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Excavations in Ithaca, III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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The site lies on the north-west side of the Bay of Pólis (Fig. 1), in a gash on the hillside where rock has fallen away, leaving a sheer face on the south of the site and the débris of undercliff on the north. The sea lies to the east and the entrance to the site on the north is blocked by fallen rocks (Fig. 3). Its position with regard to the other excavations round Stavrós in North Ithaca can be seen on the general plan of the area (Fig. 2 of the preceding article); our Fig. 2 shews the steep hill-side round the site.
The cave was accidentally discovered by the proprietor Louisos when digging a pit for a lime-kiln. Schliemann found the excavation in progress in 1864, but did not realize its importance.
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page 46 note 1 Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja, 44 ff.
page 46 note 2 I.G. IX. 1, 653.
page 46 note 3 Through the kind offices of Mr. K. Pétalas, Mayor of Vathý.
page 46 note 4 Through the kind offices of Mr. K. Pétalas 655. Actually, of course, these were just the miscellaneous finds in Louisos' hands at the moment.
page 46 note 5 I found a skull carefully buried by itself in the disturbed earth of B under half a pithos.
page 47 note 1 I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1930.
page 47 note 2 The only other place where Hellenistic or later pottery was found below sea-level was in D, under an enormous rock which had evidently confused the stratification.
page 47 note 3 These were of very neatly-cut sandstone. Three of them measured respectively 50 × 46 × 7 cm. (groove on three sides), 68 × 65 × 7 cm., 65 × 65 × 7 cm.
page 47 note 4 B.C.H. 1905,145 ff.
page 47 note 5 These drawings are by Mr. C. A. R. Radford.
page 47 note 6 The geological observations and the two general plans (Figs. 2, 3) are by Mrs. G. A. D. Tait.
page 48 note 1 For this and the following paragraphs on the stratification below datum Mr. Radford is responsible.
page 48 note 2 Datum is the point to which the highest tides rose, marked on the cliff face at point X (Fig. 4, plan); all levels are measured from this.
page 51 note 1 See p. 47 above.
page 51 note 2 Cf. B.S.A. xxxiii 19–20.
page 51 note 3 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii, Pl. III a, b, 7.
page 52 note 1 Cf. Dörpfeld, Alt Olympia Pl. 22 nos. 3, 7.
page 52 note 2 These will be discussed later.
page 52 note 3 See B.S.A. xxxii, 222.
page 52 note 4 The clay of modern tiles made at Pélos, further North along this coast, is not dissimilar.
page 52 note 5 See p. 50 above.
page 52 note 6 See p. 54 below and Fig. 7.
page 52 note 7 Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 14) states that yearly sin-offerings were paid by the relations of the suitors to Odysseus, but that the payment was later transferred to Telemachos. The tale has a respectable source (Arist. ), and such dues would no doubt have been paid at this shrine.
page 53 note 1 The evidence for games in Ithaca is given on p. 54 below.
page 53 note 2 See Evolution, p. 114 below.
page 53 note 3 Od. viii 390–1, xiii 13–4 and 362 ff.
page 53 note 4 II. xviii 373 rf. Hephaistos worked also for the Phaiacians, see Od. vii 92.
page 53 note 5 A.A. 1935, 286 Fig. 15. See Evolution, p. 101 below.
page 54 note 1 See p. 48 above.
page 54 note 2 See Thompson, , Hesperia iii 438.Google Scholar
page 54 note 3 Cf. the marble reliefs from Vári, (A.J.A. 1903, Pls. iii–viii).Google Scholar
page 54 note 4 See Vollgraff, , B.C.H. 1905, 148Google Scholar, Fig. 11; 149, Fig. 12. Discussed in the catalogue of terra-cottas.
page 54 note 5 Prof. M. N. Tod tells me that the form of the letters suits the date attributed to the masks. He also suggested this translation.
page 54 note 6 O. Kern, Inschriften von Magnesia am Mäander no. 36.
page 54 note 7 Op. cit. p. 13.
page 54 note 8 The place of assembly from which this inscription is dated was called the Odysseion (line 1.2), but we do not know if it is the same shrine, or if there was a separate building.
page 54 note 9 Ithaca is a possible provenience for a victory dedication on a disc in the British Museum belonging to the sixth century (I.G. IX, 1, 649; better, B.M. Inscr. 952). It must come from one of the four islands and Kephallenia is excluded by the use of M for san (see I.G., IX, 1, 610). Homer calls the Ithacesians Kephallenians (II. ii 631), and as far as our knowledge goes, this inscription would suit the alphabet of Ithaca. See I.G. ix 1653, and vase inscriptions at Aetós to be published by Mr. Robertson.
page 55 note 1 See I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1930.
page 56 note 1 See p. 46 above.
page 56 note 2 See p. 54 above.
page 56 note 3 Olympia IV 75 ff.
page 56 note 4 I have dealt with this subject in greater detail in Evolution, pp. 79 fF. below.
page 56 note 5 Found by Schliemann. Stais 1916, 82: below, pp. 76, 77, Fig. la.
