On 30 July 1956 a curator of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (NMA) with two aides-de-camp arrived at the port of Heraklion, Crete. They were members of the Greek-Dutch archaeological expedition that – at the invitation of Spyridon Marinatos, professor of Archaeology at the University of Athens and Director of the Archaeological Society at Athens – would excavate a Minoan site at Troullos, the eastern quarter of the village of Archanes. Documentation of the Greek-Dutch excavation in 1956 at Troullos – the eastern quarter of Archanes on the isle of Crete – was recently rediscovered and assembled (B. Wagemakers (2015) Fallen into Oblivion: The 1956 Greek-Dutch Expedition to Archanes on Crete. In Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 25.1: 1-10). The plan, slides and photographs presented here, were made by Hendrik Brunsting – curator at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden in that time and who acted as supervisor of the Dutch team members – and Conrad Stibbe, who had just finished his studies in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam.
Monumental wall at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into northeast direction (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG469, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The pottery found in one of the rooms of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG468, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)North-east corner of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken from south-western direction (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG467, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Slanting bare boulder at the end of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG466, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The MM-LM building at the site of Troullos; photograph taken into southern direction (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG465, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The MM-LM building at the site of Troullos; photograph taken into southern direction (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG465, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The pottery found in one of the rooms of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG463, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG462, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Monumental wall at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into northeast direction (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG458, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into southern direction (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG457, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Greek students with a pile of sherds at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG456, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)A test trench, dug in the middle of the monumental wall at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG452, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Monumental wall at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into southern direction (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG454, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)The pottery found in one of the rooms of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG451, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Hendrik Brunsting, two labourers and two children at the location of the – still unexcavated – MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into western direction (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes023, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Lyra player next to the slanting bare boulder at the end of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes021, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Visitor of the excavation at Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes020, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Lyra player next to the slanting bare boulder at the end of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes019, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)The beginning of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes018, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)The beginning of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes017, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Monumental wall at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into northeast direction (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes011, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Slanting bare boulder at the end of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes010, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Slanting bare boulder at the end of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes009, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)North-east corner of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); Frédéric Bastet standing in the centre, Hendrink Brunsting at the far right; photograph taken from south-western direction (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes008, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)The pottery found at the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes007, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Wall structures of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into south-eastern direction. A part of the monumental wall is visible at the background (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes006, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)The pottery found at the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes004, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Frédéric Bastet (left) and Hendrink Brunsting at the wall structures of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete) (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes005, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)Frédéric Bastet (left) and Hendrik Brunsting at the location of the – still unexcavated – MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into western direction (1956, ID: cStibbepArchanes002, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: C. M. Stibbe)South-east corner of the zigzag passage taken at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken from North-western direction; Conrad Stibbe on the foreground (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanesKG455, Source: slide, Repository: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Creator: H. Brunsting)Wall structures of the MM-LM building at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); photograph taken into south-eastern direction. A part of the monumental wall is visible at the background (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanes001, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: H. Brunsting)Corner of the zigzag passage at the site of Troullos (Archanes, Crete); Conrad Stibbe second from the left (1956, ID: cBrunstingpArchanes002, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH, Creator: H. Brunsting)
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