Donald White

The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of Caistor-by-Norwich and Markshall, Norfolk

Report on the largely cremation cemetery excvated in the 1930s; full illustration of pots and other items. Discussion of pottery by Myres, and interesting comments on other objects by Barbara Green.

The Cyrene Sphinx, Its Capital and Its Column

The remarkable extra-mural deposit at Cyrene,1 which contained the two korai, the kouros torso, the stone and metal building elements and the sculpted bronze reliefs, also yielded, at a depth of 0.50 m., a most extraordinary archaic marble2 sphinx, its Ionic capital and its column. Recovered in 1966 were the capital, the upper quarter of its shaft, and eight fragments of the sphinx itself: two small fragments of the hair, the left front leg minus the paw, four fragments of the right wing (one of which comprises part of the left wing),3 and the torso (pl. 9, fig. i). The principal anatomical elements missing were the neck and head, the lower parts of both rear legs, the whole right leg and the left paw. In 1968 it became possible to remove the water tank (see ill. 2 in preceding article by J .G. Pedley), and excavation produced a second Medusa relief and the well-preserved head of the sphinx (pl. 9, figs. 2-4), the only head of all the major sculptures to survive. After the initial discovery of the sphinx, without its head, the Department of Antiquities began restoring the monument. In 1967 the wing fragments were mended and reattached to the torso and a

Excavations at Apollonia, Cyrenaica Preliminary Report

the second stage of the Gebel Akhdar, an elongated mass of limestone nearly 2000 feet high and 90o miles long, separating littoral Cyrenaica from its desert interior.2 Before his foundation of Cyrene, Battus had made a temporary stop on the island of Platea in the Gulf of Bomba,3 as well as a more protracted stay at the site of Aziris on the mouth of the Wadi Khalij4 between Bomba and Derna, 65 miles to the east of Cyrene. Neither site could have ever served as Cyrenes outlet to the sea because both were too far away. In later historical times Cyrene had its own port city, and there is every reason to suppose that Apollonia, as it was called, functioned in this capacity from a very early time.5