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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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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 • beside • the • Sea.
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DISCOVERIES AT ANTHEDON. 197 pattern in several colors; besides various small objects of no s;)ecialinterest or value. As the space included in these foundations was so great, and the exca-vations so barren of epigraphic results or of sculpture, it was deemedbest to do only so much work as was necessary to show the ground-plan clearly, without attempting wholly to explore the interior. The work at Anthedon was, as has been said, merely experimental,and confined to a com))aratively small area. Our next trial was madeon the acropolis, a hill near the sea and the eastern wall of the citv.It descends abruptly into the sea in rocky cliffs, and on its brow areconsiderable remains of fortification-walls of regular masonrv. Thetop of the hill consists mainly of bare or scantily covered rock, buton the side toward the sea there is a level terrace with a considerabledepth of soil. Across this terrace a trench was dug from east to west,and two others were made at right angles to the first; but n

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