A M Woodward
Biographic Data
| ID | 4786205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Woodward |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodward |
| SIGNATURE | WOODWARD A M |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8337-5822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1907 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Transfer from Eleusis
Woodward did a great deal more work on fourth-century Attic treasure-inventories than he ever published, and I still hope to pull some of the notes together. One substantial piece exists in near-publishable shape, and I submit it more readily because it deals with a small fragment recently published by Stroud. I have allowed myself some interventions in the knowledge that Woodward had approved the first in principle and was not opposed to the thi…
Financial Documents from the Athenian Agora
Athens and the oracle of Ammon
The importance attached by Greek cities and their leading statesmen to the oracle of Ammon is a matter of common knowledge. That it was not consulted by Greeks only is shown by the story of its consultation by Croesus (Hdt. i. 46) nearly a century before Kimon sent to seek its advice shortly before his death. From Pausanias we learn that it was frequently consulted by Sparta and by the men of Elis; and that at Thebes there was a temple of Ammon, …
Notes on some Attic Decrees III
In this much-mutilated fragment from near the top of a decree, which S. dates to the period 370–360 B.C. on the evidence of the lettering, only five letters survive from the text proper, in (apparently) line 7, namely λεφθη for which no restoration is offered. For these it seems impossible to find any alternative to [ἐκ]λὲφθη or -θη[σαν and it may be suggested that this allusion to a theft, important enough to be recorded in a decree, might well …
Treasure-Records from the Athenian Agora
Notes on Some Attic Decrees
Mr. D. M. Lewis has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of this decree relating to the Praxiergidai and their ancestral ritual, but his restoration of the last line (l. 25) is far from satisfactory. In his version the last two lines are given as follows: In stating that the restorations are ‘virtually compulsory’ he has failed to realise that [με]δίμνον is not the only possible explanation for the six letters that survive, and he do…
Some Notes on the Spartan Σφαιρεῖς
It seems appropriate to contribute to this volume an unpublished fragment from Sparta of a list of victorious σφαιρεῖς of which Professor Wace kindly gave me a squeeze many years ago, and to append to it some miscellaneous notes on the lists of this class published in IG V. 1, 674–688. Some of these notes have already appeared in print, in earlier volumes of the Annual , but it may be helpful to collect and slightly amplify them here, using the p…
The Gortyn ‘Labyrinth’ and its Visitors in the Fifteenth Century
The ‘Labyrinth’ near Gortyn in southern Crete has attracted the interest and the curiosity of many generations of travellers visiting the island. When Tournefort explored it systematically in 1700 he observed and recorded the dates inscribed by visitors, who had sometimes added their names, on the rock-face, either at the farthest point which can be reached, or on the sides of the passage leading to it. As the earliest date which he noted was 144…
Inscriptiones Graecae, V. I
The miscellaneous notes on Spartan inscriptions, mainly of the Imperial age, which I have put together in the following pages deal chiefly with texts already published in the Laconian volume of the Corpus ( IG V. I) which record the Cursus Honorum of individuals or lists of magistrates or other officials. For many of these I suggest textual improvements, and for some an approximate date based on prosopographical evidence. Moreover, in a few cases…
Corrigenda
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Excavations at Sparta, 1924–1928
The two following articles dealing with the finds from the excavations of 1924–28 at Sparta bring nearly to a conclusion the publication of the results of that undertaking. The first (pp. 151–240) comprises a description of the architectural remains from the Theatre, including the architectural inscriptions and the stamped bricks and tiles. The second (pp. 241–254) is merely an illustrated inventory of the inscribed pot-fragments and other dedica…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924–1928
Among the votive inscriptions discovered during the excavations of 1924–27 by far the most numerous are those on vase-fragments, which number upwards of one hundred and twenty, in contrast to the modest total of thirty-four yielded by the previous campaigns on the Acropolis in 1907–08. The latter have been already published, and no further reference need be made to them here, except occasionally for purposes of comparison. As the illustrations sh…
The Antiquities from Lanuvium in the Museum at Leeds and elsewhere
This article continues my catalogue of the objects from Lord Savile's excavations at Lanuvium, of which the first instalment appeared in these Papers (Vol. VII. pp. 63–91), and completes my task as far as concerns the contents of the Museum at Leeds. As it has been decided not to attempt to include here the numerous small objects of lesser importance from the site, which are in the British Museum, but are not yet included in any volume of the Cat…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—28
