Excavations at Olynthus. / Part III: The Coins found at Olynthus in 1928; Series: The Johns Hopkins University. Studies in Archeology No. 11
Baltimore, London, Oxford: Johns Hopkins Press; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardcover. Brown cloth with stamped border, gilt spine titling. [xiv] 129 pp. plus 2 bw figures and 28 bw plates. Good+, minor wear to edges of cover, ex-library book with spine label, bookplates and minimal other markings. Item #129726
Details the characteristics of the over 1,000 coins found on the site and plates include 979 bronze and 51 silver coins. 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.
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