor D'Ooge, and was
placed under the supervision of Mr. W. L. Cushing. It was finished
early in December, and the final Report of Mr. Cushing will be pub-
lished at the same time with this paper.
A provisional plan of the theatre, which was prepared for this
paper with the kind aid of Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, of the German
Archaeological Institute at Athens, and of Mr. Georg Kawerau, who
was in charge of the excavations on the Acropolis, has been replaced
by a more exact and complete plan, drawn by Mr. S. B. P. Trowbridge
from careful surveys made after the excavations of the past year had
been completed. This plan is given in Plate I. (page 12). The
other plates are reproduced by the Moss Engraving Company from
photographs taken by Mr. Cushing.
Topography. — The theatre is built between two spurs of a steep,
cone-shaped hill, about 146 m. high, the modern name of which is
PRELIMINARY REPORT.
In the spring of 1886 funds were granted by the Managing
Committee of the American School for excavating the theatre in the
old Attic deme of Thoricus. We were thus enabled to bring to light
a Greek theatre of very peculiar construction.
The work was begun in April by Professor Allen, and was continued
by students of the school for about a week. It was taken up by
myself on the 5th of May, and carried on until the 2d of June, when
the advance of summer interrupted the work. The main features of
the structure had been opened to view, but most of the earth in the
orchestra and some debris upon the seats still remained to be re-
moved ; the inner wall also needed to be more thoroughly uncovered.
This was reserved for the autumn. The work was resumed about the
first of November, in the directorship of Professor D'Ooge, and was
placed under the supervision of Mr. W. L. Cushing. It was finished
early in December, and the final Report of Mr. Cushing will be pub-
lished at the same time with this paper.
A provisional plan of the theatre, which was prepared for this
paper with the kind aid of Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, of the German
Archaeological Institute at Athens, and of Mr. Georg Kawerau, who
was in charge of the excavations on the Acropolis, has been replaced
by a more exact and complete plan, drawn by Mr. S. B. P. Trowbridge
from careful surveys made after the excavations of the past year had
been completed. This plan is given in Plate I. (page 12). The
other plates are reproduced by the Moss Engraving Company from
photographs taken by Mr. Cushing.
Topography. — The theatre is built between two spurs of a steep,
cone-shaped hill, about 146 m. high, the modern name of which is