Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Preliminary report of the Malthi Archaeological Project, 2015–2016 By Rebecca Worsham (Smith College), Michael Lindblom (Uppsala University) & Claire Zikidi (Independent scholar, Greece). Abstract This article offers preliminary results and tentative interpretations of new work at the previously excavated settlement of Malthi in Messenia, south-west Pelopponese. The work included an intensive survey of the site architecture, as well as test excavations of spaces within and outside of the fortification wall. We propose updated observations on the chronology and phasing of the site based on pottery dates from the new excavation and comment on the preserved architecture as it compares to other settlements of the period. The settlement appears to have been first inhabited in the second half of the Middle Helladic period. Little, if any, architecture from this phase can be securely identified today. At the beginning of the Late Helladic period a fortification was erected, and the entire layout of the site was transformed. The construction likely took place as a single…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia 1 Contents Martin P. Nilsson, ‘The Prehistoric Migrations of the Greeks’, pp. 1–8 Åke Åkerström, ‘Some pictorial Vase Representations from the Mainland in Late-Helladic Times’, pp. 9–28 Natan Valmin, ‘Malthi-Epilog, Vorläufiger Bericht über die schwedische Ausgrabung in Messenien 1952’, pp. 29–46 Arne Furumark, ‘A Scarab from Cyprus’, pp. 47–65 Åke Elmquist, ‘An Italic Vase-Painter of the Early 6th Century B.C.’, pp. 66–79 Erik J. Holmberg, ‘The so-called Vase Painter of Athens 1806’, pp. 80–86 Erik Sjöqvist, ‘The Early Style of Lysippus’, pp. 87–97 Arvid Andrén, ‘A Puzzle of Bronzes’, pp. 98–103 Willy Schwabacher, ‘Der Parthenos-Archetyp der hellenistischen Silbermünzen Athens’, pp. 104–114 Olof Vessberg, ‘Hellenistic and Roman Lamps in Cyprus’, pp. 115–129 T.B. Mitford, ‘Seleucus and Theodorus’, pp. 130–171 Axel Boëthius, ‘Die hellenisierte italische Stadt der römischen Republik’, pp. 172–186 Einar Gjerstad, ‘Lunar Months of Hesiod and Homer’, pp. 187–194 Albert Wifstrand, ‘Ein Epigramm aus Kappadokien’, pp. 195–198 Gösta Säflund, ‘Karische Inschriften aus Labranda’, pp. 199–205 Paul Åström, ‘Three Gravestones from Mersinet’, pp. 206–207 Christian Callmer, ‘Sam Wide und die ersten schwedischen Ausgrabungen in Griechenland’, pp. 208–223 Erik Gren, ‘Bibliography of the Writings of Axel W. Persson’, pp….