As was stated in the Annual Report for the Session 1927–28, the excavations at Sparta in 1928 were on quite a small scale, lasting only three weeks, and were restricted to the following pieces of work :—at the Theatre we cleared up some fallen material, undertook some necessary conservation and tested a few points for the purpose of the plan; and at the Orthia Sanctuary we tidied up some fallen rubble-masonry, during which process we uncovered a …
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—28
The number of decrees recovered from Ancient Sparta is regrettably small, and of them by no means all contain resolutions of the Spartan state. One complete text, and apparently six incomplete texts in the Laconian Corpus (I.G. v. 1, 12, 13, 14, 23, 28, 29 and 30), and three, and perhaps four, of the fragments published in the Annual from the recent excavations ( B.S.A. xxvi. pp. 231 ff., Nos. 22, 23, 24 and 28) represent copies of resolutions pa…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—28
This article contains the remainder of the inscriptions found at the Theatre and on the Acropolis in 1924–27, with the exception of those which may be classed as definitely architectural, as being inscribed on blocks of architrave or cornice. These, together with the stamped tiles and bricks, are being reserved for a subsequent publication. The texts included in Part I comprise (1) the remainder of those belonging to the series engraved on the Ea…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
The principal results of the work of the first two seasons on the Acropolis were described in the Annual two years ago (xxvi. pp. 240–76), and it remains to complete the account for the two following years (1926–27). The task is fairly simple, since the main features of the stratification of the area which yielded finds of predominantly Hellenic date have been already described, and the results obtained from the other parts of the Acropolis which…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
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Some Note-Books of Sir William Gell, Part II
This article, continuing the account of Gell's note-books of which the first portion was published in the last volume ( B.S.A. xxvii. pp. 67 ff.), deals only with note-book (2) in so far as it relates to his journey to Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. The numerous architectural drawings, plans, etc., of ancient sites made during this expedition by Gell and his assistants, Bedford and Gandy, are published in various volumes of the Antiquities …
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
My arrangement follows, as far as possible, that of the reports in Vols. xxvi and xxvii. A laborious but remunerative piece of work which occupied two gangs of specially picked men for three weeks consisted in making a further cutting into the deep deposit which overlies the edge of the Orchestra and the front seats, north-westwards from the limit of the previous excavation in the east of the cavea . This involved the removal of some Byzantine ho…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
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Excavations at Sparta, 1926
The campaign of 1926 was rewarded by no very important discoveries in the department of epigraphy, but interesting documents of many different periods came to light. The completion of the task of excavating the East Parodos brought to light several more complete blocks which had fallen from the inscribed portion of the wall, and more than a dozen small fragments, some of which, as will be seen, prove to join blocks or fragments found previously. …
Excavations at Sparta, 1926
The main results of the work in 1926 may be summarised as follows: (1) The completion of the uncovering of the stage-buildings, and the location of the street running east and west behind them. (2) The excavation of the area east of the stage, down to its marble pavement, by uncovering a wide strip, extending from the east wall of the stage to the foot of the external staircase described in my last report ( B.S.A. xxvi. p. 132). (3) The clearance…
Excavations at Sparta, 1926
A Short account of the campaign of 1926 at Sparta has already appeared in the Annual Report of the British School for the Session 1925–26, and consequently need not be repeated here. Work started on April 7th and lasted until June 5th, the Director being in charge throughout, except for a brief visit to Athens to attend the opening ceremony of the Gennadios Library on April 23rd. He had as helpers Mrs. Woodward, Mr. P. De Jong and Mr. G. A. D. Ta…
Some Note-Books of Sir William Gell—I
A small group of note-books containing memoranda, itineraries, copies of inscriptions, and miscellaneous sketches by Sir William Gell was recently acquired by the British School at Athens, and it has seemed worth while to publish the following brief account of their contents, together with a rather fuller description of the two most important features which they present. These are (1) the copies which Gell made of numerous inscriptions, and (2) h…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
The outstanding feature of the excavations of 1925 was the discovery, in the circumstances above described, of substantial portions of a marble statue, of more than life size, representing a helmeted warrior. These comprise (1) the head and armless torso down to the waist; (2) two portions of the marble crest, which join each other, and fit on to the helmet; (3) the left leg, from knee to ankle; (4) part of the right foot, lacking heel and toes (…
The Antiquities from Lanuvium in the Museum at Leeds and Elsewhere
