demolition of the Frankish Tower, a medieval fortification built into the Propylaia, which would eventually be demolished in 1874. Between 1856 and 1860, he carried out further clearing on the Acropolis in preparation for the construction of a museum, which would eventually be begun in 1865. At this point, he considered the excavation of the Acropolis 'complete', since the excavations had reached bedrock in the 'main' area between the Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the Propylaia, and most of the post-Classical structures on the site had been removed. He also excavated in Athens' lower town, including the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in 1848–1858, in which he found calcined remains of pieces of cedar wood, which have been taken as evidence for the Odeon's original wooden roof. He also uncovered a large bomb, which was interpreted as a remnant of the artillery fired under Francesco Morosini during the Venetian siege of the Acropolis in 1687. In 1860, he published his final edition of the Archaeological Journal, in which he claimed to have published a total of 4,158 inscriptions, 'freely and for no compensation … merely moved by my yearning desire for the ancestral relics ... [for] the common benefit and the dissemination to the ends of the world of every Greek letter, for the sake of Greek glory’. The later part of Pittakis' career as Ephor General saw the discovery, in 1861, of the Kerameikos cemetery. He died in Athens in 1863. Rangavis, with whom he had quarrelled over his approach to restorations and over his handling of the 'Naval Records' affair, delivered the eulogy at his funeral, in which he praised Pittakis' devotion to the Classical past and did much to establish his reputation as a patriot and protector of Greece's antiquities. Legacy The reception of Pittakis' work and impact on Greek archaeology has been polarised. He has been praised as the first Greek scholar to make substantial use of epigraphy in reconstructing the Classical past, for his efforts in preserving objects and the texts of inscriptions which would otherwise have been lost, and for his energetic approach to the excavation and conservation of Greece's ancient monuments. His published work remains an important source for the study of Athenian history and epigraphy. At the same time, Pittakis' epigraphical work has been criticised for its lack of scholarly rigour, for Pittakis' errors in his knowledge of historical and literary sources, and for