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Excavations at Theotokou, Thessaly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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Theotokou lies at the south-eastern corner of the Magnesian peninsula, a little to the north of the bay of Kato Georgi. The site itself is the seaward end of a narrow valley, where a small brook discharges into a little cove just to the north of a hill called Kastro (Fig. 1). Here there stands a small chapel built in 1807, and dedicated to the Virgin. In the walls of the chapel itself are several ancient blocks, and north and south of it traces of walls are visible. Immediately to the west is a large mass of ruins formerly covered with brushwood; round these stand six fragments of Doric columns, and a seventh lies in a cornfield some distance to the west: an eighth, which was seen here, has disappeared. This place, the traditional site of Sepias, was first visited by a local gentleman, Theódoros Zirghános.
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page 310 note 1 See the map given J.H.S. 1906, p. 144.
page 310 note 2 Γεωργιάδης, Θεσσαλία, p. 137.
page 310 note 3 J.H.S. 1906, pp. 147, 148.
page 311 note 1 Πρακτικά, 1906, p. 126; cf. Ath. Milt. 1906, p. 369; Arch. Ans. 1907, p. 114: Am. Journal Arch. 1907, p. 87.
page 311 note 2 J.H.S. 1906, p. 145.
page 311 note 3 See the map J.H.S. 1906, p. 144.
page 311 note 4 Our warmest thanks are due to Dr. Dörpfeld for the kind assistance he has given us in this connection.
page 312 note 1 Dr. Arvanitopoulios found a similar fragment.
page 314 note 1 Furtwängler, Aegina, Pl. 48.
page 314 note 2 Other coins were: silver, a denarius of Faustina the younger (Cohen1, 164); bronze, small, one of Constantine I (Cohen 1, 337), one of Constantius (apparently Cohen1, 222), one of Theodosius I (Cohen1, 49) and five illegible specimens of the fourth century.
page 314 note 3 See J.H.S. 1906, pp. 145, 146.
page 315 note 1 They are ·31 m. in diameter, and of a debased Roman Doric type.
page 316 note 1 In the ground plan on Plate XI. F, square I is in the north-east corner.
page 316 note 2 Twenty-one squares are destroyed (1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36); squares 6, and 41–44 all contain birds similar to Plate XI. C, 9; 31 and 46 shew a pattern like Plate XI. C, a; 4, 37, and 39 are like 40, cf. Plate XI. F, but the tree shewn, bears apples, not pears; 22 is like Plate XI. c, 19; 5 and 48 have a chess-board pattern; 7 is decorated with ivy leaves similar in style to Plate XI. C, d; 2, 13, 30, and 45 have patterns. resembling Plate XI. C, 6, 16, 17; and that of 47 is marbled.
page 316 note 3 Upper diameter ·28 m., lower ·31 m.
page 318 note 1 Olympia, ii. p. 94, Fig. 52.
page 318 note 2 Strzygowski, Kleinasien, Fig. 31.
page 319 note 1 Cf. Sabatier, , Monn. Bys. ii. Pl. XLVIII.Google Scholar
page 319 note 2 Cf. Sabatier, , op. cit. i. 225, 21Google Scholar; we have to thank Mr. Wroth of the British Museum for identifying the coin.
page 319 note 3 Daremberg-Saglio, iii. pp. 2108–2113. The technique shews the intermixture of pavimentum tessellatum and vermiculatum characteristic of late Roman days (op. cit. p. 2123): but that the date of our mosaics is comparatively early, is shewn by the careful work, and the rich choice of colours.
page 319 note 4 Similar to those in floors of the Roman baths near the Arch of Hadrian at Athens, Gardner, Ancient Athens, p. 504.
page 320 note 1 Augustine, St., De Civ. Dei, lxxi. 4.Google Scholar
page 320 note 2 Kraus, , Geschichte d. Christlichen Kunst, i. pp. 406, 424Google Scholar, cf. Daremberg-Saglio, iii. p. 2123.
page 320 note 3 Kleinasien, p. 56.
page 320 note 4 Strzygowski, op. cit. p. 46, Fig. 30; dated to the fourth century A.D.
page 320 note 5 Ibid. p. 49, Fig. 35; dated earlier than the seventh century A.D.
page 320 note 6 Cf. the basilica at Olympia, dated to the fifth century A.D., Kraus, , op. cit. i. p. 341.Google Scholar
page 320 note 7 J.H.S. 1906, p. 152.
page 321 note 1 All these are marked on the plan (Pl. X. 2) by oblique lines.
page 321 note 2 Sabatier, op. cit. v. Pl. LV. 5; we also found a bronze coin of Leo V and Constantine VII, Ibid. op. cit. Pl. XLII. 13.
page 321 note 3 The other half of this block is built into the south-eastern corner of the modern chapel.
page 321 note 4 For this shape v. Wide, Geometrische Vasen, p. 58, Fig, 116; Poulsen, , Ath. Mitt. 1901, P. 33.Google Scholar
page 323 note 1 To the references given by Vollgraff for this practice (B.C.H. 1906, p. 37) may be added Jahrb. d. Inst. 1907, p. 83, Fig. 4; Körte, Gordion, pp. 192, 193, Nos. 79 and 82. An example has recently been found at Sparta.
page 326 note 1 Πρακτικά, 1899, p. 101.
page 326 note 2 Three not dissimilar beaked jugs, unpainted, were found in the upper strata at Seskló, belonging to the Age, Bronze, Comptes Rendus, Cong. Int. d. Archéologie, 1905, p. 207.Google Scholar
page 326 note 3 Dawkins, , B.S.A. xi. p. 79 Google Scholar, Fig. 3.
page 327 note 1 Reference should be made to a vase very similar to Fig. f found near Halicarnassus in a tholos tomb, which also contained fragments of iron weapons, Paton, , J.H.S. 1887, p. 69 Google Scholar, Fig. 6.