2009 Edition, Nos. 60/61

Newsletter of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

ákoueákoue2009 Edition, Nos. 60/61

Photo: J. W. I. Lee

Meritt Fellow Tom Garvey on the fortification tower of Herakleia during the members trip to Turkey. See related story on page 8.

In this issue: Capital Campaign, Development News 3 New Head Librarian at Blegen 5 Man Com Appointments 5 Summer Session Report 6 Byroniana at the Gennadeion 7 Anabasis 8 Miles Starts Term 9 Student Reports 10 Agora Conservation 13 Agora Excavation Report 14 Hellenistic Baths of Magna Graecia 16 Ottaway and Publications Program Honored 22 Greece with Kids 25 Wiener Lab Report 26 Class of 2008–09 27 INSERT: Gennadeion Adds to Rare Book Collection G1 CAORC Grant Funds Journal Cataloguing G1 Samourka Collection Exhibited G2 New Griffon Explores Xenitia G2 Poet Paulopoulos Donates Papers to Archives G3 Scholars at the Gennadeion G3 ákoue!

Photo: T. Garvey ASCSA Members in the wooden Trojan horse at Troy, Spring 2009. Reflections on the Academic Year

This has been a wonderful year for me, sauce at the store half a block beyond our revisiting so many sites in Greece with a local periptero, and there’s the Metro. This superb group of graduate students. It’s been past fall the newspaper To Bema offered a constant pleasure also to recall my own dozens of free CDs of American jazz from fellow students and the year I was a Regular the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s for many weeks! Then Member with Mellon Professor Colin Ed- there are the enduring Athenian pleasures, monson (1976–77). The program today has such as the laïki on Fridays (when we’re in similar trajectories, but includes far more town), and the views from Mt. Lykavettos. sites, since many more have been excavat- Highlights of our program this year in- ed. The roads have improved greatly, allow- cluded the Thracian (and Samothracian!) ing us to move around more quickly. part of our first fall trip, going as far north For the Winter Term, the expansion in as Didymoteicho, where we visited an un- AMERICAN SCHOOL OF what we now expect of students reflects the usually well preserved Byzantine fortress CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS changes during three decades. Today, there that looks out across the Evros River to Tur- 54 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece is far more for students to read on every key, and seeing usually inaccessible parts 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 aspect of antiquity and far more for them of the Akropolis and Parthenon, where we ákoue, the newsletter of the ASCSA to absorb as a part of our field, from the went up the spiral staircase in the Frankish 2009 Edition Nos. 60/61 scientific approaches to archaeology taught tower. During the winter we had a variety Executive Editor by the Wiener Lab’s staff to the history and of conditions that made an impression: the Irene Bald Romano archaeology of post-antique periods, the fortress at Phyle was covered with snow un- reception of antiquity, and modern contem- der a bright sun, but we saw Eleusis under Editor Sally Fay porary Greece. Our program is packed. a lashing rainstorm. The site of Koroni— There are now 17 foreign schools of ar- visited on a sparkling day—brought home Design & Production chaeology, and the calendar of lectures and the realities of Macedonian encampments, Mary Jane Gavenda events is also packed. Greek archaeologists as did the Dekeleia wall (around modern ákoue is published semiannually by the have a much more prominent role than they royal tombs) for Spartan presence in Attica. ASCSA under the inspiration of Doreen did decades ago, and we have been fortu- Boeotia offers many beautiful and interest- C. Spitzer, Trustee Emerita. Please address nate to have many as guest speakers on ing sites, and I hope we will spend more all correspondence and inquiries to the Newsletter Editor, ASCSA U.S. Office, 6–8 our trips and visits to sites around Athens. time there in the future. Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232. The numerous restoration and conserva- The Director and staff of the School have Tel: (609) 683-0800; Fax: (609) 924-0578; tion efforts are another notable change—it pitched in and helped a lot with the aca- E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www. seems as though soon every ancient theater demic program, and Athens feels like home ascsa.edu.gr. in Greece will be useable again! already. Above all, I feel especially fortunate Life in Athens is much easier, I think, to have had such a great group of students because so much is readily available that my first year: very smart, hard-working, Ákoue in color on the web. wasn’t here when I was a student: the inter- and fun to be with. See this issue in color on the School’s net and Skype make connections home and website at: http://www.ascsa.edu. — Margaret M. Miles gr/index.php/publications/Akoue/. reading the New YorkTimes easy and free, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and I can find peanut butter and tabasco of Classical Studies

2 Development News Capital Campaign, Annual Appeals Make Headway

The School has raised over $21 million in all Capital Campaign goal. We encourage gifts and pledges in the “quiet phase” of the all donors who would like to contribute in comprehensive Capital Campaign toward Greece to contact Irini Mantzavinou (irini- a goal of at least $50 million to increase [email protected]) or the Business Office of endowment and to support needed capital the School. In the U.S., the Princeton office projects at the School. Approximately $3 would be happy to handle any donations. million has been raised for the Gennadius Library, with the Gennadius Library Trust- ddd ees contributing $200,000 for the second Capps Society to Recognize Key year to match Trustee Lloyd Cotsen’s gener- Donors ous $1 million 5-year challenge for endowment for the Library. Other gifts are for en- The ASCSA recently established The Ed- dowment for fellowships and the academic ward Capps Society to recognize and honor, program and for the Wiener Lab, as well as during their lifetimes, those individuals for specific building renovations and new who have provided for the future of the construction projects. School or any of its programs by making a In spite of the economic climate and the gift commitment in the planning of their impact to foundations, corporations, and estates or through a significant outright individuals, the School has been extremely gift to the School’s permanent endowment fortunate in its fundraising efforts over the fund. last six months, receiving generous con- The Society is named in memory of Ed- tributions both from long-time supporters ward Capps, who, at the time of his death Photo: ASCSA Archives in 1950, was lauded by the New York Times and from new donors. Edward Capps (at right), with T. Leslie The 2008–09 Annual Appeal was very as “the best-loved foreigner in Greece.” Shear, posing with the statue of Hadrian successful, with more donors than ever be- Capps was decorated twice by the Greek at the Agora Excavations, 1932. fore: 385 gifts totaling $258,265 exceeded government for his leadership in support the goal of $250,000 that was built into of relief efforts during and after the world the year’s budget for general operating wars that ravished Europe. A committed Agora and presiding over the gift to the costs. We are especially grateful to The Philhellene, he campaigned vigorously for School of the magnificent library of John Goldsmith Foundation and to Stathis An- Greek causes in the United States through Gennadius and the opening of the Gen- dris for $25,000 gifts each. Annual Appeal his advocacy group, The American Friends nadeion in 1926. He rightly deserves to be proceeds from last year, this year, and next of Greece. Edward Capps served for more recognized as the “Second Founder of the year are being counted toward the Capital than twenty years (1918–1939) as chair- American School.” Campaign goal, with Appeal donors recog- man of the Managing Committee of the More information about planned giving nized in the campaign lists. American School, through his genius res- will be mailed in the fall. The School also launched an Annual cuing the School from the penury into Appeal for the Gennadius Library, with a which it had fallen during World War I. ddd mailing in April 2009 to approximately He spearheaded fundraising campaigns 1,000 potential donors in the U.S. The over that resulted in the establishment of the Meritt, Larson Bequests Benefit $35,000 raised through this appeal will be endowment that supports the School to- School used for annual operating support for the day, while masterminding its world-famous The School recently received the final Library and will be counted toward the over- archaeological excavations in the Athenian disbursement from the estate of Lucy T. Shoe Meritt, who designated the School’s Publications Fund as beneficiary in her IRA Rollover Extended, Gifts Tax-free will. Through this generous bequest, over $460,000 has been added to the Publica- tions Department endowment. With the enactment of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 on Lucy T. Shoe Meritt had a profound October 3, 2008, the IRA Charitable Rollover has been extended retroactively to impact on the American School. She was cover distributions made in 2008 and 2009. Friends aged 70½ or older can use their appointed both Chairman of the Publica- IRAs to make a gift of up to $100,000 to the School without having to count the tions Committee of the ASCSA Managing distributions as taxable income. Restrictions apply, so consult with your advisors Committee and Editor of Publications in to determine how such a gift would affect your overall tax and estate planning, 1950 and continued to hold both appoint- as well as the rules pertaining to the state you reside in. Distributions must be ments until her retirement in 1972. She made by December 31, 2009. Please contact the Princeton Development Office: was a member of the School from 1929 to 609-683-0800 ext. 14. 1934, and in 1969–70. continued on page 4

3 Development News continued from page 3 Stateside Events Draw Crowds Lucy Shoe is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on Greek, Etruscan, Clean Monday 2009 and Roman architectural mouldings. She On a snowy March 2, taught at Mount Holyoke College from more than 100 Genna- 1937 to 1950, was a Fellow of the American dius Library trustees and Academy in Rome in 1937 and 1950, and friends, including some was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of new young faces, gath- Classics at the University of Texas at Austin ered to celebrate Clean from 1973 until her death in 2003. Monday at Milos Restau- The School was also recently notified rant in New York. The that donor Warren A. Larson of Bensen- proceeds from this 9th ville, Illinois passed away on January 11, annual Clean Monday, 2009, leaving the School $25,000 in a trust totaling approximately agreement. His wife, Lois Ashton Larson, $27,000, will be added was a member of the 1939 Summer Session to the endowment for the and predeceased him. Gennadius Library. ddd “Worshipping Women” at NYC’s Onassis Center Grants Support Ongoing, New School Projects For the third year, Ambassador Loucas Tsilas, President of the Alexander S. Onas- sis Public Benefit Foundation (U.S.A.), hosted a private reception and exhibition The ASCSA Development Office and other viewing for the American School at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York. The key departments of the School put signifi- May 8 event took place on the eve of the spring Managing Committee meeting, cant effort into pursuing grants that enable and many Managing Committee representatives, alumni, trustees of the School the ASCSA to continue its important mis- and of the Gennadius Library, and friends attended. The exhibition, “Worshipping sion. Following are some of the successful Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens,” was co-curated by Managing Com- grants received in the past eight months. mittee Member Alan Shapiro, who kindly gave personal tours of the exhibition on that evening; several other ASCSA alumni contributed to the exhibition catalogue Kanellopoulos Foundation: A grant of (including Joan Connelly, Trustee Mary Lefkowitz, Jenifer Neils, and John Oakley) 10,000 euros for the School’s lecture series, and were present at the event. largely to relieve operating costs.