The excavations carried on during the years 1884–1890 by the late Lord Savile (then Sir Savile Lumley) at Civita Lavinia in Latium, yielded a large number of objects which have never been fully described. In the reports published by the excavator a short account of the work is given, from which it is plain that the two chief sites excavated were the ‘Royal Villa’ and the Temple of Juno Lavinia. A description and a few illustrations are there publ…
I.—Excavations At Sparta, 1907
The beginning of Damonon's votive slab, which was found by Leake in the Monastery of the Holy Forty ( "Αγιοι Τεσσαράκοντα or Σαράντα ) and is now in the Sparta Museum, is one of the best known and oftenest discussed of early Laconian inscriptions. The following are the chief references. Leake, Travels in the Morea , ii. 521 and Plate 71 (end of vol. iii.). A better copy, Dressel and Milchhöfer, Ath. Mitt. ii. 318. Facsimile in Roehl, I.G.A. 79 an…
The Quota-List of the Year 427–6 B.C
Not the least interesting of Professor A. Wilhelm's new discoveries in connection with the well-known Attic Quota-lists published in his recent brilliant paper, is that of a small fragment identified by him as belonging to I.G. i. 266, which solves finally the much-vexed question of the restoration of one of the rubrics or headings in that inscription. The stone in question, which is complete on the right-hand side alone, contains in ll. 9, 10 th…
Some Notes on the Monument of Porphyrios at Constantinople
The monument of the charioteer Porphyrios which stands in the Atrium of the church of St. Irene at Constantinople will no doubt be an object of interest now that the church has been thrown open to the public as a Military Museum. The description of it by Mordtmann which appeared in 1880 is still the best available, and except for some further remarks by the same writer nothing seems to have been published subsequently concerning it until the appe…
The Distribution of Early Civilization in Northern Greece
Inscriptions from Upper Macedonia
Upper Macedonia is the upland country which lies at the back of Mount Bermius as regards Macedonia properly so-called, which is the Campagna between the hills and the sea at the head of the Gulf of Salonica. Beyond the hills Olympus, Bermius, and their continuation northward, lies Upper Macedonia about the valleys of the Haliakmon and Erigon and round the lakes of Ochrida, Presba and Kastoria. This was the fourth region of Macedonia according to …
The Antiquities from Lanuvium in the Museum at Leeds and Elsewhere
The excavations carried on during the years 1884–1890 by the late Lord Savile (then Sir Savile Lumley) at Civita Lavinia in Latium, yielded a large number of objects which have never been fully described. In the reports published by the excavator a short account of the work is given, from which it is plain that the two chief sites excavated were the ‘Royal Villa’ and the Temple of Juno Lavinia. A description and a few illustrations are there publ…
VII—The Byzantine Castle of Avret-Hissar
About eight miles south-west of Kilkish or Kukuš, on the right bank of the river Zensko, is the ruined village of Avret-Hissar. Facing the village, on the left bank of the stream, is a prominent rocky spur, rising steeply from the river and crowned by the remains of a remarkable mediaeval building. This was correctly identified by Leake, who does not appear to have visited the site, as the castle of Γυναικόκαστρο which played a prominent part in …
IV.—Mounds and other ancient Sites in the Region of Salonika
The Object of these notes is to draw attention to some ancient sites mostly within easy reach of Salonika which seem to have hitherto escaped the notice of travellers. It has been possible to make a few additions to the list of mounds published by Mr. Wace in 1915, and supplementary notes are added in a few cases-where further exploration has confirmed or modified his conclusions. A few of the mounds given in his list have been excavated with var…
I.—Inscriptions
The authors' aim is to include in this article all the inscriptions on minor votive objects found at Sparta during the excavations, by the British School, of the Sanctuaries of Orthia (in 1906–10) and of Athena Chalkioikos (in 1907–08). They have been arranged according to material, those from each of these two sites being described separately, in the following order: stone, metal, ivory, pottery. A few of these inscriptions, which have been publ…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
The outstanding feature of the excavations of 1925 was the discovery, in the circumstances above described, of substantial portions of a marble statue, of more than life size, representing a helmeted warrior. These comprise (1) the head and armless torso down to the waist; (2) two portions of the marble crest, which join each other, and fit on to the helmet; (3) the left leg, from knee to ankle; (4) part of the right foot, lacking heel and toes (…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
The Hieron of Athena Chalkioikos was identified and to a large extent excavated in 1907, by the late Mr. Guy Dickins, who completed the task in the following year. Accounts of these campaigns, and of the principal finds, were published by him in the Annual (xiii. pp. 137–154, and xiv. pp. 142–146, respectively). This undertaking was practically limited to the thorough exploration of the area enclosed within the wall of the Hieron ( B.S.A. xiii., …
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
In the various regions of the Theatre we found during those two seasons a total of 1199 coins and 16 Byzantine the first season yielding 526 and the second 673. These have not all been cleaned, and many still require identification. Hopelessly indecipherable pieces were more numerous in the first year's finds. The first classification has given us the following particulars:— These were mostly found singly, but three hoards occurred among them:— (…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
