NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT

ákoueákoueFall 2010, No. 63

Doreen Canaday Spitzer on a School trip in Mantineia, 1936. See related story on page 2.

IN THIS ISSUE: McCredie Retires, McCabe Joins Board 3 Managing Committee Appointments 3 Alumni Week & Development News 4 Rotroff Wins Award 4 Agora Excavation Season 5 Student Trips 7 Reinhard­ Joins Publications 8 Kress Publications Update 10 NEH Fellows Reports 14 Corinth Coin Project 15 Student Reports 15 Solow Fellows Research 18 Class of 2011 19 Wiener Lab Reports 24 INSERT: Cotsen Retires from Board G1 Art Exhibition & Benefit G1 Rare Maps Digitized G2 New Griffon on Varnalis G2 Exhibit G4 Gennadeion Collaborates on Mitropoulos Scores G4 Doreen Canaday Spitzer 1914–2010

“I have seen the Parthenon in full moonlight; I have seen Sophocles’ Electra in the ; I have seen Pan, almost, playing his pipes (my wooden flute) near the Corycian Cave, and a darling little shepherd boy named Achilles in the mountains at Del-

ákoue! phi. I have got lost, almost, on the slopes of Hymettus, of honey fame, and seen such sun- sets and sunrises as people only dream of. Sometimes I can’t believe it’s really true…. not even the newsy letters of my friends at home and at college..can do more than pro- duce a slight and soon-vanishing nostalgia in the face of this positively thrilling existence.” (letter from Doreen Canaday to her cousin, Oct. 21, 1936) With the death of Doreen Canaday Spitzer Doreen in 1987. on September 6, age 95, the American School, and , lost one of their dearest friends. The outlines of Doreen’s whether my Scotch thrift or my aesthetic relationship to the School are familiar to sense was more pleased.” the School family: Student in 1936-1939; Over the next few days, she prepares Trustee 1978–1996, President of the Board for her first School trip, “stewing in the of Trustees 1983–1988, Trustee Emerita library digging up references to the theater from 1996, and President of the Friends at Delphi and the city walls at Tithorea,” from 1988 until her death; most gener- her report topics, “and reading Prometheus ous of donors; kindest and most loving Bound….a difficult play to give. It requires of friends and mentors. She was also pas- so much speaking from a prone position sionate about Greece itself, as close to the by poor Prometheus and so much aviation AMERICAN SCHOOL OF country as she was to the School. on the part of the gods.” As she tells her CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS Doreen graduated from Bryn Mawr Col- parents, “We appear to be going to cover lege in 1936, a student of Rhys Carpenter just about every inch of , some of 54 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 and Mary Hamilton Swindler, with a B.A. , a corner of Doris, and most of Pho- cum laude in archaeology. An only child, cis and Locris.” Then, in the company of ákoue, the newsletter of the ASCSA her fellow students, Doreen sets off on the Fall 2010 No. 63 she had first traveled to Greece with her parents, Miriam Coffin, herself a graduate first of her detailed explorations of Greece Executive Editor of Bryn Mawr and devoted to the classics and the Greek world, taking, in addition to Irene Bald Romano and Greece; and leading automotive indus- her books and notes, her flute, which she Editor trialist Ward M. Canaday. In late September practices diligently and shares with one of Sally Fay 1936, Doreen returned to Greece on her the School’s muleteers on the trek up Par- Design & Production own, age 21, as a student at the American nassos to the Corycian Cave: he sits “with Mary Jane Gavenda School. his back against a tree, his feet with their ákoue is published semiannually by the In dozens of letters to her parents and …pom-pom shoes straight ahead of him, ASCSA under the inspiration of Doreen C. family in her first year and after, Doreen re- and brought forth from that little instru- Spitzer. Please address all correspondence veals her own growing passion for Greece. ment such a sequence of silver music as to and inquiries to the News­­­letter Editor, ASC- Her detailed descriptions of her friends and charm the very flowers to sit up and listen.” SA U.S. Office, 6–8 Charlton Street, Princ- travels reflect a richly educated and spirited Indefatigable, Doreen scales Acro- eton, NJ 08540-5232. Tel: (609) 683-0800; intellect, always tempered with twinkling, corinth, reaching the highest peak “prob- Fax: (609) 924-0578; E-mail: ascsa@ascsa. org; Website: www.ascsa.edu.gr. deft humor. Within a few days after her ably as near to heaven as I shall ever get;” arrival in Athens, Doreen writes of her “skipped down the thousand and thirty moonlight visit to the Acropolis, where four steps” from the fortress of the guards at the entrance “were sound and with “quaking knees, went over to the ÁKOUE IN COLOR ON THE WEB. asleep…I saw one of the world’s most ex- island [Bourdzi] for tea” to watch the moon See this issue in color on the School’s quisite wonders for just 11 ½ cents, which set; celebrates her twenty-second birthday website at: http://www.ascsa.edu. was the cost of transportation. I don’t know with feasting and dancing at the School that gr/index.php/publications/Akoue/. continued on page 27

2 School Fetes Former President, Welcomes New Board President

At the May 2010 meeting of the ASCSA entitled Samothracian Connections: Essays Board of Trustees, James R. McCredie in honor of James R. McCredie, and a bronze stepped down from his position as Presi- plaque recognizing his accomplishments dent of the Board, a role that capped a re- was unveiled that will be hung in the front markable career of devotion to the School. hall of the School’s Main Building. He has been succeeded by Robert A. Mc- Robert A. McCabe, who has served as Cabe, who was elected Board President at a Trustee of the School since 1969, holds the same meeting. a B.A. from Princeton University and an Mr. McCredie’s diverse and far-reaching M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School contributions to the School encompass his of Business Administration. He is Chair- tenures as a member and fellow (1958–59, man of Pilot Capital Corporation, founded 1961–62 [as Charles Eliot Norton Fellow], in 1987 as a New York–based venture capi- 1965–66); Director (1969–77); Managing tal firm. From 1958 to 1987, he was Part- Committee Representative (1962–present), ner, Managing Director, and member of the Executive Committee Member (1977–82), Board of Directors of Lehman Brothers. Mr. Chair of the Gennadius Library Committee McCabe has served as a director of many (1997–2000); Managing Committee Chair corporations, including Church & Dwight (1980–90); Trustee (ex officio 1980–90; Co. Inc., Thermo Electron Corporation, elected 1990–present), and President of the Neutrogena Corporation, New England Board of Trustees (2001–present). There Nuclear Corporation, and Atlantic Bank is no one in the history of the School who of New York. has held all of these key positions. (Edward Robert McCabe is also a highly ac- Robert McCabe with residents of Metsovo Capps served the School in many capacities claimed photographer whose work has in 1961. in the first half of the twentieth century, been exhibited in many venues in the but never as President or Chairman of the U.S., Europe, and Greece and widely pub- Board.) James McCredie’s influence on the lished. His books include the best-selling Odyssey in the Year 1959” (2010). He is American School from the late 1960s to the “Greece: Images of an Enchanted Land currently working on his next book of pho- present has been extraordinary. 1954–1965” (2004); “Weekend in Havana: tographs depicting the Ramble in Central Mr. McCredie was honored by many of An American Photographer in the Forbid- Park, scheduled for publication in the his ASCSA and other academic colleagues den City” (2007); “On the Road with a Rol- spring of 2011. He divides his time between in October with a dinner in New York City lei in the ’50s” (2007); “Grèce: les années New York and Athens with his wife Dina, in celebration of his career at the School and d’innocence” (2008); and, most recently, a native Athenian. e his far-reaching contributions as a scholar, “DeepFreeze: A Photographer’s Antarctic archaeologist, teacher, and administrator. He was presented with a festschrift edited by Olga Palagia and Bonna D. Westcoat, Managing Committee Makes Staff, Committee Appointments

The annual May meeting of the ASCSA (University of Florida); Committee on Pub- Managing Committee took place May 8, lications, 2010–15, Donald Lateiner (Ohio 2010 in New York City. Wesleyan University) and Jeremy McIn- Business included the confirmation of erney (University of Pennsylvania); Com- members newly elected to several ASCSA mittee on the Summer Sessions, 2010–14, Standing Committees. Confirmed at the Robin (University of Notre Dame); meeting were: Executive Committee, Excavation and Survey Committee, 2010– 2010–14, James P. Sickinger (Florida State 15, Bonna Wescoat (Emory University) and University) and Barbara Tsakirgis (Vander- James Wright (); Com- bilt University); Committee on Admissions mittee on the Wiener Laboratory, 2010–15, and Fellowships, 2010–14, Carolyn Hig- Thomas Strasser (Providence College); and bie (State University of New York, Buffalo) Committee on Information Technology, and Timothy Winters (Austin Peay State 2010–15, Charles Watkinson (Purdue Uni- University); Committee on Committees, versity). Chair Mary Sturgeon appointed 2010–12, Laura Gawlinski (Loyola Uni- Jeffrey Soles (University of North Caroli- versity of Chicago), Kathleen Slane (Uni- na, Greensboro) to complete a 2010–2011 versity of Missouri-Columbia), and Mary term on the Committee on Publications James R. McCredie at Samothrace. Voyatzis (University of Arizona); Commit- that had become vacant. Photo: R. McCabe tee on Personnel, 2010–15, Barbara Barletta continued on page 7

3 Development News Susan Rotroff Awarded AIA Gold Medal

The Capital Campaign for the School con- Agora scholar Susan I. Rotroff, The Jarvis tinues to occupy much of the development Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in efforts. Raising funds to provide a 3-to-1 the Humanities at Washington University match for the NEH Challenge Grant and in Saint Louis and a longtime member of a 1-to-1 match for a generous challenge the ASCSA, has been awarded the Archaeo- gift from Lloyd and Margit Cotsen for Gen- logical Institute of America’s highest award, nadius Library endowment have added its prestigious Gold Medal Award for Dis- momentum for the campaign during this tinguished Archaeological Achievement. challenging philanthropic period. To date, She will be presented with her medal at over $23 million in pledges and gifts has the annual meeting of the AIA/APA in San been secured toward the $50 million goal Antonio in January 2011, at which time a for the campaign. colloquium in her honor will also be held. The School has met and exceeded the A conference in Ms. Rotroff’s honor will funding goal for the first year of the NEH also be held at the School in Athens on Challenge Grant, with $752,260 for Year 1 June 17–18, 2011, sponsored by the Agora and $307,850 carried over for Year 2. We Excavations. will need to raise $292,150 more to com- Ms. Rotroff, who received her under- plete the Year 2 benchmark for NEH. We graduate degree from Bryn Mawr and an are especially grateful to the Samourkas M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton Univer- Foundation and Nicholas Theocarakis for sity, is among the most productive ASCSA generous gifts for the Gennadius Library scholars. She has excavated at the Agora, Susan Rotroff at the Agora toward this match. Also included among Lefkandi, Samothrace, and Corinth. Fol- the matches are the funds raised through lowing the lead of Dorothy Burr Thomp- son, and encouraged by Homer Thompson, continued on page 11 she turned her attention to the Hellenistic moment or a key early experience that period, especially the pottery—a subject put you on this career path? that has been her lifelong research. She Attention Alumni: SR: The “a-ha” moment must have been in is the author of three large volumes in infancy, because I can’t remember a time Come Celebrate the Agora series (Agora XXII, XXIX, and when I didn’t want to be an archaeologist. A XXXIII), which cover all the Hellenistic the School’s 130th trip to Mexico and climbing the Pyramid of pottery from the site, as well as (with John the Sun when I was in high school infected Birthday! Oakley) a Hesperia supplement (XXV) on a me with the excitement of archaeological large deposit of fifth-century pottery. The Preliminary Program of Events sites. And a two-week trip to Greece in my In an interview with ákoue, she shared for the School’s 130th Anniversary, to senior high-school year pointed me very some thoughts about her recent honor, her be held June 3–12, 2011 in Athens, firmly in the direction of Greek archaeol- busy schedule, and the future of her field. has been formulated. There will be an ogy. I left my heart in Delphi. interesting program of academic and ákoue: How did you find out you had social events, including tours, garden ákoue: The coming year will be a busy won the AIA’s Gold Medal award? receptions, a tavern dinner, lectures, one for you—the award ceremony in Jan- and a celebratory evening in Cotsen SR: I was at the American School in Athens, uary, a symposium in Athens in June... Hall; trips to Isthmia and Corinth, and and I got an e-mail from [AIA President] What else do you have on tap for 2011 to Northern Greece with Mellon Profes- Brian Rose that I should call him. I couldn’t and beyond? sor Margie Miles; and opportunities to imagine what was so important that he SR: Yes, it will be busy. I’ll also be attending have a close look at the School and stay needed to speak to me viva voce—it was a a conference on Hellenistic pottery in Köln in Loring Hall. We will be disseminating big surprise when I found out! more detailed information in the com- in February, and a colloquium on ancient art and gender in memory of Paul Rehak ing months. We hope all of you will ákoue: What does the award represent at the University of Kansas in early March. plan to be in Greece June 3–12 and to you? will participate in many of the events. I’ve got a number of new projects in the This is your chance to come back to SR: As the highest honor the AIA has to be- works, with pottery at Corinth and Sardis, the School! Please go to the alumni area stow, it has to be the pinnacle of my career. which will keep me happily occupied for of the ASCSA website (www.ascsa.edu. It puts me in the company of a long list of some years. I also hope to keep traveling to gr/index.php/alumni) for the current legendary scholars, people whom I revere exotic places for recreational scuba diving. schedule, or contact the U.S. office for and respect enormously. They seem to me more information or to give us your e- individuals of a different order entirely, and ákoue: Any advice for those embarking mail address—the fastest and most eco- I am astounded to find myself among them. on a career in archaeology? nomical way for us to get news to you. We hope to see many of you in June! ákoue: How did you get to where you continued on page 6 are—was there an identifiable “a-ha”

4 Agora Excavations Clarify Athens Boundaries

This summer’s excavations at the Athenian Agora were carried out from June 14 to Au- gust 6, 2010, with a team of some 65 stu- dent volunteers, drawn from 40 universities and 12 countries. Primary funding came from the Packard Humanities Institute, with additional contributions from Randolph- Macon College and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The Samuel Kress Foundation provided support for the conservation in- terns. Our work could not be done without the support of these institutions and, on behalf of the entire staff, their participa- tion is gratefully acknowledged here. The continued cooperation and collaboration of both the Classical and Byzantine Ephoreias Bowl from Section BZ; sixth century B.C. Photo: C. Mauzy of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is also greatly appreciated. Excavations were carried out in Section decorated with heads of in relief), import. From the associated pottery found BH under the supervision of Johanna Ho- unguentaria, small bowls, pyxides, lids, in the pit, this unusual shape should date bratschk (Johns Hopkins University). This and loomweights of both lead and terra to the sixth century B.C. section overlies the east end of the Stoa Poi- cotta. The date of abandonment should be Excavations in Section Beta Theta were kile. We continued to clear late fill overly- late third/early second century B.C. Also supervised by Mike Laughy (University of ing the stoa, in particular the fill deposited recovered was a silver coin of Histiaia in California at Berkeley, University of Cin- at the time the back wall was robbed out. northern Euboia. cinnati). This section, the most recent to Soft dark earth was removed in the line of Excavations in Section BZ were super- be opened, overlies the western half of the the wall and produced pottery as late as the vised by Kevin Daly (Bucknell University). Stoa Poikile. At this stage we are still ex- tenth century A.D. A good cross-section of This section lies north of the west end of ploring medieval levels (Byzantine, Frank- the foundations was exposed. A handsome the Stoa Poikile and just east of a north- ish, and Ottoman), which covered the Clas- intact lamp decorated with a cross (BH 285 south road leading out of the Agora square. sical remains after their abandonment in = Agora VII, #2553, etc.) reflects the use of Here, we concentrated on the northern the sixth century A.D. the building at least into the fifth century parts of the Classical Commercial Build- At the west, we continued to recover nu- A.D. Also recovered were broken fragments ing, in an attempt to clarify its plan and merous animal bones, many of them from of the terracotta aqueduct running along its somewhat complex building history. In large animals such as horse and cows. The the back wall of the Stoa, which we believe several places it seems as though we are pit in which they were found, which also is that built by Kimon to bring water out to beginning to encounter levels that preced- had fair amounts of lime in it, seems to date the grove of the Academy (Plutarch, Life of ed the construction of the building late in from the fifteenth or sixteenth century A.D. Kimon 13). Two Byzantine wells, which fall the fifth century B.C. In Room 6, digging and presumably lay outside the limits of within the interior of the building, were left below the floor, we encountered several the town at that time. The occasion of this largely undug for the present. dozen ostraka, most of them cast against large deposit is not clear, though the rarity Most of our efforts were directed toward Xanthippos, son of Arriphron (father of of butcher-cuts makes it unlikely that they exploring the area directly behind and Perikles), who was exiled in 484/3 B.C., represent the simple disposal of animals north of the Stoa Poikile, where we have though Lysimachos and Habron are repre- slaughtered for food. little information about its use before the sented as well. Also recovered, towards the Lower down in this same area, we con- Byzantine period. The principal installa- north end, was a handsome well-preserved tinued to find broken pottery, but also a tion recovered this season was a Hellenistic double-tanged arrowhead of bronze. scatter of about three dozen bronze coins. cistern (J 2: 6). At a depth of just over a In an area that should lie just outside Cleaned up, these proved to be Frank- meter, we encountered a mass of fragments and east of the building we had a hard- ish, dating to the thirteenth century A.D., of painted wall plaster. It divides into two packed surface into which was cut a small, soon after Athens was taken in 1207 by groups, one red, the other pale blue. Lower shallow pit lined with red clay. Within the the Franks. down we encountered additional debris: pit were assorted stones and a few frag- To the east, we uncovered more walls a terracotta sima, pieces of roof tiles, and ments of black-glazed pottery, several of of the Byzantine settlement that seems to fragments of pebble mosaic set in lime which mended up to give the full profile have developed in this area in the tenth or mortar. We also recovered a fair amount of a small bowl with straight sides and eleventh century A.D. Two rooms, side by of what seems to be the terracotta puteal a slightly rounded base, decorated with side, were largely exposed; measuring 7.00 set over the mouth of the cistern. Pottery glazed stripes, a shape and decoration not m. by 3.60 m. and ca. 6.50 by 2.20 m., they consisted of “Megarian bowl” fragments recognized before in the Agora and rarely are larger than the usual rooms found in this with relief decoration, west-slope kantharoi in . A rare parallel, found in the Kera- with both spur and strap handles (the latter meikos excavations, seems to be a Euboian continued on page 6