Institute for Aegean Prehistory: $4,500 for a conservation survey of the Schliemann renovate the upper floor of the Stoa of At- ence with a major grant of $360,000 for papers. talos so that it can be opened to the public the next fiscal year. The School is greatly with exhibitions. More than 500,000 euros indebted to the Wiener Foundation and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant: will be available to the American School for to Malcolm Wiener for the extraordinary In November 2008 the School was awarded the digitization project. support for this vital department of the a Humanities Grant of $135,000 from the School. Delmas Foundation to support the digitiza- Packard Humanities Institute Grant for tion of the records of 77 years of archaeo- the Athenian Agora: The Packard Humani- Demos Foundation Grant: The Chica- logical excavation at the Athenian Agora. ties Institute (PHI) grant to the Agora for go-based Demos Foundation awarded a This project will preserve these records the Computerization Project came to an $10,000 grant to support an internship in and enable them to become accessible to end in December 2008 after nine years of the Gennadius Library. The Demos Fellow, a wide body of scholars, students, and the major support. These grants had funded a Ph.D. student or recent graduate studying general public. This grant will match the much of the computer infrastructure for paleography at a Greek university, will be grant from the European Economic Area the Agora, as well as several employees. trained in archival and cataloguing tech- (EEA) (see below). PHI continues to generously support the niques and will work with the Library staff excavation seasons in the Athenian Agora to catalogue the manuscript collection at EEA Grant: In November 2008 the Ameri- with major funding annually. We are grate- the Gennadeion. can School was notified that we, together ful to the Packard Humanities Institute for with the Greek Ministry of Culture, were the long-standing and generous support of NEH/DFG Grant: The School received the awarded a grant for a joint project over 27 the Athenian Agora. good news in April that a joint grant to the months to preserve through digitization American School from the National En- and make available through the website the Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation Grant: dowment for the Humanities (NEH) and records of the Athenian Agora excavation, The Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation con- to the German Archaeological Institute in including the notebooks, catalogue cards, tinues its strong support for the School’s plans, drawings, and photos, as well as to Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Sci- continued on page 15

4 New Head Librarian at Blegen

On October 1, 2008, the School community American International Consortium of Ac- welcomed Karen Bohrer as Head Librarian ademic Libraries (AMICAL) and was also of the Blegen Library. Ms. Bohrer succeeds a member of the Consortium of American former Head Librarian Charles E. Jones, Libraries Linked in Northern Greece. who left the position in spring 2008 (Archi- Ms. Bohrer looks forward to applying vist Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan having served her extensive experience in developing li- as Acting Head Librarian in the interim). brary policies and procedures to the School’s Prior to joining the ASCSA, Ms. Bohrer digital initiatives and coordinated services was Director of the Bissell Library at the efforts. “It’s wonderful to be associated with American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), an institution that not only is home to two the university division of Anatolia College, outstanding libraries but which also clearly for more than six years. As that library’s values the central role those collections inaugural director, she had the opportunity play in advancing the School’s mission. to substantially develop its collection, in- Guided by the spirit of collaboration and troduce programs and services, and work aided by new technology, we can become collaboratively with faculty and staff to ever more adept at collecting, preserving, help integrate library resources into teach- and making more accessible the resources ing and learning opportunities in a tech- Karen Bohrer among the stacks at the of the ASCSA,” she notes. nologically sophisticated environment. Her Blegen. Since her arrival in Athens, Ms. Bohrer tenure at the Bissell Library followed a 15- has worked with her colleagues at the Ble- year career in public libraries in Chicago gen and Gennadius libraries and in Princ- and Connecticut. America. She is a member of the American eton to streamline procedures, revise agree- Ms. Bohrer holds a B.A. from St. John’s Library Association and the Association of ments with book suppliers and exchange College, whose four-year liberal arts and College and Research Libraries. While at partners, set up a volunteer program with sciences program places strong emphasis ACT, she served as the vice-chair of the College Year in Athens, and collect data on classical texts and ancient Greek, and Coordinating Committee and chair of the for a collection assessment, among other an M.S.L.S. from The Catholic University of Electronic Resources Working Group of the projects. e

New Appointments at ManCom Meetings

Among the business at the two Managing terial culture from the Iron Age through the California at Santa Barbara) and Jonathan Committee meetings held January 9, 2009 Hellenistic period, and will pursue several M. Hall (University of Chicago); Commit- in Philadelphia and May 9, 2009 in New research projects: a study of 350 drawings tee on Personnel, 2009–14, Daniel J. Pullen York City were appointments to several by William Haygarth that are housed in the (Florida State University); Committee on School positions and the addition of new Gennadius Library; a book on Macedonian Publications, 2009–14, Christopher Ratté Managing Committee representatives. painting; and the publication of the early (University of Michigan); Committee on At its January meeting, the committee Classical tomb at Karaburun uncovered by the Summer Sessions, 2009–13, Kevin F. recommended the appointment of Paraske- the Bryn Mawr excavations. Daly (Bucknell University) and Kim Shel- vi Elefanti (Department of Geology, Royal It was also announced in May that for- ton (University of California, Berkeley). Holloway College, University of London) mer Blegen Librarian Nancy Winter has New members considered and en- as 2009–10 Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory been awarded emerita status, in recogni- dorsed in the course of the two meetings Visiting Research Professor. Ms. Elefanti, tion of her long and outstanding service are: Gail L. Hoffman (Department of Clas- whose area of interest is lithics from the to the School. sical Studies and Fine Arts), to represent middle palaeolithic to upper palaeolithic Other business at the May meeting Boston College (replacing David Gill, who transition, will offer a seminar on stone tool involved confirmation of the following retired); Mark C. Alonge (Department of technology at the School. members elected to serve on the Standing Classical Studies), as a third representative The May meeting included the appoint- Committees: Executive Committee, 2009– for Boston University; Paul Iversen (De- ment of Stella Miller-Collett as 2009–10 13, Leslie P. Day (Wabash College) and H. partment of Classics), to represent Case Whitehead Visiting Professor. Ms. Miller- Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins University); Western Reserve University (replacing the Collett, Professor Emerita of Classical and Committee on Admissions and Fellow- late Donald R. Laing, Jr.); Spencer Adams Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr ships, 2009–13, Sheila Dillon (Duke Uni- Pope and Sean Corner (both Department College, is internationally known for her versity); Committee on the Blegen Library, of Classics), to represent McMaster Uni- work as a scholar of Macedonian painting 2009–13, Elizabeth P. McGowan (Williams versity; Jon M. Frey (Department of Art and as an excavator (at the Athenian Agora, College) and Elizabeth Meyer (University and Art History and French, Classics and Nemea, and Troy). As Whitehead Professor, of Virginia); Committee on Committees, she will offer a seminar on Macedonian ma- 2009–11, Brice L. Erickson (University of continued on page 15

5 Summer Session II: Getting There is Half the Fun Last summer two groups of students, respectively led by Frederick Cooper (University of Minnesota) and Gerald Lalonde (Grinnell College), were introduced to the most significant archaeological sites and museums in Greece through the ASCSA Summer Sessions, an intense six-week program of site visits, lectures, and student reports. Session leader Lalonde remarked of his group, “I am grateful to my fellow travelers for their good attention to the scholarship of the program, including the fine presentations, and their good-natured endurance of a fairly rigorous schedule, occasional steep hills, and the heat.” Here, one of the participants in his session shares her experiences with the convivial Summer Session II assemblage.

