The postwar village · Ancient Lerna
A guidebook for visitors to Lerna
1977 Proven
In 1977 the American School published the short guide Lerna in the Argolid for visitors to the site by Myloi. A revised edition followed in 1997; the photographs used for both are kept in the Lerna archive.
- Threads
- Ancient Lerna
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- ASCSA Archives, Lerna Excavations Archive (ExcRec 002), Box 17, folders 4–8 Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
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1952
John Caskey starts digging at Lerna
In 1952 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, led by its director John L. Caskey, opened the first trenches in the low mound by the springs, at the edge of Myloi. The work went on every year until 1958.
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1952–1953
Caskey photographs the marshes of Lerna
Caskey's first report shows the site from Mount Pontinos: marshes, the stream Amymone running from the spring to the gulf, orchards and the railway. It is one of the best pictures of the water landscape just before the…
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1953
A trench right beside the railway
In 1953 the diggers opened Area D right next to the Argos–Myloi railway, so trains passed only a few metres from the trench. The plates in Hesperia show both the ancient walls and the tracks.
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1954
The House of the Tiles comes to light
By the summer of 1954 a large part of the House of the Tiles was exposed: a big Early Bronze Age building (around 2500–2200 BC) whose roof had been covered with baked clay tiles. Caskey published the first photographs in…