Newsletter of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

ákoueákoueSpring 2010, No. 62

Photo: C. Mauzy

Agora Excavations 2009 season: Debbie Sneed at one of the pyres discovered in Section ΒΖ holding one of the pots found there.

In this issue: Agora Excavations 3 NEH Challenge Grant Awarded 4 New Robinson Fellowship 4 Corinth Excavations 5 Ascsa.net Launches 7 NEH Fellows Report 8 New Publications 9 Student Report: Microfauna from Mochlos 10 Affiliated Excavations 11 New Acquisitions for Archives 15 Loring Hall Turns 80 17 Summer Session 2009 19 J. Montgomery Sears’ Legacy 21 Greece in 1963 22 Wiener Lab: Neolithic and EBA Bone Tools 26 INSERT: Ali Pasha Papers Published G1 Library Receives Cataloguing Grants G1 Walton Lecture Draws Crowds G2 Events in Review G3 Philoi News G4 Clean Monday in New York G4 The Value of Fellowships

Each year, the School awards up to twelve fellowships to students accepted for mem- bership in its intensive, nine-month Regular Program, consisting of field trips to major archaeological sites of Greece; seminars in Athenian and Attic topography and monu- ments and in literature and history; and training in archaeological techniques at the

ákoue! School’s excavations at Ancient Corinth. Thanks to these fellowships, students are exposed to experiences that influence their dissertation focus and that have a lasting impact on their academic careers. The experiences reported by last year’s fellowship recipients underscore the value of Regular Program membership. Here, sev- eral fellowship holders share some of their 2008–09 Jameson Fellow Sean R. Jensen at Monemvasia. observations. Photo by K. Goetz The Michael Jameson, Philip Lockhart, and Martin Ostwald Fellowships are offered thanks to funding provided by the Arete faculty. . . . I greatly appreciated my time in Foundation. The James and Mary H. Ot- Athens and look forward to using the tools I taway, Jr. Fellowship is available from the acquired and experiences to inform my re- ASCSA thanks to a generous annual dona- search and teaching in the future. tion from ASCSA Trustee Emeritus James Se a n R. Je n s e n H. Ottaway, Jr.). The Emily Townsend Rutgers University Vermeule Fellowship was established by a 2008–09 Michael Jameson Fellow generous bequest from the estate of Emily T. Vermeule, and gifts from ASCSA alumni, ddd friends, and colleagues of Ms. Vermeule. Though my research is chiefly philological and ddd historical in nature, I spent the 2008–09 aca- demic year at the ASCSA studying archaeology AMERICAN SCHOOL OF Having known that I wanted to study at the and learning to look at the ancient world in a CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS American School for years, there was much new way. My experiences at the School helped excitement as I prepared for my year in Athens. 54 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece me to refine my approach to my own work, 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 When I also found out that I had been given taught me a great deal about the work of my the Lockhart Fellowship, I was (and continue ákoue, the newsletter of the ASCSA colleagues, and afforded me the opportunity to to be) extremely grateful for the support that Spring 2010 No. 62 interact with many scholars from around the the School provides for me. . . . Being able to Executive Editor world whom I may never have met otherwise. Irene Bald Romano see the sites, many of which were remote or inaccessible without the aid of the School, is Da n i e l W. Le o n Editor an experience that I will never forget. University of Virginia Sally Fay I have come to realize that the American 2008–09 Martin Ostwald Fellow Design & Production School is not an institution that only stays ddd Mary Jane Gavenda with one for a year or two; the benefits and the My heartfelt thanks to the entire staff of the ákoue is published semiannually by the community provided by the American School American School, as well as to the Trustees ASCSA under the inspiration of Doreen last a lifetime. C. Spitzer, Trustee Emerita. Please address and to the Ottaway family in particular, for all correspondence and inquiries to the Ja s o n R. Ha rr i s this unique and edifying opportunity to study News­­­letter Editor, ASCSA U.S. Office, 6–8 University of Southern California at the School and thus to encounter Greece so Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232. 2008–09 Philip Lockhart Fellow much more thoroughly than I could ever have Tel: (609) 683-0800; Fax: (609) 924-0578; accomplished on my own. I consider it a privi- E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www. ddd lege and a blessing to have been a part of this ascsa.edu.gr. I feel honored to have been awarded the Mi- community, and I hope to continue to be a part chael Jameson Fellowship. I will always be of it in the future. proud to be associated in some small way with Ákoue in color on the web. an ancient historian of such esteem. This year Ma r c e l l o Li p p i e l l o See this issue in color on the School’s at the ASCSA has enriched my studies consid- Duke University, 2008–09 James H. and Mary website at: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ index.php/publications/Akoue/. erably, providing me with invaluable experi- Ottaway, Jr. Fellow ences and interactions with its members and continued on page 26

2 Agora Excavations: Painted Stoa and Beyond

Excavations were carried out in the Athe- nian Agora for eight weeks during summer 2009. The excavation team consisted of 52 student volunteers and five supervisors; participants represented 32 American uni- versities and colleges and ten other coun- tries. The excavations were made possible by a substantial grant from the Packard Humanities Institute, with contributions from Randolph–Macon College and private individuals. In the area southwest of the Agora square (Section Gamma), we continued our investigation of the Classical buildings south of the Tholos. They lie between the “Strategeion” and the house of Simon the cobbler, and are close to the square and to major public buildings. Following our work attempting to determine if the “Strat- egeion” was a civic or commercial building, it seemed worthwhile to try and determine if this complex of buildings was civic, com- mercial, or domestic in function. Among other things, the excavations in 2009 clarified the plans of the three buildings, Photos, clockwise: A reconstructed terracotta well liner from the well. Three identical grouped around a central courtyard. pieces would have formed a circle. Each ring (of three) would then be placed one on The buildings were excavated in the top of each other to line the well. Laura Gawlinski descending into the well in Section 1950s and only limited floor levels re- Γ to complete final measurements. Fragments of a Panathenaic amphora. mained to be investigated. Beneath one of Photos: C. Mauzy the floors were two long deep pits cut into bedrock, filled with debris and large frag- ments of amphoras from the fourth century outside the limits of the built-up part of the cutting we uncovered two terracotta pipe- B.C. More useful was a tile-lined well found city. The fill into which these remains were lines, both of which had been found behind in the courtyard of the complex. Debris set (also largely sixteenth century) includ- the western end of the Stoa. The smaller, supports a domestic or commercial use of ed a great deal of fragmentary pottery, much upper one seems to date to the fourth cen- the buildings; recovered were numerous of it decorated. There was no architecture tury B.C., while the larger, lower one is pyramidal loomweights, small oil flasks associated with the layers producing this contemporary with the stoa, dating to the (squat lekythoi), cosmetic boxes (pyxides), pottery and—like the later horse burials— second quarter of the fifth century B.C. and cooking wares, all suggesting the pres- the material may indicate that this area was Given its date and the fact that it seems ence and activities of women. A painted used as a dumping ground at the edge of to be carrying fresh water out of the city inscription on fragments of a Panathenaic the inhabited area. towards the northwest, it is tempting to amphora preserves part of the name of the In Section BH we removed most of the associate this aqueduct with the passage presiding magistrate, Dieitrephes, who was Middle Byzantine walls, exposed several in Plutarch (Life of Kimon 13.8) where the archon in 384/3 B.C. Civic activity in the years ago, which overlie the east end of statesman Kimon is credited with “con- area of the well is suggested by only a single the Stoa Poikile. With their removal, more verting the Academy from a waterless and dikast’s token, used to assign seats in the of the remains of the back wall and two arid spot into a well watered grove, which lawcourts: a simple bronze disk, the size interior columns of the Poikile were ex- he provided with clear running tracks and and shape of a coin, stamped with the letter posed. In addition, late Roman rubble walls shady walks.” B on both sides. dividing the stoa into rooms were cleared. In Section BZ we continued the explora- Section beta theta, overlying the building A concentration of bronze coins in the late tion of the Classical Commercial Building. identified as the Stoa Poikile, was excavated Roman levels suggests that the new rooms Much of the work was concentrated in the at its eastern and western ends. At the west, were used as shops. Associated pottery in- two northernmost rooms. In one, we tried we encountered the bottoms of foundations dicates that these modifications were made to clear the area of a collapsed cistern, as- of early modern buildings. Remains of sev- in the fifth and sixth centuries. sociated with a shaft found two years ago eral equines were found, the bones largely Behind the back wall of the Stoa Poikile, to the east and dating to the third century disarticulated, as well as a large, shallow starting at about the level of the top of the B.C. This interpretation was drastically lime slaking pit; they seem to date to the euthynteria, we encountered a broad trench emended in the final week of excavation. As sixteenth century, when this area was just running parallel to the wall. Within this continued on next page

3 Development News NEH Challenge Grant to Fund Library Renovations

The School is pleased to have been award- equipment. As the world grows smaller due open stacks for the non-rare research col- ed a prestigious Challenge Grant from the to improved telecommunication advances, lections and study areas for students and National Endowment for the Humanities the School aims to facilitate an increased scholars, the Library will be expanded to (NEH) for $578,750. The School must raise level of communication among scholars in the west with a two-story underground ex- a three-to-one match to the NEH grant, or the United States, Greece, and worldwide. tension. The currently unusable West Wing approximately $1.8 million. This grant will This new “smart” seminar room will be of the Library will also be renovated and support planned improvements and reno- larger than the present one, with built-in linked to the new extension, providing for vations to the School’s two world-renowned flexibility to accommodate small seminars more study, stacks, and storage spaces. An humanities research and library facilities, (20–30 participants) as well as medium- exhibition space for display of the unique the Blegen Library and the Gennadius Li- sized meetings and workshops (30–60) for collections of the Library will be created brary, the combined holdings of which pro- which there is currently no suitable space beneath the main reading room and in the vide unparalleled resources for all aspects at the School. West Wing. of Greek studies. The total costs for the The Gennadius Library is one of Greece’s The NEH panelists praised many aspects renovations to both libraries are around national treasures, and its collections com- of the School and the funded project, noting $10 million. prise vital sources for American and inter- the value of the ASCSA and its libraries for The goals for the Blegen Library reno- national scholars conducting research on students and scholars of ancient and mod- vations include the installation of a well- the post-Classical history of Greece and its ern Greece, both from the United States and functioning climate control system and neighboring countries. The NEH grant and around the world, and noting that “reno- the creation of a new “smart” classroom. matching funds will support renovations vations of the two library buildings would In order to keep the temperature and hu- to the Library with a view to providing significantly improve the research experi- midity at optimal levels for the books, as improved access to the collections as well ences for these scholars.” Panelists cited well as for the many researchers who use it as a new exhibition space. The renovation the School as a “premiere educational and year round, a new climate control system in focuses on creating an area for open stacks research center, with more than a century the Library will be undertaken. The NEH access in the Library. Currently, all of the of contributions to our understanding of Challenge Grant funds will also support library resources, both rare and non-rare, the ancient and modern Greek worlds” and the creation of a “smart” classroom using are in closed stacks, with library attendants referred to the Blegen and the Gennadeion the latest technology for long-distance tele- bringing the books from storage to research- as “the leading repositories for researchers conferencing and the latest presentation ers in the reading room. To accommodate in the topic areas.” continued on page 6

Agora Excavations Robinson Fellowship Launched to Promote continued from previous page Corinth Work by Young Scholars we went down in the cutting we found an intact Mycenaean alabastron (fourteenth/ thirteenth century B.C.), and it now looks The Henry S. Robinson Fellowship, funded The inaugural group of Robinson Fel- as though the collapse might be of the bed- to encourage research at the ASCSA ex- lows will conduct research spanning a range rock roof of a Mycenaean chamber tomb cavations at Ancient Corinth, will bring of eras. Ph.D. candidate Sarah James (Uni- rather than a Hellenistic cistern. three scholars to Corinth during academic versity of Texas, Austin) will work on her In other Agora projects, we processed year 2010–11 to pursue research specific to dissertation “Hellenistic Pottery from the and archived a large collection of organic Ancient Corinth. This newly established Panayia Field, Corinth: Studies in Chro- material recovered from water sieving over fellowship is named for Henry Robinson, nology and Context,” while Seyyed Mo- the past 35 years. Many samples had been Director of the School from 1959 to 1969, hammed Tagi Shariat-Panahi (University collected but not sieved, others had been who at the same time, as Director of Corinth of Athens) will pursue research on “Otto- sieved but not sorted. All samples have Excavations, set the stage for a new era in man Corinthia: Archives, Topography and now been sieved, sorted, and entered on a reviving field work at Corinth. Material Culture,” and Theodora B. Kope- database. Information Technology Special- The Robinson Fellowship funds Ph.D. stonsky (Denison University and Columbia ist Bruce Hartzler and Agora Excavations candidates or recent Ph.D. recipients seek- State Community College) advances her Manager Craig Mauzy also managed to ing to work on a doctoral dissertation or “Analysis and Interpretation of the Stratig- set up a wireless connection between the primary publication specifically on Corinth, raphy, Artifacts, Spatial Organization, and Stoa and Sections Beta Theta and Beta Zeta, requiring the use of the resources, archaeo- Use of a Small Area in the Ancient City of which now allows the supervisors access logical site, and collections at the School’s Corinth—Kokkinovrysi.” e to the entire database from their trenches. excavations at Ancient Corinth. Open to all (For more on digital initiatives at the Agora, nationalities, the fellowship funds work up see article on page 7.) e to three months’ duration. — John McK. Camp II Director, Agora Excavations

4 Excavation, Study, Digitization Comprise Corinth Season

At Corinth, excavations continued in the storable fine, cooking, and plain vessels area south of the South Stoa. During the datable to ca. 1260 to 1270 and quantities 2009 season all the inventoried pottery of domestic animal and bird bone, fish (over 600 pieces) from the 1960s excava- scales, sea shells, and eggshell. Among tions was drawn and photographed and the more interesting of the faunal remains the context pottery of over 700 contexts were the vertebra of a large tuna, which was read in addition to the new material originally weighed in excess of 200 kg, and excavated during the season. The standing both the maxilla and mandible of a hoopoe remains in the central section not docu- (Upopa epops). mented in 2008 were photographed, drawn, Day-to-day objects help to identify the and described. This means that study of the function of different rooms. The westerly early excavations in the area currently being of the south central rooms originally had excavated is progressing rapidly. two large storage pithoi set in the floor. We removed the post-Medieval struc- These were removed, probably in the thir- tures overlying the Medieval house in the teenth century. The room to the east had a central section of the area and excavated six hearth belonging to the earliest use of the rooms to below their floors as far as their house, but there is no clear evidence for construction phase. The floor of the north- cooking activity in later phases. Apart from Late 12th to early 13th century bowl from west room was covered with a 0.01-cm- the floors of the Southwest room and the early excavations thick deposit of broken pottery representing space under the stair excavated in 2008, all a minimum of 37 complete and fragmentary the domestic contexts, with the exception Constantinopolitan White Ware pitchers. of the Northwest room, were kept remark- In other noteworthy developments, White Ware pitchers, to judge from lime ably clean. The house dates to the eleventh during the 2009 excavation season efforts scaling and flash marks on the exterior of century and received various modifications began toward digitizing the Corinth Ex- known examples, were frequently used as in the twelfth and especially thirteenth cavation’s numismatic study collection, kettles for boiling water. None of the pieces centuries. Its form is essentially that of a consisting of about 3,000 coins that date from the Northwest room showed any evi- courtyard house with an open central court between 550 B.C. and modern times. Gen- dence of use and they seem to have been surrounded by nine domestic, storage, and erous funding from the Kress Foundation kept in storage. A pit cut through the floor stabling spaces. The south range of rooms has enabled us to continue our efforts to- contained a large eleventh-century storage certainly had a second story. ward cataloguing and photographing the amphora reused in some kind of industrial An application is being prepared to con- collection, which will ultimately be avail- activity. Its mouth and neck had been heat- solidate the walls of the house with appro- able via Internet (see article on page 7 for ed to temperatures that melted the fabric priate koniama, to place geophasma, and to more on Corinth’s digital initiatives). into an amorphous mass. backfill the house to its original floor level. In the East room, the unexcavated well The house will then remain as an example — Guy D.R. Sanders proved to have been filled in the late thir- of a Byzantine house at Corinth. Director, Corinth Excavations teenth century. It contained a mass of re-

