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CHAPTER III.
EXCAVATIONS OE 1904-5.
By 1). G. Hogarth.
At this point knowledge of the early structures on the Artemision site
stood when, on behalf of the British Museum, I resumed Wood's work on
October 3rd, 1904. In the task before me I had the able assistance of Mr.
A. E. Henderson, R. B.A., as architect, surveyor, and draughtsman. For the
overseeing of the workmen I used Gregorios Antoniou, of Larnaca, who has
had a longer experience of excavation work than perhaps any man on the active
list in the Levant, having served first as a labourer and then, for over a
quarter of a century, as an overseer on all sorts of sites. To his organising
capacity, diligence, vigilance, and probity the success of our excavations is
largely due. The work was watched on behalf of the Imperial Museum by
M. Theodore Makridy Bey, well known for his archaeological explorations
in Syria and Asia Minor.
The main objects proposed were three. (1) To open out the Croesus
stratum afresh, in order that a detailed plan might be made of all its remains
in situ, and any further fragments of its architecture and sculpture be recovered.
(2) To dig both under that stratum and round about it in order that its limits
might be determined, and Wood's conclusion, that no earlier remains underlay
it, be tested. (3) To probe that part of the surrounding Precinct which was
British property, so far as was necessary for the determination of the character
and condition of the remains at various levels, and of the probable cost of
a more thorough exploration.
Dr. K. Humann, acting for the Austrian Institute, purchased in 1895
two plots of land marching with the British boundaries on the north-east and the
west, and there Professor Benndorf dug pits in 1897. His chief effort was
directed to the west end, where it was surmised that a Great Altar might have
stood before the Artemision facade, and he made two large quadrangular
sinkings on a prolongation of the axial line of the later Temple.1 The pit
nearest to the facade yielded some inscriptions of the Imperial Age, a Hellen-
1 For a statement "f Prof. Benndorfs results from iliis exploratory digging, see Anteiger der tats. Akad. der
Wissetuckaflen (Phil. Hist. Klasse) xxxiv., y\>. \(< it. (1898),and (more fully) Forsehungen inEphesos, i.,sect. vi. (1906).
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CHAPTER III.
EXCAVATIONS OE 1904-5.
By 1). G. Hogarth.
At this point knowledge of the early structures on the Artemision site
stood when, on behalf of the British Museum, I resumed Wood's work on
October 3rd, 1904. In the task before me I had the able assistance of Mr.
A. E. Henderson, R. B.A., as architect, surveyor, and draughtsman. For the
overseeing of the workmen I used Gregorios Antoniou, of Larnaca, who has
had a longer experience of excavation work than perhaps any man on the active
list in the Levant, having served first as a labourer and then, for over a
quarter of a century, as an overseer on all sorts of sites. To his organising
capacity, diligence, vigilance, and probity the success of our excavations is
largely due. The work was watched on behalf of the Imperial Museum by
M. Theodore Makridy Bey, well known for his archaeological explorations
in Syria and Asia Minor.
The main objects proposed were three. (1) To open out the Croesus
stratum afresh, in order that a detailed plan might be made of all its remains
in situ, and any further fragments of its architecture and sculpture be recovered.
(2) To dig both under that stratum and round about it in order that its limits
might be determined, and Wood's conclusion, that no earlier remains underlay
it, be tested. (3) To probe that part of the surrounding Precinct which was
British property, so far as was necessary for the determination of the character
and condition of the remains at various levels, and of the probable cost of
a more thorough exploration.
Dr. K. Humann, acting for the Austrian Institute, purchased in 1895
two plots of land marching with the British boundaries on the north-east and the
west, and there Professor Benndorf dug pits in 1897. His chief effort was
directed to the west end, where it was surmised that a Great Altar might have
stood before the Artemision facade, and he made two large quadrangular
sinkings on a prolongation of the axial line of the later Temple.1 The pit
nearest to the facade yielded some inscriptions of the Imperial Age, a Hellen-
1 For a statement "f Prof. Benndorfs results from iliis exploratory digging, see Anteiger der tats. Akad. der
Wissetuckaflen (Phil. Hist. Klasse) xxxiv., y\>. \(< it. (1898),and (more fully) Forsehungen inEphesos, i.,sect. vi. (1906).
1) 2