N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E A M E R I C A N S C H O O L O F C L A S S I C A L S T U D I E S AT AT H E N S ákoueákoueFall 2006, No. 56 Photo of artwork: Craig Mauzy The works of Piet de Jong are on display at the Benaki Museum Annexe. Above, watercolor depicting the ground floor of the Stoa of Attalos before its reconstruction. See story on page 2. IN THIS ISSUE: School Receives Grants Totaling $1.2 Million 2 Davis New School Director in 2007 3 Romano Appointed Administrative Director 3 Bridges Joins Board 4 Anniversary Events 5 Student Reports 5 “Stargazer” on Loan 6 New Kiln in Corinth 7 Summer Sessions 9 Excavations at Mt. Lykaion 11 NEH Fellows Report 13 Changing Burial Practices 15 Kress Fellows Report 19 ID’ing Cut- ters 19 Solow Fellows 20 Color in Greek Painting 25 Wiener Lab: Archaeobotanical Remains 26 INSERT: Gennadeion’s New Acquisitions G1 Pausanias Exhibition G1 New Librarian Joins Staff G2 Lecture Series G3 Mozart Concert G3 War and Identities Symposium G4 ASCSA Receives $1.2 Million for “Digital Initiatives” Director of Publications Charles Watkinson, co-leader (along with Blegen Librarian Chuck Jones) of the Information Resources Workgroup created to help define the School’s technology vision, reports on two major grants that will assist the School in developing its electronic resources. On June 16, 2006, the Andrew W. Mellon John Gennadius’s scrapbooks (which con- Foundation announced an award of almost tain thousands of images, newspaper cut- $300,000 to fund the first phase of creating tings, and other materials related to early- ákoue! a digital library, to redesign the School’s twentieth-century Greek history); over website, and to develop staff skills in the 4,000 letters and photographs from the management of digital resources. One Dragoumis family collection; and several week later, ASCSA General Manager Pan- thousand photographs from the School telis Panos received notice of a €700,000 archives, including pictures taken by grant made through the Greek Ministry Dorothy Burr Thompson during her travels of Culture under the Information Society in Greece and the Near East. program of the European Union. The EU The implementation of the plans set out award, the result of a collaborative pro- in the two grant proposals will take over posal spearheaded by Mr. Panos, is aimed a year, although some results will be vis- at the scanning, cataloguing, and online ible sooner. The redesign of the website, delivery of a range of materials from the for example, is already underway. After Corinth excavations, the Gennadeion, the discussions with other higher education Blegen Library, and the School Archives. institutions, the School has contracted Included are over 150,000 photographs with the web consultancy firm MStoner, from the Corinth excavations (includ- and Michael Stoner (the founder) and ing nineteenth-century glass negatives); his colleague Patrick DiMichele visited over 200,000 excavation notebook pages both Athens and Princeton in September (starting from the first records of 1896); continued on page 10 AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS Piet de Jong Exhibition Opens at Benaki 54 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 A collaborative exhibition of the works of ákoue, the newsletter of the ASCSA Piet de Jong, organized by the Agora Exca- Fall 2006 No. 56 vations and the Benaki Museum, opened at the Benaki’s new exhibition hall on Pireos Executive Editor Irene Bald Romano Street on November 13. Entitled The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Editor Agora, the exhibition brings together ap- Sally Fay proximately 150 watercolors and ink draw- Liaisons in Athens ings by de Jong (1887–1967), one of the John Oakley & June Allison most important archaeological illustrators Design & Production of the twentieth century, with many of the Mary Jane Gavenda objects that he illustrated or that inspired ákoue is published semiannually by the him, drawing on the collection of antiqui- ASCSA under the inspiration of Doreen ties in the Agora Museum. The exhibition is C. Spitzer, Trustee Emerita. Please address scheduled to run through January 7, 2007. all correspondence and inquiries to the Most of the material, whether de Jong’s Newsletter Editor, ASCSA U.S. Office, 6–8 paintings and drawings or the antiquities Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232. Tel: (609) 683-0800; Fax: (609) 924-0578; he illustrated, comes from the collections E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www. of the Agora itself. The Agora Archives ascsa.edu.gr. contain well over 400 of Piet de Jong’s wa- tercolors and drawings. Indeed, much of our image of Aegean prehistory and Clas- ÁKOUE IN COLOR ON THE WEB. Collection of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford See this issue in color on the School’s sical archaeology has been consciously or website at: www.ascsa.edu.gr/news subconsciously defined by his illustrations