Managing Committee Convenes in Anaheim

The annual January meeting of the ASCSA and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine remains. His project will focus on combin- Managing Committee took place on Janu- Arts, New York University, plans to offer ing faunal remains and textual evidence ary 7, this year in Anaheim, California. a seminar on Greek temple decoration of from the Athenian Agora. Among the issues taken up by the Com- the Archaic and Classical periods. He has Other business at the January meeting mittee was a motion from the Managing a Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superi- included endorsement of the following new Committee’s Executive Committee for the ore di Pisa and has published extensively Managing Committee members: Richard reappointment of Mellon Professor Mar- on Greek architecture, sculpture, and vase Billows (Department of History), to rep- garet M. Miles for an additional three-year painting of the Archaic and Classical pe- resent Columbia University; Rick Cypert term, to begin July 2011. The motion was riods, and the archaeology and history of (Department of English), to represent Ne- approved unanimously by the Managing archaeology of Ancient Sicily. Ms. Felson braska Wesleyan University, a Cooperat- Committee and approved by institutional (University of Georgia) will offer a semi- ing Institution that rejoined the ASCSA in vote in February. The Managing Committee nar on Epinician poetry in its Panhellenic 2008; Marcus Folch (Classics Department, also approved the appointment of 2010–11 contexts, an offshoot of her current area Columbia University; formerly a represen- Whitehead Professors Clemente Marconi of research interest, which she terms “the tative from the University of Richmond), and Nancy Felson and 2010–11 Wiener poetics of deixis.” Ms. Felson has a Ph.D. as a second representative from Columbia Laboratory Professor Michael MacKinnon. from Columbia University. Mr. MacKinnon University; Andrew L. Goldman (History Mr. Marconi, University Professor and (University of Winnipeg) has a Ph.D. from James R. McCredie Professor of Greek Art the University of Alberta and studies faunal continued on page 22

5 to follow the preventative measures sug- gested in MIET’s proposal. Since the ma- Capital Campaign to Fund Loring Facelift jority of the inks used in the Schliemann papers contain iron, which would cause Plans are well under way for a capital campaign further deterioration of the papers if the to address the inadequacy of current residential ink came into contact with water, MIET’s facilities at the School. Several high-priority cap- position was that any aqueous treatment ital projects are planned for Loring Hall, which should be avoided. Rather, they recom- is being used to capacity year-round to house at- mended that the Archives should invest tendees of the Regular Program and the Summer in providing separate and custom-fitted Sessions as well as visiting scholars and other storage for each volume, and in digitizing fellows of the School. Opened in 1929, the facil- the diaries and copybooks. We are most ity has become increasingly inadequate with age grateful to INSTAP for its past and current and the growth of the School community. Plans support, which has enhanced the research- include a full renovation of the Hall and the ad- ers’ access to this valuable archaeological dition of a third story to the Loring Hall wing, source and will preserve it for later genera- affectionately called “the Annex.” The estimat- tions of scholars. ed costs of the renovations and a maintenance endowment are $4,450,000. Donors will have ddd many opportunities to name rooms and facili- Gift to Conserve Dinsmoor ties in recognition of their gifts to this project, Drawings starting at $25,000 to name a bedroom. For details about naming and commemora- The Dinsmoor Family Papers, donated tive opportunities or to discuss a gift for Loring to the School in 1978, include the papers Hall, please contact the Princeton office.See related story on page 17. and drawings of William Bell Dinsmoor, Sr. (1886–1973), a renowned authority on Classical Greek architecture with whom the School enjoyed a long association, as Development News well as some of the papers of William Bell continued from page 4 Dinsmoor, Jr. (1923–1988), who was the Agora Excavations Architect from 1966 Cotsen Challenge Boosts os. Other contributions to the Gennadius until his death. Among this collection are Gennadeion Endowment Library Endowment Fund include generous more than 100 original architectural draw- gifts by the McCabe Family, the Philoi of ings in Dinsmoor, Jr.’s The Propylaia to the In 2007, Lloyd Cotsen, Chairman of the the Gennadius Library, and all those who Athenian Akropolis, Vol. II: The Classical Board of the Gennadius Library, and Mrs. participated in the Clean Monday benefit Building (2004), published posthumously Margit Cotsen made a generous pledge of event in 2009 in New York City. by the American School with the help of $1 million for the Gennadius Library’s en- Anastasia Norre Dinsmoor, William Bell dowment, which supports a portion of the ddd Dinsmoor, Jr.’s wife. This volume included annual operating funds for the Library. The INSTAP Grant to Preserve an extensive body of work that Dinsmoor Cotsens’ pledge was made as a 1:1 chal- Schliemann Papers Sr. had done on the Propylaia during his lenge grant to the Board Members of the lifetime. Approximately half of the draw- Gennadius Library, requiring them to raise The School’s Archives have received a grant ings published in the 2004 Propylaia vol- $200,000 annually over five years. Every of $10,000 from the Institute for Aegean ume were executed by William Sr., and the year since 2007, the Gennadeion Board Prehistory (INSTAP) to digitize and pro- other half by William Jr. They represent a members have met the challenge. Thus far, vide better housing for five diaries and 16 level of architectural drawing that is un- the Cotsens’ challenge grant has raised $1.2 copybooks from Schliemann’s archaeo- paralleled today; they are, truly, works of million for the Gennadius Library Endow- logical period (1870–1890). Digitization art. These drawings are on a heavy stock ment Fund. When the two additional years will enable the Archives to subsequently paper that is brittle and in need of some of the challenge grant are completed, a total withdraw these original items from circula- preservation measures before they could be of $2 million or more will have been added tion while making the material accessible made accessible to researchers and safely to the Gennadius Library Endowment. to many researchers through high-quality handled, even by cataloguers. The School is very grateful to the Cots- scanned versions. This project was the re- Dorothy Dinsmoor, niece of William ens and to the many Gennadius Library sult of two condition reports and treatment Bell Dinsmoor, Sr., has generously offered Trustees who have generously contributed proposals by the Department of Conserva- to fund the preservation of these important to this fund, especially Ted Athanassiades, tion of Works of Art and Antiquities at the and valuable drawings. Thanks to her gift, Nicholas G. Bacopoulos, Alan L. Boegehold, Technological and Educational Institute the School has enlisted a paper conservator Edmund L. Keeley, Nassos Michas, Irini of Athens (TEI) and the Department of and has transferred Dinsmoor Sr.’s drawings Moscahlaidis, Andre Newburg, Helen Phi- Conservation of the Cultural Foundation to the Benaki Museum, where they will be lon, Petros K. Sabatacakis, Theodore Sedg- of the National Bank of Greece (MIET); treated. Work will begin on Dinsmoor Jr.’s wick, Nicholas J. Theocarakis, Catherine these reports were also funded by a grant drawings as soon as conservation measures deG. Vanderpool, and Alexander E. Zagore- from INSTAP in 2009. The Archives opted on this first group are completed. e

6 Skeletons in Agora’s “Closet” In the southwest corner of the basement of the Stoa of Attalos are stored over 1,000 skeletons from the Agora excavations. This year, a score of them are being studied by 2009–10 Senior Associate Member Maria Liston (University of Waterloo), who reports here on what the bones reveal about life and death in Athens.

The very first skeleton recovered in the social outcast, with brain and spinal injuries from the Herulian sack of Athens in A.D. Athenian Agora by the American School that may have led to disability and erratic 267. This skeleton has multiple perimor- was found in 1932, the second season of behavior and/or epilepsy. My own study of tem cuts from a straight-edged weapon on the excavations (T.L. Shear, Hesperia 2, the other skeletons from wells has identified his arms and legs, presumably sustained pp. 453–454). It was found not in a for- three other individuals who may have been during the attack. Interestingly, he also has mal burial, but deposited in a well. Since similarly ostracized from society by their a healing deep cut just below his left elbow. that time, at least two dozen skeletons have physical disabilities. However, there is a The degree of healing suggests this wound been recovered from wells, not including wide range of other reasons why individuals was sustained about three weeks before his the so-called Baby Well, where the mini- were deposited in wells after their deaths. death—perhaps as the Herulians were pil- mum of 457 infants puts it into an entirely Two appear to have been murder victims, laging their way down to Athens. Together different category of deposit. My project and the bodies perhaps illicitly disposed of with some evidence of mistreatment of the this year as a Senior Associate Member of in a convenient abandoned well afterwards. body after death, the evidence suggests this the School and the Wiener Laboratory has One, an adult male, was clearly beaten to may be not an Athenian, but an actual Her- been to study all of the burials from wells death with a club or similar object. The sec- ulian or one of their allies, dumped into the in the Agora. It was my analysis of the Baby ond is an adult female, who was suffering well with the debris after the attack. Well skeletons in previous years that led me from bone cancer at the time of her death. Each skeleton I have studied in this to question how and why bodies end up in Her demise, however, seems to be the result project has resulted in another research wells. Some of the bones recovered from of two blows to the head with an axe or topic. The combined resources of the Ble- wells are the remnants of disturbed burials, other heavy-bladed instrument. gen and Wiener Laboratory libraries have but most appear to have been deposited as Although I still have several more buri- been invaluable in assembling the evidence intact bodies. als to analyze, my current subject may be for history, culture, archaeological context, A previous publication by Little and Pa- the most interesting of the entire year. The pathology, and biology that goes into inter- padopoulos (Hesperia 67, pp. 375–404) has skeleton of an adult male was found in preting each of these unusual anomalous identified one Geometric well burial as a 1939, in a well deposit of clean-up debris burials. e

Internet Resources Expand School’s Reach

With an eye toward increasing accessibil- liams, II (Excavation Director from 1965 to vation plans (Agora only at the moment). ity of a wealth of data, the School has been 1997) and the hard work of his Assistant Search results may also be exported into making some exciting strides in the dis- Director, Nancy Bookidis, introduced digi- four file formats. semination of information via the Internet. tal record keeping to the excavations in the Material that has been published is made November marked the launch of “ascsa.net,” late 1970s. Bringing fruit to their vision openly available to the public. Unpublished a valuable new tool that delivers resources and labor, the Greek Ministry of Culture material is only available to researchers who such as excavation data from both Corinth and the Third Information Society program have obtained the necessary permission to and the Athenian Agora in such a way as to of the European Union funded scanning study the material in person. Some addition- be searchable from a single platform. and cataloguing of over a quarter million al material from the Corinth Excavations is Agora and Corinth Excavations staff digital objects from the Corinth archives. restricted by the director of excavations. have been collaborating for the past year Not least, the Mellon Foundation funded Current efforts are focused on creating a to bring their vast electronic resources to- initial work on creating a digital database participant-based (wiki) user’s manual and gether in a single online interface. As part for the excavation data. providing larger images for Corinth’s col- of the ASCSA’s growing digital library, these Publications, excavation reports, exca- lections. Cataloguing of the Corinth Coin databases, designed by Bruce Hartzler, In- vation notebooks, contexts, objects, plans Study Collection funded by the Kress Foun- formation Technology Specialist at the and drawings, and photos and other im- dation and a fourth funding initiative of the Agora, provide a valuable research tool for ages can be searched using the Agora or Greek Ministry of Culture and the Informa- scholars far beyond Athens and Corinth. Corinth field names, as well as the Dub- tion Society program of the European Union The work has been generously support- lin Core metadata standard set. Users can for digitization and cataloguing in the Agora ed at various stages by many individuals tailor the display of their search results in will further enhance the databases. and funding organizations. At the Agora, many formats such as list, icons (thumb- Digitization of the Agora records is slat- the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) has nail), and table. The table display format ed to be completed over the next two years supported over the last decade an ambitious is especially flexible with individual fields with support of a European Economic Area program of digitizing older materials and specified by the user. Find spots for objects grant, awarded to the ASCSA in concert experimenting with the use of new technol- from the Athenian Agora and from the re- with the Akropolis Ephoreia, under the ogy to record continuing excavations. In cent Panayia Field excavations in Corinth direction of Ephor Alexander Mantis. Corinth, the forethought of Charles K. Wil- can be plotted in Google Earth or on exca- continued page 10

7 NEH Fellowships Broaden Knowledge Base In 2008–09, fellowships funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities enabled three senior scholars to further their research and contribute to the intellectual life of the School, as detailed here.

From January through June 2009 I carried these time periods the Gennadius collec- in Athens, Nauplion, and Monemvasia. In out research in Athens as an NEH Fellow at tion is spectacular, and in my experience, addition, the work I did provided material the ASCSA. My study of agriculture, indus- beyond compare. I am extremely grateful to for more than 80 blogs already published, try, and trade in the Late Ottoman Aegean Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gen- and more to come (http://surprisedbytime. (the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early nadius Library, for generous access to these blogspot.com). twentieth centuries) included work in li- wonderful sources, and to the American Not connected with this project spe- braries and museums, as well as interaction School and the National Endowment for cifically, but with my overall interests, in with other scholars of this period. the Humanities, for this time devoted only exploring sites related to my work, I made During this time at the School I delivered to research. Χίλιες ευχαριστίες. four medieval archeological discoveries and a lecture for ASCSA students in a seminar identifications, including two previously offered by the Wiener Laboratory; another — Harriet Blitzer unnoticed Italian frescoes, and was able as part of the Fitch-Wiener lecture series, Buffalo State College to link them with contemporary primary held at the Fitch Laboratory of the British sources; I wrote reports and provided pho- School at Athens; a lecture in Cotsen Hall, ddd tographs on these for the relevant archaeo- as part of the Director’s Lecture Series; and logical service. During my NEH fellowship, I completed a seminar as part of a workshop organized In addition to advancing my book something over half of The Knight and by Mellon Professor Margaret Miles for project, my NEH fellowship has led to my Death: The Kladas Affair and the Fifteenth- Regular Members. I also lectured at Istan- writing an article with a colleague on dis- Century Morea, an analysis of the Moreote bul University, where I gave an expanded coveries I made concerning three poems culture and how it played out in the his- version of my Fitch-Wiener lecture. traditionally attributed to Cardinal Bessa- tory of the fifteenth-century Morea with While at the School, I worked with Reg- rion, but clearly written by Theodoros II its intersections of Greeks, Ottomans, Al- ular Members on essential bibliography for Palaiologos of Mistra. After visiting Mistra banians, and Italians. I was able to visit a their dissertations and helped students in and working through the material on his number of sites of importance in the histo- dry-runs for their ASCSA tea talks. I also rule, it became evident that these poems ry, and a number of times the physical set- aided a visiting Cross/Coulson Aegean have not been correctly understood. This ting altered my previous ideas about what Fellow from Turkey in assembling bibli- topic has been sensationalized by minor had been happening. I gave three public ography and translated some of the Greek lectures relating to material in the book, continued on next page sources for his use. In Athens I worked primarily in the Gen- nadius Library, and also used the Blegen Li- brary and the libraries of the British School of Archaeology, the French School, and the Academy of Athens. I began a systematic reading through several hundred local and regional Greek periodicals in order to iden- tify articles previously unknown to me. I was also able to study a wide array of eigh- teenth- and nineteenth-century accounts of regional agricultural systems, Aegean and eastern Mediterranean trade (with an emphasis on Constantinople and Thessalo- nike), and local and regional industries. In addition, many legal and political sources, especially those with Greek perspectives, concerning nineteenth-century Ottoman capitulations and the international com- ponents of trade in both agricultural and manufactured goods, have proven essential as I write two of the chapters in my book, on the industries of agriculture and on the mechanisms of trade in villages, towns, and cities in the Late Ottoman period. Jenifer Neils (Case Western Reserve University), shown here at Didyma, mixed I had expected the resources of the Gen- research with travel during her time as 2008–09 NEH Fellow; participating in the nadius to enlarge my understanding of eigh- School’s Spring trip to Ionia-Caria was one of the highlights that the fellowship made teenth- through twentieth-century Greece, possible. but my expectations were inaccurate. For

8 Publications News

Vessel Glass (Agora 34), by Gladys Wein- Finally, Archaeologies of Cult: berg and E. Marianne Stern, was published Essays on Ritual and Cult in in August 2009, the third volume in the Crete in Honor of Geraldine esteemed Athenian Agora series to appear C. Gesell (Hesperia Suppl. 42), in print in less than three years. The book edited by Anna Lucia D’Agata presents 404 glass vessels excavated in the and Aleydis Van de Moortel, is Agora, including examples of almost every intended as a tribute to a pioneer type of glass known from antiquity. The in the field of Cretan cult study. remarkable value of this contribution to Thirty of Geraldine Gesell’s former the history of glass is that so many of the students and colleagues present as- fragments from the Agora can be dated by pects of ritual and religion on Crete. context. The wide range of vessel types dis- The discourse ranges in time from cussed in this volume makes it an essential the Iron Age to the Bronze Age and in reference work for those interested in the subject matter from cult practices to study of ancient glass. sacred landscapes. A combined bibliog- raphy provides a useful reference tool for ddd a survey of literature on the subject. Recently published books on the Agora.

