Showing papers in "American Journal of Archaeology in 1955"

Abstract: Les campagnes 1980 dans les sites anatoliens. Plan de classement: sites de l'Age du Bronze| fouilles de sauvetage sur l'Euphrate| la metallurgie| les sites minoens et myceniens| sites urartiens| neo-hittites| phrygiens| pamphyliens, pisidiens, lyciens, cariens, ioniens, lydiens| sites d'Aeolis-Mysie| de Propontide-Thrace| de Phrygie-Lycaonie| de Cilicie. Etudes interdisciplinaires.

Abstract: level. The work of previous seasons had indicated the southeast side of the mound as the most profitable place to dig, including within its area public buildings on a very considerable scale and dating from the time of the Persian Empire.' The city gate itself is a monumental structure extending to a length of nearly 50 m., and divided into three parts-a central gateway with inner and outer court, flanked at either side by a court backed against the of sun-dried brick. Wooden beams laid horizon-

Abstract: SINCE the writing of the paper on owl skyphoi for the Robinson volume,' two articles bearing on the subject have been published, though in neither do the skyphoi constitute the principal theme. Jongkees2 lists a number of unpublished owls, some of them on skyphoi, and shows one skyphos. Lippold3 deals with the correspondence in type of owls on coins and other owls and illustrates a skyphos which, he says, is in the market, but surely it is the known piece in Oxford (CVA 2, III I, pl. 62, nos. 1-2). Several owl skyphoi have appeared in recent fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum, notably that from the Vienna museum, with valuable text by Eichler. I have received a number of photographs, for which I owe thanks to the Museo Arqueologico Nacional in Madrid, Mme. Rosanna Pincelli of the Museo Civico in Bologna, Mmine. Gustel Bruckner of the Muske d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, Miss Chrysoula Kardara of the National Museum in Athens, Mr. van Wijngaarden of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Miss Lucy Talcott, Dr. Carl Roebuck, the University Museum in Philadelphia, and Mr. Paul Etter of the Worcester Art Museum; also to Dr. J. H. C. Kern of the Leiden Museum, who kindly sent descriptive and bibliographical details about the skyphoi there. Dr. Kern has also told of several unpublished skyphoi: one, Italiote, in Leiden, one in the City Museum in the Hague, one in the Museo Civico in Turin, and two in Besan-

Abstract: ALTHOUGH many archaeological works prepared over seventy years ago are now little used as standard references, Michaelis' great work has remained a classic for two reasons. The first is its thoroughness and accuracy. The second is the fact that, while many articles and several separate catalogues of specific collections have appeared, no general guide to classical sculptures in British private collections has been essayed since the Strassburg professor's book and its two supplements (JHS 5 [1884] and 6 [1885]). The Journal of Hellenic Studies has been, since the suggestion was first made by Michaelis himself in the first of his supplementary articles, long the chief vehicle for presentation of material in clarification of sections of Ancient Marbles or classical marbles of non-Romano-British origin not included in that work. The late Mrs. Eugenie Strong's publication of the now dispersed Sir Frederick Cook collection at Doughty House, Richmond (JHS 28 [1908] Iff.), is perhaps outstanding among a number of examples which are mentioned below. The important separate catalogues, published since Ancient Marbles appeared, are also listed in the following pages, under the collections of which they treat.

Abstract: thickness from 0.I2 m. at the top edge to o0.4 m. at the bottom. The cist was composed of two pieces very closely fitted together and measuring I.i8 m. and 0.43 m. in length respectively. The grave lay, at an angle approximately NWSE, at a depth less than half a meter below the modern surface and completely sunk into the soft greenish rock called "pasparos" which is native to the site. A trench wider than the sarcophagus had been cut to receive it and the space remaining when it was in position had been filled with small fragments of the rock which had been dug out. A very well preserved skeleton of an adult was found in the tomb together with ten small pouring vessels and a small amphora, all of the geometric period. There were also some metal objects. These finds will be described and discussed in this article. For the first time the existence of a larnax tomb of the geometric period cannot be disputed. The only other known instance is that of a tomb at Corinth2 (AJA 9 [19051 413, fig. i) where attribution to the geometric period is highly probable but not absolutely certain since early geometric vases were found very near the grave but not actually in it (ibid. pls. XI-XVI; Saul S. Weinberg, Corinth VII, pt. I, Cambridge 1943, i6, nos. 54-66). The other contemporary parallel is the "aschenkiste" found in a rock tomb on Thera. Note especially a vase illustrated by H. Dragendorff (Thera II, Berlin 1903, 28, fig. 74) which came from a tomb with geometric and protoarchaic burials. See also ibid. 56, fig. 190. Two more geometric vases found very near the tomb and two Corinthian vases found in a field not far from the village were given to me when I visited the site. These will be described and discussed together with the rest of the finds from Clenia.

Abstract: THE site of the ancient city of Bactra has usually been identified with the modern and Islamic city presently called Balkh. Topographical data for ancient Bactra are scanty in the extreme. The city lay on the Bactrus River, some miles above its junction with the Oxus. Bactra-Zariaspa2 was traditionally the home of Zoroaster. In Hellenistic times it was the capital city of the independent kingdom of the Euthydemids, strong enough to withstand siege by Antiochus the Great in 208 B.c. The kingdom and its capital were reported by the Romans to have been fabulously rich. At the time of the Roman Empire Bactra was an important point on the silk route from the east, and one terminus of a southward branch to India which ran up the valley of the Bactrus to cross the high passes of the Hindu Kush, passing through Cartana (the modern Bamiyan) and Alexandria ad Caucasum (somewhere near the modern Charikar) to descend to its other terminus, Taxila in the Indus Valley.' Bactra was thus known to the Western world, remote but renowned, from the sixth century before Christ to the third or fourth century of our era. The period from the time of Alexander until the fall of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom about 130 B.c. must have been that in which Bactria was best known to the