The average traveler on a six-week trip could not hope to see the entirety of the archaeological remains of ancient Greece. For the American School, however, just such a challenge was attempted by twenty curious students and one intrepid leader, Dr. Ger- ald Lalonde. Summer Session II completed their six-week trip with the sense that they had certainly seen a giant portion of it. The group comprised a well-distributed number of high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and even one college professor of philosophy. A common expectation of every summer session is for each student to give two presentations on assigned topics. While some of the discussions were to be expected on such a trip as ours (e.g., was the Hermes at Olympia an original of Praxiteles?), our group’s varied backgrounds lent itself to topics such as the similarities of the repatriation efforts between the modern Greek state and the Photo: M. Wolfrom Native American Zuni tribe in Arizona, as Jeff Soles discusses the archaeological site situated on the island of Mochlos, Crete. well as a discussion of archaeological dating From back-left (starting with man in brown hat): Miles Doleac, Allison Shwab, Gerald using dendrochronology, and even an intro- Lalonde (leader), Natalie Johnson, William Murray, Celina Charles, Brendan Baran (hidden), and William Duffy. duction to one teacher’s method of teaching art history to inner-city students. After a week of orientation to Athens Our Cretan travels also introduced La- responded that he knew Aristophanes’ play, and the American School, the eager stu- londe’s teaching style, which emphasized but did not know what that was). Nauplion dents departed for the beautiful island of a hearty skepticism: Could bull-jumping could safely be said to be one of the group’s Crete. On the overnight ferry to the island, contests have really been hosted in the favorite Peloponnesian towns: its sea-side we began what would become a common central courts of the Minoan palaces? In walkway and towering Venetian fortress discussion: who had the most survival seeing so many Minoan palaces, we learned made for some great views and group pho- skills to take over if we lost our prized to identify megara, kernoi, and kouloures. tos, but its proximity to the Lion’s Gate of leader Lalonde? The rankings were based With olive groves on our left and the stun- Mycenae helped its location to be premium. on our weeklong knowledge of each other ning Cretan coastline to our right, we took By the end of our Peloponnese trip, about and often resorted to the trivial designation many long, sleepy rides on the sarcophabus half of our group learned and began play- of who was the tallest. However, persons to sites such as Mallia, Gournia, and Palai- ing bridge. who held Swiss Army knives and compass- kastro. At Azoria, however, we abandoned Travel north included the beautiful site es were also given strong consideration. our bus for a pair of beat-up trucks, piling of Delphi, where again we were cautioned Our first stop, in Chania, was not at a in for the ride up the steep cliff to the ex- to be skeptical of some archaeological Minoan palace but at a Cretan synagogue. cavation of an early Iron Age town. theories. In particular, Lalonde raised his We met Nikos Stavroulakis, one of only Our journey across the Corinth Canal eyebrows about the validity of the possible seven Jewish Cretans, who talked of Cre- to the Peloponnese met with one of the hallucinogenic gas emissions at the Oracle tan nationalism and the role of his restored most beautiful swimming beaches we expe- at Delphi that may have influenced the Py- synagogue in a Greek Orthodox–centered rienced: alongside the ancient site of Pera- thia. The northern trip reached as high as Crete. Such non–“classical studies” stops chora. The Peloponnese included a visit to Thessaloniki, where we saw such archaeo- were a common feature of Summer Ses- see the ancient theater at Epidauros, and logical sites as Olynthos, the ancient city sion II’s itinerary that served to enhance a we viewed a not-so-ancient rendition of built on the hippodamian grid system. broader understanding of ancient Greece Aristophanes’ Frogs (one student asked Two birthdays were celebrated on this through a modern lens. whether that was Aristophanes’ play and trip—and the group thoroughly enjoyed Lalonde, with his characteristic dry humor, continued on page 9

6 Re-Grafting “Apollo’s Laurel Bough”: Byroniana at the Gennadeion and Revival of Tradition As an ASCSA Summer Session student in 1984, Patrick Hunt had an inspiration that was to last a lifetime and follow him into a career of archaeological and artistic pursuits. Now a lecturer in classics at Stanford University (among numerous other avocations), he relates here his ASCSA experience and how he came to revive a Classical tradition.

We may sometimes reflect on old traditions eventually duly returned to the people of surrounding laurels beyond Delphi, where Greece, possibly by John Gennadius him- Apollo himself was wreathed in ancient art self through his peerless collection of By- on vases and coins, along with his Pythi- roniana. In its old box, all dusty, faded and an Oracle and priests, and where Pythian dried out, yet still intact and said to date games victors were wreathed. Elsewhere from 1824, was this incredible treasure, Apollo’s temples may have also been often poetic but real. I will never forget that the graced by laurel groves in mythic honor of box with Byron’s laurel wreath was placed the nymph Daphne. In humility we may for a moment in my hands in Athens. even attempt to revive laureate traditions. That inspiring Gennadeion moment In 1984 I was a graduate student, and in has followed me for decades. I wrote a col- Athens our Summer Session II group vis- lection of poetry that summer of 1984 in ited the Gennadeion, where great moments Greece, Wings Over Hellas; some of these in modern Greek history intersperse with poems have been published variously in more ancient artifacts. One of the Gennade- the U.S. and Britain, one of them (“Kithai- ion librarians was our inspiring guide. Her ron”) just republished in the Penguin Book face shone as she took us around, proudly of Classical Myths (2008). A volume of po- showing us Greek treasures. etry, House of the Muse, was also published After the tour I thanked the Gennadeion in 2005. Another collection of poems on librarian (other than as a Muse, I wish I Classical themes is almost completed. Since Photo: Gennadeion Archives could recall her name to give her proper 2005 I have been writing an opera, Byron Byron’s laurel wreath. credit). I remarked how certain items stood in Greece, which also took its inspiration out for me personally and was invited back from reflections on the Gennadeion wreath. to look more closely. When I returned to Some arias from the opera in progress have 2008, to class. He told the students he had the Gennadeion for our appointment, she already been premiered in London, Swit- taught poetry many years earlier at Stan- was there with rings of keys to cabinets zerland, Stanford, and elsewhere. ford, and he recited a few poems from his and museum cases. She surprised me by I have always held in high regard Masac- latest book, to much appreciation. To high- asking what I wished to hold in my hands. cio’s and Ghirlandaio’s paintings of Dante light his visit, I brought out a fresh laurel After only a moment’s hesitation I made my crowned with laurel wreath, as Dante fol- wreath and, as he stood beaming his as- choice. One treasure was more sacred to lowed Virgil and Virgil echoed Homer. Poet sent, placed it on his head. Throughout the me than anything else: a box with Byron’s Laureates are often honored globally now, course I reminded students that ephemeral posthumous laurel wreath. whether posthumously or in their lifetimes. plant wreaths might carry a message about In 1824, when Lord Byron died in Always fond of Homer’s description of the the transience of victory, and that even lau- Greece, his body was returned to England Garden of Alkinous in Odyssey VII.113 ff, I rels will fade like the mortals who are thus by sea on the brig Florida. In some con- found that merely trying to imagine it was crowned, although remembrance may last temporary accounts, throngs of mourn- not enough. So, over a decade I lovingly eons as in Pindar’s Nemean Ode 6.1–5. ers lined the streets of London as Byron’s replicated as much as possible this garden Reviving ancient tradition in some small black-draped coffin and catafalque went to on a more modest scale in our California way, this laurel wreathing has been now Lord Knatchbull’s house on Great George yard. Olive, fig, grapevines, apple, pome- repeated quite often at Stanford or in our Street, where it lay in state seven days un- granate, pear, and flowers were planted, “Homeric” garden. Several poets—visiting til burial (Harold Nicholson. Byron: The including perennial flowers such as cycla- faculty like British poet Richard Davis and Last Journey. 1924. London: Prion Books, men and anemones among the rocks. After Stanford poet Ken Fields—and other writ- 1999, 244). Although details are some- a long search we found a nursery in Or- ers have been wreathed. times contradictory, one narrative states egon that grew young laurels, European but At last summer’s Sun Valley Writers the Greeks of Missolonghi had this laurel originally from Greece. So pride of place in Conference 2008, we held a special cer- wreath made for Byron’s coffin (C. W. J. El- our garden now goes to a young laurel tree emony wreathing poets W. S. Merwin and iot. “Gennadeion Notes, III: Athens in the (Laurus nobilis) planted in 2000. Ted Kooser. Merwin had been long honored Time of Lord Byron.” Hesperia 37.2 (1968) In a Stanford course I taught in 2007, with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Tanning 134–58, esp. 158), not least because Byron partly on Greek traditions, I wove olive Prize, and Bollingen Prize, among others. had been something of a freedom fighter in wreaths and a laurel wreath from the trees Kooser was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 Greece and was also a champion of preserv- in my garden. To underscore the long his- to 2006, also earning a Pulitzer Prize for ing Greek monuments in Childe Harold’s tory of poet laureates, I invited Al Young, Pilgrimage. This same laurel wreath was Poet Laureate of California from 2005 to continued on page 8