Three more books related to the Agora have ddd also appeared, all of which are intended for tral role in the implementation of many of a more general audience. Hesperia had a record number of submis- the School’s recent digital initiatives. His With the publication of The Athenian sions this past year, attesting both the vi- energy, commitment, and good humor will Agora: Site Guide (5th ed.), by John McK. tality of the journal and its stature in the be sorely missed. A search for his replace- Camp II, this revered guide to the exca- field. The 2009 volume reflects the wide ment is now well under way. vations is back in print. The fifth edition spectrum of work carried out by American retains many of the elements that made the School members and others. As ever, an- — Carol A. Stein earlier editions so popular, but also takes cient art history is well represented: Aileen Acting Director of Publications full account of new discoveries and recent Ajootian joins two sculpture fragments from scholarship. New color images by Craig A. the Agora and the Pnyx to create a beautiful Mauzy and a beautiful new design by Mary image of Roman Athena, and Hallie Franks offers a new reading of a spectacular leky- NEH Fellowships Jane Gavenda combine to make this edition continued from previous page of the guide quite distinctive. thos signed by Xenophantos the Athenian. One of our most popular Agora Picture Interesting fieldwork is also published from historians, but never studied in detail. I also Books, The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in Corinth: Phil Saperstein proposes a recon- have another book in mind that takes the the Athenian Agora (AgPicBk 4), by Mabel struction of the massive tile roof for the surprisingly abundant primary sources and Lang and revised by John McK. Camp II, seventh-century B.C. Old Temple, and Art examines late Palaiologan marriage, and has now been published in Modern Greek. Rohn and his colleagues present a detailed the marriage of Cleofe Malatesta of Pesaro The text was expertly translated by long- study of the burials from the Early Ottoman and Theodoros II Palaiologos of Mistra in time Agora staff member Irini Marathaki. cemetery in Panayia Field. Marine archae- detail. The Athenian Agora: New Perspectives on ology also figured prominently in last year’s For me, the major benefits of my NEH an Ancient Site, edited by John McK. Camp Hesperia: Brendan Foley and his team use fellowship were 1) the encounters with II and Craig A. Mauzy, provides a compre- the latest high-tech equipment to investi- Greek scholars who were extremely inter- hensive introduction to the development gate two shipwrecks off Chios, and Debo- ested in what I was doing, and who shared and current state of the excavations. In rah Carlson explores the meaning of three invaluable material with me; and 2) the op- the first part of this volume, archaeolo- sculpted “ship’s eyes” found—surprisingly portunity to visit sites and look at vistas— gists working in the Athenian Agora shed enough—in the Athenian Agora! see how far a signal fire could be seen at light on ancient Greek society by detail- night, understand why a particular town ddd ing selected finds and remains. The second is so often an approach to another town part presents the history of the excavations On August 30, 2009, Charles Watkinson (e.g., it was where you hired transportation since 1931 and explains how archaeologi- resigned as Director of Publications to and a guide to get through the mountains). cal procedures have changed over the de- take a position at Purdue University Press. Because the ASCSA is a focus for numbers cades. This handsome book was published Charles joined the School in 2004, after of scholars coming through Athens, and in collaboration with Philipp von Zabern as serving as Manager of the David Brown because it makes available information for part of the Bildbände zur Archäologie series, Book Company and then Vice President of other organizations, I was able to make ex- and it contains large-format color images Oxbow Books. Charles’s accomplishments tremely helpful contacts thanks to my pres- throughout. during his tenure at the School were many ence at the School as an NEH Fellow. ddd and varied, and he (along with former Ble- gen Librarian Chuck Jones) played a cen- — Diana Wright Independent Scholar

9 Student Report Apart from the aforementioned impor- Internet Resources tance of the microfaunal analysis towards continued from page 7 an environmental reconstruction, what is The Microfauna from mostly intriguing about the microfauna Other types of data are also being added Mochlos Houses C.1–C.8: from Mochlos is the aspect of commensal- to “ascsa.net” on an experimental basis, in- A Contribution to the ism, defined as the state when one species cluding images from the School’s collection of photographs by Alison Frantz. A plan in History of Bronze Age (e.g., mice) benefits from another (e.g., hu- mans) for its survival (shelter, food supply, the near future is to flood the area of the Aegean Commensalism security, etc.), whereas the latter is harmed. Ancient Agora with wireless access and to Typical commensal rodents are house mice make a guide to the Agora, as well as ex- Ka t e r i n a Pa pa y i a n n i s (Mus domesticus) and black rats (Rattus rat- cavation data, publicly accessible through Un i v e r s i t y o f At h e n s tus). House mice are considered carriers an application for the i-Phone. 2008–09 Do r e e n C. Sp i t z e r Fe l l o w of leptospirosis, whereas black rats have In conjunction with the emergence of successfully spread plague many times in ascsa.net, the School website at www.ascsa. edu.gr is being reorganized to make the Microfaunal analysis is the study of the the past. The knowledge about commensal School’s varied and expanding number of microvertebrates found in the archaeo- rodents in the Bronze Age Aegean is very databases easier to find. All the digital ini- logical record (i.e., rodents, insectivores, limited; questions such as what species oc- tiatives of the ASCSA can now be found at bats, small amphibians, small reptiles, and curred and in what contexts, their place of http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/digital- sometimes small birds). Since these taxa origin, their route of dispersal around the library/. e are usually of local derivation around a site Eastern Mediterranean, and agents of their and their microhabitat requirements are deposition still remain unanswered, and a narrow, they can be used as a key to un- need exists for future research. derstanding the environmental conditions The microfaunal skeletal material under “Big Digs Go Digital” around a site. examination is the product of the heavy Conference Explores Excavations on the island of Mochlos residue sorting from soil samples taken Collaborations and the opposite coastline of Crete began for archaeobotanical investigations. After in 1989 and have so far uncovered Byzan- being sorted in July 2008 at the INSTAP Representatives of the German Archae- tine, Hellenistic, Mycenaean, and Minoan Study Center in Pachia Ammos, East Crete, ological Institute and the American occupational phases. With such a variety material was transported to the Wiener School of Classical Studies at Athens of contexts a microfaunal analysis can be Laboratory for further examination. Dur- convened in Athens and Corinth for interesting and, perhaps, surprising. The ing 2008–09, I examined all the cranial four days in November to discuss prob- material I examined was collected dur- elements under the Wiener Lab’s Leica lems in information technology as they ing these excavations. The majority of the MZ 10 stereomicroscope, separated the pertain to the so-called “Big Digs,” that samples under examination belong to the various genera, and took the appropriate is, excavations like Ancient Corinth, Late Minoan I (both A and B) period and measurements and photographs using the the Athenian Agora, Olympia, and the are derived from island houses C.1–C.8 and Lab’s Leica DFC 290 digital camera. Kerameikos. Plateia B south of House C.2, whereas the The material in all the houses is com- The purpose of the gathering was Middle Minoan III or transitional Middle posed of the skeletal remains of three spe- to explore opportunities for collabora- Minoan IIIB / Late Minoan IA is represented cies of mice, three species of shrews, and tion between American and German by very few samples from the same houses. one lizard species. The image so far gained archaeologists. This initial workshop, The material will be published in one of from the houses is: 1) the presence of com- attended by 30 representatives from the the forthcoming Mochlos volumes and mensal house mice as the basic component two institutions as well as key Greek will also be incorporated in my doctoral of the “household” microfauna; 2) the pres- colleagues, was made possible through dissertation. ence of wood mice, spiny mice, shrews, and a generous grant from the DFG/NEH lizards, which reflect the low vegetation, Bilateral Digital Humanities Program. bushes, shrubs, and rocks around the site; A second workshop took place at and 3) a phase of abandonment of House the Annual Meeting of the Archaeo- C.3 during LMIB, indicated by the large logical Institute of America, held in number of shrews whose remains appear to Anaheim, California, in January. The have been digested and expelled by preda- workshop included presentations by tory birds. Corinth Excavations Architect James The results from the microfaunal analy- Herbst, on “Corinth Goes Digital: In- sis depict no change of species from the troducing Electronic Technologies into MMIII to LMIB, which would suggest no Fieldwork and Post-Excavation Study change of the environment. The three spe- at the site of Ancient Corinth,” and by cies of shrews indicate areas with vegeta- Agora Excavations Information Tech- tion, such as gardens, weeds, and bushes, nology Specialist Bruce Hartzler and which could well have existed around the Excavations Director John McK. Camp settlement and on the opposite coastline. II, on “Agathe and Beyond: Construct- Mus domesticus maxilla, House C.3, LMI, The Mochlos samples come from the ing and Maintaining a Digital Database Room 2.3. at the Athenian Agora Excavations.” Photo: K. Papayiannis continued on page 27

10 ASCSA In the Field Operating under permits granted by the Greek Ministry of Culture to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, excavations and surveys conducted under the auspices of the School shape the ever-evolving picture of Greece’s history. Following are reports from several projects conducting fieldwork in 2009, and a look ahead to what’s in store for the coming year.

The Azoria Project distinct but parallel modes of interaction (www .a z o r i a .o r g) and expressions of sociopolitical identity

in the early city. Do n a l d C. Ha g g i s , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ddd Ma r g a r e t S. Mo o k , Iowa State University

Mt. Lykaion Excavation and In 2009, the Azoria Project in eastern Crete Survey Project completed its third season of study and site (h t t p ://lykaionexcavation .o r g) conservation. The focus of study has been Da v i d Gi l m a n Ro m a n o , to determine the date for the urban trans- University of Pennsylvania, formation of the site. A second goal of work Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was to begin examining evidence for differ- Ma r y E. Vo y a t z i s , University of Arizona ences in food storage, processing, and con- sumption in domestic and civic contexts, During the summer of 2009 work continued contributing to our understanding of the at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion in political economy of the Archaic city. Arcadia. The synergasia project is under the Our work on dating suggests a phase direction of Michalis Petropoulos, Ephor transition in the early sixth century B.C., of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of marking a distinct discontinuity, a physi- the ΛΘ’ Ephoreia, Tripolis, with Mary E. cal break with continuous occupation Aerial view of Azoria from the southwest. Voyatzis of the University of Arizona and throughout the Early Iron Age and seventh Photo: D. Haggis David Gilman Romano of the University century. The transition appears as a horizon of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology of architectural renovation involving signif- symbolic and conspicuous consumption and Anthropology as Co-Directors. Our icant changes in the way that the settlement of foodstuffs—rather than multiple-stage synergates is Anastasia Panagiotopoulou, was used and how public and private space processing and storage of staples. The same Director of the Institute for Peloponnesian was organized. We have characterized the might be said for olive oil and wine, which Studies in Tripolis. The Greek-American overall change in terms of urbanization: the are well represented in the botanical record, team, which numbered up to 45 students development of new architectural forms, but processed by a labor pool in contexts and staff over the course of the summer, such as the Monumental Civic Building removed from the locus of consumption. stayed in village accommodations in Ano and the andreion, for newly defined civic We think that the large urban house rep- Karyes and in nearby Kastanochoroi. spaces and institutions; and the mobiliza- resents the center of a complex oikos, the Our architectural documentation work tion and organization of labor to implement economic and social nucleus of a larger creating the first actual-state drawing of the large-scale building projects. Furthermore, household, whose dependents, storerooms, sanctuary, funded in part by the Samuel H. the food storage and processing facilities and work areas would have been located Kress Foundation, continued in the area of associated with these two buildings dem- away from the South Acropolis. the seats, the fountain house, and the “xe- onstrate changes in the control and mobi- The city’s civic buildings show distinctly non,” and work was begun in the bath build- lization of agropastoral produce for various different kinds of resource allocation and ing. Two topographical survey teams con- occasions of public consumption. dining activities. The Monumental Civic tinued the work of documenting the exact The Archaic houses at Azoria were also Building accommodated various kinds of location of each of the blocks being drawn built in the early sixth century, demonstrat- ceremonies, enhancing the common or by the architectural team. Mark Davison ing a static construction of social space, collective experience. The open plan en- of the University of Oregon, together with remaining visibly unchanged until the couraged a communal feast in which status Costas Cassios of the National Polytechnic site’s abandonment and destruction in the distinctions were expressed through the University, continued their work on the early fifth century. Study in 2009 is now nuances of rituals and ceremonial alloca- proposed Parrhasian Heritage Park, which showing that the types of food process- tion of sacrificial meat or special meals. would protect and unify ancient cities and ing equipment, and the distribution and Segregation was the rule in the andreion, sanctuaries in the area of Western Arcadia, condition of grain and other produce in where a multiplicity of connected but Southern Elis, and Northern Messenia. the houses, point to the decentralization separate dining rooms made it possible We continued several trenches from of storage and primary processing. We for participants to dine together as part of 2008 and opened a number of new trench- have begun to visualize the households in the civic community, but at the same time es. In the altar we extended Trench Z and the city center as principally consumers; expressing corporate or kinship distinc- continued to find large quantities of Myce- their assemblages reflect final stage pro- tions. The nature of the ceremonies and naean sherds from kylikes, stemmed bowls, cessing and consumption—and storage as feasts in these two civic contexts suggests continued on page 14

11   9  kai gegono  kai 9 gegono

People & Places People On February 12, the Blegen Library staff Staff Visits the Agora. The ASCSA is such a diverse and active hosted a going-away reception for Ben institution, that sometimes even long-time employees do not Millis. Ben joined the Blegen Library as really know what their colleagues do or where they do it. Acquisitions Librarian in 2003, becoming a On March 3, members of the uptown School staff (here with full-time staff member in 2004. He has left Agora Excavations Manager Craig Mauzy) were invited to visit Athens and moved with his family to the the Agora Excavations and the Stoa of Attalos. Some 25 people UK. Here, Ben opens a gift from the staff of accepted the invitation and for many it was their first visit ever. ASCSA, a paperweight with a replica of a Agora staff members were in their various offices to explain the sixth-century B.C.E. coin from Corinth. work they do there. After visiting the archives, photography, Photo: G. Magouti drafting, the laboratory, and the computer center, the visitors were given tours of the storerooms and the recent excavations. By all accounts it was a useful and informative occasion. Photo: A. Anastassiades

The Regular Program resumed its travel schedule after the winter break with a trip to Crete led by Bob Bridges followed by an optional trip to Sicily with Margaret Miles, in a joint venture with the American Acad- emy in Rome. Photo, right: Regular Mem- bers assemble in the Panathenaic Stadium for the last report in Athens, March 2010, before heading off. Below, right: Interior of Temple G, Selinunte, Sicily; pictured are Margaret Miles, Ann Patnaude, Robert Hammond (AAR), Rob Nichols, Natalie Abell, Katie Swinford, Joe Groves, Jessica Paga, and Kate McCormick. Below: Mellon Professors Margaret M. Miles (ASCSA) and Corey Brennan (AAR) in the interior of the Temple of Concord, Agrigento. Photo: M.M. Miles

Photo: M. Pilali Photo: J. Tully. 12 Laurie Kilker and Andrew Sweet, who met as Members at the School in 2007, shared news of the arrival of daughter Olivia Genevieve (photo, left) on February 24. Also joining the ASCSA community recently was (photo, right) Nikoletta, born to Corinth Excavations Assistant Director Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst and Corinth Archi- tect James Herbst on October 20. In fact, ASCSA staff and Members have produced a bumper crop of babies — and possible future ASCSA Members—recently, as Agora IT Specialist Bruce Hartzler, conservator Amandina Anastassiades, and several past Members of the School all announced births. Chris Hayward (University of Edinburgh) gave a Fitch-Wiener Seminar in October 2009, entitled “Tephrochronology and its Archaeological Applications.” Photo: S. Fox

On April 15, 2010 School Director Jack Davis (left, speaking with ASCSA Trustee Robert McCabe) lectured at the Athens Center on “The Palace of Nestor of Pylos.” In March, the Wiener Laboratory hosted its most well-attended and successful work- Photo: J. Zervos shop to date. Around 50 participants—School faculty, staff, and students, as well as representatives from the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology of South- ern Greece, Harokopio University, the German Institute at Athens, the American Foundation for Bulgaria, and the University of Athens—passed through the Wiener Laboratory while Wiener Lab researchers showed off their work. The final hour of the three-hour workshop was a flint knapping demonstration (participants shown above) led by Nick Thompson.

