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Excavations in Ithaca, III; The Cave at Polis, II
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In the sites excavated by me in West Greece at Polis, at Graves near Astakos, at Halikais in Zakynthos, I cannot differentiate the rough pithoi of the Early and Late Bronze-Age. Lug forms which occur in Macedonia and Thessaly in the Early Bronze-Age appear to be still in use in the Late Bronze-Age. At Graves and at Halikais the specific forms of the Early Bronze-Age, levigated pottery, such as sauce-boats and handles with triangular section are not in common use in Mycenaean deposits. (Middle Bronze-Age forms and decoration do overlap into and influence the Mycenaean period.) I have therefore catalogued together all the rough pottery found at Polis, except a few vases which are definitely Mycenaean in shape, and then ascribed the remaining vases to their categories. There is very little levigated EH pottery at Polis and it seems likely that much of the rest of the EH pottery is late or transitional to the Middle Bronze-Age. The only pure (or nearly pure) Middle Bronze-Age deposit yet found in Ithaca is the small one at ‘P., First hole’, but the presence of the Middle Bronze-Age people in West Greece is proved by graves in Kephallenia and Leukas, and no doubt their settlements will eventually be discovered.
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page 1 note 1 E.g. Nos. 5, 6 below, p. 2. Fig. 1 and Pl. 1.
page 1 note 2 I note that Valmin, Céramique Primitive Messénienne (de Lund, B.. 1937)Google Scholar has not be able to attribute the rough pre-historic pottery at Malthi to different periods. Otherwise it is strikingly different from the rough pottery found at Polis.
page 1 note 3 See below p. 7.
page 1 note 4 Excavated by Kabbadias and unpublished. See Benton, BSA XXXII Pl. 40c p. 222Google Scholar.
page 1 note 5 The F. graves Dörpfeld Alt-Ithaka Pl. 73Google Scholar.
page 1 note 6 These vases bear a general resemblance to the pithoi of the R. graves at Leukas (Alt-Ithaka beil (67).
page 2 note 1 Cf. Tsoundas, and Manatt, Dimini and Sesklo p. 262 Fig. 169Google Scholar. Similar vases were found in an early Bronze-Age layer at Armenochori in Macedonia (to be published). Common at Malthi (Valmin op. cit. Pls. 1 and 2).
page 2 note 2 Contrast No. 28 (Pl. 1), which is inserted through the wall.
page 3 note 1 Similarly decorated vases were found in an early Bronze-Age stratum at Armenochori in Macedonia.
page 3 note 2 For a real forked lug see No. 28 (Pl. 1). For one knob below a rim of this nature, cf. Kunze, Orchomenos II Pl. XI 2, eGoogle Scholar.
page 3 note 3 See Alt-Ithaka beil 67, 68a R. 13D. Common at Malthi (Valmin Pls. 1 and 2).
page 3 note 4 Cf. Alt-Ithaka beil 84a.
page 3 note 5 CVA, Zagreb 1 Pls. 36, 15 and 37, 7 from Vuc̃edal: Dumitrescu, V., Dacia II p. 68Google Scholar Fig. 36, 7; ibid. p. 69 Fig. 39, 5 and 7 all from Gulmenita.
page 3 note 6 To be published in the BSA.
page 3 note 7 BSA XXXII p. 134Google Scholar Fig. 3. His ‘Mammiform Ware’ seems to include (a) single, semi-functional knobs (pp. 135, 137, c 1), (b) black ware with rows of knobs (p. 138 note 2), BSA XXIX, Fig. 43 besides (c) the rough, unpolished pottery which I wish to call Pellet ware.
page 3 note 8 Cf. Alt-Ithaka, R graves, beil 83b, from Choirospilia; for shape cf. beil 67 R. 13c.
page 4 note 1 Cf. Wace, and Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly p. 156Google Scholar i (γ ware at Zerelia).
page 5 note 1 I have not found an exact parallel, but cf. the rough cooking-pot found at Aetos, Heurtley, BSA XXXIII p. 57, Fig. 37Google Scholar.
page 5 note 2 This shape is not unlike that of Neolithic bowls from Dimini. Tsoundas, Dimini and Sesklo Pl. 20Google Scholar; but shapes not unlike are also found in Bronze-Age layers, Goldman, , Eutresis fig. 132Google Scholar; Kunze, Orchomenos III abb. 25, p. 63aGoogle Scholar.
page 5 note 3 The general shape of these handles is like those found in Macedonia, Heurtley, BSA XXIX p. 167, Fig. 44Google Scholar.
page 5 note 4 Heurtley, BSA XXXV No. 92 pp. 26, 28, Fig. 23Google Scholar.
page 6 note 1 Cf. Orchotnenos III Pl. XXXII 4a. The Orchomenos material makes it probable that this vase is Early Helladic, and not connected with Crete, though the technique of the paint is extremely like that of M.M.I, vases. Cf. also light on dark painted vases in Leukas. See ref. given Orchomenos III p. 94Google Scholar notes 3 and 4 and on p. 88, 2.
page 6 note 2 See Kunze, Orchomenos II pp. 32, 33Google Scholar.
page 6 note 3 Contrast the large quantity found at Malthi (Valmin Pl. II) but how singularly unfortunate the excavator has been to find this pottery in 260 places (p. 11) and not to be able to suggest a single shape. It is difficult to discuss an abstract fabric, sine forma.
