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I.—Excavations at Sparta, 1910: § 2.—The Mycenaean City near the Menelaion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Extract

Last year's report contained an account of the excavation of the building on the hills to the east of the Eurotas, which has been identified with the Menelaion, the shrine of Menelaos and Helen mentioned by Herodotus and Pausanias. Besides the numerous archaic objects which were then published, this work produced a few sherds of Mycenaean pottery and fragments of Mycenaean terracottas, always at a lower level than the deposits of Laconian and Geometric ware. A further clue was afforded by a Mycenaean house, which was found by a trial-pit on the eastern peak of the hill, and Tsountas' report that Mycenaean sherds were to be found on the surface in the neighbouring fields was also verified.

Type
Laconia
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1910

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References

page 4 note 1 B.S.A. xv, pp. 108 sqq. For references to the Menelaion v. B.S.A., footnote on p. 108.

page 5 note 1 B.S.A. xv, Frontispiece.

page 6 note 1 The vase shown in Pl. II, d is probably somewhat earlier.

page 11 note 1 For Knossos, , v. B.S.A. viii, p. 99, Fig. 56Google Scholar; for Priniá, , v. Ath. Mitt. xxvi, Pl. xiiGoogle Scholar; for Gourniá, v. Boyd-Hawes, Gourniá, Pl. xii, I.