The yield of inscriptions from our two seasons' work at the Theatre would not have been extensive but for the fact that the marble facing-blocks of the East Parodos-wall proved to be almost covered with a series of texts, for a distance of some fifteen metres from its west end (adjoining the Orchestra). When we had finished excavating this wall, past the point where the inscriptions ended, we had before us an inscribed monument, second only, amon…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
The scanty references preserved from the ancient writers who alluded to the Theatre at Sparta include no description of its shape, size or appearance, with the single exception of the passage in which Pausanias tells us (iii. 14. 1) that it was of white marble (λίθου λευκοῦ, θέας ἄξιον) The other authorities make mention of it only in reference to festivals or other events which took place in it. These allusions cover a long period, but do not he…
Excavations at Sparta, 1924—25
When the British School decided to bring to an end its excavations at Sparta in the year 1910, after five campaigns, it was fully aware that the possibilities of the site were by no means exhausted. Its varied activities before the war, at Phylakopi and in Crete, and after the war at Mycenae, have formed the subjects of full reports in various volumes of the Annual from XVII (1910–11) onwards, but when Mr. Wace's tenure of the Directorship came t…
Excavations at Sparta, 1926
The campaign of 1926 was rewarded by no very important discoveries in the department of epigraphy, but interesting documents of many different periods came to light. The completion of the task of excavating the East Parodos brought to light several more complete blocks which had fallen from the inscribed portion of the wall, and more than a dozen small fragments, some of which, as will be seen, prove to join blocks or fragments found previously. …
Excavations at Sparta, 1926
The main results of the work in 1926 may be summarised as follows: (1) The completion of the uncovering of the stage-buildings, and the location of the street running east and west behind them. (2) The excavation of the area east of the stage, down to its marble pavement, by uncovering a wide strip, extending from the east wall of the stage to the foot of the external staircase described in my last report ( B.S.A. xxvi. p. 132). (3) The clearance…
Excavations at Sparta, 1926
A Short account of the campaign of 1926 at Sparta has already appeared in the Annual Report of the British School for the Session 1925–26, and consequently need not be repeated here. Work started on April 7th and lasted until June 5th, the Director being in charge throughout, except for a brief visit to Athens to attend the opening ceremony of the Gennadios Library on April 23rd. He had as helpers Mrs. Woodward, Mr. P. De Jong and Mr. G. A. D. Ta…
Some Note-Books of Sir William Gell—I
A small group of note-books containing memoranda, itineraries, copies of inscriptions, and miscellaneous sketches by Sir William Gell was recently acquired by the British School at Athens, and it has seemed worth while to publish the following brief account of their contents, together with a rather fuller description of the two most important features which they present. These are (1) the copies which Gell made of numerous inscriptions, and (2) h…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
The principal results of the work of the first two seasons on the Acropolis were described in the Annual two years ago (xxvi. pp. 240–76), and it remains to complete the account for the two following years (1926–27). The task is fairly simple, since the main features of the stratification of the area which yielded finds of predominantly Hellenic date have been already described, and the results obtained from the other parts of the Acropolis which…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
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Some Note-Books of Sir William Gell, Part II
This article, continuing the account of Gell's note-books of which the first portion was published in the last volume ( B.S.A. xxvii. pp. 67 ff.), deals only with note-book (2) in so far as it relates to his journey to Asia Minor and the adjacent islands. The numerous architectural drawings, plans, etc., of ancient sites made during this expedition by Gell and his assistants, Bedford and Gandy, are published in various volumes of the Antiquities …
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
My arrangement follows, as far as possible, that of the reports in Vols. xxvi and xxvii. A laborious but remunerative piece of work which occupied two gangs of specially picked men for three weeks consisted in making a further cutting into the deep deposit which overlies the edge of the Orchestra and the front seats, north-westwards from the limit of the previous excavation in the east of the cavea . This involved the removal of some Byzantine ho…
Excavations at Sparta, 1927
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Excavations at Sparta, 1924—28
As was stated in the Annual Report for the Session 1927–28, the excavations at Sparta in 1928 were on quite a small scale, lasting only three weeks, and were restricted to the following pieces of work :—at the Theatre we cleared up some fallen material, undertook some necessary conservation and tested a few points for the purpose of the plan; and at the Orthia Sanctuary we tidied up some fallen rubble-masonry, during which process we uncovered a …
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