page 6 note 4 Cf. Vases from Olympia (Ath. Mitt. 1911 p. 169 ab. 12Google Scholar).
page 6 note 5 Cf. Blegen Zygouries Pl. VI.
page 6 note 6 Cf. Alt. Ithaka beil 56d.
page 6 note 7 Cf. Eutresis p. 137, 2.
page 7 note 1 Such rims are rather popular in Western Minyan; there are a good many in Kephallenia. Cf. BSA XXXII Pl. 40c.
page 7 note 2 Heurtley, , Saratse (BSA XXX) p. 131, Fig. 166Google Scholar.
page 7 note 3 Clay, paint and patterns are those of Aetos No. 106 from the Cairns (BSA XXXIII p. 57Google Scholar). Like that of No. 106, the shape is derived from the Early Bronze-Age. Cf. Kunze Orchomenos II Pl. XVII 2.
page 7 note 4 Cf. Vardaroftsa (BSA XXVIII) p. 217Google Scholar: cf. the painted sherds from P First-hole below p. 8.
page 7 note 5 From Kavvadios excavation. Prak. 1912 pp. 247 ff.Google Scholar See above p. 1.
page 7 note 6 Heurtley Vardino (LAAA XII) Pl. X, 9.
page 8 note 1 See Heurtley BSA XXVII Pl. III b, 5.
page 8 note 2 Some of the plain ware may have originally been painted.
page 8 note 3 Heurtley, BSA XXVIII p. 178 Fig. 26, 3Google Scholar; jug handle with similar pattern.
page 8 note 4 For untidy trailing triangles cf. Heurtley, BSA XXVIII p. 175cGoogle Scholar; Aetos ibid., XXXIII p. 56 No. 105.
page 8 note 5 Cf. Blegen, , Korakou p. 29Google Scholar.
page 8 note 6 Nos. 17, 40–43a, 54, 55.
page 8 note 7 E.g. No. 5.
page 8 note 8 Below p. 16.
page 8 note 9 Below p. 16.
page 8 note 10 Perhaps the following should also be placed with them—8, 66. I shall not be surprised if later evidence shows that much of the pottery I have called LH IIIc is really proto-Geometric, especially the kantharoi on high feet.
page 9 note 1 No. 19 is too uncertain to count as an exception.
page 9 note 2 Large trumpet-mouthed hydriae have been found at Zakynthos and Astakos. For large store vases cf. the stirrup vases found at Thebes (Αρχ. Εφ. 1909 p. 98 Fig. 16Google Scholar). Cf. also a jug in Kephallenia (Αρχ. Εφ 1932 Pl. 5 No. 22) from Lakkithra.
page 9 note 3 High bases probably belonging to hydriae were found at Astakos and Zakynthos.
page 9 note 4 Od II 290Google Scholar.
page 10 note 1 Wace, BSA XXV Pl. IXbGoogle Scholar.
page 10 note 2 There are three examples of this shape in the Ashmolean Museum, the earliest of the Tel-el-Amarna period, the latest contemporary with this.
page 10 note 3 Cf. pottery in the tholos tomb at Zakynthos (to be published).
page 10 note 4 Cf. No. 26 Pl. 6.
page 10 note 5 Wace Chamber Tombs at Mycenae Pl. XII 13, is an earlier version of this shape; Daniels, AJA 41 Pl. III, 43Google Scholar is later: the centre of gravity is lower (see Payne, BSA XXIX p. 274Google Scholar). For the date of Mr. Daniels' vases see below, p. 14.
page 10 note 6 This decoration appears on two cup rims; common on Geometric pottery.
page 10 note 7 Similar bases from Zakynthos and Astakos. Cf. Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 Pl. 5, 13.
page 10 note 8 Fig. 6 gives a section of a low (No. 19) and a high base (No. 26).
page 10 note 9 See Blegen, Korakou p. 63 Fig. 88Google Scholar.
page 11 note 1 Cf. BSA XXV Fig. 9e, ‘Granary’ class from Mycenae.
page 11 note 2 Valmin, Arsberattelse 1927–1928 Pl. VII 3Google Scholar from children's graves in Malthi, Messenia. See also the big kraters in Kephallenia Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 Pl. 4 Nos. 1, 3, 9.
page 11 note 3 Burr, D.Hesperia II p. 553Google Scholar, also from a child's grave. See also Geometric Nos. 18–20 below, and the proto-Geometric kantharos (?)
page 12 note 1 Cf. a favourite Kephallenian ornament, a triangle between spirals. The band on the rim is also typical of Kephallenia (e.g. Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 Pl. 5, 14).
page 12 note 2 Mosso, AMon. Ant. XIX Pl. IV 9Google Scholar.
page 12 note 3 Sherds found at Astakos are indistinguishable from these.
page 12 note 4 This bowl probably belongs to the class which were nearly plain. Cf. BM Vases Fig. 287. The pattern is derived from those of Vaphio cups Korakou Fig. 54, p. 40.
page 12 note 5 White occurs on early Mycenaean Vases but also on late vases. Wace, Chamber Tombs pp. 148, 180Google Scholar. Schuchardt Schliemann's Excavations Fig. 132; and on the Warrior Vase id. Fig. 284. The quality of this fragment is like that of Astakos MH ware.
