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As a member of the French School of Athens N. Valmin
examined the material of inscriptions from the theatre of Del-
phi.12 But already in 1926 he started his great investigations in
Messenia in Southern Greece. During a number of years Valmin
has made comprehensive topographical studies supplementing
these with excavations in several places. The investigations in
question were particularly aimed at the prehistoric problems of
Messenia, and Valmin also made an attempt at seeing these in
a wider connexion.13
Bodia,14 Kopanaki,15 Bouga."' In these places in Messenia Valmin
in the years 1926—27 excavated fine í/70/oí-tombs from the
Mycenaean Period. They made valuable contributions to the solu-
tion of the problems that had arisen in connexion with the in-
vestigations of the tholos-tombs. In 1937, Valmin further at
Bouga excavated a citadel that had constituted part of the defence
of the province against the east. The lay-out consisted of build-
ings grouped round a quadrangular open courtyard.
Malthi.1' Of much greater importance than these excavations
are the investigations of the prehistoric town on the mountain
of Malthi near Vasiliko. This place may probably be identified
with ancient Dorion. Here a city or small town with various
12 N. Valmin, Notes d’épigraphie delphique, in the Bull. de Corr. Hel-
lénique, 1936; —, Les inscriptions du Théatre, Fouilles de Delphes III,
Fasc. VI (1939).
13 Valmin, Études topographiques sur la Messénie ancienne, Lund 1930. A
paper on an archaic head found at Kyparissia during these studies
has been published: Archaisierender Hermenkopf aus Kyparissia, in
the Bull. de la Soc. des Lettres de Lund 1929—30.
14 Valmin, Two Tholos Tombs at Bodia in the Eastern part of Triphylia,
in Lunds hum. vet. samf:s arsb. 1926/27.
15 Valmin, Continued Explorations in Eastern Triphylia, Ib. 1927—28.
18 Valmin, Ein messenisches Kastell und die arkadische Grenzfrage, in
the Opuscula arch. V, Lund 1939; — Messaspisches in Messenien, in
the Dragma Martino Nilsson, Lund 1939; —, Tholos Tombs and
Tumuli, in the Corolla Arch, Lund 1932.
17 Valmin, Rapport préliminaire de l’expédition en Messénie, in Lunds
hum. vet. samf. arsber. 1933—34; —, The Swedish Messenia Expedition,
Lund 1938; —, Poids préhistoriques grecs de Malthi en Messénie, in
Lunds hum. vet. samf. arsber. 1936—37; —, Das Adriatische Gebiet
in Vor- und Friihbronzezeit, in Lunds Universitets arsskrift 1939.