Caricature of Theodore Leslie Shear (1880–1945) by Piet de Jong, 1930. letter/newsletter.htm. continued on page 4 2 Davis to Serve as School Director The appointment of Jack L. Davis, Carl W. bridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, the University of Cincinnati, as Director of in press). Other research interests include the School was confirmed at the October the history and archaeology of Ottoman Managing Committee meeting. Mr. Davis, and early modern Greece, and the history appointed to a five-year term, succeeds of classical archaeology, in particular its current School Director Stephen V. Tracy, relationship to nationalist movements in whose term expires June 30, 2007. He will the Balkans. be accompanied in Athens by his wife, Sha- Currently Mr. Davis is directing regional ron Stocker, who is also an archaeologist studies and excavations in Albania in col- and with him manages field research proj- laboration with Albanian colleagues, and ects in Albania and Greece. is also engaged with wife Sharon Stocker A respected scholar, Mr. Davis has had in a project to publish unpublished finds considerable administrative experience, as from Blegen’s excavations at the Palace of Irene Bald Romano Graduate Advisor for Archaeology at the Nestor. His books include: Papers in Cy- University of Cincinnati for more than a cladic Prehistory (Los Angeles: Institute of Joins School Staff decade and as director or co-director of Archaeology, UCLA; 1979); Keos V. Ayia many archaeological projects over the past Irene Bald Romano has recently been ap- twenty years. He has served as a University pointed the Administrative Director of the of Cincinnati representative to the ASCSA American School of Classical Studies at Managing Committee since 2002 and has Athens’s U.S. office in Princeton, NJ. been a member on a number of Managing Ms. Romano also holds research ap- Committee committees. Mr. Davis cur- pointments in the Mediterranean Section rently chairs the ASCSA’s Committee on of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavation and Survey. of Archaeology and Anthropology and in Mr. Davis holds a B.A. from the Univer- the Department of Classical and Near East- sity of Akron and a Ph.D. from the Univer- ern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. sity of Cincinnati. He was a Member of the She earned a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeol- School from 1974 to 1976, as James Rignall ogy from the University of Pennsylvania Wheeler Fellow and Eugene Vanderpool (1980), and has taught at the University Fellow. of Pennsylvania and at Franklin and Mar- Mr. Davis directed the Pylos Archaeo- shall College. Ms. Romano has participated logical Project from 1990 to 1995; was in archaeological field projects in Spain, co-director of the archaeological survey Italy, Turkey, and Greece, including a long and associate director of the Nemea Valley association with the American School’s Archaeological Project from 1984 to 1990; Photo courtesy of Jack Davis excavations at Ancient Corinth. She was and was foreign director of the Mallakas- a Member and Fellow of the American tra Regional Archaeological Project from Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker on the foundations of the new Greek temple that School from 1976 to 1980 and a Senior 1998 to 2003. He co-directed the Keos they are excavating at Bonjakët, near the Associate Member in 1994–95. Archaeological Project (1984–85), the Greek colony of Apollonia in Albania. Ms. Romano is the author or co-author Durres Regional Archaeological Project of five books as well as numerous articles (2001–03), and the Bonjakët Excavations on Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek cult near Apollonia, Albania (2004–06). His ex- Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986); Landscape Ar- practices, and Hellenistic terracotta figu- tensive archaeological field experience also chaeology as Long-Term History: Northern rines and pottery. She has been affiliated includes work at Ayia Irini, Keos; Knossos, Keos in the Cycladic Islands (Los Angeles: with the University of Pennsylvania Mu- Crete; Korakou (Korinth); and Phylakopi, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; 1991), seum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Melos. winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen various capacities since 1980 and was the Published works include results of Prize; Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological His- coordinator and co-curator of the reinstal- excavations and surveys on Keos and nu- tory from Nestor to Navarino (University of lation of the Museum’s Classical galleries, merous articles concerning the Mallakastra Texas Press; 1998); A Guide to the Palace “Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, Regional Archaeological Project and the of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and Romans.” Ms. Romano has also had Pylos Regional Archaeological Project.