page 12 note 6 Cf. BSA XXV Pl. XI g.
page 12 note 7 Cf. the shape of an East Greek cup, CVA Oxford IId Pl. 1, 18.
page 13 note 1 Cf. Marinatos, , Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 Pl. 7 Nos. 31a, 32aGoogle Scholar from Lakkithra. Also an almost identical cup in Neuchâtel from Livatho (Dessoulavy, Rev. Arch. XXXVII, p. 141 Fig. 23Google Scholar).
page 13 note 2 The ‘Transition’ kylix (below p. 16).
page 13 note 3 Enough of the surface remains to show that it, too, was of a Mycenaean character. Shape alone is sometimes a dangerous guide—e.g. the tomb group Clara Rhodos VI Fig. 232.
page 13 note 4 It has been found in a Geometric context in Cyprus. See below.
page 13 note 5 Contrast the irregular bulge on the stem of No. 61. If I am right in thinking that this shape is a late development of the Mycenaean kylix, it is difficult to derive it directly from Minyan kylix stems, which are rare in West Greece.
page 13 note 6 For a list of sites see Heurtley, BSA 1933 p. 63, 14Google Scholar. Add another sherd at Olympia, Benton, JHS 1936 p. 81Google Scholar and a stem at Astakos. Two examples in Cyprus are of the Ithacan type (Myres, Cesnola Collection in New York No. 458CrossRefGoogle Scholar). Prof. Myres has pointed out to me that this is only one phase of a tendency common in Cyprus and in other places to put one or more rings on footed vessels of various types. Cf. also loc. cit. pp. 517, 518: Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 Pl. 9 No. 138. For a Geometric example of the Ithacan type in Cyprus, see Gjerstad, Swedish Cyprus Expedition II Pl. XC M. 65, 4Google Scholar. See also Daniel, J. F.AJA XLI pp. 56 ff.Google Scholar Pl. IV, 54. The author dates these tombs too high. All the vases look proto Geometric, including the two ‘imported Mycenaean’ vases. There are no good parallels to these shapes from the Argolid. Massow, AM 1927Google Scholar beil VI 10 looks like a ringed kylix stem (from Amyklai).
page 14 note 1 Cf. BM Vases 1. 1. A 709 from Palaikastro.
page 14 note 2 Cf. Blegen Zygouries Fig. 141.
page 14 note 3 Cf. Kinch Vroulia Pl. 15, for a later development of this kind of tendency.
page 16 note 1 May have been imported from Kephallenia. There is a similar stirrup vase in the Argostoli museum. If it is to be dated at 1200 B.C., the fine lines must be regarded as a chance anticipation of Geometric practice.
page 16 note 2 Cf. Marinatos, Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1932 p. 13 Fig. 14Google Scholar.
page 16 note 3 Kraiker, AZ 1932 pp. 196, 202 abb. 8 and 9.
page 16 note 4 AZ 1935 p. 286 abb. 15.
page 16 note 5 To be published by M. Robertson in a later volume.
page 16 note 6 Cf. the decoration of a hydria found at Vrokastro in a bone enclosure (Vrokastro, Fig. 103). The kylix shape has not been identified in a post-Mycenaean context in West or Central Greece. A ringed Kylix occurs in a grave with a single burial in Cyprus which the excavator ascribed to the Geometric period (Swedish Cyprus Expedition Pl. XC M. 65, 4, from Marion). An earlier shape of kylix is found in a Geometric grave in Rhodes (Clara Rhodos VI, VI I Fig. 232).
page 17 note 1 Kantharoi on high feet continued to be found in Ithaca in the proto-Geometric (e.g., No. 1) and the Geometric period (e.g., Nos. 18–20).
page 17 note 2 Cf. Heurtley, Aetos (BSA XXXIII) p. 45 Fig. 19Google Scholar.
page 17 note 3 Cf. ibid., Pl. 3 No. 29 for the pattern.
page 17 note 4 Excluding Geometric pottery from Corinth and East Greece.
page 17 note 5 Cf. Robertson Aetos, to appear in a later volume of the Annual.
page 17 note 6 The biscuit is darker than in most Ithacan local geometric pottery.
page 19 note 1 A mug with a similar shape and decoration but clumsier fabric was found in Sparta. See Lane, BSA XXXIV Fig. 20c.Google Scholar (It is not a miniature, is wider than the drawing shows and is not really off-set.) Cf. also bowls of ‘Granary’ style at Mycenae. BSA XXV Pl. VIIIc, D. Some of the Polis vases may be one-handled, but there are several pairs of handles. For the decoration, cf. a kantharos found in an early Geometric grave in the Agora (see Hesperia II, p. 553, Fig. 11Google Scholar). Cf. the shape of no. 20 below.
page 19 note 2 Mr. Robertson's ‘Sausage’ style. The spot of no. 10 is another variant.
page 19 note 3 Cf. Aetos, BSA XXXIII p. 45 Fig. 19Google Scholar. These may be proto-Geometric.
page 19 note 4 Decoration also found at Aetos.
page 19 note 5 The shape is found at Aetos.