5 Agora Season continued from page 5

with the arrival of the Ottomans in the mid- to the northwest, behind the west end of fifteenth century. Early drawings suggest the Poikile Stoa. that the town expanded out to this area Working south of the area explored in again sometime in the seventeenth or eigh- 2009, we excavated shallow fill, much of teenth century, and the dumping ground it hard gravel showing few signs of human was pushed farther out to the northwest. activity. In general, this southern area is When Edward Dodwell drew the town surprisingly empty, given its central loca- in 1805, the area is shown covered with tion. There are few signs of activity in the houses once again, and the dump—two Classical period, though several low retain- large mounds labeled the staktothiki (ash ing walls, one of nicely squared blocks, sug- heaps) —is shown outside the city wall gest some landscaping of the area. In the built in 1778, in the area of the present Hellenistic and Roman periods the area was . crisscrossed with small terracotta drains, In the north scarp of the goat-horn pit presumably distributing overflow from the we also began to uncover a large sculpted southwest fountainhouse, which lies only a Sculpted shield from excavation of a pit fragment of marble, measuring as much as few meters to the southeast. It is something in Section Beta Theta. Photo: C. Mauzy 0.75 m. on a side. The block will require of a mystery why this area, so close to the further study, but it clearly consists of a rep- Agora square, was apparently not built on resentation of a pile of military equipment, for much of antiquity. area in this period. In the southwest room and served as the base for a trophy or a stat- In addition to excavation work, students a deep fill or large pit was uncovered, with ue. Identified so far are four or five shields, also participated in rotation in assorted extensive traces of burning in the form of part of a cuirass, and the handle of a sword. museum-related projects in the Stoa of At- fine dark ash. Lower down, this soft dark fill One of the shields has a club carved in relief talos. At the request of the First Ephoreia, produced a very large number of goat horns as its device. Several parallels are known a full inventory of the sculpture collection (ca. 850). Most showed signs of having been from the island of , including shields (3,500+ pieces) was carried out under the sawn, usually not far from the tips. Such decorated with clubs, associated with the supervision of Sylvie Dumont and Katie limited removal makes it likely that this has Macedonian dynasty established after the Petrole; Nikoleta Saraga, assisted by Kleio more to do with dulling the horns rather death of Alexander the Great. Our block, Tsongas and Georgia Paraskeuopoulos, than any manufacturing process. Lower too, should probably date to the Hellenis- represented the Ephoreia. Processing ma- down still in the same pit, we encountered tic period (323–146 B.C.). Anathyrosis at terial from the water-sieve was also carried several largely complete pots of the middle the back, if original, suggests that the piece out, under the supervision of Amber and Byzantine period, three of coarse fabric and may be part of a larger monument. Its large Harry Laughy. Five interns gained valuable unglazed and one green-glazed. size and excellent state of preservation sug- practical experience during this summer’s The general sequence of later remains gest that the piece has not traveled far and it excavation season: conservation, with its in this area now seems clear. We are at may well originally have been set up in the four interns, cleaned many of the objects the edge of the city, and depending on its prominent location immediately in front of for this report and offered several workshops fortunes, Athens expanded or contracted the Stoa Poikile, which, with its paintings to the volunteers, while a museum studies across the excavations, like a beach be- of Athenian triumphs both mythological intern assisted the Records Department. e tween high and low tide. In the seventh to and historical, was a favored place for the ninth centuries A.D., the area was largely display of military success. — John McK. Camp II abandoned, with the town clustered around Laura Gawlinski (Randolph-Macon Director, Agora Excavations the base of the Acropolis, east of the Stoa College, Loyola University Chicago) su- of Attalos, within the limits of the post- pervised excavations in Section Delta, west Rotroff Herulian wall. When life in the Byzantine of the Middle Stoa. This section is in the continued from page 4 world improved in the tenth to twelfth cen- old area of excavations, just south of the turies, the town expanded out this far and Tholos, dining-hall of the senate, and just SR: The amount of information available the area was thickly inhabited, as indicated outside the boundary stones of the Agora about the ancient world and the techniques by the walls of numerous rooms and the square. Here we continued to work on the and theoretical frameworks for its study many pithoi and other provisions for stor- use of this area in the Classical period, that that are now available are daunting. There’s age, suggesting a fully urban settlement, is, whether its primary function was civic, so much more to master now than there accompanied by the construction of small commercial, or domestic or some combi- was when I began my career, and it’s really churches nearby. With the arrival of the nation of the three. On balance, it appears a challenge. But I’d say, while your brain is Franks in the thirteenth century, the area as though this area was used largely for digesting the latest exciting new approach, was abandoned once again and was now private purposes, despite its proximity to don’t forget to keep using your eyes and used as a dumping ground, hence the large the Agora square and the adjacent public looking at the artifacts and the monuments; deposits of very fragmentary glazed pottery buildings. This same crowding in of pri- they are our bedrock. And work hard on of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. vate establishments can be seen also to the what you love—the work itself is truly its The use of the area as a dump continued east, under the Library of Pantainos, and own reward. e

6 Regular Members Take To the Road Managing Committee continued from page 3

A staple of the School’s Regular Program, unusual grave stelai, pottery, terracot- Also confirmed at the meeting were the staff-led Fall Term trips, on which tas similar to those in southern Italy, and the following new representatives to the School Members receive an intensive in- other finds of great interest, including in- Managing Committee: Sarah Bassett (De- troduction to the sites, monuments, and scriptions in the Corinthian alphabet; the partment of History of Art; formerly a vot- topography of Greece, got under way in late museum in , which had a special ing representative from Wayne State Uni- September. With three of the four fall trips exhibit of the coinage of Alexander and versity), as a representative from Indiana completed at the time of this writing (the his successors, with very fine examples University; Dimitri Nakassis (Department trip to and the Argolid, led by on view; and yet another superb new mu- of Classics), as a second voting member Corinth Excavations Director Guy Sanders, seum at , whose Archaic architec- from the University of Toronto; Kathryn draws to a close November 19), following tural pieces and sculpture alone are worth Topper (Department of Classics), as a sec- are some of the highlights from the jour- a special visit. ond voting member from the University of neys to West, Northern, and Trip II, to the Deep , in- Washington; Robert Angus K. Smith (De- (led by Mellon Professor Margie Miles) and cluding those provinces most distant from partment of Classics), representing Brock the Deep Peloponnese (led by School Di- Athens (, , , Mani, Ar- University (replacing David Rupp, who is rector Jack Davis and Shari Stocker). cadia, and ), began inauspiciously. retiring); and Rebecca M. Ammerman (De- On Trip I, encompassing West and After only a half hour at ancient Aigeira, partment of Classics), as a second voting Northern Greece, the group made a grand members were forced to seek shelter under member from Colgate University. sweep from west to east, possible now be- a steel roof over the so-called Zeus Temple, The Committee on Summer Sessions’ cause of the new Via Egnatia. Highlights where they listened in the driving rain to a recommendation to appoint Glenn Bugh of the trip included discussion of Pindar brilliant presentation by Georg Ladstater, and the tandem of Mark Munn and Mary and the Polyandrion at by Whitehead director of the Austrian Institute in Athens. Lou Zimmerman-Munn as Gertrude Smith Professor Nancy Felson, and of Kalydon But subsequent sunshine accompanied the Professors (Summer Session Directors) for and the painted tombs of Lefkadhia by group over the next ten days as they ex- 2011 was unanimously approved by the Whitehead Professor Clemente Marconi. plored how various past political unities in Managing Committee. All have previous Although visits to sites such as Horraon— the Peloponnese rose to power, expanded, instructional experience with the School: which always surprises students because contracted, then sometimes remade them- Glenn Bugh (Virginia Tech) was Whitehead the houses are so very well preserved, selves over time. A mini-seminar offered Professor at the School in 2004–05, and even up to the second story—provided by Nancy Bookidis at Olympia, lectures by Mark Munn and Mary Lou Zimmerman- memorable experiences, this year’s group Shari Stocker and Jack Davis at , an Munn (Pennsylvania State University) were was particularly fortunate to find so many in-depth exploration of led by Guy Summer Session co-leaders in 2000. museums newly opened. Notable museum Sanders, and other presentations by School The Excavations and Survey Committee visits included the splendid new Nikopo- staff and other experts on the archaeology reported on its approval (at the Managing lis Museum at ; new museums at and history of the area illuminated that Committee Meeting in Anaheim, Califor- Aiani and ; the beautiful new museum nia, in January 2010) of two synergasia continued on page 23 at Arta, just recently opened and full of permits: to Thomas Strasser (Providence College) for a project on the Mesolithic in southwest , for Summer 2011; and Kevin Daly and Stephanie Larson (Buck- nell College), for work on Ismeneion Hill, Boeotia, for 2011–13. Also noted at the meeting was the granting of a research leave for Gennadius Library Director Ma- ria Georgopoulou, who is spending the 2010–11 academic year as a fellow at the National Humanities Center working on a project on arts, trade, and the medieval Mediterranean. The leave was approved and supported by the Executive Commit- tee of the Gennadius Library Trustees. In other business, the Managing Com- mittee voted unanimously in favor of rec- ommending the reappointment of Sherry C. Fox as Director of the Wiener Laboratory, and in favor of changing the length of her term to five years. Her reappointment to a five-year term beginning July 1, 2011 was subsequently approved by institutional vote. Students explore the Nekromantion at Ephyra. Photo: M. Miles continued on page 25

7 An Interview with New Publications Director Andrew Reinhard

Andrew Reinhard officially began his tenure as the ASCSA’s Director of Publications on August 26, 2010. In this October interview, he talks about starting the job in Princeton, his past experiences in traditional and non-traditional publishing, his views on the future of archaeological publishing, and insights into the next generation of archaeologists, and reveals his most significant archaeological find.

ákoue: Congratulations on your new job. I managed projects and clients and also volumes into the field on an iPad than it is How have these past few weeks been for wrote and edited technical documenta- to carry a backpack full of books. I’d love to you? tion for a non-technical audience. In 2007 do apps for iPhone and Droid based on the I joined Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers to School’s previously published content, too. AR: Thanks! These past seven weeks have bring them into the Digital Age via eBooks, Nothing’s official yet, but this is certainly been breathtaking, but in a good way. I an iPhone app, a Latin grammar website, a direction that I’d like to take in order to spent the first week writing and calling and a social network dedicated to teach- help our students and professionals. various key staff at the School to introduce ing Classics with technology. When the myself to some of them and to reconnect ASCSA Director of Publications search ákoue: You’ve excavated at Isthmia and with others. I’ve been deeply involved was re-opened, I jumped at the chance of participated in the field school at Poggio with the Publications staff in finding ways a lifetime, to be able to publish the Agora Civitate (Murlo). What’s the best thing to improve or streamline our workflow and Corinth volumes (and others) as well you’ve ever found? and to improve our turnaround time for as Hesperia while integrating some new books. I’ve been exploring potential new AR: I was a horrible excavator. I was so digital initiatives into the press and into partnerships with other presses as well as bad in Italy that I was relegated to sterile the ASCSA itself. It’s an honor to be here. new platforms for digital content. I’ve also trenches to make sure there was nothing been attending events such as John Camp’s left to find. Or break. At Isthmia I found ákoue:����������������������������������� Where do you see archaeologi- lecture at the Greek Embassy, the opening my niche as a pottery reader, interpreter of cal publishing one year from now? In of the “Heroes” exhibit at the Onassis Cul- stratigraphy, photographer, and cataloguer/ five years? tural Center, and the Classical Association database person. Isthmia is also where I of Atlantic States annual meeting. It’s been AR: In a year I’d like to see the ASCSA begin made my most significant find, my wife, a whirlwind experience and a lot of fun. to offer its books as digital editions as well Jayni Philipp. I was able to date the Roman as printed publications. I don’t want to stop Bath for her based on pottery recovered ákoue: What publishing experience do publishing our print books, but I feel that from under its mosaic, a date confirmed you bring to the ASCSA? we are responsible for meeting the needs of by Kathleen Slane and John Hayes. I guess our entire audience, delivering our content that sealed the deal. AR: Back in high school I worked as a on the printed page as well as online in a sports features writer for the Tampa Tribune, variety of formats. In the next few years I ákoue: Do you have any time outside of and in college I was the editor-in-chief of can easily envision us publishing books and work for yourself? two literary magazines and was also the eBooks with online supporting material, copy editor for the weekly newspaper. I had AR: What time I do have I spend hiking and including high-resolution color images, a summer internship at Archaeology maga- camping or playing soccer. I finally found interactive maps, even databases specific zine and knew then that archaeological or a place to play in northern New Jersey, but to a book or Hesperia article. Classics publishing was what I wanted to it’s indoors. I am addicted to grilling and do. After I finished graduate school I spent am happy to share my recipe for grilled ákoue: Do you think that archaeologists ten years away from archaeology working lamb that’s marinated in with any- in the near future will still have a need for a museum software publisher, where one who’s interested. I’m also working on for books? a novel, Psychonautica, which pairs a heroic AR: Sure. I don’t think the printed archaeo- Pythagoras and his team of soul-migrants logical monograph or site report will ever with a temporally displaced and his disappear, nor should they. I think that we Argonauts as they fight to stop Darius from can support that kind of publication with unleashing his army of the undead against other online resources to enrich the mate- the at the start of the Persian War. rial in ways that are difficult or even im- possible to publish in a traditional format. ákoue:�������������������������������������� Will you be visiting Greece any- I’ve talked to my friends and colleagues time soon? who continue to excavate at the Agora, at AR: I’ll be in Athens and in Corinth in ei- Corinth, at Isthmia, and elsewhere, and ther February or March of next year to visit while they find our books exceedingly use- the staffs of each excavation and to talk to ful, there is a definite need for everything to everyone about publications present and be made more portable. The obvious solu- future. I’m interested to hear what people tion is to create and distribute eBooks that have to say and ideas they might have. I Andrew Reinhard joined the Publications can be read on computers, laptops, iPads, office in Princeton at the end of August, haven’t been to Greece since 2000. It’s been and other handheld devices. It’s much easi- 2010. entirely too long. e er to take the entire ASCSA corpus of Agora

