DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.3332#0024
20
NAUKEATIS.
antiquities themselves, and of the various sites
upon which they were found, it remains for me
to say a few words about their condition and
treatment after their safe arrival in England.
I had all the more important cases brought to
Cambridge, in order to work at them with plenty
of room at my disposal: for this room I have
to thank, first, the authorities of Gonville and
Caius College, and later the director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum. Most of my work at
Cambridge calls for no notice beyond the
publication of its results ; but of the pottery
from the temenos of Aphrodite a little may
here be said. By gradual sorting and compar-
ing, I have recovered some vases in an almost
complete state, and about one half of others:
many are represented by considerable pieces;
others only by insignificant or isolated frag-
ments. The total number of vases that have
contributed their fragments to this vast layer
of pieces must have been very large : and they
must have been broken up before their fragments
were cast out ; for parts of the same vase were
often found scattered to the east, the south,
and the north of the temple. Indeed, in conse-
quence of this confusion, I found it useless to
preserve in sorting the distinctions of place
that had been so far kept. As regards the
condition of the vases, and the number of
pieces into which they had been broken, the
following figures will speak : of one large bowl,
now nearly complete, about 70 fragments
were found ; of others again, that have been
recovered only" in part, I have counted the
pieces of half-a-dozen of the first that came;
these amounted to 47, 46, 77, 60, 31, and 17
respectively. As these were, as I have said,
completely mixed up together with the remains
of other similar vases, it will be clear that
the task of separating them was one which
required a considerable amount of time.
(21) The work of sorting and of mending
has now been almost completed. In the
British Museum will be found a representative
selection of the various objects that have been
recovered; the rest have been distributed
among various museums, where it is hoped
they may be seen and studied. For a specimen
of the style of the pottery I would refer those
who cannot see the vases themselves to the
excellent coloured Plate in the Journal of
Hellenic Studies, PI. Ixxxix (1887), as well as
to the direct photographic reproductions in this
volume.
NAUKEATIS.
antiquities themselves, and of the various sites
upon which they were found, it remains for me
to say a few words about their condition and
treatment after their safe arrival in England.
I had all the more important cases brought to
Cambridge, in order to work at them with plenty
of room at my disposal: for this room I have
to thank, first, the authorities of Gonville and
Caius College, and later the director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum. Most of my work at
Cambridge calls for no notice beyond the
publication of its results ; but of the pottery
from the temenos of Aphrodite a little may
here be said. By gradual sorting and compar-
ing, I have recovered some vases in an almost
complete state, and about one half of others:
many are represented by considerable pieces;
others only by insignificant or isolated frag-
ments. The total number of vases that have
contributed their fragments to this vast layer
of pieces must have been very large : and they
must have been broken up before their fragments
were cast out ; for parts of the same vase were
often found scattered to the east, the south,
and the north of the temple. Indeed, in conse-
quence of this confusion, I found it useless to
preserve in sorting the distinctions of place
that had been so far kept. As regards the
condition of the vases, and the number of
pieces into which they had been broken, the
following figures will speak : of one large bowl,
now nearly complete, about 70 fragments
were found ; of others again, that have been
recovered only" in part, I have counted the
pieces of half-a-dozen of the first that came;
these amounted to 47, 46, 77, 60, 31, and 17
respectively. As these were, as I have said,
completely mixed up together with the remains
of other similar vases, it will be clear that
the task of separating them was one which
required a considerable amount of time.
(21) The work of sorting and of mending
has now been almost completed. In the
British Museum will be found a representative
selection of the various objects that have been
recovered; the rest have been distributed
among various museums, where it is hoped
they may be seen and studied. For a specimen
of the style of the pottery I would refer those
who cannot see the vases themselves to the
excellent coloured Plate in the Journal of
Hellenic Studies, PI. Ixxxix (1887), as well as
to the direct photographic reproductions in this
volume.