page 20 note 1 See Bosanquet, BSA XI 307 Fig. 23Google Scholar. There are torch-holders of a different type from Aetos. E.g. the Καλικλέας vase, ILN Jan. 14th, 1933, p. 46, Fig. 9Google Scholar. Cf. also a holder in Palermo from Selinus. It is thick like the Polis vase and is of early orientalising date (key-pattern and plaiting: probably Italiot).
page 20 note 2 Cf. CVA Cambridge III G Pl. 15, 5.
page 20 note 3 Cf. the bronze Kantharos from Olympia with a horse (Olympia IV No. 671 Pl. XXXV) to be dated about 700 B.C., and another from the Argive Heraeum with archaic sphinxes. Argive Heraeum, II Pl. CXVIII No. 2034.
page 20 note 4 The shape is not entirely unlike that of the vase from the Agora mentioned above, p. 19. Mr. Robertson kindly called my attention to the resemblance between these vases and some Laconian kantharoi (Lane, BSA XXXIV p. 154 Fig. 20 D, MGoogle Scholar). It is too close to be accidental, but the sharper handles, different angle of the lips, different clay do not suggest that the Ithaca kantharoi are Laconian imports but that the Laconian vases are influenced by the same source. A similar fabric has been found at Olympia (quoted by permission of Dr. Kunze). See also nos. 1–5 above, with Laconian connections.
page 21 note 1 Cf. a slightly earlier aryballos, Johansen, Les Vases Sicyoniens p. 93 No. 18 Pl. XXI 5Google Scholar.
page 22 note 1 Cf. Argive Heraeum II p. 124 Fig. 45Google Scholar.
page 22 note 2 Besides the deposit at the shrine on Aetos, I have found Corinthian pottery in the foundations of the tower there, on the summit and on the slopes below the summit.
page 22 note 3 NC No. 234; Oxford 155 CVA III c Pl. 1, 60.
page 23 note 1 Cf. Oxford No. V. 136, CVA III c Pl. 2, 45; NC No. 1255 Pl. 36, 2 in Würzburg.
page 23 note 2 Cf. NC No. 1244 Fig. 160.
page 23 note 3 Cf. ibid., No. 527 Pl. 26, 6.
page 23 note 4 Cf. Oxford No. G 185. CVA III c Pl. 2, 5; NC p. 47, 1.
page 23 note 5 See NC Fig. 125.
page 24 note 1 Cf. NC No. 526; Dugas, , Delos, X Pl. 25 No. 307Google Scholar.
page 24 note 2 Cf. a helmeted head, in bf technique with much incision in a private collection in Ithaca. Also cf. the goddess watching animals on a ring vase. CVA Oxford IIIc, Pl. 2 No. 24.
page 24 note 3 Cf. NC 941 Pl. 31, 10.
page 24 note 4 Cf. ibid. No. 1517 Fig. 181 B (see Atkinson, , Papers of the BSR XIV, Pls. XVIIc, XVIII 2Google Scholar. All the Corinthian vases of tombs 27 and 55 at Selinus are Late Corinthian, not Early Corinthian as the author states. No reason to doubt either Payne or Thucydides.
page 24 note 5 Cf. ibid., 1516 and Δελ. 1923–1925 Παρ p. 37 Fig. 3. Pattern even more disintegrated.
page 25 note 1 Cf. NC No. 758 Fig. 136.
page 25 note 2 Cf. Delos Vol. X PI. XXXV No. 487.
page 25 note 3 Cf. Oxford CVA II Pl. 2 No. 24.
page 25 note 4 Cf. NC Late Corinthian II No. 1529 Fig. 186.
page 25 note 5 For the garland, cf. Argive Heraeum II Pl. LXI No. 23. For the centre cf. the Attic Cup from the Acropolis, No. 606 (Graef, Pl. 32). Cf. also the centre of a Middle Corinthian plate from Selinus in Palermo NC No. 1052. See Beazley, CVA Oxford p. 97 III.H Pl. 3, 28Google Scholar for references to similar designs on shields. MissRoes, (Geometric Art p. 37)Google Scholar claims it as a sun sign (provenance not given) and figures it (Fig. 30), omitting the centre star, which seems a pity in a discussion of the heavenly bodies.
page 26 note 1 An oinochoe like Attic No. 18 below may be Corinthian. Inscribed N.
page 26 note 2 See below p. 29, Fig. 14s. Vases like this and like No. 73 have been found at Perachora.
page 26 note 3 Thompson, H.Hesperia III 1934 No. A 20 p. 318 Figs. 4, 117Google Scholar.
page 27 note 1 Payne, , CVA Oxford III c Pl. VIII 5Google Scholar.
page 27 note 2 Cf. Blinkenberg Lindos Pl. 36, 844.
page 27 note 3 For the shape cf. Kirch Vroulia Pl. 9, 2a and Pl. 18, 2.
page 27 note 4 For the pattern cf. ibid. Pl. 27, 13.
page 27 note 5 Cf. (pattern) ibid. Pl. 8, 1a: (shape) Lamb, BSA XXXII Pl. 23, 27Google Scholar from Antissa.
page 27 note 6 It is too shallow to belong to the usual Rhodian pyxis with a small steep lid, e.g. Clara Rhodos VIII Fig. 171. There are several late East Greek lekanides in the British Museum, notably 73, 10, 12, 3 with a meander on the lid. See also a large late Naukratite lekanis lid in the B.M. 88, 6–1, 547, published Price JHS 1924 Pl. XII, 5Google Scholar, with a centre rosette, from Naukratis.