Chavdar Tzochev (University of Sofia), a Mellon postdoctoral fellow with considerable experience in the stamped amphora handles from the island of Thasos found in Thrace and Northern Greece, has turned his attention to the 600 Thasian handles in the collections at the Athenian Agora. He joins Carolyn Koehler, Philippa Matheson, Mark Lawall, and Gerald Finkielsztein, all of whom are working with the thousands of handles found in the excavations and the extensive archive built up by Virginia Grace over many years of study. Photo: C. Mauzy

13 data have been collected solely through ASCSA in the Field Saronic Harbors Archaeological continued from page 11 Research Project (SHARP) above-ground techniques, ranging from (h t t p ://m a i l e r .f s u .e du /~d p u l l e n /SHARP/) high-resolution Differential GPS mapping to old-fashioned drawing of architecture Da n i e l J. Pu l l e n , Florida State University with pencil and paper, from innovative col- lection strategies to traditional field walk- The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Re- ing by survey teams. search Project (SHARP), under the direc- In order to document the architectural tion of Daniel J. Pullen (Florida State Uni- remains at Korphos-Kalamianos in a com- versity) and Thomas F. Tartaron (University prehensive way, our documentation in- of Pennsylvania), carried out the third of cluded systematic inventory and mapping; three field seasons from 18 May to 27 June detailed architectural survey, drawing, writ- 2009. Special thanks are due to the 37th ten descriptions, and photographs; and Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiq- systematic surface collection of material uities and the 25th Ephoreia of Byzantine from the structures to provide chronologi- Silver Stater, Arcadian League, Zeus and Post-Byzantine Antiquities. Geological cal and functional information. In addition, Lykaios, fifth century B.C. work was carried out with a permit from we employed two architectural drawing Photo: D. G. Romano the Institute of Geology and Mineral Ex- teams who drew stone-by-stone drawings ploration (ΙΓΜΕ permit #2268). of most of the structures at Kalamianos and In 2009, as before, our research focused at Stiri. A tethered balloon was used to take cups, and deep bowls as well as animal figu- overall and detailed aerial photographs of rines, and at least one human figurine, on on the Mycenaean settlement at Korphos- Kalamianos and on the surrounding ter- Kalamianos and its architecture. the bedrock. A preliminary analysis of the Our architectural documentation pro- ceramics indicates a range from LH II – ritory. Kalamianos was a major harbor settlement of the Mycenaean palatial pe- gram has succeeded in generating a detailed LH IIIC. Above this level, the stratigraphy plan of an enclosed Mycenaean (LH IIIB) continues to include Dark Age material, as riod, with a large, planned urban center that anchored a region of Mycenaean ac- town, with its circuit walls, buildings, and well as Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and streets, as well as detailed plans and de- Hellenistic sherds and objects, in what ap- tivity extending well beyond the site itself. The Kalamianos site is unusual in that the scriptions of many of the structures con- pears to be a continuous sequence. We are tained within the walls. finding miniature bronze tripods as well as architectural foundations and lower walls of an entire Mycenaean town are exposed We continued to work in our permit silver coins, metal objects, and miniature survey area of 7.35 sq. km. All of the survey dedications of various kinds. Numerous because of extensive loss of soil into the sea on the gently sloping terrain of the site. zones have now been reasonably explored, examples of Early and Middle Helladic and the most significant sites and other an- pottery as well as Final Neolithic sherds The region is rich in additional Mycenaean- period and Early Bronze Age sites. cient features identified within them have were uncovered again this year in nearly all received intensive and detailed treatment. layers of the altar. Masses of animal bones Because we have not yet been able to purchase land at Kalamianos, no excava- In three seasons, we have achieved our continue to be unearthed, but no human continued on page 18 bones have been found. A new trench, ZZ, tions have been conducted. Thus all of our was initiated in the ash altar. This trench is situated close to the presumed location of a geological fault that approaches the ash altar from the southwest and is located at the edge of the top of the ash altar. In the lower sanctuary, work was con- tinued in the area immediately to the north of the seats. A terracotta water channel was found in the Classical levels parallel to the seats and suggests a path or dromos run- ning to the north of the seats. Work contin- ued in an area outside the northeast corner of the “xenon” where polygonal stone walls of a corridor continue towards the north- east. Cleaning continued in the area of the 67-meter-long stoa. Several exploratory trenches were opened in the area of the hippodrome. We are grateful to the support of over 50 individual donors and several foun- dations, with particular thanks to The Karabots Foundation of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania and to Annette Merle-Smith of Princeton, New Jersey. Balloon photo of Kalamianos Buildings 4-VI and 4-IX.

14 S P R I N G e 2 0 1 0 GennadeionGennadeion NewsNews A special insert to the newsletter of the american school of classical studies at athens

Ali Pasha Papers Published Archives Receive

n his Annual Report for getting about a thousand titles, Generous Gifts academic year 1952–53, the works of travel, Greek, Turkish wo recent gifts have en- ILibrarian of the Gennadius and Balkan history, early Greek riched the Gennadius Library, Shirley W. Weber, wrote: paintings, most of them in beau- Library’s collection of “The crowning gift of the year tiful bindings,” reported Weber. T materials reflecting the cultural was received on the last day of “In addition, there is a large and political environment of March [1953].” Weber was refer- collection of manuscript letters modern Greece. ring to Damianos Kyriazis’ valu- of Ali Pasha, invaluable for the Thanks to the generosity able collection of books, manu- history of Epirus and the Greek of Anna Venezi-Kosmetatou, scripts, and paintings. revolution, and also a collection daughter of well-known Greek The Ali Pasha papers, which of autographed letters.” prose writer Elias Venezis, the previously belonged to the The Gennadius Library is Venezis Papers have joined the Hotzi brothers, were part of this happy to announce the full pub- archives of his fellow writers “crowning gift.” Damianos Kyri- lication of the Ali Pasha Papers and friends Stratis Myrivilis and azis, a wealthy banker in Athens in a four-volume catalogue, the Angelos Terzakis. One of the and Geneva who died in 1948, product of a 30-year-long proj- military, administrative, and most important Greek writers, left behind a rich collection ect, under the auspices of the private—documenting all as- Venezis’ work draws its inspira- of books, pictures, and manu- National Research Foundation. pects of Ali Pasha’s 33-year rule tion from his horrible experienc- scripts. Five years after Kyriazis’ Vasilis Panagiotopoulos and of Yannina, up to his death in es of cruelty before and after the death his heirs decided, based collaborators Dimitris Dimitrop- 1822. Asia Minor Disaster (1922). This on the “complicated will” of the oulos and Panagiotis Michailaris The publication is available donation enriches the Archives’ deceased, that part of the col- are responsible for the master- for sale through the National important holdings relating to e lection would go to the Benaki ful study and publication of the Research Foundation. the so-called 1930 Generation Museum and part to the ASCSA’s approximately 1,500 documents (Η γενιά του ’30). Gennadius Library. “We are of the collection—diplomatic, — Eleftheria Daleziou, Archivist The family of George Papaio- annou, a leading political figure and member of the Greek resis- tance group Ellenikos Demokra- Libraries Receive Grants for Cataloguing tikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES), donated his papers. Historical generous grant from at the University of Washington, ddd collections involving the Greek the Stavros Niarchos who was recently awarded the A two-year grant from the Civil War are largely absent from AFoundation (www.SNF. Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Demos Foundation has al- the Archives, making the dona- org) was awarded to the Blegen Award. Participants in the work- lowed the Gennadeion to hire tion of the Papaioannou Papers and the Gennadius Libraries to shop, which included catalogu- an experienced paleographer, particularly significant. e support the detailed electronic ers from the School and from Dr. Vassiliki Liakou-Kropp, to cataloguing of their 1,500 ac- the British School of Archaeol- produce electronic records of tive periodicals. The grant has ogy, increased their knowledge the Library’s manuscript col- Save the Date! enabled the Gennadeion to fund of the rules and international lection in its online catalogue, An art exhibition titled “Jo- a full-time cataloguer (Asimina standards for serials catalogu- Ambrosia, following interna- hannes Gennadius and his Rodi) and half of the time of a ing. This training has enabled tional standards for manuscript World” will open on June cataloguer at the Blegen (Maria them to enter the vast and often cataloguing under the guidance 8, 2010 and will be on view Tourna) for two years. It has unique holdings of all three of Gennadius Librarian Irini in the Library until June 26. also provided funds for a special libraries into the AMBROSIA Solomonidi and the wise coun- Fifty artists have been com- advanced training session in online catalog, thereby mak- sel of Maria Politi of the Greek missioned to produce works serials cataloguing conducted ing these important resources e Palaeographic Society. that will be sold to benefit in September 2009 by Steven C. discoverable to scholars and the Gennadius Library. Shadle, Serials Access Librarian researchers worldwide. G2 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

UPCOMING EVENTS Scholars at the Mystras, Byzantium, Walton Lecture Draws Crowds Gennadeion the Focus for May in Athens and Thessaloniki The 2009–2010 Frantz Fellow, A day-long symposium titled Heidi Broome-Raines, a Ph.D. “Mystras: Identities and Perspec- student in Classics at Brown tives,” co-sponsored by the Isti- University, is researching the re- tuto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini ception of Classical Attic tragedy e Post-bizantini in Venice, the in early Byzantium, focusing on Research Institute of Byzantine the impact that the tragedies had Culture of the University of on Byzantine authors. Peloponnese, and the Gennadius Library, is scheduled for May 20. ddd The conference will explore Cotsen Traveling Fellow Ays¸e the cultural ties of Mystras with Ozil of Bosphorus University Constantinople and the West, as used the Geography and Travel well as ancient Sparta. Through collection of the Gennadius Li- a thematic approach, the confer- Professor Robert Ousterhout with Dr. Maria Georgopoulou brary to assemble European de- ence reflects on the complexity and Tilemachos Longhis of the National Hellenic Research scriptions of Christian churches of the cultural synthesis achieved Foundation, outside Cotsen Hall. Photo: H. Akriviadis and schools in northwestern Asia at Mystras. Art historians, his- Minor (the Ottoman province of torians, and philologists will he 29th Annual Walton Lecture, organized in honor of past Hüdavendigar) for her research explore facets of the history and Gennadius Librarian Francis R. Walton, was delivered this on the social history of Greek archaeology of the site. An exhi- Tyear by Professor Robert Ousterhout of the University of Orthodox Christians during the bition of materials from the Ge- Pennsylvania. In his lecture, “Byzantine Constantinople: Visualiz- late nineteenth and early twenti- ography and Travel Collection of ing a City in Transition,” Professor Ousterhout, an expert on Con- eth centuries. stantinople and its monuments, examined Constantinople from the Gennadius, curated by Aliki ddd Asvesta, accompanies the event. an archaeological, architectural, and historical perspective and ddd reminded the audience of the vibrancy and vitality of the capital of ASCSA Associate Member Kris- Byzantium through the ages. tine Hess of the University of Historian Judith Herrin, Profes- The Walton Lecture filled Cotsen Hall to the brim on March 2 Chicago has been using the sor Emerita and Senior Research and was equally successful in Thessaloniki, where it was repeated collections of the Gennadius Fellow in Byzantine Studies and two days later, for the first time ever. The Thessaloniki­ lecture was Library for her dissertation re- Fellow of King’s College London, made possible thanks to the initiative and support of the Archaeo- search, which focuses on cult will deliver the fourth joint Gen- logical Institute of Macedonian and Thracian Studies; the Museum practices at the monastery of St. nadius Library–S. Onassis Public of Byzantine Civilization, where the lecture took place; and the Catherine on Mount Sinai. Benefit Foundation Lecture, on European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments. “The West meets Byzantium: ddd unexpected consequences of the Several scholars conducting Council of Ferrara-Florence, research at the Gennadeion pre- 1438–9,” on May 25. Her lecture Schoolbooks from the Gennadius sented their findings at a Work- will explore a fascinating facet of in-Progress Seminar: Stefano the cultural exchanges between Collections on Display Pozzi, from Milan, spoke on the Byzantium and the West in the language of Stefano Marzocchi of fifteenth century. A promoter of everal treasures from the children’s the island of Zakynthos (1855– Hellenic civilization in England books collection of the Genna- 1913); Cristina Pallini of the and the United States, Judith Sdius Library and material from Polytechnic University of Milan Herrin was awarded the Golden the Library’s Archives were included in presented an unknown hand- Cross of Honor by the Presi- the exhibition “Authors and Artists of drawn map of Smyrna from the dent of the Hellenic Republic of Schoolbooks (1860–1960),” organized collections of the Gennadius e Greece in 2002. by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Library; Kristine Hess of the Foundation and the Society for the Study University of Chicago spoke on Gennadeion News pages are com- of Modern Greek Culture and General piled by Gennadius Library Director her research about the cult and Maria Georgopoulou, Librarian Irini Education, on display at the Megaron pilgrimage of Saint Catherine on Solomonidi, and Archivist Natalia Eynardou in Athens from January to Mount Sinai; and Ays¸e Ozil of Vogeikoff-Brogan, and edited by March 2010. A series of rare alphavitaria Bosphorus University presented Sally Fay. (reading books), a handwritten note by her research on the Orthodox This publication is produced semi­ Galateia Kazantzaki from the Kostas Varnalis Archive, and other im- Christian communal buildings in annually. Email all correspondence for portant schoolbooks of the second quarter of the twentieth century Gennadeion News to [email protected]. Asia Minor during the Late Otto- were on view. e man Empire. e G E N N A D E I O N N E W S G3

Conference Honors Memory of Angeliki Laiou

he legacy of Byzantine drew numerous Byzantine schol- historian Angeliki Laiou ars and members of the Academy Twas celebrated in an in- of Athens, as well as former Pres- ternational conference in Cotsen ident of the Hellenic Republic Hall on October 23, 2009. “Mi- Kostantinos Stephanopoulos and gration, Gender, and the Econo- former Prime Minister of Greece my in Byzantium: A Conference Kostas Simitis. Gilbert Dagron, in Memory of Angeliki Laiou” Panagiotis Vocotopoulos, and Cécile Morrisson (in a text read by Nano Chatzidaki) presented the life and work of Professor Kaiti Myrivili and Drosoula Angelopoulou, heirs of Laiou, while other colleagues Stratis Myrivilis, enjoy the performance. Photo: L. Costaki and students (Charalambos Bou- ras, Koray Sevki Durak, Maria Georgopoulou, Hélène Glykatzi- Lectures, Events Fill Cotsen Hall Ahrweiler, Ioli Kalavrezou, Haris Kalligas, Demetrios Kyritsis, or the fifth year the generosity of Gennadeion Trustee Chryssa Maltezou, and Nevra Lloyd Cotsen allowed the Library to invite to Cotsen Hall Necipog˘lu) presented scholarly Fa remarkable array of scholars, authors, and actors who essays inspired by topics that attracted varied audiences to the programs of the Library. were important in her work. In the winter, the literary archives of the Gennadius Library Angeliki Laiou, who died in took center stage. Dimitri Tziovas of the University of Birming- ham reflected on the myth of the Generation of the Thirties, and Former President of the Hellenic 2008 at the age of 67, was Samu- two events honored author Stratis Myrivilis (1892-1969), whose Republic Kostantinos Stephano- el H. Kress Professor of Hellenic archive was donated to the Gennadius Library by the Myrivilis poulos, Former Prime Minister of Studies at the American School family in 1999. In December, writers Vassilis Vassilikos, Menis Greece Kostas Simitis, and Pro- in 1978–1979 before assuming Koumantareas, and Christos Homenidis reflected on three novels fessor Gilbert Dagron in the front her position as Dumbarton Oaks by Myrivilis, while actor Dimitris Kataleifos read excerpts from seats of Cotsen Hall. Professor of Byzantine History at Photo: H. Akriviadis Harvard University. e Myrivilis’ works. In January, a theatrical performance directed by Stratis Panourios enlivened well-known stories and heroes of Myrivilis’ short stories from the Colored Books. The Myrivilis Ar- chive has been catalogued by Reference Archivist Leda Costaki, Medieval Greek Summer Session Held who mounted a small exhibition of manuscripts and photos in Cotsen Hall. he third Byzantine Sum- The next Byzantine Summer In the spring, Derek Krueger of the University of North Caro- mer School Program took School is planned for 2011. e lina at Greensboro spoke on Pilgrimage Shrines, Relics, and the Tplace in July 2009, made Formation of Identity in Early Byzantium, and Reinhold Mueller possible thanks to the financial of the University of Venice lectured on the fall of Negroponte to support of the Philoi of the Gen- the Ottomans in 1470 and female sanctity in Venice. nadius Library. It attracted a total of nine participants: seven graduate students from the U.S. and Canada and two junior fac- ulty members from U.S. univer- sities. The two Summer School instructors, professors Stratis Papaioannou of Brown Univer- sity and Alexandros Alexakis of the University of Ioannina, re- ceived excellent student reviews. Several visits to sites in Athens, Corinth, Mystras, Thessaloniki, and Hosios Loukas offered the Professor Alexandros Alexakis students a unique opportunity to Photo, left: Actor Dimitris Kataleifos reads from Myrivilis’ works. and students on a field trip in familiarize themselves with the Right: Professor Dimitri Tziovas at the podium. Photos: L. Costaki Mystras. Photo: G. Cooper Byzantine monuments in Greece. G4 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Another Busy Year for the Philoi

