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Excavations in Melos, 1899: B. The Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Extract

The excavations this year proved to be of considerable interest, so far as the architecture was concerned. Besides the Palace several complete private houses were found, and the streets were followed up far enough to enable us to guess at the system on which the town had been laid out. Several houses of the third settlement can be made out, but there are only slight indications of its streets. So far as they can be traced, however, they seem to coincide roughly with those of the fourth settlement. With the fourth settlement itself the opposite is the case—the streets can be traced, but there are not quite so many complete houses as in the third settlement. In a few cases, perhaps, a street or house of the earlier period continued in use in the later; but generally speaking this is not the case, and where a later wall is built on the top of an earlier one, it was probably in order to obtain a more solid foundation.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1899

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1 The courtyard extended over the space formerly occupied by the buildings of the Third Period, numbered H 2, 17; H 3, 5–7; J 2, 8; J 3, 1, 5.