Excavations at Olynthus. / Part IV: The Terra-Cottas of Olynthus found 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. [xi] 105 pp. plus 63 bw plates including frontispiece. Good, wear to cover, cloth separating from boars at head. Ex-library book with spine label, bookplates and minimal other markings. Item #129727
All sorts of types of terra-cottas were uncovered, ranging from the early archaic to the fourth century realistic figurines. Olynthus was evidently a great center of the terra-cotta industry, and the number of large molds, found in one room, proves that there was at Olynthus a terra-cotta factory. 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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