8 the Hesperia Supplement series (no. 45). In Publications News it, Erickson defines and explores the “Pe- riod of Silence” of Archaic and Classical Andrew Reinhard began his work in Au- Crete and dedicates chapters to Eleutherna Hesperia gust as the new Director of Publications. and Knossos, Ierapytna, and Praisos and Prior to joining the ASCSA, he spent over The Journal of the American School its territory, turning then to pottery styles of Classical Studies at Athens three years at Bolchazy-Carducci Publish- and influences, internal transformations Volume 79: number 2 ers managing digital publications for the April–June 2010 on Crete, trade and Cretan society, and Greek and Latin textbook company. Mr. Archaic Cretan austerity and the Spartan Reinhard earned his M.A. in art history connection. and archaeology from the University of Both of these titles will be on exhibit at Missouri – Columbia, where he special- the ASCSA booth in the exhibition hall in ized in Greek plastic vases. He participated San Antonio. Copies of many other books in the Ohio State University’s excavations will also be available for sale, including at Isthmia in 1996 and 2000. (See related the fifth edition of the Agora Site Guide by story at left.) John McK. Camp II. Bound proofs of im- ddd American School of mediately forthcoming volumes will also Classical Studies at Athens Two new books will debut at the 2011 an- 2010 be on display. nual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Antonio (January 6–9). ddd Nancy Bookidis’s volume on the large-scale In October 2010, the Institute of Aegean Hesperia 79.2 covered the Plakias Survey, terracotta figures from Corinth’s Sanctu- Prehistory (INSTAP) awarded a Publication recently named one of the top 10 discover- ary of Demeter and Kore (Corinth XVIII.5) Subvention to the ASCSA for the produc- ies of the year by Archaeology magazine. features color and black-and-white plates, tion of the forthcoming publication STEGA: a robust catalogue organized by period (Ar- The Archaeology of Houses and Households Hesperia issue 79.1 presented research by chaic, Early Classical, Classical) and type in Ancient Crete (Hesperia Supplement 44), the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (draped figures, nude youths and children, edited by Kevin Glowacki and Natalia Vo- on lithic technology, explored a new Ana- fragments), a thorough introduction to the geikoff-Brogan. Karen Vellucci, INSTAP’s tolian style in an Archaic ivory figurine, technique of manufacture (clays, modeling, Director of Grants, wrote in her congratu- published a “new” inscription from Archaic mounting, polychromy, firing, kilns, and latory e-mail, “All of our reviewers were Axos (Crete), and examined provenance is- workshops), and an equally thorough dis- delighted that this volume will soon be sues for a group of red-figure pottery from cussion and interpretation of the terracotta available.” The Publications Office shares Corinth. Issue 79.2 was eagerly greeted by figures themselves (age, gesture and gift, in that delight and expects the book to be Aegean prehistorians awaiting the official re- cult regulations, men in the sanctuaries, in print in June 2011. The ASCSA wishes port on the Plakias survey in southern Crete: Dionysos). to express its profound gratitude to INSTAP Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic remains Crete in Transition: Pottery Styles and for its assistance in funding this publication. have been securely identified for the first Island History in the Archaic and Classical time on the island, pushing the history of ddd Periods by Brice L. Erickson is the latest in Mediterranean seafaring back by more than The first half of 2011 will see the publica- 100,000 years. Also of interest are articles tion of five new books: on Mycenaean and Cypriot Late Bronze Age ceramic imports to Kommos, a new type Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments of Early Iron Age fibula from Albania and (Agora XVIII), by Daniel J. Geagan Northwest Greece, and the socioeconomic The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza history of a Hellenistic Boiotian price decree Hill (NVAP I), by Daniel J. Pullen inscribed with long lists of fish. Exploring Greek Manuscripts from the Gen- Issues 79.3 and 79.4 feature articles on nadius Library (Gennadeion Monographs 6), Priniatikos Pyrgos, feasting, and Cretan edited by Maria Politi and E. Pappa identities; deme theaters in Attica; fortifi- cations in the Corinthia; a prytany dedi- Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain cation from Athens (found in Corinth); in Three Millennia (AAAC 2), by Betsey A. Byzantine pottery from Sagalassos and Robinson the reconstruction of culinary practices; STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and excavations at Chrysokamino-Chomatas; Households in Ancient Crete (Hesperia Sup- Greek verse on a vase by Douris; mortaria plement 44), edited by Kevin Glowacki and from Ancient Corinth; and a new look Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan at the significance of the location of the Athenian public cemetery as it related to An additional three to five books will follow the nascent democracy. As ever, the edi- in the second half of the year for a record tors welcome submissions (and, of course, Nancy Bookidis’s volume on the large- ten titles to debut at the AIA annual meet- subscriptions!) to the journal. e scale terracotta figures has just been ing in Philadelphia. released by the Publications Office. — Andrew Reinhard, ddd Director of Publications

9 Blegen Library News Kress Fellowships Support Publication of Agora, Corinth Material

Thanks to funding from the Samuel H. catalogue of the paintings, and preparation Kress Foundation, the School in 2009–10 of illustrations for publication. During this awarded three fellowships in support of time it became evident that in order to place scholars who are publishing materials from the paintings within their architectural set- the excavations at Ancient Corinth or the ting, it was necessary to expand the scope Athenian Agora. of her article to include a more complete In her fourth tenure at Corinth, Sonia study of the Roman architectural phases Klinger (University of Haifa) continued her in Panayia Field. Although the complex work on the small finds of the Demeter stratigraphy in the area, which results from and Kore Sanctuary at Ancient Corinth, continual human activity in the area dat- making further progress on the examina- ing from at least the Middle Geometric pe- tion and description of objects excavated riod through the modern era, complicates in the Sanctuary and stored in the Museum this work, Ms. Lepinski was able, with the of Corinth that had not been included in guidance of Corinth Excavations Director Gloria S. Merker’s catalogue. In the pro- Guy Sanders, to work through much of the visional catalogue written by Ms. Merker, archaeological data and reconstruct a gen- based on inventory cards and photos, there eral phasing of the Roman architecture in were only 23 inventoried glass items. Ms. Panayia Field. Klinger completed the identification, de- Subsequent work advanced Ms. Lepin- scription, and cataloguing of all glass ob- ski’s comparative study of the iconography jects, resulting in the addition of over 280 and technical aspects of the paintings from Yuki Furuya, the Blegen’s new Collection glass objects recovered from the site; these Panayia Field with those present in con- Development Librarian. had been stored with context material un- temporary examples throughout Greece, til someone could determine whether they enabling her to conclude her research for formed useful additions to the collection. her article, which she plans to submit to Yuki Furuya joined the staff of the Blegen These comprise 22 Mediterranean core- Hesperia for review in late 2010. Library as Collection Development Librar- formed objects (alabastra, amphoriskoi, Carol Lawton (Lawrence University) ian on June 1, 2010. No stranger to the oinochoai, aryballoi, hydriskai, and un- spent last summer in Athens, dividing her School, Yuki was a Student Associate Mem- guentaria), two cut vessels from the late time between the Agora excavations, where ber (Hirsch Fellow) in 2009–10 and also Classical/early Hellenistic period, 11 late the reliefs that she is studying are housed, has previously held the Library Fellowship Hellenistic and early Roman cast vessels, and the School’s Blegen Library. During that at INSTAP on Crete. She is completing her and ca. 246 Roman free-blown glass ves- period she completed the examination and Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati and sels (tableware; vessels for serving, hold- photographic documentation of the reliefs, she has extensive field experience as well, ing, storing, and transporting goods; and including work on the fairly large number having worked at Halai, Episkopi-Bambou- one lamp). of “uncertain” reliefs that present various la, Azoria, Cornth, Chora, Priniatikos Pyr- All the newly described objects were problems of identification and interpreta- gos, Mochlos, and Papadiokambos. We are added to the provisional catalogue; were tion. Her work has led to completion of pleased to welcome Yuki to the staff of the classified by technique, chronology, and large sections of the introductory chapters School as a member of the Library team! type of vessels; and include, in many cases, on the form, chronology, iconography, and ddd comparative material from other areas in cults of the reliefs that will accompany the The Blegen Library now provides an alter- Corinth also stored at the Museum, and catalogue. These sections incorporate the native to photocopying thanks to the in- from published material from other sites latest in the constant stream of literature stallation of a self-service scanning station, gathered during study periods spent at the on the religious background of the cults e-Scan™. Specifically designed for books, Blegen Library in Athens. During the sum- and sanctuaries in which the reliefs were this machine allows a user to scan to a USB mer Ms. Klinger also began supervising the originally dedicated. key or directly to an attached printer. “Be- drawing of these objects, a task especially The major work that remains to be done sides providing an added convenience for important for the glass objects. is the section on the inscriptions that ac- our readers, many of whom would prefer Also at Ancient Corinth, Sarah Lepinski company some of the reliefs; this section to scan rather than photocopy, this ma- (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) spent last sum- awaits Ms. Lawton’s reading of pertinent chine will help preserve our collection,” mer continuing her on-site research on the sections of the late Daniel Geagan’s volume explained Head Librarian Karen Bohrer. Roman mural paintings from Panayia Field. on the Agora dedications, which is in the “Books can easily become damaged when Her achievements included completion of editorial stages. e they are placed face down on a copier,” the analysis of the small number of paint- she added, “so we encourage scanning to ings recovered in the final season of excava- protect them.” e tion in Panayia Field (2006), editing of her

10 Regular Membership Reveals New Paths

An intensive survey of the art, archaeology, history, and topography of Greece from antiquity to the present, the ASCSA’s nine-month Regular Program can be a transformative experience. Here, 2009–10 John Williams White Fellow Kelcy Sagstetter (University of Pennsylvania) reports on how her year as a Regular Member shaped her future development as a classicist.

Although I have specialized in ancient narrowly my studies have focused on the tionidai (IG 2 1237; EM 13529). I obtained Greece for more than ten years now, and sixth through fourth centuries B.C., and the permit and used the class as a platform have done fieldwork on Cyprus, in Italy, how woefully incomplete my knowledge to workshop an idea for an article I am and in Ukraine, I had never been to Greece of other periods and other cultures was. I researching. I am very excited to have had before last September. Nevertheless, I probably would have laughed if someone the chance to present my research in this thought I knew the history and geography had told me that by the end of the year, I way, and am looking forward to expanding pretty well. would have a file of ideas for several ar- this work in 2010–11, when I will study I finished my Ph.D. comprehensive ex- ticles, only a couple of which focus on the the stone further and submit an article for ams a day and a half before I got on a plane Classical period. publication. for Athens. At the end of the exam, my com- One of the most exciting things about Further, for the past several years I mittee asked me if I had done any work on the year was the groundwork I laid and the have been working on ways to re-image my dissertation prospectus. I said that I had plans I made for my dissertation prospectus inscriptions in the hopes of being able to some ideas, but that I was about to spend a and research that I am conducting in 2010– read damaged portions of the stones. Dur- year at the ASCSA and was reluctant to sub- 11 as a Student Associate Member. I have ing my year at the School, I took several mit a prospectus. My advisor told me that always been interested in epigraphy, and important steps to lay the groundwork for this was wise and that I should not try to one of the things I was most excited about this project, which will ultimately become work on my dissertation, because he knew was the chance to work in the Epigraphical part of my dissertation. Professor Ronald I would find myself interested in things I Museum. Carpenter Fellow Denver Gran- Stroud (University of Calirofnia, Berkeley) never imagined would appeal to me. inger’s Sacred Law seminar allowed us the has expressed interest in working with me He was proved right within the first day chance to write an edition of a sacred law, to re-image Drakon’s Law on Homicide. of the first School trip (to northern Greece and I used the opportunity to apply for a and ). I had not realized how permit to study the Decrees of the Demo- continued on page 23

Development News continued from page 4 the June 2010 Gennadius Library event to Annual Appeals Delmas Grant honor Lord Jacob Rothschild. The event netted approximately $133,000 for the The 2009–2010 Annual Appeal to raise A $25,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble renovations to the Library, thanks in large unrestricted funds for the School’s general Delmas Foundation was awarded in Octo- part to a very generous gift from Lord Roth- operation ended on June 20, 2010 with ber 2010 as a match for the EEA grant to schild. The net from the sale of the artwork $260,136 ($10,136 over the anticipated the Agora for the digitization of the Agora created for the exhibition “Johannes Gen- goal). The Annual Appeal for the Gennadi- records. This is the second grant from the nadius and his World” [see GL News, page us Library also raised $17,418. The School Delmas Foundation for the Agora project, G1] will also benefit the Library and be is very grateful to all of its supporters for and the School acknowledges with grati- credited as a match to the NEH Challenge these critical gifts! tude their generous support. Grant. EEA Grant Funding for the Lecture Series The School continues to be successful in its fundraising efforts, but there is still Progress has been made on “Reviving the For the second year, the Paul and Alexan- much to do to achieve our goal of $50 mil- Ancient Agora, the Cradle of Democracy,” dra Canellopoulos Foundation in Athens lion and to complete the funding for the a multifaceted endeavor promoted by the has awarded the School a grant of 10,000 construction of a new Wiener Laboratory; ASCSA in partnership with the Akropolis euros to support the Director’s Lecture renovations, underground stack space, and Ephoreia. The project, funded by a Euro- Series. This funding, as well as the sup- exhibition area for the Gennadius Library; pean Economic Area (EEA) grant, includes port from the U.S. Department of Educa- air conditioning and other improvements the renovation of the upper story of the tion and from Lloyd and Margit Cotsen for to the Blegen Library; and the renovation , the creation of a new ex- the Gennadius Library Lecture Series, has and expansion of Loring Hall. If you would hibition, and the digitization of the Agora made possible a vibrant lecture program like more information about any of these archives. The funded amount is 964,000 that brings hundreds of students, scholars, projects or would like to contribute to any Euros. and the general public in Athens to Cotsen of the other priorities for the Campaign, On September 29, 2010, an agreement Hall for more than 15 lectures and events including endowment, please contact Irene was reached between Iceland, Liechten- annually. e Romano in the Princeton office (iromano@ stein, Norway, and Greece regarding the ascsa.org or 609-683-0800, ext. 23). use of funds available through the EEA Grants from 2009 to 2014.

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Photo, right: Agora Excavations Director John McK. Camp II (left, with Mary Mikalson, Managing Comittee member Jon Mikalson, and ASCSA Administrative  kai gegono  kai 9 Director Irene Romano) spoke at the Greek Embassy in Washington on September 23, 2010 on “The Archaeology of Democracy: Excavations in the Athenian Agora,” to an enthusiastic crowd of friends of the gegono American School and of the Embassy. People & Places People Photo: A. Reinhard

Photos: H. Akriviadis The 129th Open Meeting of the School was held at Cotsen Hall on March 12, 2010. Photo, left: Among the packed house was Yiannis Bourloyannis, President of the Philoi of the Gennadius and Kees van Riij, Ambassador of the Netherlands. Photo, right: Also at the event were Jeremy Newman, Ambassador of Australia, Shari Stocker, Regular Members Robert Nichols and Katherine Lu, and Whitehead Professor Stella Miller-Collett who lectured on new reconstructions of Archaic wall-paintings from western .

Photo, left: ASCSA Director Jack L. Davis celebrated his 60th birthday at the School in July 2010. Photo, above: The grandsons of William John McMurtry, ASCSA Member in 1886–87, visited the American School in the spring of 2010 before paying tribute to Sikyon, where their grandfather directed the excavations of the theater in 1887.

12 One of the stops on the Trustees trip in June 2010 took them to the site of Py- los. They stand here behind the hearth in the Throne Room. From left, Diana Stewart, April Michas, Aliki Gounti, Gen- nadius Library Director Maria Georgo­ poulou, Calypso Gounti, Mary Lefkowitz, Shari Stocker, Director Jack Davis, Irene Moscahlaidis, Sue Baring, Andre Newburg, and Alan Boegehold. Photo: J. and A. Stevens

James R. McCredie was honored by the ASCSA on his retire- ment as the President of the Board of Trustees with a dinner in Photo: C. Lehmann New York City on October 29, 2010. He was presented with a At the wrap-up party for Summer Session in August 2010 were bronze plaque (right) which now hangs in the front hall of the participants Krishni Burns, Joe McDonald, past Summer Session Main Building. leader Gerald Lalonde, Ross Twele, and Colin Shelton.

