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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
This article attempts to summarise the results (1) of those excavations carried out in Greek lands in 1924 of which no report was available in time for my account printed in the last volume of the Journal, and (2) of the excavations of 1925 of which reports had come to hand before the end of September. This system will be followed in the accounts which I hope to contribute annually henceforward.
American School
The varied activities of the American School included excavations at the sites of Corinth, the Argive Heraeum, and Eutresis in Boeotia. At Nemea and Phlius, the opening campaigns at which sites were described in my report of a year ago, no further work was done in the summer of 1925. At Corinth, thanks to a generous subsidy by, and the personal enterprise of, Professor T. L. Shear, substantial progress was made with the Herculean task of clearing the theatre, where, on the south side of the orchestra, the depth of the deposit of earth proved to be 12 metres; before the season closed, over 5000 tons of debris had been removed to a dump a quarter of a mile away. In the west of the cavea the seats proved to be all destroyed, but a remarkable discovery was made, in the form of a wall, originally ca. 2·80 metres high, surrounding the orchestra. This where cleared was preserved to a height of 1·70 m., and was painted in fresco with scenes of life-sized figures engaged in combat with lions. One combatant, in action with a lion which charges him from the left, is clad in a long purple under-garment, with a white over-garment fastened at the knee; another wears a short garment which hangs down in front, leaving the legs bare to the hips, and white sandals; other figures, variously clad, and also fighting lions, appear in other scenes.
1 J.H.S. xliv. (1924), pp. 254 ff.
2 My warmest thanks are here tendered to all those who have generously supplied me with reports of their unpublished excavations. The invaluable summary pubblished by the French School in Bulletin de Corresp. Hellénique, xlviii., was not available in time for my purpose, but a few references to it have been inserted at the last moment.
3 I am indebted to Professor T. L. Shear for a full report of his excavations, and to Dr. B. H. Hill, Director of the American School, for oral information.
4 From a report kindly furnished by Miss Goldman.
5 Cf. J.R.S. vi. (1916), pp. 105 ff.
6 Cf. The Times, July 7th, 1925, etc.
6a (Reprinted, with trifling alterations, from the Annual Report of the British School, 1924–25.)
7 Material kindly supplied by the late Director of the French School, M. Ch. Picard, and the Secretary, M. B. Demangel; cf. B.C.H. xlviii. pp. 473 ff.
8 Fouilles de Delphes, Tome ii. (3me. Fasc.), Paris, 1924.
9 Cf. J.H.S. 1924, p. 264.
10 ii. 170.
11 Pt. viii. 1, in 1922; viii. 2 and Plates to Pt. viii, in 1924.
12 J.H.S. 1924, p. 267 f.; B.C.H. xlvii. pp. 536 ff.; and now xlviii, p. 502 f.
13 J.H.S. 1924, p. 268; B.C.H. xlviii. pp. 287 ff., and 501.
14 I am deeply indebted to Dr. K. Romaios, head of the Archaeological Service, for putting at my disposal the reports submitted to himself by the various Greek archaeologists concerned.
15 De Myst. § 38.
16 A photograph appeared in The Times, June 25th, 1925. The nearest parallel seems to be the badly restored Satyr in the Museo Boncompagni (Terme) at Rome, No. 32; cf. the Palermo version figured by Amelung-Holtzinger, i., Fig. 154.
17 J.H.S. 1924, p. 275.
18 See above, p. 211.
19 Frazer, , Pausanias, vol. iv. pp. 271 ff.Google Scholar; Lattermann, H. and von Gaertringen, F. Hiller, Ath. Mitt. xl. (1915), pp. 71 ff.Google Scholar
20 Cf. Y.W., 1922–23, p. 87; recent finds in Manchester Guardian, June 29th, 1925.
21 Ἀρχ. Δελτίον, iv. p. 136.
22 Ἀρχ. Ἐφ., 1922, pp. 1 ff.
23 J.H.S. 1924, p. 275.
24 Cf. J.H.S. 1921, p. 274. I am indebted to the excavator for fuller particulars.
25 Attention may be drawn to the fuller publication of Dr. D. Levi's excavations at Afrati (cf. J.H.S. 1924, pp. 278 ff.) in Liverpool Annals, xii. (1925), pp. 3–14.