ectures, trips, and visits to various significant Lcultural institutions in Athens filled the calendar of the Association of the Philoi of the Gennadius Library. They visited the Historical Archive of the Archaeological Service; the Angelos and Lito Katakouzinos Foundation; the Music Library Irini Solomonidi with competition “Lilian Voudouri” at the Athens winner Musheng Chen. Concert Hall; the War Museum Photo: H. Akriviadis of Athens; the ALPHA Bank numismatic collection; and the exhibition of bookbinder Kiki Mitropoulos Dousi at the Benaki Historical Competition Archives. The General Assembly and Winner Honored traditional New Year’s pita cut- The Philoi at the ALPHA Bank Numismatic collection. ting was followed by a lively he 13th Annual Dimitris lecture by Harvard Professor well as the historical library of the Philoi will have the chance Mitropoulos International Ioli Kalavrezou, who spoke on Competition for original Andritsena with its important to visit the monastery libraries of T “Women in Byzantium.” His- historical manuscripts. An April Melk and Admont and the im- composition for symphony or- torian Aikaterini Koumarianou day trip to Aegina will bring portant libraries and monuments chestra, organized by the Orches- presented an inspiring lecture tra of Colors in collaboration the Philoi to famous Byzantine of Vienna. entitled “Johannes Gennadius, churches and the Temple of The Day of Florence/Anthi with the Athens Concert Hall the Scholar–the Collector” on (Megaron Mousikis), took place Aphaia with the special help of Gennadius, on May 13, will be the Day of Johannes Gennadius. Ambassador I. Bourloyiannis- celebrated with the third annual on November 6, 2009. Continu- In March the Philoi visited ing a tradition instituted since Tsangaridis and Byzantinist Bookfair in the gardens of the the archaeological sites of Olym- e the inception of the Mitropoulos Vassiliki Penna. On a trip to Gennadius Library. pia, Ancient Messene, and the Vienna scheduled for late May, Competition in celebration of Temple of Apollo Epikourios as — Irini Mantzavinou the Mitropoulos Archive housed in the Gennadius Library, Librar- ian Irini Solomonidi presented the first prize winner, Mr. Mush- Clean Monday Celebrated in New York eng Chen, with a commemora- tive medal carved by sculptor ver 120 friends of the Theodoros Papayannis. e Library celebrated the OTenth Annual Clean Monday Benefit on February 15 VIP Visitors at Molyvos in New York City. Several groups of visitors were Unique Lenten cuisine was given special tours of the Gen- prepared by Molyvos’ chef Jim nadeion recently including the Botsacos, and a special guest was Philoi of the Benaki Museum; internationally-renowned Greek members of the General Direc- cuisine author and chef Diane torate of Archives of Albania, Kochilas. with Mr. Agamemnon Tseli- Funds raised from the eve- kas of the National Bank of ning will be applied to a match Greece Cultural Foundation; for a National Endowment Dr. David Magier, Associate for the Humanities Challenge Grant recently awarded for the University Librarian for Col- Enjoying the festivities are (left to right) Library Director Dr. Maria renovations to the School’s two lection Development at Princ- Georgopoulou, Gennadius Trustee Nicholas Bacopoulos, Ambassador libraries. For more of the event eton’s Firestone Library; and of Greece to the U.S. Mr. Vassilis Kaskarelis (the event’s honorary pa- online, see www.ascsa.edu.gr/ the family of past Gennadius tron), Gennadius Trustees Nassos Michas (with his wife April) and Dr. e index.php/news/tenth-annual- Librarian Francis R. Walton. Edward E. Cohen, and School Trustee Lady Judith Thomson. clean-monday-benefit/. e From the Archives

Mycenae Excavation Photos Added to School Archives An unexpected and valuable gift arrived at the School’s Archives in early February. Previously, Kate Biddle More, through Pro- fessor William Scott of Dartmouth College, had inquired whether the School would be interested in acquiring an album of pho- tographs from the excavations of Grave Circle B at Mycenae in 1953, in which she had participated as a recent graduate from Vassar College. Professor George Mylonas of Washington University in St. Louis, Mis- souri, together with archaeologist Ioannis Papadimitriou, directed the excavation. The majority of the photos in the album were taken by the renowned photographer Nikolaos Tombazis, the father of architect The Mycenae excavation team, 1953. Kate Biddle stands in front row next to exca- Alexandros Tombazis, one of the two ar- vation co-director George Mylonas, with architect Alexandros Tombazis (seated) to chitects responsible for the New Acropolis Mylonas’ left, co-director Ioannis Papadimitriou to Tombazis’ left, and archaeologist Museum. After retiring from India where Dimitris Theocharis standing in front row, second from right. he worked for 30 years as a commercial representative of the Rallis Brothers firm, Tombazis launched a new career as free- tourists were walking in the circle of graves, and Italians—the destruction of the Gor- lance photographer on archaeological ex- refusing to understand his urgent signals that gopotamos railway viaduct in November cavations in Greece. His rich photographic they were not allowed to be there. Of course 1942 cut the supply line of the Germans for archive has been deposited at the Benaki he didn’t speak German, and they pretended months—but between October 1943 and Museum, which recently held an exhibit in not to understand his communications. Dr. February 1944, the two guerrilla groups honor of Tombazis with photographs from Papadimitriou ran back up to the site and, in fought each other. EDES was also bolstered India and Greece. Although a number of German, angrily ordered the intruders to get by the British, who hoped to build EDES the photos in the album have been included out, with heated remarks about having had into a force strong enough to rival EAM- in George Mylonas’ publication of Grave enough of Germans during the occupation of ELAS; however, EDES was incapable of Circle B, the album also contains beautiful Greece in World War II.” extending its influence far beyond Epirus. landscape photos of the Mycenae hill, as The School is most grateful to Kate During the fighting between ELAS and the well as several images recording casual mo- Biddle More for her generous decision to British, which began in December 1944, ments of the dig, such as the big feast that share with us her treasure of photos and the EDES army was destroyed by ELAS in followed the end of the excavation, vividly her unique memories of this landmark a short time. remembered by Kate Biddle More: excavation. EDES’ forces concentrated in northwest- “At the end of August or early Septem- ddd ern Greece, and Papaioannou, a doctor by ber, when the dig was finished for the year, training and a member of the Greek par- we had a Homeric feast in one of the tholos Gennadeion Archives liament since 1933, was the leader of the tombs near the citadel. The roof of the tomb Trichonis subdivision of EDES (the pre- had long ago collapsed and the debris had Acquire Papaioannou fecture of Trichonis is located in the area been cleared away. Two long tables were set Papers of Aetoloacarnania). After the end of the up and a lamb was roasted on a spit over an Greek Civil War, he served as mayor of The Papers of George Papaioannou, a lead- open fire for several hours. When it was done Agrinion and member of the Greek Par- ing figure of EDES (Ellenikos Demokra- we had a feast, with wine and other suitable liament. Part of his archive was published tikos Ethnikos Stratos), were donated by things (salad? grapes? bread, surely). The in 1999 (V. Lamnatos, Ανέκδοτα Ιστορικά his family to the Archives of the Gennadius workmen sat at one table, the archaeologists, Κείμενα της Εθνικής Αντιστάσεως του Γεωργίου Library. Led by General Napoleon Zervas, me and a wife or two who had come out from Παπαϊωάννου), but the archive also contains EDES was one of the two armed resistance Athens at the other. Photos of this event are in a considerable amount of unpublished ma- groups (the other being ELAS, the National the album. One workman stood guard at the terial. In addition to the papers relating to Liberation Front) which emerged in the circle of graves, as they were still open, with the Civil War, the archive also includes mountains during the German occupa- many of the contents in situ. During the feast information about the recognition of the tion. EDES cooperated with ELAS for a he came running to Drs. Mylonas and Pa- EDES guerilla fighters during the dictator- time in operations against the Germans padimitriou and reported that some German continued on page 16

15 From the Archives continued from page 15 ship in 1969. Other material includes many ans of the immediate post-war generations. photographs from the mountains showing With a few minor exceptions, historical guerillas of EDES; various reports by Napo- collections relating to the Greek Civil War leon Zervas, the leader of EDES; correspon- are almost absent from the Archives of the dence between Papaioannou and British Gennadius Library. Part of this absence has major G. McAdam; several issues of local to do with the fact that the Greek Resis- newspapers (Παναιτωλική, Αχελώος, Χρόνος) tance fighters were alive until recently, and from the 1950s and 1960s referring to the it is only now that their families have be- rivalry between ELAS and EDES, but also come aware of the historical value of these to internal disputes between the guerilla collections and are concerned about their fighters of EDES (Papaioannou vs. Stelios future. We view the Papaioannou Papers Choutas, Papaioannou vs. Antonis Papa- as a significant addition to the Gennade- pandoleon). ion Archives. We are especially thankful The Civil War has been a dark page in to Mrs. Nadia Tzevelekou, the daughter Greece’s recent history, having left bitter of George Papaioannou, for accompany- and unhealed feelings among those who ing her gift with a fellowship to support participated. As a result, Greek historians historical research. avoided focusing their research on this ddd period until recently. Most of our knowl- edge about this period came from “biased” Venezis Papers Donated chronicles and memoirs of Civil War par- ticipants, as Professor Stathis Kalyvas of to Gennadeion Archives Celebrating the Centenary of Elias Yale University has recently pointed out The School is pleased to announce the ac- Venezis’ Birth, by the National Society of (Kathimerini, 8/3/2009). However, with quisition of the Elias Venezis Papers, which Greek Novelists in 2006. From the Elias Venezis Papers. most participants of the Civil War having are now resident at the Archives of the Gen- passed away during the last two decades nadius Library, in the company of his fel- of the twentieth century, there has been a low writers and friends Stratis Myrivilis and renewed interest by a new generation of Angelos Terzakis. his horrible experiences of cruelty before dynamic Greek historians in studying this Elias Venezis (1904–1973) is a well- and after the Asia Minor Disaster (1922). period (with many conferences organized known Greek prose writer, who belongs His first book,Number 31328, published in in 1999–2000), without the emotional bur- to the so-called 1930 Generation (Η γενιά 1931, is the chronicle of Venezis’ fourteen dens that characterized the work of histori- του ’30). His novels and short stories reflect months spent as a “slave laborer” in Ana- tolia, rebuilding what had been destroyed during the war between the Greeks and the Turks. In a later novel, Aeolic Earth (1943), Venezis recounted his childhood in his na- tive Aeolia. Lawrence Durrell, in his preface to the English edition of Aeolic Earth (or Beyond the Aegean) considered Venezis “to be together with Myrivilis one of the great- est Greek novelists of to-day.” The Venezis Papers are a medium-size collection of about 7 linear meters con- sisting of personal (including Venezis’ letters from the prison) and professional correspondence (correspondence with publishers and critics), unpublished radio speeches (from his career at the National Greek Radio for sixteen years), and news- paper clippings. We are most grateful to Anna Venezi- Kosmetatou for her thoughtful decision to donate her father’s papers to the Gennadius Library. e

— Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist George Papaioannou (center), 1944.

16 Loring Hall: Could It Have Been “Thomas Hall”?

Reading Louis E. Lord’s History of the Amer- ican School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882–1942, one learns only the most ba- sic information about Loring Hall: which organization funded its construction, the name of the architect, and its opening date. One could hardly imagine that 16 years of complicated negotiations preceded its of- ficial opening in February 1930, or that it was the dream of several important women, including the exceptional but controversial M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College (1894–1922), before it was finally named after a man, Judge William Caleb Loring. “We the under-signed Presidents of the five colleges of women, Mt. Holyoke Col- lege, Smith College, Vassar College, Wellesley College and Bryn Mawr College, which have contributed in the past and are now contrib- Loring Hall in 1929, before it officially opened. uting $1,250 annually to the support of the American School of Classical Study [sic] at Athens earnestly request the Director of the ably the two main reasons that prohibited received their land titles a year later. school and the Managing Committee to make the construction of a women’s quarters. Soon after, at the American School, suitable provision for women students in the A couple of years later, in the midst of Edward Capps, the new Chairman of the school building which is …now being rebuilt WWI, the American and British Schools Managing Committee, had launched a large and enlarged. …We are informed that men at Athens found themselves negotiating campaign for the endowment of the School. students at the American School are able to with the Greek government for the acqui- In 1922 John Gennadius had just presented obtain a room in the school for the very mod- sition of a large piece of land on the north to the School his extraordinary library and erate sum of $20 a year, including heat and side of Souidias street—then still Spefsip- collections and the School had received a service, and that this room is kept for them pou— which belonged to the Monastery of magnificent gift from the Carnegie Corpo- during their travels…, but that women not Asomaton (Moni Petraki). Having no spare ration to build the Gennadius Library. Just only find it difficult to obtain lodging at all funds for the land purchase, the American before the May Meeting of the Managing being practically confined to one boarding School in 1916 appealed to the presidents Committee, in a letter to Bert Hodge Hill, house, …but that their rooms are not reserved of the women’s colleges who had made the Capps mentioned that “we hope to be able for them during their trips through Greece… petition in 1913. By November of 1916, the continued on page 25 We are further told that the difficulty of us- same five colleges plus Barnard, Rad­cliffe, ing the library in the evening is also very and the Women’s College at Brown re- great it being unsafe for women students to sponded to the School’s appeal by subscrib- Share Your Memories! go through the lonely streets that lead to the ing $450 each. President M. Carey Thomas After 80 years of use, Loring Hall is school…” of Bryn Mawr College, who by now had in need of expansion and some much- This petition was addressed to the Chair assumed a leading role in the fund-raising deserved modernization (see Develop- of the ASCSA Managing Committee, James campaign for a Women’s Hostel in Athens, ment News box on p. 6 and website R. Wheeler, on July 18, 1913. In April of asked for the Trustees’ “promise in writing for details), but one thing that won’t 1913, the School had launched its first that the land we purchased will be reserved change is Loring’s place as the heart major architectural remodeling to enlarge for a woman’s building for at least fifteen or and soul of the School. We invite you the main building. When it was finished in twenty years and that if at the expiration to help mark Loring Hall’s 80th year 1915, it featured an enlarged reading room, of this time it should prove impossible to and celebrate the years to come by par- several more bedrooms for male students, get the money for a woman’s building the ticipating in our web-based Memory a common room, a room variously used Classical School be at liberty to refund to Book project. What remembrances of as a bursar’s office or an architect’s draft- the donors the money contributed and to your years at Loring would you like ing room, and a ladies’ parlor, the last of use the land for other purpose connected to share? Whether funny or poignant, which was furnished by a generous bequest with the School.” In addition to the college historical or recent, we’d like to hear of $500 from Miss Ruth Emerson (Mrs. subscriptions, two individuals, Hetty Gold- them! Add your anecdote to the guest Henry Martineau Fletcher), a member of man and Alice Walker (later Cosmopoulos) book (http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index. the School in 1895. The large cost of this re- contributed $1,000 each to the purchase php/alumni/guestbook/) and share modeling and the small number of women of the land. The expropriation of the land them with your fellow alums! attending the American School were prob- was published in 1918 and the two schools

