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The old platform in the Argive Heraeum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Hugh Plommer
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Cambridge

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In his recent article ‘The Old Temple Terrace at the Argive Heraeum’, J. C. Wright discusses the date of the platform supporting the remains of the earliest Argive Heraeum—in other words, the uppermost terrace of the Hellenic (viz. Classical) Heraeum. Is it itself a Classical structure, or a late Bronze Age platform re-used to accommodate the first peripteral temple of the seventh century BC? Wright would connect both the platform and the temple upon it with the first stages of proper Hellenic culture, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. On pp. 191 ff, he denies that I can possibly be right in following the oldest investigators and assigning this platform to the Bronze Age. But I must confess that his arguments, however learned, have so far failed to shake my conviction.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1984

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References

1 JHS cii (1982) 186201Google Scholar.

2 See Wace, A. J. B., Mycenae (Princeton 1949) 22 and pl. 109Google Scholar.

3 Wace (n. 2) pl. 40a.

4 Wace (n. 2) pl. 38a.

5 Schliemann, H., Tiryns (London 1886) 319, 320, pl. IIIGoogle Scholar.

6 See Snodgrass, A. M., The Dark Age of Greece (Edinburgh 1971) 394–8Google Scholar, a discussion of which, to do him justice, Wright shows himself perfectly conscious (193 n. 33).

7 See Clarke, S. and Engelbach, R., Ancient Egyptian Masonry (London 1930)Google Scholar.

8 BSA liii–liv (19581959)Google Scholar.

9 See esp. Nicholls (n. 8) 118–19.