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VI PREFACE.
these sections in an adequate way. It has therefore been most satisfactory
to me that so much has fallen into the best hands, and that they have made
so large a part of the work their own.
The work of excavating was jointly superintended by Mr. F. LI. Griffith
and myself; and in those parts of it which I was prevented from attending
to by other work, I have had to rely largely on Mr. Griffith's notes. Those
portions which he attended to principally were the latter part of clearing the
chambers in the Great Temenos, and the clearing of the Temenos of Apollo.
That his name does not appear to any part of this volume is due to his
having been more congenially occupied since his return, in work upon some
of the Egyptian papyri which I brought from Tanis the previous year.
In the preparation of the plates I have had the assistance of most willing
volunteers, whose initials will be seen on their work. Eight plates have
been drawn by Mr. Percy Newberry, three by Mr. Gerald Horsley, and one
by Mr. Ernest Gardner on his own subject: of the other plates, four are
produced by the Autotype Company, and thirty are my own drawings.
My best hope is that the present volume will prove to have been but
the first taste of a deep draught of the history of the early Greeks; drawn
from a country which even in their days was worn and aged, with the
remembrance of conquests and disasters, of cycles and dynasties, dimly seen
in the past behind it.
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE.
Bromley, Kent,
November 20, 1885.
these sections in an adequate way. It has therefore been most satisfactory
to me that so much has fallen into the best hands, and that they have made
so large a part of the work their own.
The work of excavating was jointly superintended by Mr. F. LI. Griffith
and myself; and in those parts of it which I was prevented from attending
to by other work, I have had to rely largely on Mr. Griffith's notes. Those
portions which he attended to principally were the latter part of clearing the
chambers in the Great Temenos, and the clearing of the Temenos of Apollo.
That his name does not appear to any part of this volume is due to his
having been more congenially occupied since his return, in work upon some
of the Egyptian papyri which I brought from Tanis the previous year.
In the preparation of the plates I have had the assistance of most willing
volunteers, whose initials will be seen on their work. Eight plates have
been drawn by Mr. Percy Newberry, three by Mr. Gerald Horsley, and one
by Mr. Ernest Gardner on his own subject: of the other plates, four are
produced by the Autotype Company, and thirty are my own drawings.
My best hope is that the present volume will prove to have been but
the first taste of a deep draught of the history of the early Greeks; drawn
from a country which even in their days was worn and aged, with the
remembrance of conquests and disasters, of cycles and dynasties, dimly seen
in the past behind it.
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE.
Bromley, Kent,
November 20, 1885.