DOI Artikel:
Earle, Mortimer Lamson: [Papers supplementary to Vol. V]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8681#0066
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DISCOVERY OF A TEMPLE OF ARCHAIC PLAN.
of Rhea by Praxiteles would have stood in the chamber Q, the pro-
naos, while the large statue of Hera would have been at the west end
of the naos, JR. The seated statue of Hera, by Callimachus, may also
have stood in the same room, or may possibly have been in S or T.
It is greatly to be regretted that no inscription was found to settle
the matter beyond all cavil; and further excavation on the site might
yield something of importance.
Henry S. Washington.
Venice,
September 17, 1891.
APPENDIX.
A few objects of slight importance were brought to light during
the excavations which do not affect the main subject of interest.
In the excavations last year and also this year, there were found at
Church /several (about half a dozen) small stone implements or tools.
They are of a very light brown, translucent, obsidian, of a long, blade-
like shape, pointed at one end, with an obtuse triangular section, and
bent slightly convex toward the apex. In length they are 0.05-6 m.,
in breadth about 0.05 m., and in thickness (apex to base of section)
about 0.02 m. As they are too slender for cutting- or scraping-blades,
the only obvious explanation seems to be that they were arrow-
heads, though their slight curvature would apparently be a disadvant-
age. Some specimens are among the small articles in the so-called
museum at Kokla.
One of my workmen pointed out to me an inscription which he
had uncovered earlier in the spring when ploughing a small field at
Church VII. It is on the flat face of a block of white marble, 0.67
m. long, by 0.30 m. high, which is apparently the dripstone of an
Ionic entablature, with the egg-and-dart and reel-and-bead mouldings
above. The inscription, in letters 0.02 m. high, of the second century
a. r>., is complete in the beginning, but ends with the broken stone at
the right. It runs as follows: ^OArGTTICK AIONYCOAC0POCTG,
which may be read: )^ 'O a^to?) eiriaicio'iro^) /\iovvcrdS(opo<; to\vto
avedrj/cev^. "The holy bishop Dionysodorus dedicated this." The
inscription is evidently very much later than the dripstone, which is
of very good workmanship.
Several short inscriptions found last year may be inserted here, as
they are still unpublished.
DISCOVERY OF A TEMPLE OF ARCHAIC PLAN.
of Rhea by Praxiteles would have stood in the chamber Q, the pro-
naos, while the large statue of Hera would have been at the west end
of the naos, JR. The seated statue of Hera, by Callimachus, may also
have stood in the same room, or may possibly have been in S or T.
It is greatly to be regretted that no inscription was found to settle
the matter beyond all cavil; and further excavation on the site might
yield something of importance.
Henry S. Washington.
Venice,
September 17, 1891.
APPENDIX.
A few objects of slight importance were brought to light during
the excavations which do not affect the main subject of interest.
In the excavations last year and also this year, there were found at
Church /several (about half a dozen) small stone implements or tools.
They are of a very light brown, translucent, obsidian, of a long, blade-
like shape, pointed at one end, with an obtuse triangular section, and
bent slightly convex toward the apex. In length they are 0.05-6 m.,
in breadth about 0.05 m., and in thickness (apex to base of section)
about 0.02 m. As they are too slender for cutting- or scraping-blades,
the only obvious explanation seems to be that they were arrow-
heads, though their slight curvature would apparently be a disadvant-
age. Some specimens are among the small articles in the so-called
museum at Kokla.
One of my workmen pointed out to me an inscription which he
had uncovered earlier in the spring when ploughing a small field at
Church VII. It is on the flat face of a block of white marble, 0.67
m. long, by 0.30 m. high, which is apparently the dripstone of an
Ionic entablature, with the egg-and-dart and reel-and-bead mouldings
above. The inscription, in letters 0.02 m. high, of the second century
a. r>., is complete in the beginning, but ends with the broken stone at
the right. It runs as follows: ^OArGTTICK AIONYCOAC0POCTG,
which may be read: )^ 'O a^to?) eiriaicio'iro^) /\iovvcrdS(opo<; to\vto
avedrj/cev^. "The holy bishop Dionysodorus dedicated this." The
inscription is evidently very much later than the dripstone, which is
of very good workmanship.
Several short inscriptions found last year may be inserted here, as
they are still unpublished.