7 Anabasis 2009 Apollo’s Laurel Bough continued from page 7 Summer Session Director John W. I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara) and NEH Fellow Jenifer Neils (Case Western Reserve University) provide an inside look at one of the Poetry, among others. It was totally quiet School’s traditional Spring Term trips. when the two poets stood, only a little surprised, and I doubt a writer there missed The spring Ionia-Caria trip, led by Agora the import of such a venerable tradition, Excavations Director John Camp, is going however different in modernity than an- stronger than ever. This year’s trip, from tiquity. The two poets sat together at that March 14–28, was an exhilarating cross writers’ dinner wearing their fresh laurel between boot camp and the Society of the wreaths from our tree. Who would blame Dilettanti that brought out the best in the some of us for imagining their wreaths School’s students. looked astonishingly in place as if Apollo Following in the wake of the sons of had just bathed them in light? King Kodros, who colonized the western We plan to bring a newly rooted sapling coast of Asia Minor, we Athenaioi safely branch from our California scion of a Greek traveled over 4,000 km from Istanbul to laurel—this one young laurel tree that has Bodrum and back, thanks to the skill of thus begun to wreathe poets again—back veteran bus driver Ahmet and his partner to Athens shortly. We will plant this lau- Mehmet. Our Pausanias was kind and pa- rel, returned to Greece, in the Gennadeion tient Yıldırım (“Lightning”), who taught garden in hope that it will in future supply us Turkish phrases, selected inexpensive wreaths for Greek Poet Laureates and visit- but excellent kebab-houses for lunch, and ing U.S. Poet Laureates alike, from “Apol- shepherded us through boulder-strewn, lo’s laurel bough” (Christopher Marlowe. sometimes water-logged sites. Our inexo- One of John Camp’s sketches from his Doctor Faustus, 1604 ed. Scene 14, Chorus rable march was occasionally delayed—by trip to Ionia. Epilogue, line 2). Thus, for me personally, the scarf-selling ladies of Herakleia, or by akin to Blake’s holding “infinity in the palm the Turkish election banners strung across of your hand” (William Blake. Auguries of village streets that sometimes snagged the the chance to stroll around Hagia Sophia Innocence, circa 1803), one brief moment bus—but we managed nonetheless to visit with Professor John Freely. at the Gennadeion in 1984 has been an some forty sites and museums. Each traveler had her special high points. inspiration for life for this poet. A typical day began with a forced march For Mellon Professor Margie Miles it was (NOTE: A recent poem by Patrick Hunt, uphill to some remote ancient site where, the tantalizing jumble of Proconnesian inspired by classical themes, can be found after a concise overview by our leader, we marble blocks that once constituted the at http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/spiffs/ e would spread out over the ruins to recon- enormous Temple of Hadrian at Kyzikos. re-grafting-apollos-laurel-bough/) noiter, handouts in hand (or mouth, de- For Whitehead Professor Rebecca Ammer- pending on the steepness of the locale) as man, it was slithering, à la Indiana Jones, we scaled towers, scrutinized inscriptions, through a dark, sooty tunnel deep within and pondered the mystery of guttae-less the tumulus at Belevi to see an intact liba- mutules. The archaeological richness and tion tube. For others, it was the opportunity preservation of the sites we saw was truly to conduct research on the Turkish carpet impressive. To keep them all in order, we and souvenir industries, and the numerous had to invent Homeric epithets: many- varieties of rakı. At Pergamon, to the bewil- tadpoled Miletos, well-puppied Smyrna, derment and delight of a local shopkeeper, lignite-rich Stratonikeia. Even so, some we made a raid on every available copy of antiquities remained elusive, such as the the tenth edition of Akurgal’s Ancient Civi- bejeweled fish giving prophesies at Labran- lizations and Ruins of Turkey. da, the spring flowing with wine at Teos, We will long remember the majestic and the precise location of the Battle of the mosques of Bursa, the lentil soup that Granicus. sustained us, the extraordinary landscape The students gave excellent reports on of snow-capped mountains and daisy- topics ranging from the Hittite presence in filled valleys, and especially the warm Ionia to the multicultural music of early- and friendly people, like the diminutive twentieth-century Smyrna. We also had fig seller of Ephesos—even if we still don’t wonderful guest speakers. In Bodrum the have all forty-odd sites quite straight in our Photo: P. Hunt long-time underwater archaeologist Don heads. Tanned and exhausted, we “Camp- Frey described the adventure and challenge followers” returned to Loring Hall but were The laurel tree in Patrick Hunt’s garden, of excavating ancient wrecks and taught us eager to march out again with our leader, one of many manifestations of his inspi- the indispensable phrase “choke gazelle” who, like Alexander the Great, prepared for rational Summer Session encounter with Byron’s laurel wreath. (çok güzel). In Istanbul, where many of us breakfast with a night march, and whose spent a few extra days, a special treat was lunch was a frugal breakfast. e

8 Publications News Mellon Professor Miles Begins Term

The series of final reports on material dis- With the beginning of the academic year on covered at the Athenian Agora are essential July 1, 2008, the School welcomed Marga- reference books because of the careful exca- ret M. Miles as Andrew W. Mellon Professor vation techniques employed at the site and of Classical Studies. Ms. Miles, a professor the large number of closed archaeological of art history and classics at the University deposits of known date. Published at the of California, Irvine since 1992, succeeded end of 2008, the latest monograph in the John Oakley in the position and will serve series, Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports a three-year term. (Agora 32), by John W. Hayes, presents a Ms. Miles’ areas of research interest in- catalogue of over 1,800 inventoried pieces clude Greek and Roman art, architecture, of red-gloss and red-slip “terra sigillata” and archaeology. As an archaeologist, she and other tablewares of the first to sev- excavated in Athens and Corinth and enth centuries A.D. Since Roman pottery conducted field work on Greek temples is probably the most common find on sites in Rhamnous and Sounion in Greece, and around the Mediterranean, this volume in Selinous and Agrigento in Sicily. She will be a vital tool for all archaeologists published the American excavations of studying the classical world. Inscriptions the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone on stone form another important class of near the Agora of Athens that was ritually material discovered in the Athenian Agora. linked to the Eleusinian Mysteries (Agora Photo: K. Rask A collection of the more hard-to-decipher XXXI). Most recently, she explored Cice- Margie Miles (at left) on a student trip pieces were also published in late 2008 in ro’s Verrines and their impact on issues of with Regular Member Stella Diakou and the volume Fragmentary Inscriptions from cultural property, the ethics of collecting, Agora Excavations Director John Camp. the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Suppl. 38), and the fate of art in wartime in her book by Michael B. Walbank. Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of De- bate about Cultural Property (Cambridge, and Honorary School Fellow (1978–79). ddd 2008). Ms. Miles is currently writing a book Among numerous other academic distinc- The organic remains of the past are play- on Greek architecture of the fifth century tions, she has held two fellowships from the ing an increasingly important role in the B.C.E., with an emphasis on its religious National Endowment for the Humanities, study of ancient societies. New Directions context. The new book will cover a wide was a Member (Mellon Fellow) of the Insti- in the Skeletal Biology of Greece (Hesperia geographical spread, including temples in tute for Advanced Study, and was awarded Suppl. 43), edited by Lynne A. Schepartz, Sicily and southern Italy. the Rome Prize at the American Academy Sherry C. Fox, and Chryssi Bourbou, is A graduate of The University of Michi- in Rome. the first in a series of volumes published gan, Ms. Miles holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Ms. Miles has represented U.C. Irvine under the auspices of the Wiener Labora- classical archaeology from Princeton Uni- on the ASCSA Managing Committee since tory that highlight the contribution that the versity. She attended the ASCSA’s Summer 2000. She served a five-year term on the archaeological sciences are making to the Session in 1974 and was a Member of the Managing Committee’s Committee on archaeology of Greece. The book illustrates School from 1976 to 1979, as John Williams Personnel (2002–07) and one year on the the diversity of questions, from issues of ge- White Fellow (1976–77), Gorham Phillips Executive Committee (2007–08), and was netic relatedness to diet and health, that are Stevens Fellow (1977–78), and American president of the ASCSA Alumni Association being answered by bioarchaeological stud- Association of University Women Fellow from 1995 to 1997. e ies. An introductory overview is followed by sixteen case studies from all regions of Greece, and from periods ranging from the Summer Session II Paleolithic to the early twentieth century. continued from page 6

ddd the free meals. Between Corinth and Nau- Farewell!” in the movie “The Sound of Mu- plion, we luncheoned at a restaurant where sic.” Our version was a rewrite of a Gilbert Although originated by the Gennadius Li- most agreed that we had the best meal of and Sullivan song (“I am the very model brary, the Publications Office was pleased to lamb with lemon sauce. The trip north held of a modern major general,” which was assist in the production of The Archaeology of our second birthday lunch, which included transposed into “I am the very model of Xenitia, the 2008 issue of The New Griffon, my favorite dish (since it was my birthday a Mycenaean Megaron”). The group fin- guest edited by historian Kostis Kourelis. after all!) of fish that was sumptuously ac- ished its journey after taking last-minute This innovative group of papers explores the companied by roasted eggplant and tons photographs of one another, swearing to effect of nineteenth- and twentieth-century of tzaziki, and even finished off with the come back soon (especially since we had Greek immigration on the material culture sesame dessert halva. the golden museum pass for another three of both Greece itself and countries such as Our trip ended with an evening garden years) and leaving with a new appreciation the United States, Canada, and Australia to party behind the Blegen Library, where for all things material culture. which the immigrants moved. the group assumed a role similar to that of continued on page 22 the Von Trapp family, who sang “So Long, — Melinda Wolfrom, Boston College

