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Excavations at Zakro, Crete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2013

D. G. Hogarth
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Excavations were undertaken by me on behalf of the Cretan Exploration Fund in the spring of 1901, in pursuance of a programme for exploring the Eteocretan country. Primitive remains had been noted in the Zakro district, by Captain Spratt in 1852, and been more fully described by Prof. F. Halbherr in the Antiquary for 1892 (p. 153). They were visited later by others, notably Prof. L. Mariani in 1893. Mr. A. J. Evans in 1894 and 1896 visited the upper valley, and besides giving a short account of what he saw in the Academy (July 4, 1896), preserved very full notes made on the spot. When a coastal site in East Crete was desired, he recommended these remains, near a natural port, the last on the directest sea-route from the Aegean to the Cyrenaic shore, to my attention.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 7 , November 1901 , pp. 121 - 149
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1901

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page 121 note 1 Pococke, to whom Spratt refers, mentions no ruins and was obviously never at Zakro.

page 122 note 1 Mentioned by Spratt (I. p. 234), Halbherr, (Ant. 1892, p. 153)Google Scholar and Mariani, (Mon. Ant. vi. p. 298).Google Scholar

page 126 note 1 The special study of this pottery was undertaken in Candia by Mr. J. H. Marshall; but an attack of fever compelled him to leave the island prematurely, and having now accepted a post in India, he has had to abandon the work. I must therefore defer a detailed report.

page 126 note 2 v. Journal of Hell. Studies, xxi. p. 96.

page 133 note 1 These will form the subject of a special article to appear in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.