Excavations by the American School at the Theatre of Sikyon. 9781463220075
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Excavations by the American School at the Theatre of Sikyon.
A n a l e c t a Gorgiana
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Excavations by the American School at the Theatre of Sikyon.
W. J. McMurtry
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ISBN 978-1-60724-494-3
ISSN 1935-6854
Extract from The American Journal ofAjrchaeology, vol. 5 (1889).
Printed in the LTnited States of America
AMERICAN J O U R N A L OF ARCHAEOLOGY. Vol. V.
SEPTEMBER, 1889.
No. 3.
P A P E R S O F T H E AMERICAN SCHOOL O F CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS. EXCAVATIONS AT T H E T H E A T R E O F SIKYON.
I. GENERAL REPORT OF THE EXCAVATIONS. [PLATES V I , V I I , I X . ]
The excavations at Sikyon by the American School were begun March 23,1886, during the directorship of Professor M. L. D'Ooge, and were continued, with some interruptions, until May 10. I n the succeeding session of the School, under the directorship of Professor A. C. Merriam, the excavations were resumed under the supervision of Mr. M. L. Earle, who will present a final report of the work done.* The choice of the site of Sikyon as a field for archaeological investigation was recommended by the fact that, in spite of the antiquity of the city and its particular importance in the history of art, no systematic excavation had ever been made there. Whether it was due to the charm of the surrounding landscape, or to a happy blending of Ionian and Dorian elements in the population, or again to the circumstances of the political history of the city, or, what is most probable, to the united action of all these causes, few cities in Hellas were more renowned as art centres than Sikyon. Sikyon first comes into view in the Homeric line, /cal Xi/cvwv, od'ap' "ASptja-To