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Title: Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Archaeological Institute of America American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Subjects: Classical antiquities -- Periodicals Archaeology -- Periodicals Greece -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: Boston : Cupples, Upham and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the accompanying sketch of the harbor 196 DISCOVERIES AT ANTUEDON. with liis plan will show that he did not accurately give the relative %positions of the breakwater and the public building (Fig. T). We were disappointed to find that nearly the whole area of the cityMas planted with grain, for, as the only point at which a buildingcould confidently be looked for was at the platform by the sea, wehad counted on doing a great deal of experimental digging; but,while we should not have hesitated to dig through grain fields if wehad had undoubted indications of important remains, it seemed hardlyjustifiable to do so on an uncertainty. Work was begun at the plat-form already mentioned. There were visible, besides the platform, anouter foundation-wall of poros blocks, with a few blocks of an uppercourse of a rough conglomerate. The wall was ^vell built and theblocks were re«;ular. Four trenches were dug inward from the seaat different parts of the platform. All these, at a depth of 0.56 m.,
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Fig. 1.—Harbor and Foundations at Anthedon. ran into a second foundation-wall composed of large regular blocks ofporos. The average size of the blocks is as follows: length, 1.20 m.;breadth, 0.80 m.; thickness, 0.47 m. The wall, which is evidently ofGreek workmanship, runs nearly east and west, parallel to the outerwall and to the sea. Eight days were spent in the work at this place,and the foundations of a very extensive structure, or combination ofstructures, were laid bare (see plan). During this work there werefound : near the junction of the walls e and c, the top of an inscribedstele of poros, and, close to the most southern wall «, an inscribed basisof blue limestone; near the stele, a small Doric capital of poros, 0.36m. in diameter, with twenty channels and with a dowel-hole in the top;in the part of the structure furthest from the sea, considerable remainsof a Roman mosaic; pavement with a rather complicated and pretty • An THE DON-• Plan • of ■ Foundations • be

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