Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos

Originally published in 1936, this book contains a record of excavations at Thermi on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Winifred Lamb (Author)

9781107433106, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 October 2014

292 pages
29.7 x 21 x 1.6 cm, 0.71 kg

Originally published in 1936, this book contains a record of excavations at Thermi on the Greek island of Lesbos, led by renowned British archaeologist Winifred Lamb (1894–1963) over a period of several years in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The text is well supplied with drawings and plates of the various buildings and artefacts uncovered during the excavation, the majority of which are from the Bronze Age. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Lamb's work, ancient history or Bronze Age Greece.

Abbreviations
1. Introduction. Methods of excavation and publication
2. Early bronze age. The buildings: general characteristics: towns I-V
3. Early bronze age. Hearths and house-pits (by R. W. Hutchinson)
4. Middle and late bronze age. The buildings and deposits
5. Early bronze age. The pottery: description: foreign contacts and parallels: large pithoi
6. Early bronze age. Catalogue of vases
7. Middle and late bronze age. The pottery: description and comparisons: large pithoi
8. Middle and late bronze age. Catalogue of vases
9. Early bronze age. Terracotta
10. Early bronze age. Metal
11. Early bronze age. Stone
12. Early bronze age. Bone
13. Middle and late bronze age. Small finds
14. Conclusion. Summary and absolute chronology
Appendix 1. Analyses of metal (by Professor Desch)
Appendix 2. Means of livelihood: animals, shellfish, seeds (from notes supplied by Miss D. Bate
Mr Robson, Mr Tomlin and Mrs Reid)
Appendix 3. The skull from area ? (described by Professor Koumares)
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK]