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THE recently issued Annual of the British School at Athens, No. 30, covers the sessions 1928–29 and 1929–1930 (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., £3, 3s.). In addition to the annual report and financial statement, it includes the usual complement of papers by members of the School. The excavations in Macedonia have been continued, and although the account of the work carried out by Mr. W. A. Heurtley and others at Saratse provides no sensational discovery, it demonstrates the relation of cultural development in an interesting strip of country to that of the Vardar valley and the area immediately around Salonika. A Troadic site at Thermi in Lesbos was excavated by Miss W. Lamb, who describes the five successive cities of an Anatolian colony which was finally abandoned some time before the sack of Troy II. The excavations are still incomplete after two seasons' work. Messrs. J. D. and H. W. Pendlebury describe two extensive and elaborate protopalatial houses at Knossos, found at the bottom of walled pits in the west court. It is unfortunate that owing to their position they cannot be excavated, but a somewhat hazardous feat of exploration has revealed their character to a considerable extent. The first instalment of a study of the morning hymns of the Emperor Leo by Prof. H. J. W. Tillyard provides evidence on medieval methods of musical notation of considerable interest to students of early music. Mr. J. D. Beazley's “A Dancing Maenad.” is a study of the grouping and meaning of figures on a Nolan amphora from Woburn Abbey. Nearly half the volume is devoted to the continuation of the final report on the School's important excavations at Sparta in 1924–28 by the former director, Mr. A. M. Woodward.
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Archæological Exploration in Macedonia. Nature 129, 573 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129573c0
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