Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
This report, in which the usual arrangement is adopted, includes all the excavation-accounts which have reached me up to September 30th, 1929. Those concerning the work of the French School, the German School and the Greek Archaeological Service relate to work done in 1928; the rest mainly concern the campaigns of 1929.
American School
During the season of 1929 the American School, under Professor Rhys Carpenter, have continued their work on Old Corinth, selecting three areas for excavation:—the first, just north of the Peribolos of Apollo and east of the Lechaeum Road, revealed a large though much-destroyed Roman thermal establishment, where the well-preserved floor-piers of two hypocaust rooms and a deep marble-lined pool leave no doubt as to the purpose of the building, identified by Professor Carpenter with the famous Baths of Eurykles, described by Pausanias. The second area lies between the Temple of Apollo and the village road on the north. In antiquity the rocky hill on which the Temple stood had been cut away to a vertical rock-face, some 20 feet high, and Professor Carpenter's purpose is to restore the ancient isolation of the Temple.
1 I wish again to acknowledge gratefully the kindness of all those who have supplied me with reports on their excavations, and in particular to thank Sir Arthur Evans, Professor P. Roussel and Dr. E. Gjerstad for supplying illustrations as well. I am indebted to my wife for invaluable help in translating and summarising.
2 From reports kindly furnished by Professor Rhys Carpenter and Professor Shear.
3 Cf. his illustrated report in Illustrated London News, July 20th, 1929.
4 These reports are abridged slightly from those in the Annual Report of the British School at Athens, 1928–1929, by kind permission of the Committee.
5 From a report kindly furnished by Professor P. Roussel, Director of the French School.
6 See the account of his previous excavations in B.C.H. 1928, pp. 74–124.
7 Abridged from the reports in Gnomon, v. (1929), pp. 268 ff.
8 For further details of the decoration and shapes see Gnomon, v. p. 272.
9 Cf. J.H.S. xlv. p. 222.
10 Messager ď Athènes, July 8th, 1929.
11 Professor G. P. Oikonomos's view that it is Zeus seems to me to be preferable (cf. Πρακτικὰ, Ἀκαδ. Ἀθηνῶν, 1928, p. 750 f.Google Scholar).
12 No news has reached me of the activities of the Italian School in 1928 or 1929.
13 I am indebted to Dr. Gjerstad's kindness for the material for this report.
14 Oxfofd University Press, I am much indebted to Mr. S. Casson for the loan of a set of proofs of this report.
15 Ca. 500 A.D. Cf. Greek Anthology, Loeb edn., Book II, p. 59.
16 Made in co-operation with the authorities of the Constantinople Museum.