Photo: C. Mauzy Megan O’Connor, a graduate student in the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies program, had a 12-week summer internship at the Agora Excavations as part Photo: M. Miles of her coursework, enabling her to combine Regular Members for 2010–11 pose for a group picture at the Temple of Aphrodite, Kassope. her interests in classical archaeology and col- lections management in a practical setting.

13 F A L L e 2 0 1 0 GennadeionGennadeion NewsNews A SPECIAL INSERT TO THE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

Library Benefit Art Exhibition Showcases Gennadeion Founder Supports arlier this year the Gen- Renovations nadius Library commis- Esioned 65 local artists to produce works inspired by n June 7, the Over- the personality and life of the seers of the Genna- Library’s founder, Johannes Odius Library hosted a Gennadius. On June 8, 2010, special evening to benefit the hundreds of people flocked to Library and to honor Lord Ja- the Library for the formal open- cob Rothschild, whose support ing of the group art exhibit of archaeology through the “Johannes Gennadius and his Butrint Foundation has shed World.” Through this exhibition, new light on the site and re- curated by art historian and art gion of Butrint and on Albanian critic Iris Kritikou and on dis- archaeology in general. play at the Library through the In a short presentation, summer, the Gennadius Library Lord Rothschild discussed sought to showcase the wealth of Alexandra Vovolini with Lord Rothschild in front of P. Tanimanidis’ Butrint within the context of its treasures to a non-academic artwork, entitled ‘Would you join us for a cup of tea, Mr Gennadius?’ Photo: H. Akriviadis the Mediterranean from pre- audience and to open a creative history to the Ottoman period dialogue with contemporary with examples from the exca- artists who are inspired by, and dens. The unexpected intrusion curator Iris Kritikou and Library vations and the archaeological comment on, its historical sig- of works of art near rare books Director Maria Georgopoulou. A park that the Butrint Foun- nificance through their art. and scholars gave the Library a portion of the proceeds from the dation has established in the The bulk of the works of art different feel. This artistic “inva- works sold benefited the Library. region. The presentation was were displayed in the exhibi- sion” opened new vistas for the The��������������������������� exhibition was made pos- followed by a beautifully illus- tion wing of the Library (Basil Library while respecting its aca- sible thanks to the generous trated lecture by John McK. Room), although several of the demic mission. support of OPAP, S.A. e Camp II, Director of the Agora works hung in the main Reading A fully illustrated catalogue Excavations, entitled “Edward Room and the Gennadeion gar- contains introductory essays by Dodwell’s Visits to in 1801 and 1806.” The event was sponsored by Alpha Trust Mutual Fund Cotsen Retires From Gennadeion Board Management S.A., Alapis, Nicholas J. Theocarakis, and loyd Cotsen recently ness. He was President, CEO, folk art (most patently demon- Mr. and Mrs. Alexander E. stepped down from his and eventually Chairman of strated by the Neutrogena Wing/ Zagoreos. The net proceeds— Lpositions on the Boards the Board of Neutrogena Cor- Cotsen Gallery at the Museum of over $130,000—from the of the Gennadius Library and poration. His philanthropy has International Folk Art in Santa benefit evening will be used of the School to become Chair- centered on archaeology (amply Fe, New Mexico). to match the challenge grant man Emeritus of the Gennadius demonstrated by the foundation Lloyd came to the American from the National Endowment Board and emeritus on the School of the Cotsen Institute of Ar- School as a student and fellow for the Humanities to renovate Board. His legacy and lifelong chaeology at UCLA and his gen- in 1955–56, and has remained the library in order to provide interest in the School and the erosity to the American School), a friend of Greece ever since. improved access to the collec- Gennadius can only be hinted at books and libraries (exemplified He worked as an archaeological tions as well as a new exhibi- in this short article. by the colorful Children’s Library field architect at the excavations tion space. An avid collector and a phi- at Princeton University that of Lerna, Pylos, and . He lanthropist, Lloyd was trained in houses his exquisite collection of joined the School Board in 1977, history, architecture, and busi- illustrated children’s books), and continued on page G3 G2 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Rare Maps Varnalis Subject of New Griffon Issue Digitized he most recent issue of in the volume are contributed everal of the rarest maps The New Griffon (Volume by Dora Moatsou and George from the Gennadius Li- T11) presents for the first Kotzioulas. A series of evocative Sbrary collections, including time an in-depth view of Kostas photographs recording the life of Buondelmonti’s isolario, Basili- Varnalis’ literary work and life the poet appear at the end of the cata’s maps of Crete, and maps through his letters and papers, volume. by cosmographer André Thevet, which were donated to the Gen- A contemporary of Angelos were photographed digitally nadius Library by the poet’s Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantza- this summer, at no cost to the daughter in 2001. The volume kis but also of the “Generation School, by archaeological pho- has been edited by philolo- of the ’30s,” Kostas Varnalis tographers Jennifer and Arthur gist Theano Michailidou, who (1884–1974) followed an au- Stephens. More than 900 digital also processed and catalogued tonomous course in the history images of the highest quality are Varnalis’ papers. In addition to of letters, which now available for use in publica- the catalogue, which forms the was partly determined by his po- tions or online presentations. core of this volume, Michaili- litical aspirations, as well as his All available digital images have dou has provided an insightful decision not to embrace Modern- been linked with the MedMaps introductory essay on the work ism. His poetry and prose (The database, a component of the of Varnalis and the value of his Burning Light, Enslaved Besieged, be considered the first Marxist Digital Library for International papers, and another (in Eng- and the True Apology of ) work in . In 1959 Research, on the server of the lish) on Varnalis as a poet, prose all aspire to a classless society. Varnalis was awarded the Lenin Gennadius Library. writer, and critic. Other essays The Burning Light (1922) may Prize for peace. e When all maps of the Gen- nadius collections are available digitally, the images in the Med- in February 2010. The stacks Maps database will be widely News From the Library were found in good order and available for use as a springboard several books considered lost for various web-based projects.e Gennadius Library Director Ma- The Library will host a concert during previous inventories were ria Georgopoulou is on research honoring the 50th anniversary rediscovered. leave this academic year. She was of Dimitri Mitropoulos’ death on ddd awarded a prestigious fellowship March 31, 2011, featuring ac- Several fellows focusing on a at the National Humanities Cen- claimed pianist Charis Dimaras. variety of research topics are mak- ter in North Carolina in order ddd ing use of Gennadeion holdings. to complete her book, Arts, In- The 2010 Frantz Fellow, Krisztina dustry, and Trade in the Medieval Several recent gifts have en- Szilagyi (Princeton University), is Mediterranean. Irini Solomonidi riched the Library’s collections. at work on her dissertation, en- has been appointed Acting Di- Mrs. Elizabeth Barber donated a titled “After the Prophet’s Death: rector of the Gennadius Library, bilingual Greek-Latin edition of Body of Muhammad in Christian- effective as of July 1, 2010. Achilles Tatius’ Hellenistic novel Erotika, published in Leiden in Muslim Polemic.” Massimo ddd 1640 by the scholar Claudius Pinto, Cotsen Traveling Fellow The electronic cataloguing of Salmasius (Claude Saumaise). for 2010–11, is studying the nine- our periodicals holdings, funded Gennadius Library Trustee and teenth-century scholar and forger by a two-year grant from the benefactor Loyd Cotsen offered Constantinos Simonidis. His The island of Euboia, from Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Library three framed art- research explores the papers of Cristo for­ o Buondelmonti’s manu- is progressing on schedule. All works, two of which are by Rog- Joannes Gennadius, who bought script Liber Insularum Archipe- ceased publications are now fully er Tourte (1903–1972), whose a set of Simonidis’ books at one of lagi (15th century). catalogued. Special attention has watercolors are part of the art the sales of the personal library of been given to archival materials collections of the Library, as well John Eliot Hodgkin. The work of Gennadeion News pages are com- bound within certain volumes, as a poster by Alekos Fassianos. the fellows and other researchers piled by Gennadius Library Director such as personal correspondence ddd will be shared with the School Maria Georgopoulou, Librarian Irini of Johannes Gennadius with and the wider academic commu- Solomonidi, and Archivist Natalia publishers. Vassiliki Liakou- The Library’s collection of CD- nity through the Work-in-Prog- Vogeikoff-Brogan, and edited by Kropp continues the cataloguing ROMs is now fully catalogued ress Seminars held in the Mandi- Sally Fay. of the Library’s Greek manu- and placed in special shelves in las Rare Book Reading Room on This publication is produced semi­ the second basement stacks. A e annually. E-mail correspondence for scripts under a grant from the Thursday evenings. Demos Foundation. thorough inventory of the Li- Gennadeion News to [email protected]. brary’s holdings was performed —Irini Solomonidi, Acting Director ddd G E N N A D E I O N N E W S G3

Fundraising Lectures at Gennadeion a Continuing Draw

Update aving wrapped up last year’s program of lec- he Gennadius Library tures in May with fas- has been very success- H cinating talks by renowned his- Tful in its fundraising ef- torian Reinhold Mueller of the forts this past year. The Board University of Venice (“The Fall and the Friends of the Library of Negroponte to the Ottomans have raised funds to match two in 1470 and Female Sanctity major challenge grants: a chal- in Venice”) and Judith Herrin lenge grant from Lloyd Cotsen of King’s College (Fourth An- to the Library’s Overseers for nual Onassis Lecture, “The West the Gennadeion’s endowment, Meets Byzantium: Unexpected and another challenge grant Consequences of the Council from the NEH for the Library’s of Ferrara – Florence, 1438– capital construction fund. 1439”), the Gennadius Library The Cotsen challenge launched its 2010–2011 lecture was met with very generous season with the first offering in gifts from Ted Athanassiades, this year’s Cotsen Lecture Series, Alan L. Boegehold, Nicho- made possible by the continuing Jacques Bouchard’s lecture included this palace of the hospodar of las Bacopoulos, the McCabe generosity of Gennadius Library the Danubian Principalities in Bucharest, depicted in Luigi Mayer’s Family, Nassos Michas, Irene Board Chairman Lloyd Cotsen. Views in the Ottoman Dominions (London, 1810). Moscahlaidis, Petros Sabata- The lecture, by Jacques cakis, Nicholas J. Theocarakis, Bouchard (University of Montre- and Alexander E. Zagoreos. al) on the role of the Phanariotes cipalities–Prince of Moldavia, The funding goal has in Early Enlightenment (1680– and then Prince of Wallachia. Save the Date! been met for the first year of This year’s program will continue 1780), was given on October On March 7, 2011, the Genna- the NEH Challenge Grant, with lectures by literary critic 12, on the occasion of the 300th deion celebrates with $752,260 for Year 1 and Roderick Beaton and Ottoman anniversary of Nicholas Mavro- at Molyvos in New York City. $307,850 carried over for historian Suraiya Faroqhi. e kordatos as the first Phanariote Mark your calendars! Year 2. We will need to raise hospodar of the Danubian Prin- $292,150 more to complete the Year 2 benchmark for NEH. We are especially grateful to the Cotsen Departure Samourkas Foundation and continued from page G1 Nicholas Theocarakis for gen- erous gifts for the Gennadius and was a founding member mobilizing friends and support- Library toward this match. Also and Chairman of the Gennadius ers. Above all, the establishment included among the matches Library Board since 1995. His at the School of a state-of-the-art are the funds raised through dynamic presence, his vision auditorium, Cotsen Hall, has the June 2010 Gennadius Li- and generosity, and his wise allowed us to host hundreds of brary event to honor Lord counsel have been instrumental public events that have attracted Jacob Rothschild. The event in transforming the Gennadius large crowds and had a huge netted approximately $133,000 Library into an influential intel- impact in Athens and beyond. for the renovations to the Li- lectual center for the study of We thank Lloyd and his wife brary, thanks in large part to a Hellenism. Throughout the years Margit for their unwavering very generous gift from Lord Lloyd has enriched the collec- support of the Gennadeion and Rothschild. The net from the tions of the Gennadius Library the School, but above all for sale of the artwork created for with rare books and works their unerring love of Greece. the exhibition “Johannes Gen- of art, has promoted research They have managed to change nadius and his World” will through the establishment of not only the image but also the also benefit the Library and be the Cotsen Traveling Fellowship soul of the Gennadeion. We look credited as a match to the NEH for Research at the Gennadius, forward to their continued inter- Challenge Grant. has facilitated outreach through est for many years to come. e Thanks to everyone for sup- the Cotsen Lecture Series Fund, porting the Gennadius Library and has also been instrumental — Maria Georgopoulou Lloyd Cotsen at the entrance to and its programs! in modernizing facilities and in Director, Gennadius Library Cotsen Hall, June 2005. G4 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Mystras Through the Eyes of Travelers

liki Asvesta put together The exhibition explored the an exhibit of travelers different facets of the site’s his- Abooks, manuscripts, tory as it was first discovered by and maps from the Gennadius European travelers and human- Library’s Geography and Travel ists, and showed how its histori- Collection to highlight some of cal emancipation was tied to the the themes of the symposium preoccupations of antiquarians, “Mystras: Identities and Perspec- soldiers, merchants, and scien- tives,” held in Cotsen Hall on tists, while its ruins also attract- May 20, 2010. ed the romantic imagination of Travelers in search of the an- nineteenth-century visitors. e tiquities of ancient Sparta were attracted to nearby Mystras, where they were impressed by Guillaume Abel Blouet, Expédi- the beauty of the landscape, the tion scientifique de Morée. town’s location, and its impres- , 1831–38.GL, from the sive monumental architecture. collection.

Collaborations Promote Philoi News

Mitropoulos’ Works In May, the Philoi celebrated ing visits to the Onassis Founda- the Day of Florence/Anthi Gen- tion library, the house of Ioannis est known as a conduc- nadius with the third annual Metaxas, the Gennadius Library tor, Dimitri Mitropoulos bookfair in the gardens of the and its Archives, the Hellenic B(1896–1960), whose Gennadius Library. Part of the Literary and Historical Archive, personal papers reside in the funds they raised will cover the the Byzantine and Christian Gennadeion Archives, also ex- new cataloguing of the personal Museum of Athens, and the His- perimented with composition archive of Joannes Gennadius torical Archives of the National during the early stages of his ca- in order to provide a more com- . The General As- reer, before his relocation to the plete reference tool for this im- sembly of the Philoi is scheduled United States in the late 1930s. portant collection. for January 26, and the Fourth To promote Mitropoulos’ com- Numerous trips and events Annual Bookfair will take place positional work, the Gennadius are planned for 2010–11, includ- on May 19, 2011. e Library has recently established a number of collaborations with interested parties, including the Ionian University’s Department of Music Studies and the Hel- lenic Music Centre. Publication of Dimitri Mitropou- It is with pride that the Gen- los’ Burial in 2010. nadeion announces the publica- tion of the first edition of Mit- positional work of Mitropoulos, ropoulos’ Burial by the Hellenic the Un morceau de concert for Music Centre, in collaboration piano and violin. In addition to with the Gennadius Library. The the publication of the Burial, the Burial was composed in 1915, Department of Music Studies of inspired by the Biblical descrip- the Ionian University, under the tion of Jesus’ burial by Joseph direction of Charis Xanthouda- (Matt. 27:59–60). kis, has published a critical edi- The Hellenic Music Centre, tion of Mitropoulos’ collection founded in September 2006 by of songs based on Constantin Yannis Samprovalakis and Yan- Cavafy’s poetry (14 Invenzioni).e At the May Bookfair: Vice-President of the Philoi, Mrs. Lydia Tricha; nis Tselikas, has also received General Secretary, Mrs. Ioanna Phoca; President of the Board of the permission from the Gennadius — Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan Philoi, Ambassador I. Bourloyannis-Tsangaridis; and Member of the Library to publish another com- Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist Philoi, Mrs. Domna Dontas. NEH Fellows Examine Saucer Pyres, Asklepios, Labor

