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Brownson, Carleton L.: [Excavations and discoveries at the Argive Heraeum, 1892-1895]
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STAMPED TILES PROM THE ARGIVE iTERAEUM.
Clay that is to be fired presents an opportunity easily to fix
a name so that it shall become more durable than one laboriously
chiseled in stone. This opportunity is one too tempting to be
neglected, and from the time when the Assyrians stamped their
bricks, down to the present day, it has been improved. Tiles
and bricks made by Romans, and impressed with the names of
the legions by whom and for whom they were made, have been
found all over Western Europe.1 Perhaps less attention has
been paid to Greek material of this character because the mate-
rial itself has been less abundant. Birch (Ancient Pottery, p. 116
ff.) gives a list of the examples known at the time of the publica-
tion of that work. But that was nearly forty years ago; and
even the second edition is more than twenty years old. In this
interval many additions have been made to our stock.
The two great excavations at Olympia and Delos, to be sure,
added little to this material. But at Lycosura many tiles were
found bearing the stamp Aecnroivas.2 We also have three stamped
tiles from Chios,3 two from Magnesia,4 two bricks from Tralles.5
Similar material comes from the Peiraeus,6 Tanagra,7 Tegea,8 Ela-
teia,9 and Eretria.10 Of especial interest is a tile fragment from the
temple of Apollo at Amyclae, in the Central Museum at Athens,
and not yet published. On this the stamp has been impressed
twice. The first time it was done so carelessly that only the top
1 Marini, Inscrizioni doliari; Birch, Ancient Pottery, at the end.
2 Excavations at Megalopolis, p. 141.
8 Milth. des deutsch. Arch, Inst., Athen, xin, p. 182.
iIbid., xiv, pp. 105, 106. 6 Bull, de Corr. Hellen., x, p. 327.
6 Ibid., xi, p. 209. 7 Ibid.
8 Mitth. des deutsch. Arch. Inst., Athen, iv, p. 144.
'Bull, de Corr. Hellen., xi, p. 109.
10 Eleventh Annual Report of the Am. School of Classical Studies at Athens, p. 40.
In the excavations of the present year at Eretria another example was found.
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Clay that is to be fired presents an opportunity easily to fix
a name so that it shall become more durable than one laboriously
chiseled in stone. This opportunity is one too tempting to be
neglected, and from the time when the Assyrians stamped their
bricks, down to the present day, it has been improved. Tiles
and bricks made by Romans, and impressed with the names of
the legions by whom and for whom they were made, have been
found all over Western Europe.1 Perhaps less attention has
been paid to Greek material of this character because the mate-
rial itself has been less abundant. Birch (Ancient Pottery, p. 116
ff.) gives a list of the examples known at the time of the publica-
tion of that work. But that was nearly forty years ago; and
even the second edition is more than twenty years old. In this
interval many additions have been made to our stock.
The two great excavations at Olympia and Delos, to be sure,
added little to this material. But at Lycosura many tiles were
found bearing the stamp Aecnroivas.2 We also have three stamped
tiles from Chios,3 two from Magnesia,4 two bricks from Tralles.5
Similar material comes from the Peiraeus,6 Tanagra,7 Tegea,8 Ela-
teia,9 and Eretria.10 Of especial interest is a tile fragment from the
temple of Apollo at Amyclae, in the Central Museum at Athens,
and not yet published. On this the stamp has been impressed
twice. The first time it was done so carelessly that only the top
1 Marini, Inscrizioni doliari; Birch, Ancient Pottery, at the end.
2 Excavations at Megalopolis, p. 141.
8 Milth. des deutsch. Arch, Inst., Athen, xin, p. 182.
iIbid., xiv, pp. 105, 106. 6 Bull, de Corr. Hellen., x, p. 327.
6 Ibid., xi, p. 209. 7 Ibid.
8 Mitth. des deutsch. Arch. Inst., Athen, iv, p. 144.
'Bull, de Corr. Hellen., xi, p. 109.
10 Eleventh Annual Report of the Am. School of Classical Studies at Athens, p. 40.
In the excavations of the present year at Eretria another example was found.
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