9 Student Reports Poseidon in Attica in the working at the School helped me signifi- The Late Helladic corridor building is a cantly with the progress of my work. large multi-storied structure that comprises Classical Period For my tea talk, “Poseidon, the sea a megaron-type unit flanked on one side deities, and the sea: some iconographi- by a long corridor and a series of smaller An g e l i k i Ko k k i n o u cal observations,” I surveyed and wrote a rooms. Examples of this architecture can be Jo h n s Ho p k i n s Un i v e r s i t y 2007–08 Kr e s s Ar t a n d Ar c h i t e c t u r e in large part of the fourth chapter of my dis- found throughout Greece, from Thessaly to An t i q u i t y Fe l l o w sertation, which refers to Poseidon in the Crete. The emergence of the corridor build- art of the Athenian Empire. Poseidon was ing in Mycenaean Greece marks a striking Thanks to a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, considered one of the gods who helped the change from earlier architectural traditions I had the opportunity to work on my dis- Greeks in the war against the Persians, and on the mainland as it incorporates an axial sertation at the ASCSA during academic as a result he received offerings and new development of rooms with walls built at year 2007–08. The basis of my topic is the cults. This increased importance of the god right angles, the interior corridor, and the representations of Poseidon in the art of is reflected in the Attic iconography of the “megaroid” nucleus. The archaeological Attica. A brief examination of the cults of period during and after the Persian wars. evidence indicates that these buildings not Poseidon in Attica, and a catalogue of the During this period the role of Poseidon as only had a residential function indicated sources referring to the god and his role a sea god, as well as that of Nereus and by hearths, plastered floors, wall paintings, in this part of Greece, will contribute to the Nereids, is emphasized. Poseidon and and material culture, but that they were the thorough and accurate study of the other sea deities became the main means by also involved in regional and long-distance subject. which the Athenians expressed their rela- trade as well as in industrial production, The Attic representations of Poseidon tion to the sea, and thus he became a sym- such as the manufacture of metal objects, change in different periods, first regarding bol of the Athenian maritime supremacy. jewelry, perfumed oil, and textiles. My interest in Mycenaean corridor their number and, more important, regard- ddd ing their iconography. Having the opportu- buildings developed from my fieldwork as nity to work in the fully equipped Blegen Mycenaean Society an archaeologist of the 13th Ephorate of the Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Library, I was able to gather and date all Outside the Palaces: the material concerning my topic. I orga- the excavation of the Mycenaean town at nized this material in a catalogue, divided The Evidence of the Dimini from 1996 to 2003, when two such in chronological units to facilitate use by Late Helladic Corridor buildings were excavated under the direc- the future reader, and provide a corpus of Buildings tion of Dr. Adrimi-Sismani. While the num- Poseidon’s imagery in Attic art. ber of Mycenaean corridor buildings has increased as a result of recent excavations, I also worked on a chapter about the Pa n a g i o ta A. Pa n t o u cults of Poseidon in Attica and a catalogue the function and standing of these structures SUNY, Buffa l o in Mycenaean society, on the other hand, of the literary and epigraphical references 2008–09 Io n e My l o n a s Sh e a r Fe l l o w remains rather obscure. Was there a socio- to him. He was worshipped in many places 2007–08 Em i l y To w n s e n d Ve r m e u l e Fe l l o w of Attica, with state and deme cults (Ath- economic significance in residing and working in a Mycenaean corridor building? And ens, Hippios Kolonos, Eleusis, Phaleron, As a student of the ASCSA I have been hon- how did this significance—if any—change Piraeus, Thorikos, Sounion, Erchia, Mara- ored to hold school fellowships in memory regionally or/and through time? thon). Archaeological remains, for example of Emily Vermeule and of Ione Mylonas- Little is known about Mycenaean society on the Acropolis or at Sounion, provide Shear, two Bronze Age scholars whose work outside the palaces and the social structure information about his cult; epigraphy and I have always admired. I extend my deep- and economy of non-palatial settlements. literary texts give evidence for his cult pro- est gratitude to the Vermeule family and In part, this is due to the fact that since cedure, for festivals celebrated to honor the Mylonas-Shear family for their support the decipherment of the Linear B tablets him, for sacrificial or votive offerings to over these two years. by Ventris in 1952, research on this field him, for oaths to him, and for his sacerdotal My residence at the ASCSA under the has been dominated by the study of texts personnel; Attic theophoric names (e.g., auspices of the Shear and Vermeule fel- rather than material evidence. Recently, Poseidippos, Poseidoniakon) can also shed lowships provided me the great privilege however, several scholars began to sug- light on the importance of Poseidon in the of being able to conduct both on-site and gest that the Mycenaean economy cannot life of the Athenians. As is the case with library research and to discuss my work be fully understood through the study of other gods, the situation with the cults of with field experts, excavators, university palatial documents alone, and that while Poseidon is more complex than we expect professors, and members of other foreign Mycenaean society shared a certain cultural it to be. State cults are celebrated separately schools, all of whose help was extremely homogeneity, the economic and social or- also in the demes, and the deme people or valuable for the progress of my doctoral ganization differed regionally. associations worship the god also outside research project. My project involves the Given these recent developments, the the limits of their deme. study of the architecture, artifacts, and texts Late Helladic corridor buildings provide a My presence in Athens made possible from Late Helladic corridor buildings with new avenue to explore regional variability in-person visits to cult places of this god in the aim of illuminating the economic orga- and socioeconomic complexities in Late Attica and the examination of material in nization and social structure of Mycenaean several museums in Greece. More impor- Greece. continued on next page tant, the advice and comments of scholars

10 Student Reports places on Sphacteria, which gave me a bet- continued from previous page ter feeling for the local geography. We also visited nearby Voidokilia Bay, a place that Bronze Age Greece. At its present stage of some scholars have conjectured Thucy- development, my project has the potential to dides mistook for the harbor of Pylos. illustrate the role of the corridor building in Another memorable stop was Mantinea, the economic organization of Late Helladic where I gave one of my reports. Thanks to a society and reveal regional socioeconomic tip from Corinth Excavations Director Guy developments, social stratification, and Sanders, we stopped at the perfect place settlement types in Mycenaean Greece. to look over the ancient battlefield. In his description of the battle, Thucydides says ddd that the Spartans fell short in experience but won through courage. It seemed like an Greece Through the Eyes odd comment to me, since the Spartans are of Thucydides best known for their unrelenting training. When the trips were over, I continued to An d r e w Sw e e t think about this passage. I searched else- Co r n e l l Un i v e r s i t y where in Thucydides for the juxtaposition 2007–08 Ma r t i n Os t w a l d Fe l l o w of courage and experience, and I came to realize that both were important compo- Thanks to the Arete Foundation, spon- nents of morale. Morale is a crucial de- sor of the School’s Martin J. Ostwald Fel- terminant of success in war, so I decided Photo: J. Donati to do a comprehensive study of morale lowship, I was able to spend the 2007–08 Archaic walls (notably, aligned with Clas- academic year as a Regular Member of the in Thucydides’ History as my dissertation sical walls) beneath the South Stoa in the ASCSA. Before I arrived for the program, I project. I never imagined something that I Argive agora. had never been to Greece, so I was looking came across while researching a site report forward to becoming acquainted with the would grow into my dissertation! take on different forms, as it addresses dif- country’s people and culture. I had also just ddd ferent social and political needs. We cannot completed my exams at Cornell Univer- expect that those elements which charac- sity and was hoping to find a dissertation Towards an Agora: Urban terize agoras in democratic cities have the topic while abroad. My membership at the Environment and Civic same meaning, or are even to be found, in American School enabled me to achieve other political cityscapes. both of these goals. Space in the Peloponnese Five cities in the Peloponnese serve as I have been very interested in Thucy- case studies for my project. Corinth, Argos, dides since I first studied his work in my Ja m i e s o n C. Do n a t i In s t i t u t e o f Fi n e Ar t s , NYU and Sparta are of the older Peloponnesian freshman year of college, so visiting nearly 2007–08 Eu g e n e Va n d e r p o o l Fe l l o w type, while Elis and Megalopolis were built all of the sites mentioned in his History after neighboring villages joined into a sin- was an amazing experience. One of the gle urban center. As I quickly learned, each first places Mellon Professor John Oakley Thanks to a Eugene Vanderpool Fellow- city presents its own unique set of chal- took us to was ancient Plataea. Not much ship, I spent 2007–08 conducting on-site lenges: some have been more thoroughly remains there today, but seeing the spot research for my dissertation, which traces excavated and published than others; some where the Peloponnesian War began (at the spatial and architectural development have literary and epigraphical testimonia least according to Thucydides) was very of the Greek agora in the Peloponnese dur- which can aid our understanding of the special to me. As we wandered around and ing the Archaic and Classical periods. This material culture; and some offer opportuni- looked at the foundations of the walls and is a region of southern Greece that exhib- ties to re-examine what has already been the sherds lying on the ground, I could not its diverse patterns of urbanization. Here, excavated. help but think of the destruction of the bands of small villages took longer to mate- At Corinth one of the more persistent city at the hands of the Spartans and the rialize into centralized urban centers, even problems after 110 years of American exca- Thebans in 427 B.C. Although the city was well into the fifth century B.C. This circum- vations has been the inability to definitively subsequently rebuilt, I felt like I was seeing stance naturally influenced the location of locate the Greek agora. No pre-Roman civic the results of the siege that Thucydides so an agora in the city as urban form matured. buildings have been securely recognized, vividly described. The concept of peripheral elements playing leading many scholars to conclude that the One highlight of the School trips was an important role in deciding where the Greek agora must lie in an unexcavated a visit to Pylos with Director Jack Davis, Greek agora was placed challenges con- section of the city. My dissertation includes who knows the area very well. Some of ventional wisdom that views it as a nodal a reexamination of the Greek structures in the most important military actions in the point at the center of a city. Also important the central part of the city and suggests that Peloponnesian War happened at Pylos and to my research is the relationship between this area of Corinth could have functioned Sphacteria, but Thucydides’ description of the social and political structure of a city as the commercial, religious, and political the harbor there includes what appears to to the built environment of the agora. Here heart of the Greek city. be a serious inaccuracy. We took a boat ride I try to break away from an Athenocentric continued on next page around the harbor and even landed at a few model to illustrate that the Greek agora can

