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Excerpt from The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 13: Session 1906-1907 Mr. George, an architectural student, did some excellent water-colour drawings, and also very valuable work at the Orthia Sanctuary, giving us several weeks of his time, first at Sparta and then at Athens. The plan and sections of the Orthia buildings are due to him. I take this Opportunity Of recording how very much my account of the Roman theatre at this site owes to his careful work and to his readiness to put his architectural knowledge at the service of the School. Except for a few Cretans who came over on their own account, we relied this year entirely on local labour. The Old hands had acquired some skill, but unfortunately men do not come here every year to the work and so get thoroughly well trained, as they do in Crete. There the land is in the hands of small peasant proprietors, and the men are thus kept to the locality, and every year will come to an excavation in the slack season between sowing and reaping. Laconia is inhabited rather by a roaming population of day-labourers. We again had Gregory Antoniou of Larnaka as foreman, and his experience was very valuable in keeping the somewhat elaborate system of digging by layers and sections in order. The same mender Joannes Chatsarakis came from Palaikastro, thus completing his sixth season of service with the School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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