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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2533#0098
LOCATION OF THE FRAGMENTS
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of these belonged to vases of the Black or Red-Figured period, but the bulk bore no
distinguishing characteristics. In addition to the whole number, five baskets contained
vases in an intact or in slightly broken condition.
The proportion of the various sites was as follows : —
South West Corner ........
S. E. Side ..........
S. Side, outside peribolos wall ......
Old Temple..........
Above Cyclopean wall .......
Above Upper Stoa ........
E. of chambers ........
S. E. of Second Temple . ......
W. Building .........
N. W. Building.........
First year of excavation .......
Unknown ..........
150 "
Baskets of the first year's digging contained fragments from the Second Temple Ter-
race, but no more definite information is preserved. Fragments of every kind were
found in all these places, but certain classes were more common in certain spots than in
others ; for instance, on the Old Temple TerraceJ and in the corner of the second platform
below the Cyclopean wall and east of the Chambers, the Geometric fragments were much
more numerous than any other kind, while in the southwest corner (east of the retaining
wall of the West Building) Mycenaean predominated. The Argive (so-called Proto-
Corinthian) style was found in greatest quantities in the southwest corner and on the
Old Temple Terrace. Other classes were divided with comparative evenness all through
the excavation.
Little advantage is to be gained from the knowledge (in the case of the vases, at least)
whence each separate fragment came. Throughout the preliminary stages of the work
the fragments from each spot were kept carefully separate, but this proved impossible
after the task of piecing them was begun. In several cases fragments from the same
vase were found several hundred yards apart. It must be remembered that no apparent
trace of layers which could be chronologically divided was observable in any of the
different finding places, for the pockets Avhere the fragments abounded in greatest
quantity showed that the material had been shoveled in helter-skelter, and it was quite
usual to find Mycenaean fragments near the top and Argive near the bottom. In the
case of vases of any especial importance, the finding place will always be given in the
course of this work.
It is extremely difficult to make a precise estimate of the number of vases which
these fragments represent. The number of vases intact or only slightly broken amounted
to a little more than a thousand. From the fragments about ten vases were reconstructed
almost entirely, about fifty partially so ; while those represented by only half a dozen
fragments apiece amounted to between two and three hundred. If we should make the
extremely modest calculation of four or five fragments to a vase, we should have about
fifty thousand vases.
1 Professor Waldstein informs me that to the best of which were clearly labeled " Old Temple Terrace,"
his recollection this statement is not correct. My only contained numerous fragments of the Geometric style.
authority for the statement is that several of the baskets,
61
50
baskets
\ S. Stoa
[1894 &
) "95
6
u
3
ii
10
u
7
u
6
20
5
a
2
u
5
cc
30
u
6
tc
of these belonged to vases of the Black or Red-Figured period, but the bulk bore no
distinguishing characteristics. In addition to the whole number, five baskets contained
vases in an intact or in slightly broken condition.
The proportion of the various sites was as follows : —
South West Corner ........
S. E. Side ..........
S. Side, outside peribolos wall ......
Old Temple..........
Above Cyclopean wall .......
Above Upper Stoa ........
E. of chambers ........
S. E. of Second Temple . ......
W. Building .........
N. W. Building.........
First year of excavation .......
Unknown ..........
150 "
Baskets of the first year's digging contained fragments from the Second Temple Ter-
race, but no more definite information is preserved. Fragments of every kind were
found in all these places, but certain classes were more common in certain spots than in
others ; for instance, on the Old Temple TerraceJ and in the corner of the second platform
below the Cyclopean wall and east of the Chambers, the Geometric fragments were much
more numerous than any other kind, while in the southwest corner (east of the retaining
wall of the West Building) Mycenaean predominated. The Argive (so-called Proto-
Corinthian) style was found in greatest quantities in the southwest corner and on the
Old Temple Terrace. Other classes were divided with comparative evenness all through
the excavation.
Little advantage is to be gained from the knowledge (in the case of the vases, at least)
whence each separate fragment came. Throughout the preliminary stages of the work
the fragments from each spot were kept carefully separate, but this proved impossible
after the task of piecing them was begun. In several cases fragments from the same
vase were found several hundred yards apart. It must be remembered that no apparent
trace of layers which could be chronologically divided was observable in any of the
different finding places, for the pockets Avhere the fragments abounded in greatest
quantity showed that the material had been shoveled in helter-skelter, and it was quite
usual to find Mycenaean fragments near the top and Argive near the bottom. In the
case of vases of any especial importance, the finding place will always be given in the
course of this work.
It is extremely difficult to make a precise estimate of the number of vases which
these fragments represent. The number of vases intact or only slightly broken amounted
to a little more than a thousand. From the fragments about ten vases were reconstructed
almost entirely, about fifty partially so ; while those represented by only half a dozen
fragments apiece amounted to between two and three hundred. If we should make the
extremely modest calculation of four or five fragments to a vase, we should have about
fifty thousand vases.
1 Professor Waldstein informs me that to the best of which were clearly labeled " Old Temple Terrace,"
his recollection this statement is not correct. My only contained numerous fragments of the Geometric style.
authority for the statement is that several of the baskets,