We are grateful to the Management Committee of the British School at Athens for permission to study the axes. We wish to thank Mr. M. Boutsicos and Mr. N. Violetis for their assistance with the analyses and metallographic examinations respectively.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This content downloaded from 169.229.32.138 on Fri, 9 May 2014 18:48:50 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions PREHISTORIC FIGURINES FROM CORINTH (PLATES 33-44) T HE NEOLITHIC and Early Helladic figurines in the following catalogue, including one or two pieces that may not properly speaking be figurines, are the fruits of nearly ninety years of excavations by the American School of Classical Studies at the main site of Old Corinth and its outliers.1 The total number of figurines to date is 69, of which 10 lost or sent to the National Museum of Athens by the end of the Second World War were published by Mrs. Walker Kosmopoulos.2 Of this number 32 human and 5 animal figurines are more or less certainly Neolithic and 19 are Early Helladic (EH); 2, 39 and 40, could be either.The reasons for the chronological attribution of each figurine, based on context, technique, or as a last resort typology, are given in the catalogue. In the case of those for which such evidence is particularly tenuous, the probability of the date given is estimated according to the frankly subjective opinion of the writer. This content downloaded from 169.229.32.138 on Fri, 9 May 2014 18:48:50 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsDuring the Neolithic and EH periods the cultural separation of the Peloponnese from central Greece, and even more so from Thessaly and Macedonia, that is apparent in the different regional styles of pottery is just as marked in the field of coroplasty. From its considerable, albeit commonly mixed prehistoric deposits, Corinth has produced 10 Middle Neolithic (MN) and some 17 Late Neolithic (LN) clay human figurines; the corresponding figures for the Franchthi Cave are, pending the final publication, 5 Early Neolithic (EN), 14 MN, 13 LN, and 6 Final Neolithic (FN) figurines,3 but no more than a handful is known from the other Peloponnesian Neolithic sites. From Thessaly, by contrast, Hourmouziadis in 1974 reported a total of 599, including 246 from Prodromos alone,4 but excluding 227 from Achilleion5 and others found since then. A large number, if not the majority of these, are EN in date,6 although they continue to be common in the Middle Neolithic, while EN figurines are scarcely known from the Peloponnese.7There are, furthermore, typological differences between the figurines from Thessaly and the Peloponnese, including the absence from the latter region of the schematic piriform Proto-Sesklo figurines, coffee-bean eyes, figurines seated on stools, and male figurines, ...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Hellenic Studies. trige zur ur-und friihgeschichtlichen Archiol. des Mittelmeer-Kulturraumes, 12.) Bonn: Habelt. 1976. Pp. [iii] + 225, [90] plates (I folding in pocket), 6 text figs, 4 folding plans in pocket. DM 170. Over a period of six years concluding in autumn 1973, the German Thessalian Excavations Team carried out investigations at the site of the Hellenistic foundation of Demetrias. Under the editorship of the two archaeologists who have done most in the past twenty years to initiate re-examination of the site, this volume is the first of a proposed series to record the results. The work is dedicated to F. Stihlin whose publications of the 1920s and 1930s represented, until now, the only comprehensive treatments of this Macedonian stronghold founded c. 293 B.C. As indicated in both the introduction (by Milojaii) and the opening contribution (by' P. Marzolff) some fundamental conjectures which have become canonical must be revised in the light of post-war research. With that purpose in mind, the first one hundred and forty-one pages are devoted to reports of excavations of the two best-known areas of the site-'Height 33' and the 'Sacred Agora'. The major concentration is on the former, where almost the entire ground works of the building complex have been uncovered. Despite pre-war proposals to the contrary it must now surely be confirmed that these are the remains of the Royal Palace first constructed in the early decades of the third century B.C. The successive accounts of the excavations and findings are detailed and meticulous, and splendidly supplemented by comprehensive, well-indexed sets of photographs, section drawings and plans. Pp. 145-56 contain a report (by V. von Graeve) of the most exciting individual find in this volume-an inscribed sacred relief to the Syrian goddess, Atargatis. Although the cult of this deity is known to have existed in Greece from the time of the third century B.c., all previous evidence is epigraphical. This relief is the first known portrait evidence for the goddess from the mainland. The final fifty-six pages of the text comprise five epigraphical contributions at best peripherally relevant to the title of the tome. Only one of the stones discussed comes from the site-a grave epigram of the late fourth or fifth century A.D. (pp. 199-203). On p. 184, the suggestion that the verb praAdrcw (a form of which occurs on a Hellenistic list of yvu•vaacapxot from Pherai) is a hapax, should perhaps be revised in view of an entry in Liddell and Scott, 8th ed., p. 949. It is surprising that A. Giovannini's contrib...
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