ABSTRACT
There is a certain mystique surrounding the habits of Pikionis when working on site. Since every action of his was considered a matter of veneration by his disciples and an incomprehensible ritual at best by everyone else, there is comparatively limited evidence to support one’s evaluation of exactly what happened on such occasions. Thus one has to piece together perhaps unsystematic yet revealing materials mostly dispersed in published reminiscences of his students in a collective edition in 1989. Even more difficult to obtain today is information never put to paper by those who actually met and worked with him. Finally some additional information is included in two reports of his addressed to the Ministry of Public Works, responsible for the Acropolis project, in 1955.