11 Student Reports tion on grave assemblages in Athens and In addition to expanding my under- continued from previous page Attica. I am interested in on-the-ground standing of ancient Greek material culture, evidence for communal rites at the site of I had two basic purposes in spending this Just over 40 km south of Corinth, Argos graves, particularly those of the Protogeo- year in Greece as a Regular Member of the preserves an agora that saw intense build- metric, Early, and Middle Geometric pe- ASCSA. The first was to study in intimate ing activity around the middle of the fifth riods. I am exploring the degree to which detail the development of the topography century B.C. This includes the construction the locus of communal ritual and identity of Athens and its demes during the reigns of conspicuous public facilities, such as an before the Late Geometric period was pri- of the Antonine emperors. Our intensive open-air auditorium serving the needs of marily centered around funerary rites, as examination of the material culture of Ath- the Argive popular assembly. Current dis- indicated, for example, by both the grave ens, Eleusis, and the other demes has made course tends to credit these projects, and assemblages themselves and the evidence this information accessible to me, and the consequentially the formative period of the for funerary games. data I have accumulated will be incorpo- agora, with the establishment of a demo- Sanctuaries and shrines in Athens and rated into a dissertation chapter that I will cratic government at Argos in the 460s B.C. Attica were another area of focus. I have write about the Greek-speaking regions of However, caution must be applied in this assembled a catalogue not just of the dates the Roman empire during the reigns of the instance. A series of Archaic waterworks and locations of Attic sanctuaries during Antonine emperors. and structures that are aligned with Clas- the Geometric and Protoattic period, but Second, I had planned to examine the sical buildings indicate that the Argives of their respective votive assemblages. This cities of northern Greece and Macedonia began the process of preparing their agora has produced some interesting results in its that Macedonian kings had either estab- well before the democratic government own right. For example, terracotta figurines lished or patronized. It was my aim to com- came to power. and plaques are found almost exclusively at pare and contrast them with the cities and A final city that I briefly mention here seventh-century female deity sanctuaries. palaces that Macedonian kings founded in provides an interesting contrast to Corinth Among deities, votive tripods and shields the Near East and Mesopotamia after Al- and Argos. Megalopolis, a city in Arkadia are restricted to Demeter and Athena. I am exander’s conquests of these regions. Our founded around 368 B.C., had perhaps the also exploring what I see as the relationship trips to such sites as Demetrias, Dion, and most canonical agora in the Peloponnese. between the rise of sanctuary activity and Philippi enabled me to explore this data, Here, civic space follows Late Classical and the decline of visible burial rites. and they constitute significant comparanda Hellenistic trends in town planning that Finally, I also collected and examined for my examination of palaces and cities are noticed all over the Greek world. Since data regarding “sacred houses” and “ances- established by Macedonian kings in the Megalopolis was founded by a federation of tor/hero” cults. I am not at all confident, Near East. small Greek city-states interested in coun- having collected the data, that cults of the My studies at the School also expanded tering Spartan aggression, the intention dead were either particularly widespread my general knowledge about the material was to give its rivals the semblance of an in Attica, or a major source of communal culture of Greece from the archaic to the organized and respectable city. cultic ritual and identity. Byzantine periods, and this knowledge will Much time was spent at the Blegen undoubtedly aid in my future research en- ddd Library, poring over excavation reports, deavors and my teaching interests. I have collecting the vast bibliography on early taken a vast number of photos, which will Cult and Authority in Athenian cult, and writing nearly two hun- serve as useful classroom aids and a source Ancient Athens dred pages of my dissertation. I spent sig- of visual stimulation for my students. nificant time at the Athenian Agora, as well, Mi c h a e l H. La u g h y , Jr. examining votive material from deposits ddd Un i v e r s i t y o f Ca l i f o r n i a , Be r k e l e y and wells. Outside of Athens, I traveled to Cult and Regional Identity 2007–08 Io n e My l o n a s Sh e a r Fe l l o w ten sites in Attica, examining the material in situ, as well as the cultic topography of Ch r i s t i n a Gi e s k e Attica as a whole. It was an honor to be the Ione Mylonas Un i v e r s i t y o f Pe n n s y lva n i a 2007–08 Jam e s H. a n d Ma r y Ot t a w a y , Jr. Shear Fellow at the ASCSA for the 2007–08 ddd year, and I am grateful to both the School Fe l l o w and the family of Ione Mylonas Shear for Advancing Research, their wonderful support. My year at the Present and Future My time as a Regular Member at the Ameri- School enabled me to make significant can School of Classical Studies at Athens progress on my dissertation, “Cult and Nat h a n a e l An d r a d e was a truly enriching experience both Authority in Ancient Athens.” Generally Un i v e r s i t y o f Mi c h i g a n personally and academically. For me, the speaking, my research concerns the forma- 2007–08 Mi c h a e l Jam e s o n Fe l l o w structure of the academic program pro- tion of cultic communities, and the role vided a perfect blend of opportunities and these communities played in the forma- experiences, and the series of School trips First and foremost, I would like to thank tion of the Athenian state. Much of my year we took in the fall benefited me in a num- the Arete Foundation for sponsoring the was spent compiling the archaeological evi- ber of ways. My first two report topics, the Michael Jameson Fellowship, which was dence for my dissertation, particularly for agora at Philippi and the nymphaeum of responsible for funding my year in Athens the Geometric and Protoattic periods. Herodes Atticus at Olympia, challenged me and Greece. This fellowship made possible One component of my work involved to study specific buildings and monuments the collection and examination of informa- the achievement of several research goals. continued on page 23

12 Agora Conservation Laboratory Reports on Busy Year

In 2008, Agora conservators carried out began with an XRF training session in the treatments of more than 400 artifacts. Most early summer, hosted by the Agora conser- of the artifacts derived from the 2007 and vation lab and attended by Wiener Labora- 2008 excavations and were copper alloy tory Director Sherry Fox and Corinth Ex- coins. Other artifacts treated include ce- cavations Conservator Nikol Anastasatou. ramics for John Hayes’ Agora volume on The XRF technique is nondestructive and coarseware pottery, routine re-treatments of is used to identify chemical elements in ceramics treated in the past, and the treat- inorganic substances. The Agora lab was ment of silver coins from a hoard of nearly temporarily equipped with an XRF instru- 400, unearthed in 2005. ment and we took this exceptional oppor- Besides interventive treatments of ar- tunity to take a closer look at the Agora tifacts from the Agora collection, much Excavations’ lovely collection of raw pig- energy and time was also spent on the ments, which have not been studied since preventive conservation of our vast collec- the 1950s. Although just a small portion tion. This includes tasks such as research- of the entire collection, these pigments ing archival materials suitable for storage add remarkably to our understanding of in the Stoa of Attalos, packing artifacts workshop activities and raw materials used safely for their long-term preservation, in the Agora in ancient times. We also em- designing storage containers and measur- ployed the XRF analyzer to identify coming up storage space, monitoring the rela- ponents in metal artifacts and coins, and tive humidity in our storage rooms, and to verify the presence or absence of certain implementing handling procedures among elements in glazes, putties, and paints— Photo: A. Anastassiades staff and researchers. In a broader sense thus helping staff and visiting researchers it also includes communicating the basic to answer important questions. Analysis of red pigment on a ceramic principles and aims of conservation to a During the 2008 excavation season, we vessel with a NITON XRF analyzer. wider audience. Thus, in 2008 we orga- continued our active conservation intern- nized conservation tours for 15 groups, as ship program, which aims at introducing well as for several individuals. conservation students to the conservation Siska Genbrugge (UCLA/Getty Program Through the summer and fall, the Agora of freshly excavated artifacts. This year, Amy on the Conservation of Ethnographic and lab collaborated with ThermoFisherScien- Y. Tjiong (Conservation Center of the In- Archaeological Materials) were introduced tific in testing a prototype of their new- stitute of Fine Arts, New York University), to the challenges conservators face when generation portable NITON XRF (x-ray- Kate Wight (Program in Art Conservation, treating and preparing archaeological mate- fluorescence) analyzers. The collaboration Winterthur University of Delaware), and rials for short- and long-term storage while making artifacts accessible to staff and visiting researchers. Amy and Siska interned in the lab for seven weeks and Kate for eight weeks; the three were generously funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A fourth intern, Vasiliki Kontogianni from the program Conservation of Objects in Museums and Archaeology, Cardiff University, joined us for five weeks to undertake a pilot project concerned with the in situ conservation of the Royal Stoa on the Agora site. For her research she arranged meetings with the conservation team of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis, Mrs. Mina Fratzi and Mrs. Eirini Fragkiadaki, who kindly shared their knowledge and advice. Vasiliki’s treatment plan was trial run on weathered limestone similar to that of the Royal Stoa in spring 2009. e

Photo: K. Lovén — Karen Lovén Assistant Conservator Conservation intern Amy Tjiong introducing the Agora diggers to basic conservation principles.

13 Agora Excavations Explore Painted Stoa Agora Excavation Director John McK. Camp II presents preliminary results of summer 2008’s excavation efforts.