17 ASCSA in the Field voted to conducting geological analyses to collected from nine sites. The Palaeolithic continued from page 14 provide datable contexts and providing a artifacts are distinguishable from the Meso- terminus ante quem more than one hundred lithic ones by their larger size as well as by and thirty thousand years B.P. for the Lower technological and typological criteria. The overarching objective of gaining a better Palaeolithic artifacts. A Mesolithic site-lo- tools include bifaces (handaxes), cleavers, understanding of the Kalamianos site and cation model was used to identify regions scrapers, and other forms. The geological its hinterland. on Crete likely to have early Holocene sites. contexts at five of the sites, including as- In 2010 we plan to conduct a study sea- The team considered that if Mesolithic for- sociations with raised marine terraces and son, with the goal of producing a mono- agers found smaller islands attractive for fossil soils, suggest an approximate age of graph on the project soon thereafter. subsistence, Crete must also have been a 130,000 B.P. for the oldest artifacts, and desirable habitat; and so they searched for they are probably much older. The pres- ddd habitats that were preferred by foragers and ence of Lower Palaeolithic sites is strong that also have the appropriate environmen- evidence for an early period of seafaring in Plakias Survey tal features to preserve their sites or activity the Mediterranean, with implications that areas. The coastal area around Plakias has the colonization of Europe by early African Th o m a s St r a s s e r , Providence College limestone caves and rockshelters, proxim- hominins was not exclusively land-based. ity to coastal wetlands, and a steep bathy- An in-depth article on the survey find- While claims for pre-Neolithic artifacts on metric drop-off that both attracted foragers ings will be published in an upcoming issue Crete have been made for decades, the Pla- and preserved their cultural remains. Upon of Hesperia (79.2), available in June 2010. kias Survey is the first project to identify examining all caves and rockshelters near Mesolithic and Palaeolithic artifacts in dat- the mouths of freshwater perennial streams ddd able geologic contexts. and rivers emptying into the Libyan Sea, The survey, led by Eleni Panagopoulou the survey team discovered lithic artifacts Excavations at Ancient Nemea

(Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Spe- on the slopes directly below the openings. Kim Sh e l t o n , University of California, Berkeley leology, Southern Greece) and Thomas The geological context at five of the sites Strasser (Providence College) under the allowed an approximate date to be assigned auspices of the Ministry of Culture and of 130,000 years, although the artifacts The forthcoming project “Excavations at Tourism of Greece, identified 29 sites as- may, in fact, be much older. Ancient Nemea, 2010–2012” will inves- sociated with caves and rockshelters and The principal raw materials found were tigate the process of transition in the area collected a sample of just over 2,000 stone quartz and, to a lesser extent, various types of the later Sanctuary of Zeus from border artifacts attributable to the Mesolithic and of chert; both were used for manufacturing region, or hinterland, between emerging the Lower Palaeolithic periods. Since Crete the majority of Mesolithic and Palaeolithic political powers to a ritual center that has been an island for five million years, artifacts. Mesolithic-period tools include became a focus for pan-Hellenic national these findings have significant implications end scrapers, notches, denticulates, trunca- and ethnic identity; a change that the area for the history of seafaring in the Mediter- tions, spines, and combination tools. The exhibits as it moves from the prehistoric ranean. The Plakias team presented these absence of polished stone axes, ground stone period into the early historical one. The findings at the Archaeological Institute of querns, clay or stone spindle whorls, and site is well positioned for the examination America’s Annual Meeting in Anaheim, characteristic ceramic wares of Neolithic of this process as it sits at the crossroads of California, in early January. or later type strongly argues against a post- routes that run from Mycenae to the Corin- The Plakias project found the Stone Age Mesolithic age for the Plakias industry. thian Gulf and from the central Arcadian artifacts in 2008; the 2009 season was de- Lower Palaeolithic lithic artifacts were heartland to the Argive plain. It also acts as a liminal zone that stimulates interaction between three regions and their emerging poleis (Phlious, Kleonai, Argos). Thus, the Nemea Excavation Project has the ability to be able to explore and define bound- aries and transitions both diachronically and synchronically; between Bronze Age centers, among poleis, and from habitation to ritual use. Indeed, although the development of ritual centers and their relationship to ear- lier Mycenaean sites are subjects discussed individually at other sites, it has been until now difficult or impossible to bring Nem- ea into these dialogues, despite its being able to exhibit evidence for both issues. We hope that this project will make a sig- nificant contribution to our knowledge of Aegean prehistory, Iron Age regional tran- Plakias survey, left: the Preveli Gorge. Right: Hand axe found at its west flank. sition, and studies of the development of organized ritual spaces. e

18 ASCSA Summer Session 2009: A Multimedia Experience

Summer Session I began on a wonderfully professor of English from DePauw Univer- clear, windy afternoon on Lykavitos with sity) who stayed the course. some excellent views of the monuments At the end of it, we were tired but in the and mountains around the city of Athens. best possible way, worn out with the plea- That afternoon proved a harbinger of good sure of having accomplished a physically fortune, and τύχη stayed with us through- and intellectually demanding program of out the program. We were grateful to have visits to well over 100 sites and museums her along as our apparent protectress. The and coordination with over 60 American, schedule was demanding, but we had 20 Greek, German, French, and Danish ar- superb students (9 undergraduates; 6 grad- chaeologists. These individuals took pre- uates; 4 high school teachers, recipients of cious time from their research agendas to a Fulbright fellowship; and an associate discuss everything from the shapes of archi- tectural moldings to the poetry of Kavafis, with stops along the way at Schliemann’s What our students say… notebooks, Michael Ventris’ letters, pro- cessions in the palace at Tiryns, and many “Summer Session I benefited enormously other places too numerous to mention. from having co-leaders who were different The opportunity for two professors to in many ways. Their academic interests lead the session (co-directorship), intro- and leadership styles, though dissimilar, duced in recent years, proved advanta- were complementary, and both leaders geous to the students, who benefit from demonstrated a sincere love for Greece, the depth of knowledge that two directors both ancient and modern. This affection with complementary interests can bring was contagious, and for me, the experi- to the program, and from the combined ence brought to life images I had only ever larger network of speakers that both di- Summer session students at Eleutherai. seen in books. It was particularly won- rectors could recruit. Student comments Photo: T. Winters derful to have one session leader who is (see sidebar) attest to the benefits of this a frequent visitor to Greece, and another arrangement and to the overall program. navigate the mountains and seas of Greece, who is a native of the country, as they both The effects of Summer Sessions are it is difficult to understand how important made the warm, welcoming, and vibrant far-reaching. Art educator Joel Cook has a factor geography is for ancient history. culture of Greece—not just its art and already put into practice his knowledge Those who continue in Classics often come architecture—tangible to all.” and created a list of bibliographic sources back, apply to the Academic Year Program, for AP Art History teachers (www.amazon. El i z a b e t h Ba ud o i n , Ph.D. candidate finish their dissertations at the ASCSA, and com/AP-Art-History-Bronze-Age-through- in Art History, Duke University may even ultimately decide to lead a Sum- Alexander Greece/lm/R1Y9NOUC2CFZ6/ mer Session. ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full). Richard “To say that attending the ASCSA Sum- Finally we must thank our students, Davis, another teacher who participated mer Session was life-changing would be who endured some extremely long days in the session, tracked our visits to every an understatement. As a teacher of Art punctuated by double-barreled lectures. site on a Google Map page. His blog (www. History, I was blown away at the breadth There were certainly times when, in the hotchkissmedia.org/rdavis/2009/06/) was and quality of the program. Under the di- midst of the kilns and inscriptions, they invaluable for the students, and it was en- rection of Drs. Hasaki and Winters, I was must have wondered what hit them. We can joyed by families in the States. Secondary able to gain perspective on Greek history only hope that they have recovered and are school teacher Jennifer Carinci (currently a that I had lacked to that point. . . . I thor- still committed to pursuing the profession Ph.D. candidate in Education at Johns Hop- oughly enjoyed them both, along with the that provided us with the opportunity to be kins University) kept an amazingly illus- different attitudes and knowledge bases a part of their education. It is an honor to trated scrapbook, capturing places, people, they had. I think it was a definite strength be associated with the American School of and monuments. Both students and direc- of the program, and to be offered (some- Classical Studies and we hope to see them tors now have a rich photographic archive times) different perspectives/opinions on all back on Souidias soon. which they turn to for classes, research, and the same subject was good. It forced me education outreach to our communities. to think, isolate, and draw conclusions, — Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona) In sum, the ASCSA Summer Session which, in my opinion, is what any good and Timothy F. Winters offers something profoundly important. educator allows their student to do. His- (Austin Peay State University) All participants acquire an appreciation of tory has never been a one-sided story, and Co-Directors, Summer Session I culture in a context rather than in a text- it was only fitting to have two professors book. They learn what challenges face a leading this experience. country with such a rich heritage trying For a Google map: “Where is the Summer Ses- sion?” by Richard Davis, and more text and pho- Jo e l Co o k , Reagan High School, to progress in contemporary society. All tos of the summer session, see http://www.ascsa. Houston, Texas participants also gain that 3-D understand- edu.gr/index.php/spiffs/summersession09. ing of the ancient world. Without having to

19 Kress Fellow Examines Agora’s Funerary Monuments In the 2008–09 academic year, thanks to funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the School awarded three fellowships aimed at sup- porting scholars who are publishing materials from the excavations at Ancient Corinth or the Athenian Agora. Kress Publications Fellow Janet Burnett Grossman (The J. Paul Getty Museum, retired) provided the following report on her progress during her fellowship.

My goal in spending three months in Ath- fragments of grave monuments, and they of the Athenian Agora are weathered and ens was to make significant advances on the will be added to my catalogue, bringing the degraded, but they have the advantage of a manuscript of the catalogue of the sculpted total number of sculptures in the manu- known provenance and are worthy of study. funerary monuments from the Athenian script to 395. In addition to examining the Some exhibit carving of the highest quality Agora. While in Athens the thrust of my sculptures on the uncertain list, I looked at so that they can still be enjoyed aestheti- efforts were twofold: utilization of the Ble- an additional fifty-four stones about which cally, while others contain rare or unique gen Library to check all bibliographic ref- I had lingering questions. All of this direct iconography. All of them are of interest for erences and to gather current information contact with the stones is work that could the development of funerary sculpture. on literature pertinent to gravestones; and be accomplished only in Athens and for The monuments to which these frag- examination, and in some cases reexami- that reason alone it was essential that I was ments belonged stood originally in the nation, of sculptures in the Agora store- there. cemeteries located outside the city gates. rooms. In the library, I was able to check the Most of these sculptures were brought in I examined and made notes on seven- last ten years of periodical literature in an as building stones, and some probably were ty-one sculptures that were on a list of organized and methodical manner owing to re-used several times for this purpose. The uncertain reliefs that Carol Lawton had the open access of journals that is still the most exciting discovery among the reliefs is compiled. Carol is working on the votive practice of the Blegen Library. I searched a fragment depicting a priestess of Athena reliefs from the Agora, but has also per- both JSTOR and Dyabola databases on (S1060). New examples of rare scenes or formed the invaluable task of shelf reading, relevant keywords, and I also discovered monument types include the fragment of a with the assistance of one of her students, much useful information on certain niche stele with a kneeling attendant figure, three all the sculptures in the inventory to en- topics relevant to the interpretation and fragments of monuments featuring Hermes sure that every possible fragment of a relief iconography of various stones. Psychopompos, a funerary altar with Bac- was identified so that if one of us could In summary, I accomplished my original chic motifs, and a triangular monument make a reasonable case for its being either goals and more during my three months at with the relief of a butterfly. Fragments of votive or funerary origin, it would be in- the School, and am continuing my work from six East Greek monuments were a cluded in one or the other of our respective on the manuscript as I prepare it for in- surprising discovery, suggesting that some volumes. Of those fragments of uncertain ternal review later this year. The 395 frag- members of the Metic population of Ath- reliefs, I determined that twenty-nine had ments of funerary monuments that have ens commissioned gravestones from their enough characteristics to consider them been unearthed to date in the excavations home cities. e

Dissertations Advance Thanks to Solow Fellowships

In 2008–09, funding from the Solow Art the primary body of evidence for her dis- & Architecture Foundation enabled two sertation and provided the foundation for advanced Ph.D. candidates to spend two preliminary analysis performed during the months on dissertation research requiring remainder of the year. access to archaeological sites and collec- Along with Dr. Stelios Andreou, the di- tions in Greece and the use of the resources rector of excavations at Toumba, and two of the American School. colleagues, Ms. Swinford prepared a sub- Katherine Swinford (University of Cin- mission for presentation of the preliminary cinnati) was able to complete the initial results of the recent excavations at Toumba assessment of the archaeological remains at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological from the archaic settlement at Toumba- Institute of America. Their submission was Thessaloniki, which forms the basis for her accepted, and New Excavations at Thessalo- dissertation. Her project includes a detailed niki Toumba: Continuity and Communality in study of the archaeological remains from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages was presented Toumba in order to create a comprehen- in Philadelphia in January 2009. sive stratigraphy of the archaic settlement, Angela Ziskowski (Bryn Mawr College), along with the study of survey finds from whose dissertation deals with the formation the nearby Langadas Basin, which will pro- of Corinthian identity during the Archaic vide comparanda for the material culture period, worked toward finalizing research Katherine Swinford studies a Geometric of Toumba and will locate the settlement in the Corinth Museum and engaging in a skyphos in the excavation laboratory, in a broader regional context. Her time Thessaloniki, Greece. in Greece yielded data that will comprise continued on next page

20 J. Montgomery Sears: Brief Life, Long Legacy A contributor to various historical newsletters, Nancy B. Wilson came across a long-ago ASCSA connection while researching a historically prominent Boston family. Pursuing this lead, she discovered—and shares here—a window on the life and times of a School alumnus and the lasting impression the ASCSA made on him and his family.

Among the ASCSA’s most dedicated sup- out, suffering grave injuries. Other motor- porters in its early years were Mr. and Mrs. ists who had seen them pass and feared J. Montgomery Sears of Boston. Sears had the worst returned to the site, and quickly inherited a large fortune from his father and phoned for aid. pursued a career in Boston real estate, but Monty Sears’ injuries were extensive, he also had many personal interests, par- and he died at Providence Hospital the fol- ticularly music and archaeology. His first lowing morning. He was 28 years old. contribution to archaeology, in 1896, was In later years Monty’s mother Sarah purchasing the library of the late archaeolo- made many contributions as memorials gist Ernest Curtius (noted for the original to her son, including some to the ASCSA. excavation of Olympia), which he donated From 1910 through 1916 (when the School to the library at Yale, his alma mater. In suspended due to World War I), she made 1898, about the time of the inception of the annual gifts of $1,500. In 1920 she was ASCSA’s Corinth Excavations, Sears and his a major donor toward a new Mason and wife donated $1,000 to the School. Hamlin grand piano for the School’s social From 1896 to 1900 their son J. Mont- rooms. From 1924 to 1927 she served as an gomery Sears Jr. (“Monty”) was a student ASCSA Trustee. In 1925 she donated “a new at Harvard. He had studied the Greek lan- Ford car” to the dig in progress at that time. guage for five years, as many did at that Sears’ influence also found its way into a time. His record in Greek (as in nearly all 1936 town cookbook edited by his sister Photo: Courtesy Sarah C. Sears Archive his other classes) was poor, which must Helen, who contributed “A Greek Recipe have been of much concern to his parents. for Orange Compote,” which her brother He took some months from his studies at had brought home from Greece. e Harvard to study in Athens at the ASCSA, was “The Lechaeum Road and the Propy- and after graduating from Harvard, he spent laea at Corinth,” published in The Journal of the next academic year at the School. the Archaeological Institute of America, and For a first-person account of J. Montgomery Sears’ experiences in Greece, visit http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ The School had 16 students at this time, the second was “Oeniadae: VI. The Ship- index.php/spiffs/montgomerysears to read his letter considered a “happy condition.” In Athens Sheds,” published in the American Journal home, dated Nov. 21, 1900, courtesy of the Sarah Monty evidently put up at the Hotel Grande of Archaeology. After graduation he entered C. Sears Archive. Bretagne, still a five-star hotel on Constitu- the law firm of his uncle, Charles F. Choate, tion Square. However, he spent much of Jr., in Boston. his time at excavations at Oeniadae and Monty’s father died in 1905, and Monty Solow Fellowships Corinth. He evidently did apply himself began to forge his own path into new inter- continued from previous page and became much involved in the work. It ests, notably politics. An active member of appears that his parents financed the spe- the Democratic party in Boston, he attend- number of topographical studies. She also cific projects, as a report at the time said ed a statewide convention at Faneuil Hall in had the opportunity to participate in the the Oeniadae work was “carried out at the 1907, declared his candidacy for alderman Sikyon Survey Project, under the direction expense of two members of the school, Dr. (but then withdrew in favor of a blacksmith of Yannis Lolos, which greatly enhanced L.L. Forman and J. Montgomery Sears Jr.” named Daniel Donnelly), and had his name her understanding of an important regional In November 1900 Monty wrote home put forward for State Senate. But the world neighbor of the Corinthians. describing a trip from Athens to Arcadia with would not see how this burgeoning politi- Thanks to her presence in Corinth, Ms. two companions, Mr. Hardy and Mr. Rich- cal career might have evolved. Ziskowski was able to research a number of ardson (of the faculty), which took several In August 1908 Monty left his office objects in the Corinth Museum that were days. Travel was by horse and mule, with early one afternoon and headed into Rhode critical to her dissertation work, and to two muleteers. The party stayed in primitive Island in his new “high powered roadster.” obtain photographs of all the objects to be villages along the way, untouched by the At Providence he checked into a hotel, then included in her dissertation. She also made refinements of civilization. They returned to picked up a friend, George Saunders, near- substantial progress on her topographic Athens, much more quickly, by train. by. Although it was quite late, they headed study of the area, engaging with the ter- Monty returned home in 1901 and began south to visit another friend. rain on foot in order to inform her under- at Harvard Law, where he applied himself At about 1 a.m. they were sighted driv- standing of what would have logically been somewhat better than as an undergraduate, ing very fast toward a poorly marked bend considered part of Corinthian territory, a and graduated in 1904. In 1902 and 1904 in the road. Sears missed the turn. The car key aspect in her dissertation chapter on he found time to complete two articles flew over an embankment, crashed, and topography and boundaries. e about the excavations in Greece. The first somersaulted, and both men were thrown

21 Greece in 1963 ASCSA Managing Committee Member Diskin Clay has experienced the School from many perspectives: as a Trustee of the Gennadius Li- brary, a Whitehead Professor, an excavator, and a student. Here, he shares some recollections of his first exposure to the School, as a Regular Member in 1963–64.