Three senior scholars report here on research conducted at the School as 2009–10 NEH Fellows, thanks to funding from the National Endow- ment for the Humanities. When I was a graduate student supervising a trench at the Agora Excavations, I used to spend my lunch break reading the field notebook accounts of the “saucer pyres.” These were deposits of burnt bone and pot- tery, buried in shallow pits under the floors of houses and workshops on the fringes of the agora square. The bones were usu- ally a few fragments, reduced to apparently unidentifiable scraps by intense burning. The pottery included tiny cooking pots, saucers, and covered bowls, all the equip- ment needed for the preparation of a meal in miniature. Larger plates and drinking cups suggested that full-sized individuals were also expected as guests. These larger pots also made it possible to date the depos- its, most of which had been buried between the late fifth and the mid third century B.C. Objects from the saucer pyre. Photo: Agora Excavations (2007.04.0033) The first pyres were unearthed in 1933 by the legendary Eugene Vanderpool, who commented simply “a black patch of earth Several scholars have suggested that the of a particularly challenging operation, or with 4th-century sherds.” In the 1930s and pyres document building sacrifices, pro- in reaction to accidents, mishaps, or even 1940s, Rodney Young discovered many tective rituals performed before or during a death in the workplace. more, and he published 14 of them in Hes- construction to protect the building or its The pyre sacrifices may have served a peria in 1951. The miniature pottery made builders. All but one of the Agora pyres, variety of different purposes, impossible him think of children, and he noticed that however, postdate the original construc- to distinguish at this distance in time, and some of the larger objects were of types tion of the buildings in which they were a definitive answer to the “pyre question” frequently found in graves. He therefore deposited. It is also common for there to be may always elude us. My year in Athens, concluded—reluctantly, he writes—that many pyres in a single building, spanning however, has provided both the time and the saucer pyres were the cremation graves more than a century in date. If the pyres the perfect setting in which to explore the of babies. are associated with construction, it must phenomenon in depth, and to try to see This conclusion was greeted with skep- be with renovations rather than building my way a little further into the lost world ticism, and doubts were justified in the anew. Another suggestion is that the sac- of ancient Athens. 1990s, when systematic study of the bone rifices accompanied a change of tenants. — Susan I. Rotroff by zooarchaeologist Lynn Snyder revealed These interpretations, however, overlook Washington University in Saint Louis exclusively the remains of animals, usually the chthonic aspect of the pyres, which has sheep or goat, the preferred sacrificial vic- become even clearer since Young wrote, ddd tim of Greek antiquity. Meanwhile, many for similar deposits have now been found I am grateful to the American School of more pyres had been discovered under the in the Late Classical grave precincts at the Classical Studies and the National Endow- floors of a commercial building north of Kerameikos. ment for the Humanities for their generous the Stoa Poikile, and pyres had also come A different solution is suggested by the support of six months of research in Greece to light elsewhere in Athens: just inside observation that the majority of the pyres in spring 2010. My time at ASCSA was rich the city wall at the Kerameikos and in the are located in workshops. Ancient work- and rewarding: I completed a series of ar- excavations for the Acropolis Metro Sta- ers, like modern ones, dealt with dangerous ticles on religion and medicine—including tion and the new . My forces—heavy loads, sharp objects, caus- a short article on the iamatika, or healing old interest in pyres reawakened, I began tic substances, and fire—any one of which epigrams, of Posidippus, and a longer one a review of the stratigraphy and material could both endanger the craft process and on Ovid’s engagement with the hymnic culture associated with the Agora deposits. cause serious bodily harm. We know from genre in the Metamorphoses; I traveled with A year at the School as NEH Fellow has texts and from rare representations of the the Regular Members to sites around Attica allowed me to complete my examination workplace that artisans hung images, bas- (reliving my own experiences as a Regular of the Agora pyres, to study comparative kania, near the kiln or furnace or in front Member ten years earlier), visited Lycia material at the Kerameikos, and to work of the shop to guard against malign influ- under the leadership of John Camp, and towards an understanding of the pyre ritual ences. It may be that the pyre sacrifices too otherwise reveled in the resources and op- in the context of religious were intended to protect the workers and practice. the craft processes, either in anticipation continued on page 22

14 Kress Funding Advances Corinth Coin Collection Digitization

Funding from the Kress Foundation dur- the international scholarly community and ing 2009–10 enabled the School’s Corinth to the general public. Excavations to take an innovative approach Corinth’s numismatic study collection to the management of the numismatic col- consists of about 3,000 coins that date lection at the Corinth Excavations that ful- between 550 B.C. and modern times. It filled both educational and curatorial aims. reflects many of the best examples of coin The Kress grant funded digital resource types recovered during the long history of management internships for three schol- excavation at Ancient Corinth. This long ars—Jason Harris (University of Southern history added to the challenge of digitiza- California), Melinda Dewey-Gallimore tion of the study collection, as it forced (University at Buffalo, SUNY), and Mark the interns to deal with over a century of Hammond (University of Missouri–Colum- diverse cataloguing systems that required bia)—as well as the project management standardization before they could be en- services of numismatic consultant Michael tered into a searchable database. Once Ierardi (Bridgewater State College). The the interns had collectively assembled the internships provided these graduate stu- documentation for each of the coins in the dents with an incomparable opportunity collection and reduced them to a single sys- to examine and handle some of the best- tem of recording, the material was divided preserved and most informative coins from for data entry according to each intern’s the excavations, and to learn through prac- sphere of academic interest (Greek, Roman, Melinda Dewey-Gallimore and Mark tice the careful observation and recording and Late Antique/Byzantine). Hammond at work. of numismatic information in archaeologi- The project was deemed a success on all cal contexts. The educational goal of the fronts. Numismatist Ierardi commended project, in keeping with Corinth’s mission the high quality of the students’ work and them well in their future careers. Finally, as a premier teaching excavation, was to provided the School with valuable insight the productive result for the School is the produce archaeologists better acquainted into the inherent challenges of such digi- development of a fully searchable archive with the complexity and value of numis- tization efforts. The students reported that on the ASCSA website consisting of more matic evidence and digital recording. At the their internships taught them a great deal than 9,000 full-color images of the Corinth same time, the project enabled the Corinth about museum archival systems and da- coin collection, with links to identification Excavations to improve the digital record tabase presentation for scholarly use, as and bibliographic references (available at of the excavation holdings, and create and well as the techniques used in identifying www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/excavation- augment the digital resources available to coins—a skill that all agreed would serve corinth/digital-corinth). e

cities where both Greek and Roman culture ous locations of the house where only the Student Reports were strongly influential, and how such inhabitants would have knowledge of and manifestations related to the types of hous- access to them, especially in kitchens and Domestic Shrines in ing constructed at these sites in the Roman storerooms. In the Roman tradition, these Houses of Roman Greece period. However, through my research in shrines would have been placed so as to be Greece, my focus shifted away from the accessible to both inhabitants and visitors. Catherine W. Person idea of distinguishing between Greek and At Athens, foundation deposits for houses Bryn Mawr College Roman to looking more closely at what continue to be used from the Classical pe- 2009–10 Kress Art and Architecture in constituted domestic religion in Achaia in riod through the Roman, a practice thus Antiquity Fellow the Roman period. Thus, my preliminary far unknown in Roman Italy, and none of conclusion developed into the following: the evidence for shrines appears Roman in As the Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Amer- while domestic religion of this period ap- nature. Aphrodite and Cybele still appear ican School for the 2009–2010 academic pears to be predominantly Roman in na- to have been most important in the home, year, my primary goal was to complete the ture, a closer examination of the context as they were in earlier periods, at sites in data collection and research needed for my and location of the evidence (and therefore Athens, Pireaus, and Corinth. I have found five mainland Greek case-study sites (Ath- how it was interacted with), as well as the only one example of a Roman deity, which ens, Piraeus, Corinth, , and Messene) types of deities worshiped, indicates that was at Corinth. There is very little evidence for my dissertation, “Domestic Shrines in the practices were actually local in charac- of domestic religion at Messene, but what Houses of Roman Greece: A Comparative ter, although to varying degrees within and there is does not appear Roman at all and Study with Asia Minor and Italy.” To this between the sites. is in fact unique to Messene, especially the end, I spent much of the first semester in the At Corinth and Piraeus, shrines, which burials and associated heroon room found Blegen Library doing preliminary research. sometimes looked like lararia from Pom- in one of the houses. Patras is the final site The aim of my research was to observe peii and sometimes were as simple as a how domestic religion was manifested in niche, were usually found in inconspicu- continued on page 16

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I am looking at and I am still in the process was not a part of this supply network. of analyzing this data, but so far it confirms This study shows that the addition of what I have observed at the other four sites. new pottery assemblages can provide ex- It was a very productive and fruitful citing insights into the history of a major year for me in Athens and I greatly ap- Roman center on Crete and its role in trade preciate the opportunity granted to me by relations within the island and across the the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Mediterranean. My time at the American American School. School and on Crete made many of my ddd discoveries possible. Ierapetra and Crete in the ddd Roman Empire Archaic Greek Land Warfare Scott Gallimore State University of New York at Buffalo 2009–10 Fellow Benjamin M. Sullivan University of California at Irvine 2009–10 Ione Mylonas Shear Fellow In two constructive years at the American School I was honored to have held the John I spent academic year 2009–2010 as an Williams White and Edward Capps Fel- Associate Member of the American School lowships. The time in Athens enabled me of Classical Studies at Athens, thanks to to make significant progress on my dis- funding provided by the Ione Mylonas sertation, “An Island Economy: Ierapetra Shear Fellowship. The core of my experi- and Crete in the Roman Empire,” which Scott Gallimore examining dissertation ence this year was research on my disser- examines the site of Ierapetra (ancient pottery at the INSTAP Study Center in Pachaia Ammos, Crete. tation, entitled “Masters of the Country: Hierapytna), a port city and transhipment Aspects of Archaic Greek Land Warfare.” point along Crete’s southeast coast. At the In the dissertation I propose a significantly heart of this study is the analysis of Late particularly along the southern coast, was lower date (the mid-sixth century B.C.) Hellenistic through Late Antique pottery a stopover point for ships traveling west, than is usually assumed for the advent of recovered from four rescue excavations and Ierapetra appears to have facilitated -armies, and trace the coalescence conducted by the KD' Ephoreia in east this trade. At least nine amphora kiln sites of hoplite weapons and tactics to origins Crete. I am indebted to Vili Apostolakou, are documented within 40 km of the city, among Greek-speakers in the eastern Med- Ephor of the KD' Ephoreia, for permission suggesting it was also a hub for export- iterranean in the last quarter of the eighth to study this material and to Tom Brogan ing Cretan products including wine and century B.C. and Eleanor Huffman of the INSTAP East olive oil. Following the reorganization of My research was conducted for the most Crete Study Center for facilitating my on- the Roman Empire under Diocletian and part in the Blegen Library, where I made site research. Constantine in the late third/early fourth daily use of its incomparable resources. Ierapetra boasts few standing remains or century A.D., Ierapetra appears to have Among other things, I studied new material clues that a large ancient city once occupied gone into decline. Quantities of imported from Kalapodi in Phokis, the lead “hoplite” the site and, consequentially, the city has finewares and amphorae begin diminish- figurines from archaic Sparta, and early received insufficient attention not only in ing, culminating with the apparent aban- evidence (or lack thereof) for so-called discussions of Roman Crete, but also in the donment of the buildings identified in the poluandreia, or common burial grounds context of Mediterranean trade, particu- three rescue excavation plots by the mid- of the various poleis (most importantly the larly as an anchorage for ships traveling seventh century. This corresponds with a late-eighth-century B.C. group burial from between the eastern and western Mediter- period of turmoil for the city, including a the Paroikia cemetery on , where the ranean. A detailed analysis of ceramic ma- series of Arab raids. cremated remains of soldiers were buried terial, along with available archaeological Ierapetra may have also lost its position in large vases). It was essential for me to data, epigraphical and literary texts, and as a primary exporter of Cretan products complete this research at the Blegen, since testimonia from travelers, provides an op- in the Late Roman period. From the fourth I could not have had access to the great portunity to illuminate this inadequately to seventh centuries A.D., Cretan amphora majority of these resources at my home discussed site and assess the broader im- types occur mainly around the Black Sea in institution’s library. In addition, I used the plications of Ierapetra’s, and Crete’s, role in the provinces of Moesia Secunda and Scyth- Blegen’s resources to complete a project on the Mediterranean Roman economy. ia. Large military forces were stationed in the payment of Archaic Greek mercenaries, From the first through third centuries these provinces, suggesting Crete had be- which has been accepted for publication A.D. Ierapetra prospered, producing large come part of the military annona. Amphora in the Classical Journal. quantities of imported wares predominate- types documented at these sites are not at- ly from the eastern Mediterranean. Crete, tested at Ierapetra, however, implying it continued on next page

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I also studied at first hand various icon- monument (also memorial, offering, dedi- only to the study of naval victory monu- ographic and archaeological materials. Us- cation, all used synonymously) includes ments, but also to classical scholarship as ing the ample resources of the American anything created and then set up by either a whole. School and the generous time and energy a victorious state or its leader(s) (both mili- ddd of its staff, in both Athens and Corinth, tary and otherwise), the navy, and allies as I was able to study materials including a permanent or semi-permanent feature in Middle and Late Roman late Geometric and early Archaic pottery an urban, sacred, or littoral site to com- bearing iconographic representations of memorate a naval victory. Both definitions Ceramic Assemblages weapons and warfare, Archaic and Classi- are very broad so as to encompass the full from Corinth cal arms and armor, and early shield mod- range of conflicts possible on the seas, and els from the Athenian Agora. to give maximum exposure to the variety Mark D. Hammond No less important than the experience of ways the Greeks and Romans honored University of Missouri–Columbia of conducting research in a world-class naval victory. 2009–10 Homer A. and Dorothy B. library and first-hand access to material In my catalogue I offer new interpreta- Thompson Fellow remains was the collegial atmosphere of tions on several monuments. I argue that the School. I learned a great many things the Stagnum Augusti (i.e., Naumachia Au- Tentatively, my dissertation is entitled from a wide variety of specialists and made gusti) is a naval victory monument. I make “From Sherds to Assemblages: A Diachron- many contacts that would otherwise have this argument because the stagnum’s con- ic View of Archaeological Assemblages been unavailable to me. Moreover, I ben- struction and the naumachia that took place and their Economic Implications in Late efited from the company of a strong and within it were intimately connected with Roman Corinth (3rd–7th c. A.D.).” It in- talented cohort of Student Associate Mem- Augustus’ continued commemoration of volves the study of middle and late Roman bers, a bond that was made stronger by his victory at Actium; his promotion of clas- ceramic assemblages from the Panaghia living in Loring Hall. Finally, the many sical artworks, motifs, and ideals; and the Field at Corinth, with full consideration lectures, workshops, and classes offered construction of and dedication ceremonies of their archaeological contexts and asso- by the School shaped my thinking about for the Temple of Mars Ultor. I also advance ciated finds, involving traditional forms my work in a way that cannot be dupli- my opinion that the Honorary Ship Relief of identification supplemented by quan- cated or replaced. for Hagesandros at Lindos’ classification as tification (where allowable) and scientific ddd a naval victory monument is doubtful at analysis (e.g., petrography). I will use this best. The presence of the carved stern of a evidence to trace and define diachronic- Greek and Roman Naval warship is not conclusive evidence that this ally the state of archaeological assemblages relief is for a naval victory, either against Victory Monuments along with their associated economic im- military forces or pirates. The Lindians plications as exhibited at Corinth during could have honored Hagesandros for some these centuries, and then to place those Kristian Lorenzo other benefaction; perhaps he paid for the findings in a wider, regional context. University of Wisconsin-Madison games mentioned in the relief’s inscription 2009–10 Doreen C. Spitzer Fellow In order to realize these goals, I was and the carved warship was an imagina- given permission to study the relevant ma- tive setting to display those honors, one terial from the Panaghia Field excavations Thanks to the generosity of the Ameri- particularly apt for a naval power. In ad- of 1995–2007, conducted by the American can School of Classical Studies at Athens, dition, I argue that the Bronze Ship on the School under the direction of Guy Sand- I spent the 2009–2010 academic year at Acropolis is not a naval victory monument, ers. I also received permission to study a the School as the Doreen C. Spitzer Fel- and that it probably never even existed. I smaller amount of material from seventy low. During this period I concentrated on base these assertions on the determination graves from the “Hill of Zeus,” located to researching and writing the catalogue sec- that the inscribed blocks assigned to this the west of the abandoned Asklepieion on tion of my dissertation, entitled “Greek and monument were part of a continuous base the northern edge of the city. F.J. de Waele Roman Naval Victory Monuments: From and not individual base blocks for the sup- investigated the graves on this hill in 1933. Rome to Oman.” In this catalogue I have ports of a dedicated ship. This determina- I am extremely appreciative of the op- gathered together the evidence for 108 tion is based on the specific treatment of portunity that the Thompson Fellowship naval victory monuments ranging in date the blocks’ non-inscribed vertical surfaces, has provided me. I have been able to make from ca. 600 B.C. to ca. A.D. 457. (Monu- the asymmetrical placement of the letters a great deal of progress because of it, and ments that date before or after this range inscribed on the blocks, and the use of a am well on my way toward completing not fall outside the scope of my dissertation.) punctuation mark on one of the blocks, all only my dissertation, but other projects The terms “naval victory” and “monu- of which point to their placement in one that will be of great value to my intended ment” require some elaboration. A naval continuous base. future career as a researcher, archaeologist, victory includes any operation or sequence Through these new interpretations and professor. e of operations wherein either one or more and my dissertation in its entirety, both of than one warship overcomes an opposing which owe very much to American School naval force, whether equal in size or not. A funding, I hope to make a contribution not

17 Solow Fellowships Advance the Study of Roman Trophies, Kastro Kallithea Solow Dissertation Research Fellowships have been generously provided by the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation to support the efforts of advanced Ph.D. candidates whose dissertation research requires access to sites and collections in Greece as well as the resources of the American School. Here, the ASCSA’s 2009–10 fellows report on the results of their fellowships.