page 27 note 7 Cf. B.M. 50, 5, 30, 3 from Camiros.
page 27 note 8 Cf. Clara Rhodos IV p. 367 Fig. 413Google Scholar, found with a Middle Corinthian oinochoe.
page 28 note 1 Cf. Clara Rhodos VIII Figs. 192, 193. Grave 83, 2. A ‘Siana’ cup. Prof. Beazley compares a running youth inside a cup figured Baur, Catalogue of the Stoddard Collection p. 84 Fig. 125Google Scholar. Also a ‘Siana’ cup. Cf. also the dinos Acropolis 606 (Graef Pl. 32).
page 28 note 2 Cf. Delos X Pl. XLIII 577: for the shape Mingazinni Vasi della Collezione Castellani Pl. 58, 3 No. 459. See the list to be published Beazley, and Magi, La Raccolta Gugliemi pp. 38 ff.Google Scholar, which Prof. Beazley most kindly showed me. A good date can be obtained from grave 50 at Rhitsona Nos. 13–15 (Ure, BSA 1907–1908 p. 258Google Scholar), which are exactly like our nos. 5–7. See vases op. cit. Pl. X, a Naukratite chalice (JHS XXIX p. 332Google Scholar) and a Corinthian alabastron (Aryballoi and Figurines from Rhitsona Pl. IX)—all second quarter of the sixth century B.C. MissHaspels, (Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi p. 5)Google Scholar wishes to date this grave 540 B.C. on the strength of the lekythos 50, 269 (BSA 1907–1908 Pl. Xb). Even so, we need not date any other vase in the grave 540 B.C., most of those dateable being certainly earlier. (To mention tomb 49 in this discussion, and to attempt to date a group of tombs by its latest member, is sheer anarchy.) Prof. Ure tells me he dates the amphoriskoi middle to third quarter, and that they also occur 110 Nos. 88, 89; 126 Nos. 80, 81; 103 No. 9. None of these tombs is easily dateable from the publication.
page 28 note 3 E.g. Oxford 1929, 654, CVA II bf. Pl. 13, 4.
page 28 note 4 E.g. Aurigemma Museo di Spina Pl. CXXXV Tomb 411. Oxford 1934, 399, dated about 425 B.C. (rf).
page 28 note 5 E.g. Breccia, Necropoli di Sciatbi Pl. LVII 127Google Scholar. This cemetery is dated to the end of the fourth century B.C.
page 29 note 1 Ure, Sixth and Fifth-century Pottery from Rhitsona Large Skyphoi B—K pp. 59–69Google Scholar.
page 29 note 2 Oxford V, 262; Gardner, Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum Pl. 26, 1Google Scholar; Robinson, Olynthus V Pl. 99Google Scholar.
page 29 note 3 E.g. Spina Pls. LXI, LXIV. See also Ure, Black Glaze Pottery at Rhitsona p. 23Google Scholar Grave 30 No. 4 Pl. XVII, ‘probably in the second half of the fourth century’. Thompson, Hesperia III A. 26 p. 319 Fig. 5Google Scholar. This deposit is attributed to ‘the turn of the fourth and third centuries’ (p. 315). Breccia op. cit. Pl. LVI 120.
page 29 note 4 Fouilles de Delphes V p. 164 Fig. 687Google Scholar.
page 29 note 5 For the date of these see Thompson p. 473.
page 29 note 6 Cf. Courby Vases Grecs à Relief Pl. XIV4. An earlier version of the shape in Grave 33 at Rhitsona. Ure, Bl. Gl. Pl. XVI 3Google Scholar.
page 29 note 7 See Heurtley, BSA XXXIII p. 25Google Scholar.
page 30 note 1 CVA Oxford III 1 Pl. 48 No. 14Google Scholar.
page 30 note 2 Cf. B.M. black numbers 1045 from Camiros, found with female plastic head F. 165 (64.10.7), about 490 B.C. Beazley, Charinos (JHS 1929) p. 61, 7Google Scholar.
page 30 note 3 CVA Oxford III 1 Pl. 48, 15Google Scholar. Cf. a silver oinochoe from Baschova Mogila near Duvanlji (JDI XLV 1930 p. 289 abb 10Google Scholar) dated, by an rf. hydria No. 14 p. 302 abb 23 of the Kadmos Painter towards the end of the fifth century.
page 30 note 4 Haspels, Black-figured Lekythoi p. 266, 5Google Scholar. See p. 172. Cf. Pl. 50, 3.
page 30 note 5 Cf. CVA Oxford 1 Pl. 40 No. 12.
page 31 note 1 I have no evidence of this kind of base after the fifth century.
page 31 note 2 See Thompson Fig. 117. The shape is between A 20 and E 46.
page 31 note 3 For the shape cf. Thompson No. A 20 Fig. 117 p. 436.
page 32 note 1 Cf. Thompson No. E21 p. 395 Fig. 116.
page 32 note 2 See Thompson No. D1 pp. 370, 371 Figs. 55, 116; No. E22 pp. 395, 396 Fig. 83.
page 32 note 3 See p. 31 Fig. 14, 8.
