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CHAPTER XIV.
THE PRIMITIVE OBJECTS AS A WHOLE.
By D. G. Hogarth.
The foregoing catalogue enumerates the three thousand and more objects
extracted from beneath, or beneath the level of, the Croesus pavement, and
almost all from the area occupied by the three successive shrines of the
Primitive period. The most certain deductions can be drawn from those objects
found inside the earliest Basis. As has been indicated above in Chs. 111.-IV.,
there can be no reasonable doubt about the following postulates, (i) The
innermost Basis, built of green schist, which rests on the bottom sand, is
as early a structure as any now extant on the Artemision site. (2) The slab-
filling, which we found packed into the space between the unsquared inner faces
of the schist walls, was necessary to their stability, and, therefore, coeval
with them. (3) The objects found between the layers of this filling were
placed there with the filling, and not at any later date. Concerning these
objects two questions must be asked : how did they come to be in the
filling ? and when were they placed there ? But before we attempt to
answer, it will be well to collect in summary form, from the foregoing
catalogue, both the different varieties of objects which were actually found in
this filling (about 1,000 in all, large and small), and the variant types which
were found outside, whether under decisive conditions of position or not.
A. The Basis.
1. Coins.
4 classed by Dr. Head under Primitive Issues: 14 Lion types: 2 Horse-
head types : 2 Gryphon types : 1 Seal type: 1 uncertain type. In all, 24 coins.
2. Other objects in Gold and Elect rum.
The great majority of the collection, about 600 specimens in all, including
small pendants and beads. These comprise: —
(a) 4 very small female figurines, of both erect and seated types,
such as may have been pendants or other attached ornaments,
(b) 8 hawks (out of 21) and 2 applique figurines (frog and ass-
head ?). (c) All the brooches, except one (out of 11). (d) 10 fibulae
CHAPTER XIV.
THE PRIMITIVE OBJECTS AS A WHOLE.
By D. G. Hogarth.
The foregoing catalogue enumerates the three thousand and more objects
extracted from beneath, or beneath the level of, the Croesus pavement, and
almost all from the area occupied by the three successive shrines of the
Primitive period. The most certain deductions can be drawn from those objects
found inside the earliest Basis. As has been indicated above in Chs. 111.-IV.,
there can be no reasonable doubt about the following postulates, (i) The
innermost Basis, built of green schist, which rests on the bottom sand, is
as early a structure as any now extant on the Artemision site. (2) The slab-
filling, which we found packed into the space between the unsquared inner faces
of the schist walls, was necessary to their stability, and, therefore, coeval
with them. (3) The objects found between the layers of this filling were
placed there with the filling, and not at any later date. Concerning these
objects two questions must be asked : how did they come to be in the
filling ? and when were they placed there ? But before we attempt to
answer, it will be well to collect in summary form, from the foregoing
catalogue, both the different varieties of objects which were actually found in
this filling (about 1,000 in all, large and small), and the variant types which
were found outside, whether under decisive conditions of position or not.
A. The Basis.
1. Coins.
4 classed by Dr. Head under Primitive Issues: 14 Lion types: 2 Horse-
head types : 2 Gryphon types : 1 Seal type: 1 uncertain type. In all, 24 coins.
2. Other objects in Gold and Elect rum.
The great majority of the collection, about 600 specimens in all, including
small pendants and beads. These comprise: —
(a) 4 very small female figurines, of both erect and seated types,
such as may have been pendants or other attached ornaments,
(b) 8 hawks (out of 21) and 2 applique figurines (frog and ass-
head ?). (c) All the brooches, except one (out of 11). (d) 10 fibulae