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Excavations at Naukratis.
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pottery was found in the immediate neighbourhood and the deposit of
terracottas at the other end of the shrine included nothing of a very
archaic type (see pp. 69 ff.). We cannot therefore place the shrine much
before 500 b.c. The relief itself is too devoid of character to be dated
closely, but there is nothing in its appearance that is not consistent with
the period proposed.
D.
THE TERRACOTTAS.
By Clement Gutcii.
The terracottas, which were recovered during the spring of 1899 from
the site of Naukratis, are both more numerous and more important than
those obtained during the two previous campaigns. They number nearly
four hundred,-the specimens ranging in date from the sixth century b.c.
to the second century of our era. A number of these are of types akin
to those already known at Naukratis, and are present in such quantity as
to make it possible to trace the probable development of their various
peculiarities. Besides these, and thirty or forty small female heads of
" Tanagra " type and other figures of comparatively late date, we have the
remains of nearly a score of female heads of unusual size and beauty,
which are to be ascribed chiefly to the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.
At Naukratis, a city of ancient foundation, which had a continuous
existence as a Greek colony from the middle of the sixth century b.c.
down to the second or third century a.d., and which was moreover, for
the greater part of that time, a prosperous trading centre in constant
communication with Greece and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, we should
expect not only to find a more or less complete series of terracottas of all
dates during that period, but also that these terracottas should give
evidence both of the foreign trade of the place, and of the influence of
the art and religion of their Egyptian neighbours on the work and worship
of the Greeks themselves.
As a matter of fact, so far as the terracottas are concerned, internal
evidence of an import trade of any consequence is disappointingly
slight. It is possible to point only to a score or so of specimens in the
whole collection as being of exoteric manufacture. This number is
f 7.
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pottery was found in the immediate neighbourhood and the deposit of
terracottas at the other end of the shrine included nothing of a very
archaic type (see pp. 69 ff.). We cannot therefore place the shrine much
before 500 b.c. The relief itself is too devoid of character to be dated
closely, but there is nothing in its appearance that is not consistent with
the period proposed.
D.
THE TERRACOTTAS.
By Clement Gutcii.
The terracottas, which were recovered during the spring of 1899 from
the site of Naukratis, are both more numerous and more important than
those obtained during the two previous campaigns. They number nearly
four hundred,-the specimens ranging in date from the sixth century b.c.
to the second century of our era. A number of these are of types akin
to those already known at Naukratis, and are present in such quantity as
to make it possible to trace the probable development of their various
peculiarities. Besides these, and thirty or forty small female heads of
" Tanagra " type and other figures of comparatively late date, we have the
remains of nearly a score of female heads of unusual size and beauty,
which are to be ascribed chiefly to the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.
At Naukratis, a city of ancient foundation, which had a continuous
existence as a Greek colony from the middle of the sixth century b.c.
down to the second or third century a.d., and which was moreover, for
the greater part of that time, a prosperous trading centre in constant
communication with Greece and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, we should
expect not only to find a more or less complete series of terracottas of all
dates during that period, but also that these terracottas should give
evidence both of the foreign trade of the place, and of the influence of
the art and religion of their Egyptian neighbours on the work and worship
of the Greeks themselves.
As a matter of fact, so far as the terracottas are concerned, internal
evidence of an import trade of any consequence is disappointingly
slight. It is possible to point only to a score or so of specimens in the
whole collection as being of exoteric manufacture. This number is
f 7.