Funding provided under the Solow Dis- sertation Research Fellowship enabled me to pursue a month of research and travel in Greece in connection with my dissertation on the Roman trophy, a type of monument descended from Greek prototypes. During this time, I visited several important ar- chaeological sites, engaged in numerous formative discussions with members of the ASCSA community, and made extensive use of the School’s Blegen Library. My major goal for this trip to Greece was to engage in a close examination of the Sul- lan trophies at Chaironeia and Orcheme- nos, of Octavian’s Campsite Memorial at Nikopolis, and of a handful of fragmentary Greek trophies (particularly one at Mara- thon and the reconstructed tower-trophy Tower-trophy at Leuctra. Photo: L. Kinnee at Leuctra). I was able to accomplish this goal, in part, thanks to the generosity of Professors Peter Schultz and Andrew Stew- in newspapers around the world—I had dispensable, helping navigate a difficult art, who were also staying at the School and heard of it, but I had assumed that it was walk from the town to the reconstructed accompanied me on a road trip to Boeotia, buried away in a storeroom somewhere, trophy (much of the walk is along high- with stops in Orchomenos, Chaironeia, and so it was a very pleasant surprise to find it ways or through fields). Lastly, before I left Leuctra. I was able to closely examine each in plain view. Serendipitous encounters at for Nikopolis, School Secretary Bob Bridges of the trophies at these sites, and much to the ASCSA also enhanced my experiences put me in contact with Professor William my delight Prof. Stewart actually discovered at Marathon and made it possible for me to Murray of Florida State University, who was an additional trophy at Orchomenos, be- examine the Nikopolis memorial in detail. on site measuring the blocks of Augustus’ hind the guardhouse. This was the trophy Brian Martens from the Agora Excavations Campsite Memorial. Prof. Murray drove me unearthed by a farmer in 2004 and reported accompanied me to Marathon and was in- continued on page 21

ASCSA Well Represented at Corinth Conference

ASCSA scholars, alumni, and staff mem- lenistic and Roman periods. The previous B.C.E. to the Roman Colony”; Sarah Lepin- bers presented papers at a conference on two were published as Urban Religion in ski (SUNY New Paltz; 2009–10 Kress Pub- “Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequal- Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches lications Fellow), who addressed “Painting ity,” held Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2010 at the Uni- (2004) and Corinth in Context: Compara- Practices in Roman Corinth: Greek or Ro- versity of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by tive Studies on Religion and Society (2010). man?”; Benjamin Millis, former Acquisi- the university’s Department of Religious Conference organizers Steve Friesen and tions Librarian at the ASCSA’s Blegen Li- Studies and Department of Classics and by Sarah James plan to publish this third con- brary, on “The Local Magistrates and Elite the Institute for the Study of Antiquity & ference soon. of Roman Corinth”; Corinth Excavation Christian Origins, the conference explored Conference speakers included William Director Guy D. R. Sanders, who examined the stratified nature of social, political, eco- Caraher (University of North Dakota; Car- “Landlords and Tenants: Sharecropping nomic, and religious spheres in the Helle- penter Fellow at the School in 2007–08), Agreements in Greece”; and Ronald Stroud nistic to Late Antique Corinthia, and how who explored “The Ambivalent Landscape (University of California, Berkeley; Mellon the resulting inequalities are reflected in of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Professor of Classical Studies at the School literary texts and material remains. Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late An- in 1996–1999), who spoke about “Variet- This is the third in a series of confer- tique City”; Sarah James (University of ies of Inequality in Corinthian Magic and ences held at the University of Texas dedi- Texas at Austin; 2010–11 Henry S. Robin- Ritual.” e cated to interdisciplinary discussion of the son Fellow), who spoke on “The Last Cor- themes of religion and society in the Hel- inthians? Society and Settlement from 146

18 School Welcomes Class of 2011

The beginning of the 2010–11 academic year brought another group of enthusiastic, engaged students and senior scholars to Athens to pursue their varied areas of research. Listed here are this year’s School Members, along with their research topics and fellowships held.

REGULAR MEMBERS Alex Knodell William Bruce Brown University University of Wisconsin – Madison Evelyn Adkins Iron extraction and the ironworking land- Eugene Vanderpool Fellow scapes of Euboea Industry, community and the sacred: Life Michael Jameson Fellow outside the city walls at Sardis before and Identity politics and social history in Apu- Katie Lamberto after the Persian conquest leius’ Latin novel “The Golden Ass” SUNY – Buffalo Lucy Shoe Meritt Fellow Christian Cloke John Barnes Dionysos in the Second Sophistic University of Cincinnati University of Missouri – Columbia Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson John Williams White Fellow Emilia Oddo Fellow Cultural identity and cultural geography of University of Cincinnati Populating the Nemea Valley landscape: the southeast Aegean from 1200–700 B.C. Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow Contextualizing a Mycenaean institution at Neopalatial pottery from Myrtos-Pyrgos Pylos David Buell SUNY – Buffalo Bice Peruzzi Dallas DeForest James H. and Mary Ottaway, Jr. Fellow University of Cincinnati Ohio State University Settlement patterns and urbanism in the James Rignall Wheeler Fellow Fulbright Fellow, Bronze Age Mediterranean How the populations of Peucetia chose to Honorary Jacob Hirsch Fellow represent themselves through grave good Baths and the culture of bathing in Late Megan Campbell assemblages Antique Greece, 300–700 A.D. University of Toronto Thomas Day Seymour Fellow Amanda Reiterman Lillian Dogiama Social and economic history of Classical and University of Pennsylvania McMaster University Hellenistic Crete University of Pennsylvania Colburn Coulson/Cross Fellow Fellow Lithic material from Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic Jacquelyn Clements Objects with histories in Greek and colonial site in Central Anatolia Johns Hopkins University contexts during the 6th & 5th centuries B.C. Greek sanctuaries and festivals, topography, Emily Egan spolia and the reuse/appropriation of ancient Jeffrey Rop University of Cincinnati materials and sites, and funerary archaeol- Pennsylvania State University Ione Mylonas Shear Fellow ogy and iconography Greek Mercenaries in the 4th-century Nestor’s Megaron: Contextualizing a Myce- Achaemenid Empire naean institution at Pylos Andriy Fomin Rutgers, The State University Emily Stevens Sara Franck Martin Ostwald Fellow Bryn Mawr College University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “Roman History” of Cassius Dio Virginia Grace Fellow Bucolic architecture: Hellenistic pastoral Mediterranean interactions in the rise of temples in the Peloponnese Martin Gallagher Greek civilization Boston University Mark Hammond Town planning and settlement patterns and Debra Trusty University of Missouri – Columbia their connections to larger social trends in Florida State University From sherds to assemblages: A diachronic the Archaic and Early Classical periods Philip Lockhart Fellow view of archaeological assemblages and Pots in the periphery: Ceramic analysis of their economic implications in Late Roman Reema Habib Mycenaean cooking pottery & its implica- Corinth (3rd–7th c. A.D.) Florida State University tions for secondary centers Demography and identity in Hellenistic Jason Harris mortuary populations STUDENT ASSOCIATE MEMBERS University of Southern California Mobility and identity among Greeks in Johanna Hobratschk Natalie Abell Magna Graecia during the late Classical and Johns Hopkins University University of Cincinnati Hellenistic periods Bert Hodge Hill Fellow Rehak Fellow Analysis of ancient ceramics Reconsidering a cultural crossroads: David Hoot Diachronic analysis of island identity and University of Florida Noah Kaye Aegean connectivity in Bronze Age Kea Roman Epidauros University of California at Berkeley Heinrich Schliemann Fellow Attalid administration 188–133 B.C. Continued on next page

19 Class of 2011 continued from previous page Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson Edward Harris Ohio State University Durham University Sarah James Kress Art and Architecture in Antiquity Athenian law University of Texas at Austin Fellow Henry S. Robinson Fellow Perceptions of the past and depictions of the Paul Iversen The Hellenistic pottery from the Panayia present in Athenian monumental art of the Case Western Reserve University Field, Corinth: A typological and historical 5th century Kress Publications Fellow analysis The Greek & Latin inscriptions found on Hüseyin Öztürk Temple Hill, Corinth Styliani Kalle University of Cincinnati Coulson/Cross Fellow Doreen C. Spitzer Fellow Danielle Kellogg Greece and Turkey: Representations of The formation of Mycenaean identities Brooklyn College “Ourselves” and of the “Other” in Greek and NEH Fellow Turkish history school textbooks and con- Jessica Paga Deme and domicile: The movement of popu- struction of national identities (1950–1974) Princeton University lations in Attika Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow Georgios Karatasios Architectural agency and the construction of Nigel Martin Kennell Coulson/Cross Fellow Athenian democracy College Year in Athens University of Athens Greek citizen training Mechanisms and procedures of transforma- Kelcy Sagstetter tion during the Hegemony (1834– University of Pennsylvania Stefanie Kennell 1912) Edward Capps Fellow Independent scholar Documentation and epigraphical analysis Heinrich Schliemann’s papers Ioannis Kolakis of ancient Greek inscriptions via 3-D laser Coulson/Cross Fellow scanning Sonia Klinger Social history of the Greek island of University of Haifa during the late 18th & early 19th century David Scahill Kress Publications Fellow University of Bath The small finds of the Demeter and Kore Christina Kolb The architecture of the South Stoa at Corinth sanctuary at Ancient Corinth University of Cincinnati The Changing Landscapes of Roman Crete Krisztina Szilagyi Theodora Kopestonsky Princeton University Denison University & Columbus State Nitzan Levin M. Alison Frantz Fellow Community College University of Haifa After the prophet’s death: The body of Mu- Analysis & interpretation of the stratigra- Bees, honey and hives: Representation and hammad in Christian-Muslim polemic phy, artifacts, spatial organization, & use meaning in ancient , 7th–4th cen- of a small area of the ancient Greek city of tury B.C. SENIOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Corinth - Kokkinovrysi

Sarah Madole Elizabeth Angelicoussis Elizabeth Langridge-Noti New York University Independent scholar American College of Greece Sarcophagus imagery & the construction of Roman art in private British collections Greek pottery, Laconia identity in Roman Asia Minor Thomas Brogan James Muhly Ismini A. Miliaresis INSTAP East Crete Study Center University of Pennsylvania (emeritus) University of Virginia The production of perfumed oils at Mochlos, Cretan Bronze & Iron Age; Copper and CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellow oil and wine at Papadiokambos and colored bronze metallurgy Heating and fuel consumption in the Forum textiles in Pacheia Ammos. New light on the Baths at Ostia: An interdisciplinary ap- Minoan economy Polymnia Muhly proach Independent scholar Ioanna M. Christoforaki Excavations at Kato Jerolyn Morrison Academy of Athens Leicester University, UK, INSTAP Study Getty Visiting Scholar Exchange (CAORC) Jennifer Palinkas Center, Crete The sacred geography of Medieval Cyprus: University Center for Education Cooking pots and cooking practices Village saints and popular piety Abroad Greek sacred architecture; roads, gates, Ioanna Moutafi Melissa Eaby processions University of Sheffield INSTAP East Crete Study Center Wiener Laboratory J. Lawrence Angel Mortuary variability in Early Iron Age Pasquale Pinto Fellow in Human Skeletal Studies Cretan burials Universita di Bari Bioarchaeological analysis of the human Cotsen Traveling Fellow remains from the Mycenaean cemetery of Katherine Harrell Constantinos Simonides in the Gennadeion Voudeni, Achaea University of Sheffield Jacob Hirsch Fellow Mary Richardson Violence and the making of the Mycenaean Independent scholar social order Greek epigraphy

20 Class of 2011 Solow Fellows continued from previous page continued from page 18 Jan Motyka Sanders Arcadia University Urban development of post-independence from the town of Preveza to the site almost Athens every day for a week, and let me assist in his study while answering many questions Philip Sapirstein for my own research. University of Pennsylvania Unexpected intellectual encounters like ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow these characterized my month at the Amer- The architecture of the Heraion at Mon ican School and were absolutely invalu- Repos, Corfu able. I also had a number of illuminating conversations with philologists about the Paul Scotton literary aspects of my dissertation. Through California State University – Long these conversations I discovered new mate- Beach Kress Publications Fellow rial crucial to my understanding of Greek Julian Basilica at Corinth: An architec- trophies. In particular, I learned about a tural investigation corpus of inscriptions related to ephebic rituals that involved making dedications Seyyed Shariat-Panahi at Persian War trophies in Attica. I never University of Athens would have known about this important Photo: L. Surtees Henry S. Robinson Corinth Research epigraphic material had I not come to the The second theater in . Fellow American School. Economic and demographic history of Even more important was my time at Corinth in the early seventeenth century the Blegen Library, where I discovered and particular Sophia Karapanou, who provid- read an entire new book on the subject of ed some chronological comparanda from Julia Shear neighboring Pharsalos. During this period, Independent scholar Greek trophies: Britta Rabe’s 2008 disser- The Athenians’ memory of the past, their tation, Tropaia: Entstehung, Funktion und I sorted all the subject pottery, completed identity, and ritual Bedeutung des griechischen Tropaions. I had descriptions and drawings of the diagnostic no idea this study existed until I saw it wares, and started a macroscopic analysis of Kathleen Slane sitting on the new acquisitions shelf at the the fabrics and identified diagnostic wares University of Missouri – Columbia Blegen. I also took the opportunity in the in terms of dating, shapes, and fabrics. This NEH Fellow library to read other material on Greek and analysis has led to preliminary conclusions A slice through time: Tombs along the Roman trophies, and to do some serious regarding the chronology and spatial dis- north terrace of Corinth writing and revising of the Greek portion tribution of vessel types and fabrics across of my dissertation. the site. Anne Stewart The fieldwork that I conducted over Independent scholar — Lauren M. Kinnee the 2009–10 academic year allowed me to Sculpture and religion Institute of Fine Arts, New York University advance my dissertation research and gain Sharon Stocker a more tangible understanding of the re- University of Cincinnati ddd gion of . The opportunity to study the Kastro Kallithea survey material in its Mallakastra Regional Archaeological I thank the American School of Classical entirety and look at local museum col- Project (Albania); Blegen’s unpublished Studies and the Solow Art and Architec- work at Pylos lections, particularly the Halos apotheke, ture Foundation for the financial support has enabled me to contextualize the late- without which I would not have been able Georgia Tsartsidou fourth-century Hellenistic city of Kastro to conduct my field research in Thessaly, Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology & Kallithea. My travels around Thessaly have Greece. My research consisted of two parts: Speleology of Southern Greece improved my understanding of the com- 1) the study of the archaeological material Wiener Laboratory Fellow in plexities of the landscape and topography, Environmental Studies from the survey at Kastro Kallithea, and 2) which played a significant role in the de- Flora exploitation and subsistence prac- travel to archaeological sites and museums velopment of Thessalian cities. tices by the palaeolithic and mesolithic in Thessaly. occupants of Theopetra Cave in Thes- In October 2009, I spent four weeks in — Laura Surtees saly, Greece: The evidence from phytolith Larissa studying the Kastro Kallithea sur- Bryn Mawr College analysis vey pottery. I am grateful to the 15th Epho- rate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities E. Loeta Tyree Independent scholar in Larissa for providing me access to the The Skoteino cave survey material and a large work space for sorting through the pottery. I was also for- tunate to have benefited from comments and suggestions on the material by the ar- chaeologists working in the Ephoreia—in