page 56 note 6 A.A. 1935, 286, Fig. 15: below, p. 77, Fig. 1b.
page 57 note 1 By Mr. P. de Jong.
page 57 note 2 The measurements are taken from just below the struts.
page 57 note 3 See Mr. Davies' chemical analysis, p. 73 below.
page 58 note 1 See pp. 56 above, 77 Fig. 1a below.
page 58 note 2 For the loop cf. the Protogeometric tripod from the Kerameikos and the Stais tripod (see p. 56 above); for the general shape, Evans, Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos Fig. 38.
page 59 note 1 A similar wheel fits a tripod-leg from Palaikastro (Candia museum Nos. 848, 898; see Bosanquet, , B.S.A. xi p. 307, No. 7Google Scholar; also below Evolution Pls. 19, 4 and 20, 5).
page 59 note 2 See p. 56 above.
page 59 note 3 Cf. Winnefeld, Milet, Band I, Heft ii' 90, Pls. xix, xx.
page 59 note 4 Cf. Candia museum no. 1336, from Palaikastro.
page 60 note 1 On the inside of a handle at Delphi (Delphes no. 214) are the feet of an animal, probably a bull.
page 60 note 2 See the chemical analysis, p. 73 below.
page 60 note 3 For horses on this kind of handle cf. Ithaca no. 9 and Olympia no. 640 (that horse too pulls back).
page 60 note 4 See p. 51 above.
page 61 note 1 For the section cf. Delphes no. 219, Olympia no. 629, inv. 3895, 2096 in Berlin.
page 61 note 2 This has been nicked so that it looks like a flower.
page 61 note 3 See the chemical analysis, p. 73 below.
page 62 note 1 See the chemical analysis, p. 73 below.
page 62 note 2 Cf. Delphes nos. 241–243, Waldstein, Argive Heraeum no. 2221.
page 62 note 3 Legs of Italian tripods and other furniture are made of somewhat similar strips, cf. Randall Maclver, Villanovans and Early Etruscans, pl. 21.
page 62 note 4 Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome iii pl. 56, from the Bernardini tomb.
page 62 note 5 Female figures with this attitude are Athens Nat. Mus. 15150 (De Ridder, Aer. no. 771) and the Dipylon ivories (Kunze, A.M. 1930 Pls. v–viii).Google Scholar The contours of Ithaca no. 15 may have been like those of another statuette from the Acropolis (no. 692 Zervos, L'Art en Grèce, nos. 69–72).
page 63 note 1 Cf. Olympia no. 216.
page 66 note 1 Cf. Delphes no. 161, p. 52, and others; cf. also the hoofs inside handle, no. 214, p.63.
page 66 note 2 Cf. Olympia nos. 545, 576, 577.
page 66 note 3 Published in Evolution below, p. 84 and Pl. 20, 1.
page 68 note 1 Contrast those found at Móchlos and in the Shaft Graves (Evans Shaft Graves and Bee-hive tombs of Mycenae 39 Figs. 27–8).
page 68 note 2 Cf. the chisels found in an E.H. deposit at Eútresis (Goldman Excavations at Eutresis fig. 287).
page 68 note 3 Cf. Blinkenberg, Fibules grecques et orientales, Types thessaliens, VI. 3f from Lindos. This example and the others of class VI are all smaller than the Pòlis fibula.
page 70 note 1 Cf. disk-headed pins at the Argive Heraeum. They are a good deal more ornate. Perhaps No. 604 is the nearest.
page 70 note 2 Iron spear-heads with split sockets are common, e.g. W.M.B.H. vi 84, 91, from Sanskimost.
page 71 note 1 Cf. a bronze pin from Tegea, (B.C.H. 1921, 379Google Scholar, no. 130); one from Argos (Argive Heraeum II no. 725); and pins from Athens (J.H.S. 1931, 166; A.A. 1934, 238).
page 72 note 1 Cf. a sword from Drajna-de-jos (Dacia ii 351, Pl. ii 7). See also the iron sword found in the excavation, p. 70 no. 1 above.
page 72 note 2 Childe's Danubian VI. See Dacia ii 359, no. 16, from Drajna-de-jos. Gf. Marinatos, Ἐφημ. 1933, 92.Google Scholar
page 73 note 1 Both knives belong to Karo's class (a) with one cutting edge. The peculiarity of Mycenaean knives appears to be that they were made with hilt and blade in one piece. Like the swords, their hilts were pierced and developed flanges (Karo, Schachtgräber Pl. C). The iron knives from Illyria seemed to be derived from these, preferring the rounded variety; see the finds from Sanskimost, , W.M.B.H. vi, p. 62bb.Google Scholar
page 73 note 2 Cf. the bronze chisel found in the excavation p. 68 no. 30 above. Perforated chisels are found in the Cyclades, 1899 pl X, and at Mesará, Xanthoudídes Vaulted Tombs of Mesara, pl XLIIIb, 1500.
page 73 note 3 A.A. 1933, 274. Cf. also the buds on a flat laver in the National Museum, probably No. 10646 from the Peiraeus.
page 73 note 4 The iron in specimen 2 may be due to some accidental contamination.
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