Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1944, Page 81

SWEDISH EXCAVATIONS
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they include an unbroken series from the Palaeolithic Age to
Christian times, and directly or indirectly they are connected
with the whole cultural area of the Mediterranean.
Excavations in Greece.
The first epoch of excavations in Greece was in the nineties.
The excavations were conducted by S. Wide and L. Kjellberg,
who together directed the examinations of the Poseidon sanc-
tuary at Kalauria in the island of Poros (1894). The following
year Wide alone continued the Swedish excavations at Afidna
in Northern Attica (1895).
Kalauria.6 The excavations were concentrated on the Temple of
Poseidon itself with the adjacent temenos area. The temple was
a Doric peripteral building with six by twelve columns. Unfor-
tunately the temple was badly damaged. In connexion with the
temple some hall-buildings were found, which were also exam-
ined. Further a stoa connected with the agora was examined.
Here amongst other things columns of various kinds were found,
some of them with a form of capitals which greatly reminds of
the Doric capitals of the Parthenon. Also Ionic capitals and
columns were found. Among the loose finds should be noted a
number of inscriptions, marble- and bronze-sculptures, and in-
teresting pieces of pottery, the oldest of them dating from the Late
Mycenaean Period. The most important of the vases could be
dated at the 6th century B. C.
Afidna? These excavations are of quite a different character,
but of extraordinarily great importance for prehistoric research
in Greece, as important findings of pottery from the Middle
Helladic Period of the Greek Bronze Age were made. A number
of tombs of various types were excavated, among them a huge
tumulus of an unusual type. Wide through these finds was able
to account for the most important classes of vases of the Middle
Bronze Age, principally the Minyan and the Mat painted wares,
and to ascertain the relation of these wares to the rest of prehistoric
ð S. Wide and L. Kjellberg, Ausgrabungen auf Kalauria in the At. Mitt.
1895, p. 267.
7 Wide, Afidna in Nordattika, in the At. Mitt. 1896, p. 385.