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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
In my article on Archaeology in Greece (1906–1907), published in vol. xxvii. of this Journal, I inadvertently misrepresented Dr. Doerpfeld's views on the relation of Geometric to Mycenean objects in Greece, and as he has pointed this out to me, I am anxious to rectify the error as soon as possible. At the bottom of p. 295 I wrote that ‘few will follow him [Dr. Doerpfeld] in his revolutionary view that the “Geometric” finds at Olympia are pre- and not post-mycenean.’ This is not Dr. Doerpfeld's view. He has kindly told me that he holds that the ‘Geometric’ objects belong to a different sphere from the Mycenean, and thus may be some older than, some contemporary with, and some later than, the Mycenean period. If I had written that his view is that some of the ‘Geometric’ finds at Olympia go back into the Mycenean and even into the pre-mycenean period, or had even written ‘some of the “Geometric” finds’ instead of ‘the “Geometric’ finds’ in the sentence in question, I should have presented his theory correctly. I have to thank Dr. Doerpfeld for the kind way in which he privately pointed out this mistake, and am glad to have this opportunity to put the matter right.