Guided by what the pagan Greeks used to women dressed in black. Eugene Vander- the headline: Communist Agent Assassinates call an agathos daimon, we [Clay and his pool was Professor of Archaeology and was President Kennedy. The next day on our way wife, Jenny Strauss Clay, also a Regular long an advisor after we left the School to back to Athens I bought another paper with Member that year] decided not to live in return to the University of Washington. the headline: The Murderer is Murdered. It Loring Hall. By great good luck we rented Charles Williams was the director of the showed a picture of Jack Ruby killing Lee a part of Lia Londou’s apartment at 64 excavations in Corinth and he enlisted my Harvey Oswald. It was a grim Thanksgiving Odos Skoufa in Kolonaki. It was on the classmate Nancy Bookidis to collaborate for Americans as we sat at table with Henry fifth floor and from the opening of a small in the Corinth Excavations; she began her Robinson at its head. street named Staikou we had a clear view long career on the slope of the mountain In the spring of 1964 we did not ex- of the acropolis and Parthenon. The Par- in 1964. Our trips took us to many sites cavate in Corinth but traveled to Sicily, thenon and Propylaia were very dramatic in Greece but not to northern Greece: we Rome, and Paris. We sold our car. We as their Pentelic marble was illuminated traveled to Crete on the ill-fated Myrtidi- would not return to Greece until the sum- by lightning. otissa, to Corinth (of course), Boeotia and mer of 1968. e In 1963 Greek kitchens still had icebox- the sanctuary of Apollo on Mt. Ptoon, to es. The iceman delivered every Thursday Brauron and the east coast of Attica down and perhaps more often. If we overslept the to Sounion, Bassae and Mount Lykaion, Managing Committee block of ice would become a puddle in the Megalopolis, and Delphi (twice). As we continued from page 5 bucket outside our door. From our balcony climbed up to the Corycian Cave by the we could look down on moving baskets back route up from the Stadium we looked Department), representing Gonzaga Uni- laden with fish and hear a voice crying “the down to the Gulf of Corinth and sighted versity, a new Cooperating Institution; fisherman, the fisherman.” There was also the yacht of Aristotle Onassis. We were told Ioannis Mylonopoulos (Department of the cry of the itinerant peddler. All of this that the Kennedys were aboard. Art History and Archaeology), as a third has long disappeared from Odos Skoufa, The trip that made the greatest impres- voting representative from Columbia Uni- as have the great scruffy restaurants to the sion on me took us up to Bassae, the old versity; Kristen Seaman (Department of east of the Greek Agora—the Jannina and Bassae Hotel, and Mount Lykaion. It was Visual Arts), as a second representative now the Epeiros. They have been devoured already getting cold in mid-October and from Kennesaw State University; Chris- by the excavations of the Agora. our iron beds made it seem even colder. topher Stackowicz (Department of Visual Almost every Sunday we would take We climbed Mount Lykaion but beyond Art), representing Bethel College, a new out our car from parking on the dangerous the precinct wall known to Pausanias we Cooperating Institution; David Voros (Art Odos Skoufa and travel up Mt. Hymettos strangely continued to see our shadows. Department), representing the University to the monestary at Kaisariane. The reason Vanderpool, whose Greek was perfect, told of South Carolina, a new Cooperating In- for our trip was the divine Olympia. She us a story of an earlier visit. Thinking of stitution; Charles T. Watkinson (Director, was a donkey worthy of Giotto of the Arena Pausanias’ shadow he asked a local if he Purdue University Press), as a second rep- Chapel. We would feed her apples and car- could still see his shadow halfway up the resentative from Purdue University; and rots and drink pure water from the cisterns mountain. The local looked at him incredu- Justin Walsh (Art History), as a representa- of the monastery. There are no donkeys in lously and said: “You’ve got to be a stranger tive from Louisiana State University. Greece of 2009, the date of my last visit. to these parts.” Also at the meeting, Managing Commit- We were very lucky to have gotten to Coming down from the mountain on tee Chair Mary C. Sturgeon confirmed the know Lia Londou. Sometimes when we re- November 22 we met a Greek who asked appointment of Richard Anderson as Archi- turned to Greece in later years we would us if we were German. When I said that tect Emeritus of the Agora Excavations. His stay in her apartment. She was the sister of we were Americans he replied “Kennedy appointment was recommended by Agora Andreas Londos, whose first wife was Maro καλόϛ άυθροπος.” I did not quite understand Excavations Director John McK. Camp in Seferis. She arranged for me to meet Seferis the response then, but I did the next day recognition of loyal service. Mr. Anderson and his wife and in 1971 I spent a long af- down in Megalopolis. I had left the hotel has served as Architect at the Agora Excava- ternoon with them. It was a truly unforget- where we were staying for some coffee and tions since 1989. table experience. I recorded my memories instead of bazouki music they were playing In other Managing Committee business, of that afternoon and our conversation in Beethoven’s third symphony, the Heroica. a proposal to form a new standing commit- The New Griffon NS 2 (1997) 39–47. When I returned to the hotel I stopped in tee of the Managing Committee, a Commit- In 1963 Henry Robinson was Director of the lounge to listen to the 8:00 AM news tee on Information Technology, was recently the American School and during our many on the radio. Then I understood. The sym- approved by institutional vote. The pro- trips to Corinth he directed us to every well pathy of the Greeks for us was enormous posal had been approved by the Managing there. He was a somewhat austere man and and touching. Committee’s Executive Committee at the posted a notice in the School at the mail It was a tragic and wonderful time to January meeting. A ballot, sent to the Man- boxes warning the women students to live in Greece. When we arrived in Pylos I aging Committee as a matter of substance in dress modestly so not to offend the Greek bought a paper (was it To Bema?) and read February, was finalized March 5. e

22 2009–10 Members: Inquiring Minds The stimulating intellectual community at the School this year was enriched by scholars pursuing research on topics both tangible (e.g., pot- tery, monuments, buildings) and conceptual (e.g., poetry, identity, space). Members for 2009–10 are listed below, along with research interests and fellowships held.

REGULAR MEMBERS Lincoln Thomas Nemetz-Carlson STUDENT ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Ohio State University Kristen Nicole Baxter Perceptions of the past and depictions of the Natalie Abell Rutgers, The State University present in Athenian monumental art of the University of Cincinnati Martin Ostwald Fellow 5th century Fulbright Fellow Archaic Greek poetry, specifically choral Reconsidering a cultural crossroads: Dia- lyric. Dissertation examining the religious Robert Joseph Nichols chronic analysis of island identity and significance of the epinician poetry of Indiana University Aegean connectivity in Bronze Age Kea Pindar and Bacchylides Virginia Grace Fellow Language of τιμωρία in Lysias and Demos- Matthew J. Baumann Johanna Best thenes Ohio State University Bryn Mawr College The imagery of poet cults in Ancient Greece James H. and Mary Ottaway, Jr. Fellow Jessica Paga Greek archaeology in the Classical and Princeton University Alexis Marie Belis Hellenistic periods, Greek religion, archi- Bert Hodge Hill Fellow Princeton University tecture and landscape. Public green spaces Architectural agency and the construction Fire on the Mountain: Ash altars and of Athenian democracy, symbiotic relation- mountaintop sanctuaries in Ancient Greece Christian F. Cloke ship between the urban landscape of Athens University of Cincinnati and the formation of democracy 510 to 480 Heidi F. Broome-Raines The Archaic to Roman period in the Nemea B.C.E. Brown University Valley M. Alison Frantz Fellow Cameron Glaser Pearson Reception of Classical Greek drama in Emily Catherine Egan City University of New York early and middle Byzantium University of Cincinnati Poetical and historical context in which Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow martial elegy was developed Miriam Galadriel Clinton Nestor’s Megaron: Contextualizing a University of Pennsylvania Mycenaean institution at Pylos Mark Felix Piskorowski Fulbright Fellow Michigan State University Minoan neopalatial domestic architecture: a Dominic Paul Galante Archaic Athens and roles played by the Peisis- contextual analysis of the ordinary house University of Pennsylvania tratids that helped to form the developing polis Archaic and Classical Greek history Tzoulia Dimitriou Kelcy Sagstetter Boston University Joseph Viguers Groves University of Pennsylvania Attic old comedy University of Michigan John Williams White Fellow Philip Lockhart Fellow Documentation and epigraphical analysis Jamieson Donati Roman conquest in Augustan authors of ancient Greek inscriptions via 3-D laser NYU, Institute of Fine Arts scanning Toward an Agora: The spatial and architec- Paul Joseph Kosmin tural development of Greek civic space in Harvard University Sarit Stern the Peloponnese Thomas Day Seymour Fellow Johns Hopkins University Seleucid Space: Spatial dynamics and Apollo and Artemıs together Yuki Furuya ideology of the Seleucid Empire University of Cincinnati Christina Marie Trego Jacob Hirsch Fellow Karen Anne Laurence Florida State University Diachronic trends of Late Minoan jewelry University of Michigan Lucy Shoe Meritt Fellow motifs: reflection of social changes dur- Heinrich Schliemann Fellow Construction and employment of fortifica- ing the Neopalatial and the Final Palatial The Administration of Cult: Archaeologi- tions in the Argolid and Corinthia at both periods cal Evidence for the Infrastructure of Greek palatial and non-palatial sites during Sanctuaries LHIIIB Scott Charles Gallimore University at Buffalo Katherine E. Lu John Anthony Tully Edward Capps Fellow University of Michigan Princeton University Roman Ierapytna: A Cretan port city and Michael Jameson Fellow James Rignall Wheeler Fellow its role in the pan-Mediterranean Roman The afterlife of drama in the Second Sophistic Classical and Hellenistic Greek history: economy notions of identity in ancient Greece and on Charlotte Elizabeth Maxwell-Jones the Hellenistic Achaean League Mark David Hammond University of Michigan University of Missouri – Columbia The Hellenistic East and interactions of the Charles Umiker Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Greek population with natives and non- Pennington School Fellow natives, particularly in Hellenistic Bactria Greek history, art history, language technology Roman and Late Roman pottery from Corinth and its environs (1st to 8th centuries A.D.)

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Jason R. Harris Laura Surtees Luisa Sonia Klinger University of Southern California Bryn Mawr College University of Haifa Eugene Vanderpool Fellow Solow Dissertation Fellow Kress Publications Fellow Mobility and identity among Greeks in A Thessalian city: The urban survey of Magna Graecia during the Late Classical Kastro Kallithea Robert D. Lamberton and Hellenistic periods Washington University - St. Louis Martin Gregory Wells Education in antiquity Kristine Marie Hess University of Minnesota University of Chicago Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow Elizabeth Langridge-Noti Mount Sinai and the Monastery of Saint A cosmopolitan village: The Hellenistic American College of Greece Catherine: depicting “place” and “space” in settlement at Gordion Greek pottery, Laconia pilgrimage art Carol L. Lawton Seth Jaffe SENIOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Lawrence University University of Toronto Kress Publications Fellow Thucydidean moral psychology: Elizabeth Angelicoussis Fear, honor, profit and the nature of politi- Roman art in private British collections Sarah Lepinski cal order Bryn Mawr College Elizabeth C. Banks Kress Publications Fellow Styliani Kalle University of Kansas Roman wall paintings from the Panagia Coulson/Cross Fellow in Turkey Publication of Lerna small finds - Neolithic field at Corinth through Bronze Age, architecture Lauren Murray Kinnee and stratigraphy of Lerna I and II Maria Anne Liston NYU, Institute of Fine Arts University of Waterloo Solow Dissertation Fellow Iulian Trifon Bîrzescu Burials in wells from the Agora The Roman trophy: From battlefield marker Mellon East European Research Fellow to emblem of power Attic fine pottery of the Archaic period in Richard D. McKirahan Istros/Histria: Context and chronology Pomona College Kristian Lorenzo Book on Philolaos University of Wisconsin – Madison Thomas M. Brogan Doreen C. Spitzer Fellow INSTAP Study Center, East Crete James D. Muhly Greek and Roman naval victory monu- The production of perfumed oils at University of Pennsylvania (emeritus) ments: from Megara to Rome Mochlos, oil and wine at Papadiokambos Cretan Bronze and Iron Age; copper and and colored textiles in Pacheia bronze metallurgy Sarah Elizabeth Madole Ammos. New light on the Minoan economy. NYU, Institute of Fine Arts Polymnia Muhly Sarcophagus imagery and the construction Mihalis Catapotis Excavations at Kato Symi of identity in Roman Asia Minor NCSR Demokritos Wiener Laboratory Research Associate Jennifer Lynne Palinkas Jerolyn Elizabeth Morrison Technological study of metallurgical ceram- Arcadia University Leicester University ics from the FN-MBA site of Mikro Vouni Greek sacred architecture; roads, gates, Cooking pots and cooking practices on Samothrace processions

Ays¸e Ozil Melissa Eaby Mary B. Richardson University of London INSTAP Study Center, East Crete Greek epigraphy Cotsen Traveling Fellow Mortuary variability in Early Iron Changes in Orthodox communal buildings in Age Cretan burials David Kawalko Roselli Asia Minor during the nineteenth century Scripps College Sireen El Zaatari NEH Fellow Ann Patnaude Max Planck Institute Athens at work: the representation of labor University of Chicago Wiener Laboratory Angel Fellow in Skele- and laborers in Athenian art and drama Locating identity: Word and image in Ar- tal Studies for Evolutionary Anthropology chaic Greek pottery, ca. 675–480 B.C.E. The prehistoric Mediterranean diet: Evi- Susan I. Rotroff dence from microwear texture analysis of Washington University - St. Louis Catherine W. Person pre-Neolithic Greece NEH Fellow Bryn Mawr College Industrial religion: ritual pyres at Athens Kress Art and Architecture in Antiquity Edward M. Harris Fellow Durham University Deborah Ruscillo Cosmopoulos Domestic shrines in houses of Roman University of Missouri, St. Louis Greece: A comparative study with Asia Nigel Martin Kennell Wiener Laboratory Research Associate Minor and Italy College Year in Athens Sexual dimorphism in mammalian skeletons Greek citizen training in Hellenistic and Benjamin M. Sullivan Roman period and history of Archaic Jacek Rzepka University of California at Irvine and Classical Sparta and archaeology of Warsaw University Ione Mylonas Shear Fellow Laconia and Spartan women in the Mellon East European Fellow Aspects of Archaic Greek land warfare Hellenistic and Roman periods. Stratocles of Diomeia: Civil strife and the nature of political leadership in Early Hel- lenistic Athens 24 2009–10 Members Loring Hall continued from previous page continued from page 17