Summer 2008 excavations were carried out in the Athenian Agora from June 10 to August 1, with a team of 62 individuals participating (about 50 employed in actual excavation, the rest as interns in conservation, architecture, and amphora studies). Twenty-three American colleges and universities were represented in the volunteer team, along with 7 foreign countries. It is a pleasant duty to record here some of the preliminary results, along with our thanks and appreciation for the efforts of so many individuals. Excavation funding was provided by the Packard Humanities Institute, whose support is also gratefully acknowledged. Our efforts concentrated on the building identified as the Painted Stoa. Both the back wall of the building and the interior colonnade were explored and found to be well preserved at this eastern end of the stoa. Though built largely of limestone, the workmanship on all the blocks of the superstructure is of the highest quality; this was one of the handsomest secular Photo: C. Mauzy buildings of ancient Athens. The back Back wall of the Painted Stoa from inside, toichobate and orthostate at rear, earlier wall has limestone foundations on which foundation in foreground. three full toichobate blocks and part of a fourth remain in situ. The blocks measure 1.205 m. long by 0.325 m. thick by 0.915 peristyle columns of the late-fifth-century islation concerning them appears in both m. high and were originally joined with Pompeion at the Kerameikos. the Theodosian Code (XV) and the Codex double-T clamps, now missing. The tops A rubble wall was found running south- Justinianus (I and VIII). Other examples in are finished with a claw chisel. The backs west from the easternmost column, 0.60 the Agora can still be seen west of the Royal are well dressed with a drove and there is a m. thick and preserved to a height of 0.60 Stoa and were also found in the northern rebate along the bottom, 0.09 m. high and m. It rests at about the level of the original stoa of the Library of Pantainos. 0.01 m. deep. Each block also has a lifting stoa floor and may well represent a late Further exploration of both the east end boss preserved. blocking of the interior colonnade. Such and the middle of the Stoa is planned for Within the building we exposed parts closings of stoa colonnades in the late Ro- the 2009 season. e of the two easternmost interior Ionic col- man period are relatively common. Leg- umns. The western of the two survives only in the form of the foundations, consisting of two poros blocks set side-by-side. The eastern column is better preserved, consist- Buried Under Piles of Sherds in the ing of a square limestone base or plinth, Stoa of Attalos measuring ca. 0.88 m. on a side (ca. 0.30 high, by calculation), supporting a large John K. Papadopoulos (University of Califor- appeared in Hesperia and elsewhere over cylinder of marble, 0.18 m. high and 0.79 nia, Los Angeles) sums up the progress he and the past 75 years, together with at least m. in diameter. On top of this is the un- fellow Senior Associate Member Sara Strack two Hesperia supplements on the period fluted limestone shaft of the column itself, have made toward publication of Early Iron (Supplements 2 and 31), the definitive vol- 0.59 m. in diameter, preserved to a height Age pottery from the Athenian Agora. ume on the tombs of the period, spanning of 0.50 m. There are a limited number of the so-called Final Mycenaean or Submy- Ionic bases used by the Athenians in the Of all the critical periods of habitation and cenaean period through the end of Middle first half of the fifth century B.C. and the history uncovered in the area of the Classi- Geometric (ca. 1200–750 B.C.), as well as canonical Attic/Ionic form was not stan- cal Athenian Agora, the material from the a second volume on the non-funerary de- dard at this period. The closest parallel for so-called Early Iron Age remains poorly posits, have yet to see the light of day in the simple marble cylinder as a base, with understood through lack of definitive pub- the venerable Athenian Agora series (better a limestone shaft, can best be found in the lication. Although numerous articles have continued on next page

14 New Appointments Buried Under Piles of Sherds continued from page 5 continued from previous page

Italian Department), as a second representative for Michigan State University; Bar- bara P. Weinlich and David H.J. Larmour (both Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures), to represent new cooperating institution Texas Tech University; Kim Shelton (Department of Classics), as a second representative for the University of California, Berkeley; Eleni Hatzaki (Department of Classics), as a third representative for the University of Cin- cinnati; Brian Wesley Breed (Department of Classics), to represent the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Philip Kaplan (Department of History), to represent new cooperating institution the University of North Florida; Ellen Greene, Kyle Harper, and Samuel J. Huskey (Department of Clas- sics and Letters), to represent the Univer- sity of Oklahoma, which recently rejoined the School; Betsey A. Robinson (Depart- ment of History of Art), as a third representative for Vanderbilt University; Bryan Photo: C. Mauzy E. Burns (Department of Classical Studies), Sara Strack and John Papadopoulos at the north end of the Stoa of Attalos counting to represent Wellesley College (replacing and studying the pottery of the period ca. 1200–750 B.C. from the Athenian Agora. Miranda Marvin, who is retiring); Gregory W. Dobrov, Laura C. Gawlinski, Brian M. Lavelle (Department of Classical Studies), to represent Loyola University Chicago, known as the “Blue Books”). I am happy and strange pieces for publication that had a reinstated cooperating institution; Joan to report that the first of these volumes, been overlooked over the years. Breton Connelly (Departments of Art His- by John Papadopoulos and the late Evelyn The beauty of these deposits is that they tory and Classics), to represent New York Lord Smithson (together with substantial provide the single most important body of University; Barbette Stanley Spaeth (De- contributions by Maria Liston, Deborah material of the period that does not derive partment of Classical Studies), as a third Ruscillo, Sara Strack, and others), on the from tombs. The Early Iron Age of Athens, representative for the College of William Early Iron Age tombs, has been largely like most of Greece, is primarily under- and Mary; and Nicholas C. Rynearson (De- completed and is being prepared for sub- stood through the physical evidence from partment of Classics), as a third representa- mission for publication. tombs. For the first time in Athens, each tive for the University of Georgia. e As for the non-funerary deposits, al- successive phase, beginning with the end though selected pieces of potters’ test- of the Mycenaean period and continuing pieces, wasters, and related debris were through the Protogeometric and Geometric Development News published in Ceramicus Redivivus (Hesperia periods, is now represented by a number continued from page 4 Supplement 31), the bulk of the material is of deposits, which together will go a long currently being studied by John Papadopou- way in definitively defining the synchronic Athens (DAI) from the German Research los and Sara Strack. Some 35+ deposits of variation and diachronic development of Foundation (DFG) was awarded. The grant, the period—largely wells and pits dug into one of the most important and influential entitled “The ‘Big Digs’ Go Digital: Sharing bedrock—have yielded a daunting quantity pottery styles of antiquity. These deposits, Opportunities and Challenges for Large- of pottery and other finds, both organic and and the mountains of sherds they contain, Scale German and American Excavations human-made. Some deposits have yielded will help to rewrite a passage of Greek his- in the Mediterranean in the Digital Age,” a modest quantity of a few hundred pieces, tory often cast as a Dark Age. will provide funding to the ASCSA and DAI together with more complete period-of-use The two collaborators—despite freezing for a joint workshop with Greek colleagues pots; others have yielded upward of 3,000 conditions, howling winds, and belliger- in Athens in fall 2009 that will focus on fragments and whole vessels. In the winter ent pigeons—have been working their way the best ways to manage, disseminate, of 2009, when the weather in the Stoa of through hundreds of tins, and tens of thou- and preserve digital resources, especially Attalos was at its cruelest, Sara Strack and sands of sherds, in their quest to provide a those from archaeological excavations. The John Papadopoulos could be found work- detailed study of the nature and develop- grant will also support a bilateral German- ing on a definitive statistical count of all the ment of Athenian fine and coarse pottery American workshop at the AIA meetings in deposits in question, together with a final over a period of some 500 years. e Anaheim, CA in January 2010. e bout of selecting diagnostic, representative,

15 From the Archives

Konstantinos D. Karavidas was an econo- The work and writings of Karavidas on mist, sociologist, and writer. His papers at the economy and sociology of agriculture the Gennadius Library are an important in Greece remain of high value. The exten- primary resource for scholars and students sive archive of this multifaceted personal- of Greek society, history, and agrarian econ- ity was donated to the Gennadius Library omy of the period from the end of the First by his daughter Zoe Karavida-Kalliga in World War until the middle of the 1950s. 1989–90. Part of the collection was cata- Karavidas was born in 1890 on the is- logued by researchers D. Samiou and M. land of Kefalonia. He attended law school Korasidou in the early 1990s. The col- at the University of Athens. From 1908 to lection includes studies, reports, memos 1912 he was a member of the Philologiki (handwritten and typewritten), notes on Syntrofia, a forum for the supporters of numerous topics (political, literary, so- Demoticism. During the two Balkan wars cial), and papers delivered on various he fought as a volunteer. Karavidas also occasions. His correspondence is also served at the political office of Eleftherios interesting as it covers both family and Venizelos for a short period of time in 1917, professional life. The collection also in- when Venizelos formed his provisional gov- cludes personal documents related to his ernment in Salonica. During the Asia Minor service in the Balkan wars, his awards and war he visited Smyrna as a journalist. Af- medals, and photographs. Finally, an ex- terwards he was appointed to the General Photo: Gennadeion Archives tensive collection of newspaper clippings Directorate of Macedonia. From 1926 to about agrarian issues has been arranged Konstantinos Karavidas 1929, he served in Northern Greece in the chronologically and thematically. government department dealing with refu- The Karavidas Papers were fully pro- gee settlement issues. Finally, in 1932, Kar- cessed and catalogued in 2008. The cata- avidas was hired by the Agricultural Bank Democrates. He wrote several treatises on logue is now available online at http:// of Greece and was placed in charge of the agrarian issues and was the publisher and www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/ extensive works dealing with the improve- editor of the journal Koinotes (1922–1924). konstantinos-d-karavidas-finding-aid. ment of agriculture and farming methods He was also an active journalist and fre- all over Greece. During the Second World quently contributed newspaper articles in — Eleftheria Daleziou War and the German occupation he partici- various newspapers and journals. Karavi- Reference Archivist, Archives pated in the publication of the newspaper das died in March 1973. of the Gennadius Library

Examining the Hellenistic Baths of Magna Graecia As the 2007–08 Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellow, Sandra Lucore (Bryn Mawr College) benefited from the opportunity to visit sites relevant to her current research efforts as well as her interaction with resident scholars and other researchers, as she reports here.

