Nemea: A Guide to the Site and MuseumStephen Gaylord Miller, Stephen G. Miller University of California Press, 1 janv. 1990 - 214 pages In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious and athletic festival center where the Greek world assembled every two years under a flag of truce. Since 1974, excavations sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and physical remains of the festival center and a complement to detailed final publications on the excavation now being prepared. In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious and athletic festival center where the Greek world assembled every two years under a flag of truce. Since 1974, excavations sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and physical remains of the festival center and a complement to detailed final publications on the excavation now being prepared. |
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
The Temple of Zeus from the northeast ca 1805 | 12 |
History of the Excavations | 13 |
The Temple of Zeus from the south in 1766 | 15 |
Plan of the museum | 17 |
Aerial view of the Temple of Zeus 1977 | 21 |
Aerial view of the Sanctuary of Zeus and the Stadium 1984 | 23 |
Bronze baby Opheltes | 27 |
Plan of the Heroön with phases | 105 |
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Aerial view of the Heroön 1980 | 109 |
View of the aqueduct | 112 |
Tunnel cut into the rock for the spring | 113 |
Bathing chamber | 115 |
Restored perspective drawing of the bathing chamber | 116 |
Plan of the row of oikoi | 119 |
Terracotta baby Opheltes | 29 |
Lead kouros | 32 |
Plan of the Sanctuary of Zeus with the walk indicated | 34 |
Aristis stele | 37 |
Kore head on the handle of a bronze hydria 13 Grave 7 during excavation | 46 |
Vessels from a house on Tsoungiza 15 Bronze dagger | 51 |
Bronze geometric horse | 52 |
An impressed terracotta antefix from the Early Temple of Zeus | 59 |
Reconstructed ridge akroterion from the Early Temple of Zeus | 61 |
Aerial view of the south side of the Sanctuary of Zeus 1980 | 63 |
Kiln | 64 |
Corner Ionic capital from Oikos 9 | 70 |
II | 71 |
The Sanctuary of Zeus | 75 |
Cooking stand in House 4 with marble relief | 77 |
Aerial view of the Basilica 1980 | 80 |
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Sketch plan of the basilica on Evangelistria Hill | 83 |
Early Christian house walls 91 ཙརྱ 29 Early Christian house walls | 91 |
Restored plan of the Xenon with outline of the Basilica | 99 |
Perspective drawing of Xenon showing second story and roofs | 100 |
Hearth and stand in the northwestern corner of Room 4 of the Xenon 1964 | 102 |
The apse of the Basilica and the eastern end of the Xenon | 103 |
Interior column base with pierced stones in Oikos 2 | 123 |
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Restored plan of the Temple of Zeus 4th century B C | 132 |
Restored drawing of the eastern facade of the Temple of Zeus | 133 |
Restored drawing of a longitudinal section of the Temple of Zeus | 135 |
An empolion | 136 |
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The Stadium MICHAEL GOETHALS | 171 |
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29 | 176 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Bibliographic Abbreviations | 199 |
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4th century B.C. 4th-century Temple aisles Altar ancient antefixes architectural Argos athletes back room baptistry Basilica Bath bronze building C. K. Williams cella century after Christ coins construction Corinthian courtyard Delphi Dining Establishment Doric Early Christian Early Temple east wall eastern entrance Epidauros evidence excavation facade floor foundations fragments graffito Greece Greek Hellenistic Heroön Hesperia hole inscription interior Isthmia kilns Kleonai late 4th century limestone limestone blocks marble marker museum narthex nave Nemea River Nemea valley Nemean Games north wall northwestern corner oikoi Oikos 9 Olympia Opheltes orthostates Panhellenic Pausanias period Phlious photograph poros pottery preserved rectangular remains reused Sacred Square Sanctuary of Zeus settling basin sima south wall southern southwestern Stadium starting line stylobate surface Tegea Temple of Zeus terracotta tion track Tub Room tunnel upper visible water channel west wall western end western side Xenon Zeus at Nemea