page 32 note 4 All the stems of this flower or ivy-leaf pattern in Polis are incised.
page 32 note 5 Cf. Thompson No. B23 pp. 338–9 Fig. 19.
page 33 note 1 There is a scrap from another plate with similar decoration; cf. CVA Oxford Pl. 47 No. 16.
page 33 note 2 Cf. Thompson No. A 32 p. 320 Fig. 5.
page 33 note 3 Cf. Shape of No. 25a, Pl. 14m above. No handle-mark.
page 33 note 4 For late Corinthian vases in Ithaca, cf. the Corinthian bowl No. 71 and a kotyle found at H. Athanasios. Also cf. a ‘West Slope’ kotyle found at Pelikata. Many sherds of Corinthian black glaze vases were found at Aetos in 1938.
page 33 note 5 I am unable to follow Courby Vases Grecs à Reliefs chaps. XX and XXI in making a distinction between Bols à Glaçure and Bols à Vernis Mat. Brightness depends on accidents of firing and preservation. Besides, where is the line to be drawn ?
page 33 note 6 Op. cit., p. 328. This grouping is a matter of convenience. Courby includes some fauna among his vegetables, and there may have been fauna on lost parts of Polis bowls.
page 34 note 1 Contrast Thompson, Hesperia III 1934 No. A74 p. 328 Fig. 11aGoogle Scholar. I am much indebted to him for his help throughout the section on Hellenistic pottery.
page 34 note 2 Cf. Courby Pl. XII Nos. 12 and 15; Pl. XIII No. 29.
page 34 note 3 Cf. Thompson C27 p. 360, dated to the beginning of the second century B.C.
page 34 note 4 For the centaurs cf. Courby Fig. 78 No. 27.
page 34 note 5 Cf. ibid. Fig. 91 No. 22 (Italian).
page 35 note 1 Cf. Courby Fig. 78 No. 29.
page 35 note 2 Cf. ibid. Fig. 70 No. 13b.
page 35 note 3 Cf. Oswald, Index of Figure-Types on Terra Sigillata Pl. LXXXVIII 2398.
page 35 note 4 For the leaves cf. Thompson No. D39 p. 383 Fig. 70, dated to the middle of the second century B.C. See Courby Fig. 91 No. 26 (Italian).
page 35 note 5 This is interesting in view of Mr. Thompson's account of the origin of this kind of bowl, op. cit. p. 459. There are also traces of miltos and the scraped lines mentioned by Mr. Thompson.
page 35 note 6 Cf. Courby p. 387 Fig. 80 No. 4. It is easy to derive this decoration from early Attic bowls (e.g. Thompson No. A.74 p. 328 Fig. 74).
page 35 note 7 Thompson No. D48 p. 386 Fig. 74.
page 35 note 8 Thompson A74 p. 328 is earlier still.
page 35 note 9 Perhaps an earlier stage of Thompson No. D38 p. 381 Figs. 69a, b.
page 35 note 10 Cf. ibid. No. E74 pp. 404–405 Figs. 93a, b.
page 35 note 11 Cf. Thompson No. E78 p. 406 Fig. 95; Courby p. 387 Fig. 80 No. 2; Wiegand, Priene p. 404 No. 34Google Scholar.
page 35 note 12 Cf. Courby Fig. 74 No. 1 or Fig. 67 and Fig. 80 No. 8.
page 35 note 13 Cf. Thompson No. C18 pp. 352–353 Figs. 36a, b. Better the mould ibid. Fig. 119.
page 35 note 14 Cf. ibid. No. C28 p. 362 Fig. 46. Third century.
page 35 note 15 Cf. Courby Pl. 12 No. 2.
page 35 note 16 To be published.
page 36 note 1 Bonner Jahrbuch LXXXXVI Pl. II.
page 36 note 2 Mrs. Homer Thompson tells me that she dates this sherd to the third century.
page 36 note 3 Cf. Thompson D28 p. 376 Figs. 62, 118.
page 36 note 4 For the shape cf. No. 13 above.
page 36 note 5 See the evidence from H. Athanasios to be published by Mr. J. M. Cook.
page 38 note 1 Cf. the rim of a fourth-century oinochoe found in a grave at Stavros.
page 38 note 2 See Thompson No. D28 p. 376 Fig. 62; p. 437 Fig. 118.
page 38 note 3 See Ibid. No. E151 Fig. 116. End of the second century B.C.
page 38 note 4 See pp. 31, 32, 33, 35; also Terracottas p. 43.
page 38 note 5 For the matter see Franzius, J.Elementa Epigraphica Graeca p. 336, 10Google Scholar.
page 38 note 6 Cf. Geometric bronzes like No. 15 of the Catalogue of Bronzes (BSA 1935 p. 62Google Scholar, see list p. 86, 1). See also a bronze sphinx Olympia IV No. 949. Early terracottas of this size can be paralleled from Crete; indeed, the figure in the Ashmolean Museum from Episkopi has much the same cast of feature. Cf. also the large figurines of late Mycenaean style lately found by Mr. Marinatos in Crete BCH LX p. 488 Fig. 30Google Scholar; and others nearer the Ithaca sphinx in style, found by Pendlebury, Mr at Karphi JHS 1937 p. 141 Fig. 12Google Scholar.
