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Ancient Sites in Melos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Duncan Mackenzie
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After the close of the excavation season of the British School at Melos last year, I availed myself of the opportunity afforded by a prolonged stay to explore the island. The sites of Komia, Palæochori, and Hagia Kyriaki had been previously visited by me in company with Mr. Charles Clark, architect to the British School, but as the former visits had been limited to one day I revisited the sites mentioned more at leisure afterwards. In order to become more familiar with the people and the districts I stayed several days at or near each of the sites, sleeping usually in the threshing-floors near the farm-houses.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 3 , November 1897 , pp. 71 - 88
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1897

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page 71 note * The sketch-map of Melos has been kindly drawn for me by Mr. Pieter Rodeck.

page 73 note * Palæachora, the mediæval town, is to be distinguished from the ancient site of Palæochori on the south-east coast of Melos.

page 74 note * The necropolis at Pelos has since been excavated for the British School by Mr. Edgar (see p. 35).

page 75 note * [The tile here represented is in the British School at Athens, and is one of a series of similar tiles brought to me in May, 1896, by a man named Andreas Georgios Tseronis; they were found in his field at Kastriani, about I metre below the level of the ground. They formed a pavement and were “surrounded with large stones”; at a short distance away there are large blocks of squared stones, which have evidently formed part of some building (cf. Ἐφ.Ἀρχ. 1896, p. 255).—C. S.]

page 79 note * I have also learned from different sources that obsidian is not a product of Crete; a fact which greatly enhances the importance of Melos in pre-historic times.

page 87 note * The results of this journey will be published later.