ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN GREECE 



AND ASIA MINOR 



Report By T. D. Seymour. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Itinerary 213 



The field assigned as limited by circumstances 216 



Egypt 217 



Turkish Empire 218 



Syria 219 



Asia Minor 220 



Greece 222 



Crete 223 



Italy 223 



Cyprus 223 



Past Excavations : 



Greece 224 



Islands 226 



Crete 226 



Cpportunities in Greece 228 



Opportunities in Crete . . . . 230 



Laws as to Export of Antiquities 232 



Contrast with former spirit 234 



Present Excavations in Greece 239 



Summary of Advice 240 



Classical Archeology worthy of support 240 



Itinerary. 



Bearing in mind your commission to inquire and report with re- 

 gard to excavations near the Mediterranean sea, I spent the months 

 of April and May of this year in Greece, among the islands of the 

 ^gean archipelago, and in Asia Minor. On my way to Greece I 

 visited the excavations at Pompeii, with which I was already fairly 

 familiar. On my arrival in Greece I visited the ruins at Eleusis 

 and heard lectures by Dorpfeld, the distinguished head of the Athe- 

 nian branch of the German Archeological Institute, and by Wil- 

 helm, the accomplished head of the Athenian station of the Aus- 

 trian Archeological Institute, before the ruins on and about the 

 Acropolis and near the harbors of Athens. I then made three tours 



(213) 