page 39 note 1 Cf. Dörpfeld, Alt-Ithaka, Beil 76 1–3, and 5Google Scholar. Such figurines have been found at Rhodes with sixth-century terracottas Clara Rhodos IV Fig. 203.
page 39 note 2 Mr. Jenkins has seen these terracottas and kindly revised this section for me.
page 40 note 1 See Jenkins, BSA XXXII pp. 33Google Scholar and 40 Class G Pl. 16. Dörpfeld, Alt. Ithaka Beil78Google Scholar. Centre foot and Nos. 1 and 2 foot. Mr. Jenkins has given me much help.
page 40 note 2 Dörpfeld Beil 78 No. 2 top.
page 40 note 3 Cf. Tiryns I Pl. VIII 8; Lindos 2180 Pl. 100; Winter Pl. 59, 6.
page 40 note 4 Cf. Romaios, Δελτ. 1920–1921 p. 70 Fig. 4Google Scholar, also Fig. 5. This is rougher work than No. 27.
page 40 note 5 Winter I 50, 7. See Payne, , NC 245, 3 (4)Google Scholar.
page 40 note 6 Cf. Acropolis Kore 651. Payne and Young Pl. 90.
page 41 note 1 Cf. Winter Pl. 80 7, better Köster Die Griechischen Terrakotten Pl. 37. For the head Winter 81 1. I have once more to acknowledge the help of Professor Beazley in this section.
page 41 note 2 There is the same contrast between back and front hair in the Aegina sphinx. For the face and front hair cf. Köster Pl. 36 (Artemis). Cf. a terracotta head found at the Agora 1886–T138. Similar clay and style, less pleasant work.
page 41 note 3 Winter 203, 4 and 11: from Italy. Romaios, , Ἀρχ. Δελ. 1920 p. 84Google Scholar, from Aetolia. Mr. Jenkins pointed out to me that this figure reclines.
page 41 note 4 Winter 216 1. Blinkenberg Lindos Pl. 108 No. 2324. See also the tomb group Clara Rhodos IV Fig. 110, which contains Attic vases of rf. style of about 460 B.C.
page 41 note 5 For the drapery cf. Langlotz 17; Winter 144, 7. For a group Winter 155, 2.
page 42 note 1 Cf. Winter p. 238 No. 8 from Thebes.
page 42 note 2 Cf. Dyggeve and others Das Heroon von Kalydon p. 367, 82: a plaque from Praisos AJA 1901 Pl. XII No. 5. Both these are much later types. A small bronze in the Ashmolean Museum is nearer (1929, 115).
page 42 note 3 Head. Principal coins of the Greeks, Pl. 17, 68.
page 42 note 4 Cf. a terracotta from Olynthos in London 1912–1913 27 2; Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus IV Pl. 11, 63 p. 18Google Scholar, made locally.
page 42 note 5 See Winter 229, 9: cf. a Sphinx, Ath. N.M. from Perachora.
page 42 note 6 Cf. Jacobsthal Melian Reliefs Pls. 1 and 55.
page 43 note 1 Vollgraff, BCH 1905 p. 148, 149Google Scholar, BSA XXXV, p. 54Google Scholar.
page 43 note 2 Cf. Romaios loc. cit. p. 97 Fig. 31.
page 43 note 3 See Bruns Die Jägerin Artemis.
page 43 note 4 Winter Kunstgeschichte in Bildern p. 267, 2.
page 43 note 5 Cf. Head of Artemis on the Pergamon frieze Schuchart Der Grossen Friezes zu Pergamon Pl. 20, Altertümer von Pergamon III, II Pl. XXV.
page 43 note 6 See Benton, BSA XXXV Fig. 7, and p. 54Google Scholar.
page 43 note 7 For the form of the inscription cf. CIG 2663, Ἐυχήν, a votive offering by a successful gladiator in fulfillment of a vow to the Nemeses (two cloaks and ear-rings); εὐχαριστήριον, a thank offering (a pig); ἐπίθημα, an additional faring (a belt with two tassels, for the pig); also BM Marbles IX Pl. 41, on which see Thompson, Hesperia 1 p. 195Google Scholar.
page 43 note 8 For the change of direction cf. an inscription written along a hare cf. B.M., Guide to Greek and Roman Life pp. 44 Fig. 32Google Scholar. For graffiti on terracottas cf. Reinach, SBCH VII p. 223 (at Myrina)Google Scholar.
page 45 note 1 Cf. the Washermen, Relief. CIG 455Google Scholar; Berlin No. 70. Is ours a picture of the Polis cave ? Cf. also Svoronos National Museum Pl. XCVI ff. Cf. an example in terracotta found at Reinach, MyrinaBCH VII Pl. XVIGoogle Scholar.
page 45 note 2 They have been given to Stavros Museum by Miss Maria Louisou.
page 45 note 3 Cf. Alt. Ithaka Beil 76c 4. I have found other fragments in a large cave at Meganisi (mentioned BSA XXXII p. 230Google Scholar).
page 46 note 1 Broneer, Corinth IV IIGoogle Scholar (Lamps) Pl. V Fig. 14 Profile 50.
page 46 note 2 For the fabric cf. Thompson E 113 Fig. 98. Broneer Type XVIII.
page 46 note 3 Cf. Thompson Hesperia III E97–110 p. 412. For the fabric cf. grey ware, above p. 36.
