In the inscribed epigram seminar on Monday afternoon, we talked about how we can talk about epigrams both as literature and as archaeological items and went through some of the relevant bibliography.
On Tuesday we met Nancy Bookidis at the National Museum to look at and talk about Archaic sculpture.
On Tuesday we met Nancy Bookidis at the National Museum to look at and talk about Archaic sculpture.
That afternoon we had our first Wiener Lab seminar, this one on pottery. After an informative series of talks given by pottery experts on the scientific means of analyzing ancient pottery and on how pottery was made, we were able to get some hands-on pottery making experience, though I never did take a picture of my beautiful pot that was the result.
Our first bus trip of the term was on Wednesday. We visited the site of the battle of Marathon and walked around the tumulus under which the Athenian dead were buried.
We also had a look at the modern reconstruction of the trophy commemorating the battle. The height is completely a modern guess.
Next we went into the Marathon museum where a group of school children were also learning about Marathon!
One room of the museum was dedicated to the items from the sanctuary established in Roman times to Egyptian gods.
After the museum we headed to the tomb of the Plateans but all my pictures came out blurry. Next we saw the only tholos tomb yet discovered in Attica.
The area covered with glass is a group of horse burials in the dromos which is unusual for tholos tombs. From a tomb we went to a cemetery. The Tsepi cemetery is a bronze age site with over 68 graves so far uncovered.
Our next stop was the lovely little site at Ikaria where once there had been a handful of buildings including a couple of temples.
The last stop of the day was at the ancient quarries on Mt. Pentele. There are still lines in the rock from ancient quarry tools and today there are rock climbing bolts for routes!
There was also a pretty deep and dark cave but all the pictures I took of it are terribly blurry. I did get one of the landscape from near the quarry site just as the sun was going down.
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On Friday, we met up with Nancy Bookidis again to look at Archaic sculpture but this time at the Acropolis Museum. No photographs are allowed at the Acropolis Musuem so I've acquired some images of what we saw from wikipedia.
We spent Saturday morning with Molly Richardson at the Epigraphical Museum. Those of us in Joe's epigram seminar reported on specific epigrams. Allie, Sarah, and I reported on this one (which just looks like a block of stone in the picture, but there is an inscription on it!).
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