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. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens 2, 1955 Contents Arvid Andrén, ‘A Greek fifth century akroterion in the Milles Collection’, pp. 1–3. Paul Åström, ‘Une Inscription d’Aigion’, pp. 4–9. Eric Berggren, ‘Kypriaka’, pp. 10–20. H.W. Catling, ‘A bronze greave from a 13th century B.C. tomb at Enkomi’, pp. 21–36. Inge Dahlén, ‘Fragments of a kline from Labranda’, pp. 37–46. Ludwig Schitzler, ‘Vom Kreophrades-Maler’, pp. 47–60. Harald Sjövall, ‘Die Antolochusdarstellung der Oltosschale in Berlin’, pp. 61–65. Natan Valmin, ‘Spätmykenische Steinreliefs aus Messenien’, pp. 66–74. Alfred Westholm, ‘The Cypriote “Temple Boys”’, pp. 75–77. Bibliographical information Opuscula Atheniensia 1 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen, 4°, 2), Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup 1955.