21 NEH Fellows continued from page 14 portunities offered by the School, especially At no place other than the American and a “labor culture” in a city where aristo- the serendipities of meeting new scholars School could I have conducted research and cratic values continued to dominate. and reconnecting with old. writing as efficiently as I did this spring. There is much material for the study of My primary project as NEH Fellow was My research crosses boundaries from texts labor and laborers in Classical and early a collaborative one: Peter Schultz (Concor- to artifacts, from epigraphy to papyrology, Hellenistic Athens. From funerary monu- dia College, Moorhead, MN), Chrysanthos from religion to medicine to music. All of ments, inscriptions, vase-painting, ar- Kanellopoulos (University of Athens), and these interests are accommodated by the chaeological evidence for workshops, and I have been restudying the tholos in the extensive holdings of the Blegen Library. historical narratives to poetry, , and sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros and While the Blegen is better known for its philosophical discussions, labor appears propose that one of its functions was a lo- holdings in archaeology, it is outstanding as a fundamental aspect of life that shaped cus of musical performance. We are arguing also in philology. The School lives up to various social relations and community that paeans were performed in the cella of its founding mission as an institution of organization. Despite the frequently tout- the tholos (called a thymele in the build- classical studies—of philology as well as ed denigration of banausic labor in such ing accounts, a term having longstanding archaeology, and I am most grateful to the sources as Plato and Xenophon, other evi- associations with song and dance), and NEH and to ASCSA for valuing and sup- dence contradicts this commonly repeated that its enigmatic labyrinthine substruc- porting my work that encompasses areas sentiment with the self-professed pride and ture functioned as an acoustic chamber beyond the strictly archaeological. recognized skills of laborers. At times, the designed to help broadcast these hymns, combined imagery of physical strength, la- — Bronwen L. Wickkiser performed to the quiet sound of a , bor, and family on reliefs emphasizes the Vanderbilt University across the sanctuary. My own contribu- value placed on the worker’s industry and tion to the project focuses on hymns from ddd stands in stark contrast to the critical, often sanctuaries of Asklepios and Apollo, par- racialized, views of laborers and labor. Labor, it seems, is no longer a force to be ticularly the paeans, and on the profound Whereas labor could at times be my- reckoned with. Whereas even the specter connections between healing and music in thologized or feminized—thus “mystified” of labor previously had been blamed for . The latter was a surprise to a certain extent—there is also a variable nearly all financial problems under capital- to me: until embarking on this project, I but increasing degree of banausic realism ism—regardless of the actual causes—and had not been aware of the tradition that in the representation of labor. In addition thus the pretext for austerity measures, Pythagoras, for instance, used paeans and to shared working practices, the iconogra- in the wake of another financial crisis in other music to heal afflictions of the body phy and find-spots of reliefs representing 2009 nowhere was the power of labor or and soul, including emotional excesses citizens, metics, and occasionally slaves as their unions mentioned as a contributing such as passion and anger. It would make laborers suggest that despite fundamen- factor. However, we did hear a lot about sense for Asklepios to have done the same, tal social and political barriers the role of greed, national stereotypes (viz. the acro- especially given the large role that music people qua workers was connected with nym “PIGS”), and lack of fiscal oversight, played in Asklepieia: witness not only the broader ideas about community beyond among other things, as contributing fac- presence of theaters and odeia in his sanc- official membership in the polis. At the tors. Labor is perhaps losing its hold even tuaries but also the tradition of inscribed same time, citizen workers posed a threat on the imaginations of those in the West. It hymns at Epidauros (the historian of reli- to traditional ideas about the participation is partly the result of our own modern con- gion Jan Bremer has characterized one such of banausoi in politics. Extension of politi- ceptions of labor and what is perceived to inscription as a breviary on stone for daily cal rights and state pay to citizen craftsmen, be its increasing marginality that in recent worship). The use of music to heal both among other workers, and the complaints studies of ancient Athens the historical role body and soul puts into fresh perspective by more conservative-minded writers about of laborers typically has been ignored. Re- other aspects of the thymele, such as the the perceived radical “democratic” bias of claiming this history constituted the bulk paintings of Eros and Methe—Desire and urban laborers provide additional traces for of my research during an NEH Fellowship Drunkenness, a strong emotion and one of the development of the identity of workers in Fall 2009. its catalysts—that adorned the interior of the as political agents. My project, “Athens at Work,” is an in- building (Eros, by the way, is setting aside Collecting the scattered evidence for terdisciplinary study that analyzes the rep- his bow and arrows to play the lyre, a detail such traces and fragmentary remains of resentation of labor and laborers in Athens that points again to musical performance). workers is itself no easy task. With its from ca. 500–300 B.C. While agriculture was Our research taps into a fast-growing sub- unrivaled collections in archaeological, one of the most important areas of produc- field of archaeology known as archaeoacous- epigraphic, historical, and literary materi- tion in the ancient world, the importance of tics that includes prehistoric structures such als, the American School provided an ideal the role of urban labor among both the citi- as Stonehenge, the Peruvian sanctuary of place to work on my project, for which zenry and the metic population has not been Chavín de Huántar, medieval cathedrals, there remains much still to do. I thank the a common topic. Unlike a number of stud- and even the acoustically renowned theater NEH, the School, and my colleagues there ies, which have concluded that there was no at Epidauros, designed by the same archi- for their support and for this invaluable separate workers’ culture or no alternative tect who built the thymele (Polykleitos the research opportunity. to culture defined by the democratization of Younger), but very little attention has been aristocratic values, my project explores the paid to the thymele in this regard. — David Kawalko Roselli possible emergence of a workers’ identity Scripps College

22 Archives News

Philhellenism and Philanthropy are ed to archaeologist Eugene Vanderpool and identical in all generous minds his wife Joan, who, in Marousi, provided free lunches for homeless children during —James Cook Richmond, 1831 the Second World War. Workshop organizers Jack L. Davis and On May 18, 2010 the Archives of the Amer- Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan invited sixteen ican School hosted a one-day workshop Greek and foreign speakers to discuss the entitled “, Philanthropy, or philanthropic activities of American ar- Political Convenience? American Archaeol- chaeologists in Greece, through the Red ogy in Greece,” exploring the social work Cross, in relationship to the special con- of American archaeologists in Greece. cession that the American School obtained Although, as a non-governmental orga- from the Greek government to excavate nization, the School has been ostensibly the ancient Agora in the late 1920s; the politically neutral, the study of its institu- reasons that led American philanthropic tional records shows that its members have foundations, like the Carnegie Corpora- periodically exercised influence in Greek tion, to fund the work of the ASCSA in affairs. Through their work at the Red Greece; the involvement of American ar- Cross, the Refugee Settlement Committee, chaeologists in the establishment of Athens and other welfare programs, the American College; the participation of some members archaeologists greatly facilitated the devel- of the School in the Office of Strategic Ser- opment of Greece’s social infrastructure vices during WWII; and the ambitious and in times difficult for the Greek state (Bal- expensive restoration of the Stoa of Attalos kan Wars, Asia Minor Destruction, post- during Greece’s post-WWII rehabilitation. WWII rehabilitation). Their actions, which The papers of the Philhellenism workshop reflected deep-seated philhellenic and phil- will be published in Hesperia, as a separate anthropic beliefs, also made it feasible to issue. advance archaeological and other research programs that would otherwise not have — Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan been possible. The workshop was dedicat- Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist Poster from the Philhellenism workshop.

New Paths Regular Member Trips continued from page 11 continued from page 7

I met with Maria Lagogianni, the direc- topic. Once again this year the group was protogeometric tholoi, in addition to the tor of the Epigraphical Museum, who is privileged to be guided through the Ale- Temple of Ennodia. In Boeotia, the group enthusiastic about this approach and has potrypes Cave in the Mani and its associ- was privileged to hear Assistant Director given me permission to study the stone ated museum by one of the grandfathers Robert Pitt (of the British School) on the and experiment with imaging techniques. of Greek archaeology, the incomparable Temple of Zeus and its building contracts, Additionally, I contacted representatives George Papathanassopoulos. New to the after traversing much of the gorge below, of both Leica and Faro Technologies about 2010 itinerary was a visit to the newly in- where the Oracle of Trophonios might have coming to Athens to test their scanners on augurated Frankish Museum in the Castle been located. At Gla, the whole set of foun- Drakon’s Law itself, to make certain that I of . dations on the was once again vis- have the proper machine to produce the Focusing on Central Greece, Trip III ible, thanks to extensive weeding and clear- types of images that I need. included an always noteworthy visit to ing of underbrush. Clearing and cleaning In short, my year at the American School Meteora, where the unusual geology and has also been done in the Valley of Muses, has been invaluable in my development as topography of the area always has a tremen- in the area of the altar, so that participants a scholar because of the contacts I made dous impact on students, and a stop at the on this year’s trip found a site now much and the people I met, and the academic and new museum in , where the chief more intelligible than in previous years, travel opportunities I had. It has impressed object of interest (among many very inter- although still amazingly peaceful. upon me the importance of working in this esting finds) was the bronze statue from the Each year’s Fall Term trips are unique sort of academic community, and I very Sanctuary of Apollo at Metropolis: was it a experiences designed to take advantage of much look forward to spending a second cult statue, or could it be a votive offering? the strengths of available School faculty year in Athens. e The group was able to see the temple site it- and to focus on current archaeological self, now protected by a roof, and rich with work. Detailed descriptions of this year’s unusual Doric capitals. Travels in Thessaly trips from the trip leaders themselves can included Velestino, where students were be found on the ASCSA website. e able to visit one of the recently excavated

23 the largest bodies of extant sculptural poly- Wiener Lab Reports chromy from Roman Greece. Their study is part of my dissertation on the coloration of Roman marble statuary at the Institute Roman Sculptural of Fine Arts, New York University. This re- Polychromy at Corinth search aims to characterize the techniques and materials used in this little-acknowl- Mark Abbe edged tradition of polychrome coloration New York University and to historically contextualize the use of ASCSA Associate Member, such color on Roman statuary at ancient Wiener Laboratory Travel Grant, 2010 Corinth. A primary objective in studying the Extensive work in the storerooms of the Corinth material is to properly situate Corinth Museum has identified numerous the polychromy of Roman sculpture in its vestiges of ancient painting and gilding richly resonant ancient display context. on the Roman marble statues excavated at New methods of examination and materials Wiener Lab Director Sherry Fox, Tatiana Corinth by the American School of Classi- characterization, largely developed in the Theodoropoulou (holding a fish skeleton), cal Studies. Thanks to a Wiener Laboratory fields of art conservation and conservation and Vangelio Kiriatzi, Director of the Travel Grant, in February and March I con- science, can be incorporated into archaeo- Fitch Laboratory, at the Fitch Lab in May. tinued my study of the extant polychromy logical field research with great profit. Ma- on Roman marble statuary from the site. terials analysis does more than simply tell The marble sculpture at Corinth is remark- us what pigments and methods were used past and can be used for paleoenvironmen- able for the range of sculptural types, their on statuary; it provides crucial insights tal reconstruction of aquatic environments rich archaeological context, and their often into the decisions of ancient artisans and exploited by people who inhabited an area, exceptional preservation. frequently sheds light on how varied were to determine the season in which a site was This research combines detailed archae- the original appearances of the frequently occupied, and to offer information on tech- ological study, microscopic examination, replicated subjects of Roman statuary. nological capabilities and fishing gear even various imaging techniques, and materials Closely studying technique encourag- in the absence of relevant material remains analysis using portable x-ray fluorescence es us to look at sculpture in new ways. It from a site. The study of fish bones offers spectrometry to recover the evidence for has, for example, long been noted that the insight into the importance of fish in the the rich applied polychromy of these sculp- Roman marble sculpture displays a well- diet, trade and exchange, social life and tures. Remains of ancient coloration have defined range of sculpting methods with religion, and rituals and symbolism. been identified on more than one hundred distinctive tool use and frequently exquisite Fish bones are among the most difficult inventoried marble statue fragments, in- surface finishes. In antiquity, however, such archaeofaunal remains to identify due to cluding acrolithic cult images, civic por- techniques were not merely visual ends in the increased diversity of species and to traits, and “ideal” figures of cultural and and of themselves, as in our more recent the elevated number of bones, not all of mythological heroes. post-antique tradition of essentially mono- which identifiable. The identification is Together, the material constitutes one of chrome marble sculpture. We should see usually carried out by directly comparing such marble working not as simple, trans- the morphology of the bones with the mod- parent reflections of ancient quality, style, ern fish skeletons of known species and size or date but as specific and deliberate prepa- in a reference collection. The completeness rations for different types of polychrome of the collection determines the accuracy applications. and refinement of the identification; thus, ddd an adequate comparative collection is of paramount importance. A Fishy Tale: Setting Up a The Wiener Laboratory of the ASCSA is the only institution in Greece hosting a Freshwater Fish Bone fish bone reference collection for Aegean Reference Collection marine species. The collection, set up by Dr. W. Klippel (University of Tennessee), Tatiana Theodoropoulou contains bones of diagnostic anatomical Université de Paris I; Panthéon Sorbonne Wiener Laboratory Fellow in Faunal elements from marine fish taxa commonly Studies, 2009–10 found in archaeological sites in Greece and circum-Aegean regions. An important com- ponent of my work at the Lab as 2009–10 Archaeoichthyology—the analysis of fish Faunal Fellow was the preparation of fresh- Mark Abbe examines an acrolithic head bones from archaeological contexts—is water fish specimens to expand the exist- of Sarapis from the South Stoa (S-2387) one of the most recent research directions ing marine fish collection. This project was with a microscope in the Corinth Mu- of zooarchaeology. Fish remains support a closely linked to my main research project, seum storerooms. rich research agenda: they provide evidence which pertained to the study of fishing ac- for the presence and diversity of fish in the tivities in the Dispilio lakeside Neolithic

24 Wiener Lab Reports Wiener Laboratory News continued from previous page settlement in region through the As a next step in planning for the con- analysis of fish remains. struction of a new facility for the Wiener To obtain adequate specimens, I con- Laboratory, an external review was un- tacted local fishermen from Lake Kasto- dertaken by the ASCSA Managing Com- ria, who not only provided specimens from mittee. The exercise included a self-study various lake species but also shared pas- to analyze what goes on in the lab, the sionate stories about legendary catches of amount and type of space needed, and giant catfish in the lake! The freshwater the mission of the Wiener Laboratory specimens were then carefully identified to going forward. The external review took the lowest taxonomic level possible. Spe- place at the lab on April 26–27 and was cies identified were common carp, catfish, conducted by three reviewers: Melinda roach, tench, European chub, rudd, crucian Zeder (Smithsonian Institution), who carp, perch, and pike. In a second step, I chaired the review committee; Martin decided to focus on the most common fish Jones (University of Cambridge); and found in the archaeological material, the Michael Galaty (Milsaps College). common carp, and build up a full specimen ddd series of this species. Multiple specimens The Wiener Laboratory continued its of different age/size and caught at different mission to promote science-based ar- seasons allowed for a reconstruction of the chaeology through its successful col- original size of fish found in a site (based laboration with the Fitch Laboratory of on bone length/fish standard length ratio) A number of scholars with ties to the the British School at Athens, with whom and the time of year fish were caught (based Wiener Laboratory were in attendance the Wiener Lab co-sponsored a number on analysis of growth annuli). These data at the International Congress on of lectures during 2009–10. Among these are of crucial importance to the evaluation Archaeological Sciences of the Eastern were lectures on tephrochronology, Ne- Mediterranean and the Near East, held of scheduling of fishing activities, season- andertal dietary habits, climate change in in Paphos, Cyprus from April 29 to May al management of food resources, fishing the eastern Mediterranean, and Bronze 1. Conference participants included methods employed, the contribution of fish Age metallurgy. Wrapping up the Fitch- (left to right): Evi Margaritis (2006–07 to the diet, and the impact of long-term Environmental Studies Fellow), Tatiana Wiener Lecture Series last year was a talk fishing on natural fish populations. Theodoropoulou (2009–10 Faunal by 2009–10 Wiener Laboratory Faunal Now catalogued and stored in the Wie- Fellow), Wiener Laboratory Director Fellow Tatiana Theodoropoulou (Uni- ner Laboratory, where it is available for Sherry Fox (Angel Fellow), Anastasia versity of Paris I-Sorbonne), who spoke Papathanasiou (former Angel Fellow scholarly use, the freshwater fish bone ref- on “Fishbones in the lake: reconstruct- with the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology erence collection supports more accurate ing fishing activities and daily life in the and Speleology of Southern Greece), assessments of fishing activities in the past Sireen El Zaatari (2009–10 Angel prehistoric lake settlement of Dispilio, and a more comprehensive appreciation of Fellow), Frossini Vika (former Research Kastoria (N. Greece).” (See related story the role of fish in prehistoric and historical Associate), and Katerina Papayianni on previous page.) circum-Aegean civilizations. e (2007–08 Faunal Fellow and 2008–09 — Sherry Fox Doreen C. Spitzer Fellow). Director, Wiener Laboratory

ERRATUM The caption to the photograph appear- Managing Committee ing on page 15 of the Spring 2010 issue continued from page 7 of ákoue (No. 62), accompanying an article about a donation of photos of Subsequent to the May meeting, the has been revising the Mission/Vision/Phi- the Mycenae excavation to the School Managing Committee’s Committee on losophy Statement of the School and the Archives, incorrectly identified a mem- Publications successfully concluded its Regulations to make them compatible with ber of the Mycenae excavation team search for a new Director of Publications. current practices at the School. In addition, as architect Alexandros Tombazis. In The appointment of new Publications Di- a new standing Committee on Information actuality, the man seated to the left of rector Andrew Reinhard was endorsed by Technology has been created in recognition excavation co-director George Mylonas the Managing Committee and approved by of the importance of IT in all aspects of the is photographer Nikolaos Tombazis, institutional vote during the summer. School’s operations. e whose son Alexandros would later be- One of the major initiatives of the come one of the architects responsible Managing Committee over the past year for the New Acropolis Museum. We regret the error.

