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daily gaining ground, that archaic Greek art was merely a renaissance of Minoan. Of 

 the temple itself little or nothing has been found beyond the altar, but further excava- 

 tions may give better results. 



The Homeric Ithaca- -In the Island of Leukas (Santa Maura; E. B. xxiv, 189) 

 Dorpfeld has been excavating in the hope of proving that it was the Homeric Ithaca. 

 In a cave in the south of the island painted neolithic pottery has been found which has 

 a distant resemblance to the painted prehistoric wares of Apulia and Thessaly. In the 

 plain of Nidri where Dorpfeld places the city of Odysseus plentiful remains of habita- 

 tion of the later bronze age have been found. The pottery, with the exception of a few 

 imported Mycenean and Minyan sherds, is of local fabric and resembles the local wares 

 from Pylos, Cephallenia and Olympia. It is also to be noted that late Mycenean ware 

 was found in connection with these local wares at the first two sites. Further it is 

 similar to some early pottery found in Acarnania at Stratus. Apparently this corner 

 of north-western Greece had a local bronze age culture which was influenced towards 

 the end of the late Minoan period by the imported Mycenean culture. At Nidri two 

 important groups of tombs have been found. One consisted of cist graves within a 

 rectangular enclosure. They contained pottery, bronze weapons and flint arrowheads, 

 and apparently date from the same period as the shaft graves at Mycenae and the cist 

 graves of the fourth prehistoric period in Thessaly. The other group consisted of burnt 

 interments. The ashes were placed in large stone jars surrounded by circular enclosures 

 of stone, perhaps once the bases of tumuli. The best grave, that of a woman, 

 yielded seven vases, a necklace of gold beads, a silver bracelet, and a bronze tool. 



Corinth (E. B..vii, 148). At Corinth the main results of the American excavations 

 go to show that the fountain houses of Peirene and Glauce probably date back to the 

 age of the tyrants in the sixth century. This is of great interest, for we know that the 

 tyrants of Athens, Samos and Megara about the same time busied themselves in im- 

 proving the water supplies of the cities under their rule. Some scanty remains of the 

 prehistoric period have been found round the hill on which stands the temple of Apollo. 

 The painted pottery found here is remarkable, for it is of the North Greek style and 

 belongs to the second and third prehistoric periods in Thessaly. Amongst these sherds 

 are a few of a style which extends as far north as the banks of the Danube near Belgrade, 

 where it is plentiful. 



Delos (E. B. vii, 971). At Delos the systematic progress of the French excavations 

 under Holleaux has produced important results. The clearing of the streets and houses, 

 many of which are in an excellent state of preservation, has made this once desolate site 

 a Hellenic Pompeii. The wall paintings and mosaic floors of the houses are of great 

 interest, while the details of their plans and the fact that the better houses had upper 

 storeys may go far to solve some of the problems connected with Greek domestic architec- 

 ture. To the north of the Apollo temple the so-called Temple of the Seven has been 

 brought to light with seven bases for cult statues in the cella. To this temple, which is 

 frequently mentioned in inscriptions as the Temple of the Athenians, belong the fine 

 acroteria now at Athens, which were formerly attributed to the Temple of Apollo. To 

 judge by its stylistic likeness to the Parthenon and the temple at Bassae it probably 

 dates from the fifth century. The Asclepieion has been cleared and a headless cult 

 statue, perhaps that executed by Scopas, has been found. Further fresh research shows 

 that what was originally called the older Artemisium is really the later. On the east of 

 the valley of the Inopus the sanctuary of the foreign gods has now been completely 

 excavated. This comprised two sections, one for Egyptian deities such as Isis, Anubn 

 and Serapis, and another for Syrian divinities. The former, it seems, was built on the 

 site of an earlier temple dedicated to a goddess. Not far off an older sanctuary of the 

 Egyptian deities was found, apparently of the third century. These shrines throw much 

 valuable light on the introduction and adoption of Oriental cults by the Greeks. 



Thessaly, Phocis, Boeotia, Macedonia. In Thessaly great advances have been made 

 in our archaeological knowledge. At Pagasae a large number of painted grave stelae 

 of marble which date from the third and second centuries were found built into the foun- 



