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Archaeology in Greece 1952

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. M. Cook
J. M. Cook
Affiliation:
The British School at Athens
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While the great discoveries at Mycenae and Pylos have focused attention on the Peloponnse and the Mycenaean era, the record of excavations in all provinces of Greece and stages of antiquity in this past year is an unprecedented one; there have been some forty different excavations, and the activity of the Archaeological Society in the field has reached a peak. The clearing of the Athenian Agora has been greatly advanced, excavation has been resumed at Dodona and Olympia; the Temple of Poseidon at the Isthmia has at last been discovered, and the oldest known metal-working establishment in Europe has been uncovered on the east coast of Attica. Prof. Orlandos and his assistants have continued the restoration of Byzantine churches as far afield as Khanià, Siátista and the lake-island of Préspa. The advance in the reconstitution of the metropolitan collections this year is not immediately perceptible, but there has been welcome progress in the museums of Olympia, Delphi, and Herakleion.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 73 , November 1953 , pp. 108 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1953

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I am especially indebted to Prof. A. Orlandos for notices of the work of the Archaeological Society and of his own department, to M. H. Gallet de Santerre, Mr. J. L. Caskey and Dr. E. Kunze for the work of their Schools, to Mrs. Karouzou at the National Museum and Prof. H. A. Thompson at the Agora, to Dr. N. Platon for permitting me to study his annual report on Crete before its publication, to Prof. Sp. Marinatos, Dr. I. Papademetriou, and the various colleagues mentioned in the following pages who have provided notices of their own work and of discoveries in the regions under their charge.