25 of “Philip’s tomb” at Vergina, no archaeo- In Memoriam logical find has incited the spirit in Greece in the last 30 years as that of the excavation at Anemospilia in 1979, which produced a MABEL LOUISE LANG number of skeletons belonging to humans 1917–2010 who had been crushed as the result of an earthquake, at the very moment that they were to sacrifice a young man. The excava- Venerable archaeologist and prolific scholar tions at Zominthos—his most important Mabel Louise Lang died at home in Bryn find—have brought to light a site as impres- Mawr, Pennsylvania on July 21, 2010 at the sive as Knossos, with a palatial building of age of 92. Miss Lang, as she was known to more than 1,300 m2 surrounded by a town, many, was Katharine E. McBride Professor at a height of 1,200 m. He first dug there in Emeritus and Paul Shorey Professor Emeri- the early 1990s and resumed work at the tus of Greek at Bryn Mawr College, whose site in 2005, with the excitement of a nov- faculty she joined in 1943. Over the course ice but also with the digging experience of of her lengthy career, she was a major con- 40 years. At the time of his death he and his tributor to the academic and institutional wife were working to transform Zominthos development of the ASCSA. into an archaeological park with systematic Mabel Lang earned her A.B. from Cor- plantings. nell (1939) and her M.A. (1940) and Ph.D. Unlike most excavators who share their (1943) from Bryn Mawr College, and won results only with the academic community, the ASCSA’s Seymour Fellowship in 1941– Yannis Sakellarakis was a gifted storyteller 42 (although her School Membership Mabel Lang who also reached out to the wider public was delayed by the war until 1947–48). with several books. In “Tasting a Prehis- She returned to Athens numerous times toric Olive,” Mr. Sakellarakis talks about throughout her academic career, includ- growing School through difficult financial his experience as a young archaeologist at ing twice more as a School Member (in waters with a wisdom and foresight that is Zakros in 1963 descending into a muddy 1953–54 and 1959–60). In 1954 she co- widely credited with providing the sound ancient well and coming up with a Mino- wrote (with C.W.J. Eliot) the first edition fiscal footing on which the School began an conical cup full of fleshy olives from of the Athenian Agora Guidebook, the first its second century. the Late Minoan I period. For his book of many School-related publications span- “Archaeological Agonies in Crete in the ning the fields of history, epigraphy, and late 19th c.,” he collected and published archaeology. In the School’s ever-expanding YANNIS SAKELLARAKIS original documents from 1883 to 1898 program of publication of material from 1936–2010 concerning the first archaeological explo- the Athenian Agora Excavations, Miss Lang rations at Gortyn, Knossos, Aptera, and the was assigned publication of Graffiti and Idean Cave. The unique documentary film Dipinti (Agora XXI, 1976), small weights Renowned archaeologist and excavator “Myths of the Idaion Cave” records his ex- and measures (published as M. Lang and Yannis Sakellarakis died on October 28, cavations on Mount Ida and took over 15 M. Crosby, Weights, Measures, and Tokens 2010, at the age of 74. A major figure years to be completed. Mr. Sakellarakis also [Agora X, 1964]), and Ostraka (Agora XXV, among archaeologists in Greece, he was a shared, through his writings and actions, 1990), and was also a contributor to The close friend and colleague of many at the his strong and principled stance against the Lawcourts at Athens: Sites, Buildings, Equip- American School. smuggling of antiquities. ment, Procedure, and Testimonia (Agora XX- Born in 1936, Mr. Sakellarakis studied VIII, 1995). Author of five Agora picture archaeology at the University of Athens and — Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan books, she also wrote numerous Hesperia at Heidelberg University. He began his pro- articles as well as Cure and Cult in Ancient fessional career in the Greek Archaeological Corinth (Corinth Notes 1, 1977). Elsewhere, Service before becoming the Deputy Di- Miss Lang participated in excavations at rector of the National Archaeological Mu- Gordion (Turkey) and the Palace of Nestor seum. He moved into the Greek university at Pylos (Greece) that led to numerous pub- system with his appointment as Professor lications, including contributions to the of Archaeology at the University of Athens. deciphering of the Linear B inscriptions However, his fame and relevance in his field from Pylos. goes beyond his academic titles and pub- An emerita member of the ASCSA Man- lications. To the lay audience he and his aging Committee from 1988 until her death, wife Efie Sapouna-Sakellaraki are known as Miss Lang joined the Managing Committee the excavators of landmark sites on Crete: as a representative of Bryn Mawr College Archanes, the Idaean Cave, and above all in 1950. She chaired the Committee on Zominthos. For the specialist the chrono- Admissions and Fellowships from 1966 to logical sequence of rich burials from EM Yannis Sakellarakis at left with School 1972, and served as Chair of the Managing II to LM III at Archanes is unmatched in Trustee Hunter Lewis in 1992. Committee from 1975 to 1980, guiding the Crete. With the exception of the discovery

26 Spitzer continued from page 2 went into “current history as the Acropolis that gave some their first introduction to marked her presidency of the Board and of parties;” rode mostly by mule from An- her beloved Greece, and others a chance to chairmanship of the Friends of the School, dritsaina to Olympia; ate bean soup, “one celebrate their homeland. or her other visits to Greece. Over the years, of the best dishes in all Greek culinary art, Doreen used her knowledge of Greek she took her four children and 10 of her or perhaps I should say science;” played the art and archaeology when she volunteered grandchildren, one at a time, to Greece, “Poet and Peasant Overture” and “warmed as a docent in the Princeton University Art worrying occasionally that they were not over…Clementi Sonatinas” on the piano at Museum. When the University began dig- connecting to the country the way she the Hotel Kondos in Nafplion; went to Epi- ging the foundations for Firestone Library did, in the firm belief everyone should. daurus “to make some sense out of the ru- on the corner of Nassau and Washington She always had with her a small library ins;” and “had lunch using the fallen blocks Streets, she led a “rescue excavation” to as- of Great Books appropriate to the journey, of the Theatre for tables”…”I can’t decide sess what lay beneath. Passionate about the including, of course, classical Greek drama; which is better: Cretan grapes, Argive mel- natural environment, she was also a sup- during sedentary moments, she would mo- ons, or Mycenaean oranges.” In Athens, the porter of the Princeton Watershed Associa- bilize fellow voyagers in readings of poetry Acropolis at night was “especially wonder- tion. In addition, Doreen worked tirelessly and plays. ful…it makes you think not only about the for Bryn Mawr College as a trustee, and In her many years of involvement with place itself but more about perfectly ex- helped to establish the now-famous Bryn the American School as a Trustee beginning traneous things, and you can always think Mawr Book Sale in Princeton to raise mon- in 1978, Doreen believed that the School very clearly and succinctly.” Then, there ey for scholarships. She actively recruited needed to develop its public face, not only were concerts by the National Symphony for the College, as well. If she detected the to raise money but to convey to a broad au- conducted by Dimitris Mitropoulos; plays slightest inclination, she would direct a dience beyond the world of classicists the at the Herodian; and enough teas, parties, young woman to “the only place for you, riches of Greek civilization. She promoted and dinners for her to conclude that Athens dearie”— the College’s fabled Department the development of the School Newsletter was “the most cosmopolitan atmosphere of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. and the Friends, with lectures and con- I’ve ever lived in.” A brilliant prose stylist and sometime ferences in the U.S. and trips to Greece; Doreen went on to excavate in Ancient poet whose prose often read like poetry, was the guiding light behind the School’s Corinth in the spring of 1937, an “incen- Doreen, as writer and editor, would worry multifaceted “Democracy 2000” celebra- tive for learning Greek quickly,” in order to a sentence until it expressed her precise tion in 1994; and enthusiastically encour- learn “all the different sides of conducting thought. “If I ever wax eloquent enough aged other exhibitions of School material an excavation.” With fellow students from to write The Book it will be just one great in the U.S. in the 1990s. Ever appreciating the School, she also traveled to and long enthusiasm over Greece, modified by the importance of detail in making sense Turkey, and ever-energetic and competitive, my rapidly maturing judgment and ever- of life and history, and prompted by her swam the Hellespont. Back in Greece and broadening ‘point of view’,” she wrote as a own growing accumulation of papers, she Corinth until 1939, she corresponds with 21-year-old. She may not have written The furthered in every way the development of a young instructor at Yale and old family Book she once imagined, but Doreen wrote the School’s Archives from its beginnings friend, Lyman Spitzer, who, sharing a simi- By One and One, about her parents; and in in the late 1980s, encouraging its profes- lar puckish humor, writes her from New the last years of her life, after the devastat- sionalization, helping to raise money, and, Haven posing as “head of the expedition ing loss of her life’s companion, Lyman, in as her last major gift to the School, giving now engaged in excavating the little known 1997, As Long as You Both Shall Live, about a challenge grant for its endowment. Roman colony of Novum Havenum.” In their 57-year marriage. Most important, Doreen was aware of 1940, she and Lyman are married; in 1948, Doreen’s enthusiasm for people, wheth- generations to come. Her largest single gift they move their growing family to Prince­ er family, friends, or acquaintances, may to the School, made in the mid-1990s, en- ton, where they live the rest of their lives, have kept her from that solitude neces- dowed multiple fellowships, two of which he as Professor of Astronomy at Princeton sary to write more—more, that is, than the were named after women she admired and University, she raising their four children thousands of letters and notes she show- loved: Lucy Shoe Meritt and Virginia Grace. and devoting herself to a wide variety of ered on everyone she knew. She loved being Doreen’s own name is memorialized in a volunteer activities. with people, hearing their stories, telling School Fellowship, and in the named posi- Greece was never far from her mind. her own, and had an extraordinary ability tion of head of the Archives. Early in World War II, Doreen as well as not only to connect to people instantly but Doreen is survived by four children, her mother helped raise funds for the Greek to remember their names and their tales Nicholas, Dionis, Sarah, and Lydia; 13 War Relief Association, which sent money even years later. During her travels, she grandchildren; and four great-grandchil- and supplies to the beleaguered country. would send off a steady stream of postcards dren; and many friends whose lives would After the war, she watched her father’s deep crammed with her small, precise, “archae- have been much the poorer without her. involvement as President of the School ological” handwriting relating news she Αιώνια είναι η μνήμη σου. Board in the renaissance of the Agora Ex- knew was appropriate to that one person. cavations and construction of the Stoa of Well into her 80s, her physical energy — Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool Attalos. In Princeton itself, she instituted continued to be boundless and her appe- an annual celebration of Greek Indepen- tite for “one more acropolis” never flagged, dence Day, 39 successive years of festivities whether during the “On-Site” trips that

27 cal Service) and Anastasiacal Service) Panagiotopoulou gion ofArcadia for theGreek Archaeologi ect, MichalisPetropoulos (Ephorofthere Mt. Lykaion Proj ExcavationandSurvey with theirscientificcollaborators forthe versity ofArizona)were honored along Anthropology) and Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and David GilmanRomano(University of Arcadia, ManagingCommitteeMembers of the Politistikos Syllogos of Ano Karyes, On the occasion of the 80th anniversary Watch formore details! and alsotoourpresence onFacebook. alumni section of the ASCSA website endar ofeventshasbeenpostedtothe June 3–12, 2011 with niversary The School willcelebrate its 130than News & Notes 9 SAVE THEDATE! kai ta loipa Address ServiceRequested Address Princeton,NJ08540–5232 6–8 CharltonStreet, CLASSICAL STUDIESAT ATHENS THE AMERICANSCHOOLOF AlumniWeek . Apreliminary cal Mary Voyatzis in Athens inAthens (Uni ------and theAcademyinAnoKaryes. Museum of the Modern Lykaion Games and forassistingwiththecreation ofthe proposal foraParrhasian HeritagePark, the siteofMt.Lykaion, foradvancinga tage oftheregion, fortheirexcavationsat for theircontributionstotheculturalheri Old ParliamentBuilding,theywere cited Smith. AttheJune6ceremony inAthens’ Nicholas Karabotsand Annette Merle- major donorstotheproject, Athenaand of thePeloponnesosinTripolis) andthe (Director of the Archaeological Institute the Schoolata meetingoftheU.S.State Committee, representedtion andSurvey ber In October, Managing CommitteeMem influential youngleadersof Greece. tion aboutASCSAwith many of the most this awonderful occasiontoshare informa presidents andtheirfamilies—andfound to thePalaceofNestorfor35company Pylos inSeptember. JackandShari ledtours held atthenewCostaNavarinoresort in tion’s openingevent,“Creating Bridges,” ron Stockerparticipated intheorganiza- School Director JackDavis Organization: AegeanMacedoniaChapter, At theinvitationofYoung Presidents ments asateacherandscholar. in Teaching, inrecognition ofhisachieve McTurnan-Arnold Award forExcellence college’s topteaching award, theMcLain- lege, was honored as the 2010 winner of the Day, Professor ofClassicsatWabash Col Managing CommitteeMember James C.Wright ddd ddd ddd , Chair of the Excava andwife Joseph Sha------co-chairs ofthe event. McCabe andhiswifeDinawere honorary lenism. ASCSABoard President the awardee’s passionate advocacyofHel Phidippides Award, whichacknowledges presented withtheorganization’s annual in NewYork CityinOctober. Mr. Campwas Public InformationSystem,atagaladinner oftheGreekservice AmericanEducational Radio –COSMOS FM, the flagship radio Camp IIwashonored byHellenicPublic Agora ExcavationsDirector of theAmericanResearch CenterinSofia. where heistherecently appointedDirector 2008 to2010,departed AthensforBulgaria, Faculty FellowinClassicalStudiesfrom C. DenverGraninger and toGreek society. the contributionshehasmadetohisfield were onhandto TrusteeLibrary Emeritus. Several scholars hellene was heldtohonornotedauthorandphil- A JuneeventatAthens’BenakiMuseum Greece’s culturalpatrimony. port oftherequest, whichseekstoprotect Committee, alsoprepared aletterinsup and Greece. TheSchool,viatheManaging the trade in antiquities between the U.S. Hellenic Republicgoverningregulation of derstanding) from theGovernmentof lateral agreement (MemorandumofUn The meetingconcernedarequest forabi Committee (CPAC) inWashington, D.C. Department’s CulturalProperty Advisory Edmund L.Keeley talk abouthisworkand ddd ddd ddd , RhysCarpenter Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit Permit No.185 Permit U.S. POSTAGE Princeton, NJ , Gennadius John McK. PAID Robert - - - -