Jan Motyka Sanders to build both the Gennadius building and 1927 the Rockefeller Foundation awarded Arcadia University the Hostel at the same time, if as seems $500,000 to the School’s programs; of the Urban development of post-independence possible we are to get gifts to cover each of $500,000, $133,000 was allotted to the Athens them.” The Athens Hostel had re-entered construction of a hostel, toward which Julia Louise Shear Capps’ agenda for another reason: after the the School was obliged to raise an addi- Athenians’ memory of the past, Asia Minor destruction, which led to the tional $66,000. A major dispute quickly their identity, and ritual sudden influx of one million refugees to erupted between Capps and Thomas (who Greece, the problem of lodging, female or was representing the Women’s Hostel Com- Carolyn S. Snively not, was real for the School. To solve the mittee), with Thomas claiming that the Gettysburg College problem temporarily, the School rented grant should fund the Women’s Hostel on Excavations at Konjuh; Early Prince George’s Palace on Academias Street the basis of the March 1927 application. Byzantine monasticism in the southern Balkan peninsula from 1923 to 1929. The School was too embarrassed to ask The School’s acute lodging problems the Rockefeller Foundation what kind of Anne Stewart clearly mobilized negotiations between a hostel it had funded, although the word- the School and the Women’s Hostel Com- ing of the grant referred to a residential hall Sharon Rae Stocker mittee (WHC); there is extensive reference for “students and workers.” Nevertheless, University of Cincinnati to it in the Minutes of the May Meeting of there is little doubt that the grant was made Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (Albania); Blegen’s unpublished the Managing Committee in 1924, includ- to the School. The conflict between Capps work at Pylos ing a five-page supplement describing the and Thomas, which lasted more than a year, terms of an agreement between the ASCSA was referred to Judge William Caleb Lor- Gregory Stournaras and the Women’s Committee on a Hostel ing, the President of the School’s Trustees, Coulson/Cross Fellow in Turkey for Women Students at Athens. The agree- who became the key figure in resolving the ment is a very interesting and surprising hostel problem. Sara Strack document because it gives full power to At a special meeting held in February Iron Age wells in the Agora the WHC concerning the administration 1928, a Special Trustees’ Committee de- Anastasia Tatiana Theodoropoulou and management of the Women’s Hostel, cided that the complete responsibility for Université de Paris I; Panthéon which was to be “reserved exclusively for the use of the building “for students and Sorbonne the accommodation of women students workers” rested exclusively with the Trust- Wiener Laboratory Faunal Fellow of the American School and of such other ees, and not with the WHC. In March 1928 Fishing by the lake: Fish and fishing women, as it may be wise to admit.” the WHC communicated to the Trustees a activities at the lakeside settlement of However, the WHC’s grant application resolution announcing its dissolution. The Dispilio, Lake Kastoria, Greece to the Laura Spellman Rockefeller fund was dissolution of the WHC took place with- Leslie L Threatte turned down because the Rockefeller Foun- out the presence of M.C. Thomas, who was University of California, Berkeley dation expressed doubts whether there traveling abroad. Grace Macurdy, who par- Greek epigraphy & linguistics “would ever be, or often be, 20 qualified ticipated in the dissolution meeting, wrote: women students available,” and whether “I think there was nothing else for us to do. E. Loeta Tyree the building should be restricted solely to None of us except Miss Thomas had ever The Skoteino cave women. After this initial rejection letter, been so very keen for a large Women’s Hos- Chavdar S. Tzochev both Capps and Thomas began reconsider- tel, no money had been subscribed for it St. Kliment Ohridski ing the idea of an exclusively female hostel, and Miss Thomas never indicated that she Mellon East European Fellow formulating one that would accommodate would build it herself… Judge L[oring] is Trade and consumption in the Hellenis- both sexes. The change in the plans for very optimistic when he thinks that in two tic city of Kabyle: A transport amphora the Women’s Hostel in Athens did not have months time or less the sum of 250,000 can study everybody’s approval: Hetty Goldman and be raised… Where it will all come from I Efrossini Vika Alice Walker Cosmopoulos, who had con- do not know, but I can pretty surely say not Bournemouth University tributed generously toward the purchase of from women’s colleges. I think that Miss Wiener Laboratory Research Associate the land in 1916, refused to consent to a Thomas has perhaps accomplished this Investigating fish consumption in Greek hostel that allowed both sexes. much, that the dormitory will be built both antiquity using delta 13C and delta 15N In December 1926, the School sent a re- for men and women.” The School soon analysis from fish bone collagen vised application to the Rockefeller Foun- managed to raise the $66,000 needed for dation, to increase the School’s endow- the residential hall, and construction began Bronwen Wickkiser Vanderbilt University ment, build a residential hall, and support in the fall of 1928. The building was named NEH Fellow its publication program. Oddly, on March after Judge Loring, honoring his courtesy, New approaches to Asklepios 4, 1927, the WHC submitted to the Foun- patience, firmness, and diplomatic astute- dation a second application for a women’s ness. Stuart Thompson and John Van Pelt hostel, which would, however, allow for were the architects. men “whenever there are not enough wom- en students to fill the bedrooms.” In May comtinued on next page

25 ribs, scapulas, and tali (28, 43, 9, 3, and tubular object, fragments of awls and edged Wiener Lab Report 2 specimens, respectively) and the Early tools made from shattered long bones and a Bronze Age ones from deer antler, long split rib. Raw materials and techniques do The Neolithic and Early bones, ribs, and canines of Sus (3, 9, 1, not show differences between this period Bronze Age Bone Tools and 2 specimens). The anatomical origin of and the Neolithic. Most of the tools are ex- from Kryoneri, Lower nine artifacts has not been identified. tensively scraped and/or ground and care- Strymon Valley Included in the study was an exami- fully finished. While traces from use of the nation of the stratigraphic distribution of Early Bronze Age tools on animal and vege- the artifacts. The Neolithic material (dated, tal materials are well formed, resharpening Ro z a l i a Ch r i s t i d o u with the exception of one fragment, to the traces have not been recognized. However, Pa r i s X-Na n t e rr e Un i v e r s i t y 2008–09 Wi e n e r La b o r at o r y Fe l l o w later Late Neolithic and the beginning of this may be due to the small sample size. in Fa u n a l St ud i e s the Final Neolithic) was recovered from Finally, this study reveals the sparse charac- discard zones at the periphery of the settle- ter of bone artifacts in the constructed area ment and the Early Bronze Age pieces from of the Early Bronze Age, when compared My study of the bone tool assemblage of habitation areas. to the Neolithic contexts. e Kryoneri in northern Greece provides in- Overall, the material from the dump formation about the Late Neolithic and zones of Kryoneri contrasts with other Early Bronze Age sequences of the site Loring Hall sites of this period, where constructed continued from page 25 and addresses issues surrounding bone areas have mainly been explored. The tool manufacture, use, and discard in the Kryoneri bone tool assemblage exhibits a “Although the old Hostel idea has been settlement. This study makes possible considerable morphological diversity; lack scrapped, we [have] nevertheless inherit[ed] comparisons with other sites that provide of significant numbers of typologically and some of the responsibilities that come from information about technological traditions technologically homogenous tools; limited the organization which sponsored the Hostel. and the contexts of their use. evidence for tool maintenance; an appre- We are not likely to go anything like so far Study of the collection included record- ciable amount of rejected deer antler; and in throwing open LH to occupants as Miss ing of the manufacturing and use marks frequent animal damage of the objects Thomas and her Committee planned, and yet and of the natural alterations observed on after their discard. An unusual variety of probably we ought to adopt a fairly broad the bone artifacts by naked eye and at low pointed implements has been recorded. academic principle… There is also the further and high magnifications by means of a ste- These artifacts include rare finds such as a consideration that we have built a building of reoscope and a metallographic microscope. bone pin and bipoints, as well as a head of considerably greater capacity than our pres- The anatomical, morphological, and metric harpoon, unique for the region. As a rule, ent needs and can easily suffer a staggering traits and the sequence of manufacture of the pointed objects were carefully worked loss each year unless we make a definite effort each piece were also studied. The micro- using scraping and/or grinding, and the to keep our rooms filled.” Of course, this scopic equipment and the skeletal reference shaping methods employed are comparable letter from Capps to Rhys Carpenter in Sep- collection of the Wiener Laboratory were to those known from other Neolithic sites tember 1929, a few months before Loring used in the analysis. of northern Greece. But contrary to these Hall’s official opening, could not anticipate A total of 143 bone pieces underwent sites, complex debitage methods are virtu- that 80 years later the School would need examination. Manufacturing and use wear- ally absent from Kryoneri. Selectivity of more residential space. and-tear have been securely identified on raw materials becomes apparent from the 110 out of 143. The Neolithic bone objects types and size of the long bone splinters — Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan were made from deer antler, long bones, used as tool blanks. Edged tools are less Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist frequent and less varied both technologi- cally and typologically than the points, and Fellowships this also contrasts with other Neolithic sites continued from page 2 of northern Greece. Finally, fragments of spoons, a unique head of a humerus of My year as a Regular Member at the ASCSA large cattle used as tool, and a spherical was an invaluable experience. My education bowl made from the head of a femur of was enhanced not only through the visits to large mammal, similar to those found in the archaeological sites and museums but the Middle Chalcolithic of Cappadocia, also through the interaction and communi- Central Anatolia (personal observation), cation with colleagues and scholars within were also found. the archaeological community. I believe that Fragmentation and small sample size the year at the school provided me with an made investigation of the typological interactive course of study that will help in my and technological variability in the bone current research as well as enhance my future tools of the Early Bronze Age unfeasible, teaching experience. It has been a privilege to although the simple character of the pro- hold the Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow- duction would be in agreement with data ship . available from advanced Final Neolithic St e l l a Di a k o u and Bronze Age sites in northern Greece Bryn Mawr College Spherical bowl from head of femur. and environs. The Early Bronze Age sample 2008–09 Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow includes, apart from a toothed tool and a

26 History at the University of Pennsylvania School Lecture Series Online while continuing his undergraduate teach- ing duties at Swarthmore. A member of the The School has posted videocasts of its American Academy of Arts and Sciences popular Lecture Series on the website. and the American Philosophical Society, The last two years of lectures are avail- he was an editor of the Cambridge Ancient able for viewing to all alumni, Manag- History from 1976 to 1992. ing Committee members, Members, Mr. Ostwald was a Member of the School and staff of the School under those (Fulbright Fellow) in 1961–1962. He served four navigational headings (password as a representative to the Managing Com- needed). mittee from Swarthmore College from May In addition, the School’s Open 1968 until his retirement, when he became a Meeting is available to the general Managing Committee Member Emeritus. e public at http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/in- dex.php/News/newsDetails/lecture- Student Report open-meeting-of-the-work-of-the- continued from page 10 school/. Ian Morris (Stanford University) giving the The ASCSA thanks the Canello- Trustees Lecture at the School in December. fill of the various rooms and floors of the poulos Foundation and the U.S. De- houses. Since the animals identified are partment of Education for their generous support of the Director’s Lecture Series, not burrowing animals (like the moles, for and also thanks Lloyd E. Cotsen for the Gennadius Lecture Series. example), the bones represent the actual animals that coexisted with humans in and around the settlement during the phases of In Memoriam occupation or a little later. So, they possi- bly ended up in the assemblage either due Rebecca C. Robinson Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones to their natural death, or due to predation 1924–2009 1922–2009 activity. The possibility of the transloca- tion of bones from upper stories or upper terraces of the island is also strong, due to Rebecca Cooper Wood Robinson, wife of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, former Regius Pro- soil erosion. Finally, since the study of the the late Henry S. Robinson, Director of the fessor of Greek at Oxford University and a stratigraphy of the houses is not yet com- School and Director of the Corinth Excava- Classical scholar of great renown and pro- plete, information regarding most of the tions from 1959-1969, died on December digious output, died on October 5, 2009 at contexts as well as the use of certain rooms 7, 2009 at Medford Leas Retirement Com- age 87. Known as an enthusiastic lecturer and spaces is still lacking; thus, I cannot munity in Medford, NJ. and a colorful scholar, he taught at Oxford comment on the presence of rodents in the Rebecca C. Robinson earned an A.B. from 1954 to 1989; his retirement was rec- storage rooms and in the magazines of the (cum laude) in archaeology from Bryn ognized with a knighthood that same year. houses, and what this could mean for the Mawr College in 1945 and an M.A. in His published works covered a wide range everyday life of the inhabitants. 1950. She was a School Member in 1950– of fields, including Greek epic, lyric, trag- In summation, the Mochlos material 51 (Ella Riegel Fellow of Bryn Mawr Col- edy, comedy, Hellenistic literature, religion, offers new data to help illuminate the mi- lege), working at the Agora excavations and intellectual history. Deepest sympa- cromammalian history of Cretan fauna, during the spring and at the University of thies go to his wife, ASCSA Trustee Mary which is a big puzzle for both zooarchae- Pennsylvania excavations at Gordion that Lefkowitz, and to his family. ologists and paleontologists. The presence summer. She was a Special School Fellow in of both commensal rodents (house mice) 1951–1952, when Henry S. Robinson was Martin Ostwald and wild rodents and insectivores (spiny a Fulbright Research Scholar at the School. 1922–2010 mice, wood mice, shrews), which yield in- They married in December 1953. During formation about the microhabitats, helps the years when Henry Robinson was Direc- in the reconstruction of the environment tor of the School, she presented lectures Martin Ostwald, William R. Kenan Jr. Pro- around the site and in the recreation of the and teaching sessions for the students and fessor Emeritus at Swarthmore College, died everyday life of the inhabitants. spent summers at the Corinth Excavations. April 10 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. This project would not have taken place She returned to the School from 1978 to Born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1922, without an Advanced Fellowship from the 1979 as a Senior Associate Member. She Mr. Ostwald held degrees in Classics from ASCSA, for which I am extremely grateful. published “Tobacco Pipes of Corinth and the University of Toronto (B.A., 1946), the Further gratitude goes to Jeffrey Soles and of the Athenian Agora” in Hesperia, 1985. University of Chicago (A.M., 1948), and Kostis Davaras, directors of the Mochlos Columbia University (Ph.D., 1952). After excavations, whose permit was manda- Save the Date receiving his doctorate, he taught at Wes- tory for the undertaking of the project; to leyan University and at Columbia before The American School will celebrate its INSTAP Study Center Director Thomas joining the Classics Department at Swarth- 130th anniversary in 2011 with events Brogan and his skillful staff; and to Wie- more College in 1958. From 1968 until in the U.S. and in Greece. Please look for ner Laboratory Director Sherry Fox, who his 1992 retirement, he taught graduate announcements in the coming year! provided me with space in the lab, support, programs in Classical Studies and Ancient and enthusiasm. e

27 News & Notes kai ta loipa9 Address ServiceRequested Address Princeton,NJ08540–5232 6–8 CharltonStreet, CLASSICL STUDIES THE AMERICANSCHOOLOF of thenewAcropolis MuseuminAthens. nent installation intheParthenon Gallery perma- the of part became metopes north search drawings of the Parthenon’s east and images scanned from 26 of her original re- was honored last summer when gray-scale Schwab Gallery.Ms. University’sLukacs Schwab was on display last fall at Fairfield Member Committee Managing art historian and archaeologist and ASCSA University Fairfield by Parthenon ancient An exhibit of research drawings of Athens’ Photo: S.Fox Jim MuhlyandGeorgePapasavvas. Unit. of the university’s Archaeological Research Lina the Second Millennium B.C.,” organized by ence, “Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy in confer two-day a hosted also university thehonor, his In Cyprus. of history and tion of his contributions to the archaeology from the University of Cyprus, in recogni- receivedMuhly D. doctorate honorary an In October former ASCSA Director assianidou and George Papasavvas George and Kassianidou ddd Katherine T A James THENS - Planck InstituteWorkshop Wiener Laboratory all oftheabove.” infant death in Greco-Roman antiquity: Infanticide, natural causes, or Lerna, Argos and Mycenae” (S. Triantaphyllou); and “The question of of view comparative A period: Helladic Middle the in Argolid the of man osteological record” (A. Papathanasiou); “Engendering the people lou). Papers included “Sex differences in prehistoric Greece: The hu- Michael MacKinnon, Anastasia Papathanasiou, and Sevi Triantaphyl - Liston, Maria Bourbou, Chryssa Fox, Wiener(Sherry the Laboratory Canada, and the United States—six of whom have been affiliated with Greece, Netherlands, Germany,the globe—Russia, Denmark, the of World.”nean drewworkshop The participants25 from partsvarious Mediterra- the in differentials gender and Paleodemography bones: Workshop (Rostock) on March 15–17, 2010 entitled “Sex, death and The Wiener Laboratory hosted a Max Planck Institute for Demographic Workshop. Participants intheMaxPlanck InstituteforDemographic H osts Max Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit Permit No.185 Permit U.S POST Princeton, NJ PAID AGE