Excavations at Olynthus. / Part II, Architecture and Sculpture: Houses and Other Buildings.; Series: The Johns Hopkins University. Studies in Archeology No. 9

Baltimore, London, Oxford: Johns Hopkins Press; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1930. Hardcover. Brown cloth with stamped border, gilt spine titling. [xxii] 155 pp. 307 bw figures , mostly photographic, some full-page and one is a 4-page gatefold in bw or with another color. Also has 4 plates, one of which is a triple five-fold "Survey of Olynthus. Good+, minor wear to edges of cover, ex-library book with spine label, bookplates and minimal other markings. Item #129724

Part II is "An account of the ruined houses and other buildings with chapters on loom weights and on lamps." Olynthus was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills near the neck of Greece's Kassandra Peninsula. The probable site of Olynthus was identified as early as 1902. Between 1914 and 1916 plans were made for an excavation by the British School at Athens, but these fell through. Excavations began in 1928. Prof. D. M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins, under the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, conducted four seasons of work: in 1928, 1931, 1934, and 1939. The results of the excavations were digested into fourteen folio volumes.

OCLC: 491401321

Price: $250.00

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