page 46 note 4 Broneer Pl. VI No. 301.
page 46 note 5 Cf. the leaves on Megarian bowls, Hellenistic pottery above No. 28 (p. 33 Pl. 16).
page 46 note 6 Broneer p. 80 Fig. 38, 23; No. 570 Pl. XI Type XXVII. The pattern continues into the third and fourth centuries No. 927 Pl. XIV Type XXVIII.
page 46 note 7 Cf. Loeschke Lampen aus Vindinossa Type IV, Pl. VII 71. (Herakles and the Hydra.)
page 46 note 8 See above, p. 36.
page 46 note 9 Αρ. Lys 230.
page 46 note 10 Broneer Pl. XXVII I Type XXVII; Loeschke Type IV Pl. VIII. For the style cf. bid. Pl. VII 399 where the hair of Polyphemos is similarly treated.
page 46 note 11 Cf. Johansen Les Vases Sicyoniens Pl. XXVI 5a.
page 46 note 12 Artemis Orthia p. 385. Such scarabs were found stratified with pottery round about 700 B.C.
page 47 note 1 Cf. B.M. Gems No. 2235a. The statue is Athena, (a) The scene takes place beyond a rustic porch or a cave entrance; (b) as stated in the publication. Cf. the terracotta relief No. 65 Fig. 20 above.
page 48 note 1 Cf. Artemis Orthia Pl. CLXX 5. Very badly illustrated; see the photographs of the Institute. Early seventh century.
page 48 note 2 Cf. The works of the ‘Beldam’ Painter, Haspels Attic b.f. Lekythoi Pls. 49b, 50 1b (in the water); Furtwängler, , Antike Gemmen Pl. V 37Google Scholar; bronze figurine Mariani Ausonia 1909 p. 43 Fig. 12Google Scholar.
page 48 note 3 Contrast an ivory figurine from Sparta Artemis Orthia, which in truth might be any date from its style, Pl. CLXX 1 and Pl. CLXXVIII 5 (archaic). See the Institute photograph.
page 48 note 4 Cf. the ivory figurine lately found in the Agora. JHS 1936 Pl. IX.
page 48 note 5 BM Coins of Corinth, etc. No. 23 (p. 2 Pl. I, 6). The coin placed earliest by Head, Pl. I, 1, is certainly later than No. 3 despite the incuse. The type of wing in No. 3 dates from the Middle proto-Corinthian period (Johansen Pl. XXVIIb) with big feathers well fluffed out. No. 1 has narrow straight-edged feathers of an Early Corinthian type (Payne NC Pl. 24). The earliest Corinthian coin known to me is Ravel, , Les Poulains de Corinthe Pl. I p. 6Google Scholar, cf. Pegasos on the Axos helmet (Levi, , Mon. Ant. 1933Google Scholar). I agree with Dr. D. Levi that this helmet belongs to the middle of the seventh century B.C.
page 48 note 6 Cf. BM Coins of Corinth No. 180 (Pl. V 6).
page 48 note 7 Cf. ibid. No. 185 (Pl. V 9).
page 48 note 8 Cf. BM Coins of the Peloponnesus No. 220 p. 54 (Pl. IX 14).
page 49 note 1 Cf. ibid. 176 (Pl. IX 11).
page 49 note 2 BM Peloponnesus p. 22 6 Pl. V 7.
page 49 note 3 Ibid. p. 23, 8 Pl. V 8.
page 49 note 4 Cf. BM Thessaly to Aetolia p. 88, 5 Pl. XVII 3. Ours has an olive-wreath, not an oak-wreath.
page 49 note 5 BM Attica No. 656. Svoronos Trésor des Monnaies d'Athènes, Pl. 104, 38–45.
page 49 note 6 Cf. BM Attica p. 21 No. 220 Pl. VI 5.
page 49 note 7 Cf. BM Thessaly and Aetolia p. 172 no. 9.
page 49 note 8 Cf. BM Italy p. 360 No. 8.
page 49 note 9 Cf. BM Peloponnesos p. 82, 62.
page 49 note 10 Ibid. p. 79, 20 Pl. XVI 20.
page 49 note 11 BM Crete and Aegean Islands p. 103, 6 Pl. XXIII 21.
page 50 note 1 Giesecke, Italica Numismatica p. 137 Pl. 18 K 14Google Scholar.
page 50 note 2 BM Thessaly to Aetolia p. 151, 549 Pl. XXV 2.
page 50 note 3 Cf. ibid. pp. 146, 492 and Grose, Greek Coins (Fitzwilliam Museum) 5257 Pl. 191, 10Google Scholar.
page 50 note 4 BM Thessaly to Aetolia p. 170 No. 21 Pl. XVII 8.
page 50 note 5 Mattingly Roman Coins Pl. II 15.
page 50 note 6 Grüber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum No. 676 Pl. XXI 4Google Scholar.
page 50 note 7 Ibid. 151, p. 516.
page 50 note 8 Ibid. p. 514 foot. See also two others found in Ithaca, below p. 51.
page 50 note 9 Cf. Cohen Medailles Imperiales VI p. 318 No. 261. Constantius. I have to thank Dr. Schwalbacher for identifying this coin.
page 51 note 1 No bronze coins of Damastion are otherwise known.
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