I would like to express my gratitude to although that building is incompletely at Vouni, Kition, and Amathous, are im- the ASCSA and to the Luther I. Replogle understood. The so-called Serangeion in portant evidence from the eastern Mediter- Foundation for all that I gained during Piraeus is most likely better understood as ranean, where, apart from the Fayum and my six months at the School thanks to the a public bath near a harbor. The Centaur Delta areas of Egypt, the Greek public bath Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship for Baths at Corinth are not representative of does not seem to have had a significant 2007–08. This exceptional opportunity the Greek public bath, yet they raise the presence. enabled me to examine as much as pos- possibility of an as yet not clearly defined No Greek-style baths are known to exist sible of the extant archaeological evidence type of building that features bathing as a in Malta, yet there is interesting evidence for Greek baths in Greece, and elsewhere significant function, as is seen in a compa- of water technology, an obvious and im- in the Mediterranean where I had not had rable building at Aigeira. Baths at Tainaron, portant element of thermal construction, the opportunity to visit. deep in the Mani, and at the Aphaia sanctu- which might relate to developments in Most of my travel took place in Greece ary on Aegina were previously unknown to Sicily in light of the connections between itself, since I had seen very few Greek baths me, yet their well-preserved features add Malta and southeastern Sicily. These and and related material on previous visits. The significantly to the discussion. The recently many other examples of Greek public baths baths at Olympia and Gortys have long discovered late baths at Olympia and in and other related structures offered a better been key structures in the history of baths. the agora at Thessaloniki provide previ- understanding of the regional character of In Athens, the baths in the Kerameikos are ously lacking evidence that the balaneion the broad phenomenon of the architecture usually cited as the earliest extant example continued to be a viable type in Greece into and customs of bathing. What I learned of the characteristic Greek tholos bath, the Roman period. Examples in Cyprus, continued on next page

16 Autographed Mitropoulos Photo Added to Archives Archives News With support from the School’s Staff The Archives recently purchased a pho- Development Fund, reference archivist tographic portrait of conductor Dimitri Eleftheria Daleziou was able to attend Mitropoulos at an Athens auction. On the two training events in 2008 covering front, the portrait is signed and dated by topics of great importance to the the composer: Δ. Μητρόπουλος, 8-5-1937. On School. In March she attended a the back, a stamp identifies the photogra- preservation-oriented training program pher as “Roberts Studio, 260 Tremont, Bos- in London, organized by National ton Mass.” Preservation Organization and held The photo was taken in January 1937, at the British Library, following just before the conductor’s 41st birthday, which she prepared a handbook on when Mitropoulos was in Boston for several handling archival material (available performances. The year 1937 was perhaps at the School’s website: www.ascsa. the most important year in his life because edu.gr/index.php/archives/handling- it signaled the beginning of his American the-collections). In November she career. In early 1937 Mitropoulos, who attended a training event on electronic until then was the principal conductor records management organized by at the Athens Conservatoire, was invited the Museums, Libraries and Archives to the United States for the second time Organization and the British National to give 48 concerts in Boston and Minne- Photo: ASCSA Archives Archives; the event covered topics apolis. He clearly captivated his American such as e-mail archiving, Electronic audience. On January 23, 1937, the Boston Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1937. Document Records Management Globe wrote: “Dimitri Mitropoulos ends his Systems (EDRMS), and preservation second visit as guest conductor of the Bos- issues related to electronic records. ton Symphony Orchestra… He came here Jan. 30, 1937). Following his Minneapolis unknown last season, but departed bearing triumph, Mitropoulos was appointed the the seal of general favor.” The Minneapo- principal conductor of the Minneapolis lis newspapers bestowed even more praise Symphony Orchestra, a position he held first summer performance at the Odeum upon Mitropoulos: “A giant in music has until 1949. of Herodes Atticus on May 14, 1937. The come to Minneapolis. His name is Dimitri After his great success in Minneapolis autograph was given by Mitropoulos to a Mitropoulos, and last night he conducted in 1937, Mitropoulos returned to Europe friend or a fan a few days before his Athe- what is doubtless the greatest performance to perform in Florence and Montecarlo nian premiere. the Minneapolis Orchestra has given in its until the end of March. The end of spring — Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan 30-odd years’ existence.” (Minneapolis Star, found him back in Greece, ready for his Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist

Hellenistic Baths continued from previous page helped to clarify the significance of the in- extremely helpful for me to review the evi- professionals regarding this building. The novative and experimental features of the dence firsthand as part of my own efforts opportunity to present aspects of my work Hellenistic North Baths at Morgantina in to contribute to a necessary revision of our at Morgantina at a School tea talk was also Sicily, the final publication of which will be understanding of the subject. greatly appreciated, since it too resulted the ultimate outcome of this research. During my stay in Athens and travels in ongoing discussions with others whose Until recently, little scholarly attention elsewhere I got to know many scholars and work touches on related subjects. was paid to Greek baths, largely because of students with whom I enjoyed and benefit- I was impressed by the professional gen- the problematic nature of the archaeologi- ed from many interesting and lively discus- erosity of the scholars, both at the American cal evidence and general lack of informa- sions concerning topics related to my own. School and in the greater Athens area, who tive publications. The single comprehen- I’m very fortunate that Floyd McCoy was shared with me the unpublished results of sive study of Greek baths, Balaneutiké, by Wiener Lab Professor during my fellowship their ongoing excavations and research, in- René Ginouvès, was published more than year, and I’m grateful to him for the oppor- formation that advances my own research 45 years ago. It is now long out of date yet tunity to present to his seminar evidence significantly. The opportunity to establish is still unquestioningly consulted as the for earthquake destruction at Morgantina. such relationships is one of the outstanding standard reference, although the picture Floyd and I have several acquaintances in benefits of the Broneer Fellowship, and I is now much more complex and the phe- common, and Floyd’s interest in the tech- look forward to continuing contact with nomenon more nuanced than could have nological aspects of the baths at Morgan- this wider scholarly community. e been realized at the time. It was therefore tina enhanced my collaboration with these

17 2 0 0 9 e I S S U E GennadeionGennadeion NewsNews A special insert to the newsletter of the american school of classical studies at athens

Gifts, Purchases Add to Rare Book Collection CAORC Grant Funds Journal hanks to the generosity of numerous donors, the Cataloguing Gennadius Library was T n 2008, the Library received able to enrich its collections this past year with old and rare a grant from the Council of materials. IAmerican Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to fund a ddd pilot project for the electronic Mr. Antonis Marinakis, descen- cataloguing of several periodicals dant of Aristides Yorgancoglou of special historical interest for Pasa, a minister in the Ottoman Greece. The project represents government in the nineteenth the initial phase of the Greek and century, donated a valuable fam- Southeastern European Research ily collection of eleven volumes Journals Project (GSERJ), a including travel books and liter- CAORC initiative. As a first step, ary works in Arabic and Persian Asimina Rodi, who holds a mas- dating from the sixteenth to the ter’s degree in library science and nineteenth centuries. Of special Among the rare books acquired by the Gennadius Library is this gospel has extensive experience in cata- interest are eight volumes of with metal binding published in Venice in 1818 (Gift of Tatiana Averoff- loguing periodicals, entered a the Journal des sçavans, which Ioannou). portion of the Library’s collection is the earliest scientific journal of old Greek periodicals (350 published in Europe, dating to titles) in AMBROSIA, the union the seventeenth and eighteenth Venice by Nikolaos Glykys in owner. The McCabes were able catalogue of the ASCSA and Brit- centuries; and an early German 1818 and a manuscript of canon to purchase the volume at the ish School libraries. Ms. Rodi has travel book by Salomon Schweig- law dating to the eighteenth Bonham auction this past March. also catalogued several rare his- ger, Ein newe Reyssbeschreibung torical issues of journals found century. ddd auss Teutschland nach Constanti- in John Gennadius’s scrapbooks, ddd nopel und Jerusalem (Nürnberg: The Library has also made sev- digitized recently through an EU Johann Lantzenberger, 1608). Dr. Alexander Thomas Simos eral notable purchases. Information Society grant.e donated Travels in various coun- From the Bonham auction ddd tries of Europe, Asia and Africa in March, the Library acquired Thanks to Gennadius Library [pt. 2], section the second, volume E. Collinot et A. de Beaumont’s Trustee Apostolos Doxiadis, the sixth: Greece, Egypt, and the Ornements turcs: Recueil de Ms. Tatiana Averoff-Ioannou, Holy Land (London: Printed for dessins pour l’art et l’industrie daughter of the political figure T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), (Paris: Canson, 1883), bound Evanghelos Averoff-Tositsas in honor of Gennadeion Trustee with Grandjean’s Ceramique ori- (1908–1990), donated 65 vol- Irene Moscahlaidis. entale (Paris: E. Henri, [1922]). umes from her father’s book col- ddd The original provenance of the lection. Many of them are signed volume was the Henry Blackmer ASCSA Trustee Robert McCabe with dedications to Mr. Averoff- collection. and his daughter Anne donated Tositsas by the late President of A 1744 edition of Ekthesis one of the volumes that John the Hellenic Republic Konstanti- epistolikon typon by Theophilos Gennadius had to sell in auction nos Tsatsos and his wife Ioanna Korydalleus was among the rare in 1895: Wilhelm Froehner’s Tsatsou, whose archive is in the items acquired from the collec- Choix de vases grecs inédits de la Gennadius Library. Among the tion of Leonora Navari. e volumes, of particular interest collection de son altesse impériale are three early liturgical Greek le prince Napoléon (Paris: Impr. — Irini Solomonidi Megas Alexandros, a bilingual books, including a Gospel in a J. Claye, 1867). The copy con- newspaper, is one of the periodi- precious binding published in tains a notation from the original cals to be catalogued. G2 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

Maps from Samourka Collection Exhibited in Athens New Griffon

ixty rare maps of the history of that period and the Explores Xenitia schools of mapmaking. Samourka Map Collec- ecently published, Volume The exhibition was accompa- Stion were exhibited at the 10 of The New Griffon, nied by a Greek-language cata- National Research Foundation “The Archaeology of in Athens in Fall 2008 under the logue, History of the Cartography R Xenitia: Greek Immigration and of Greek Lands, 1420–1800. Maps title “Maps of Greece during the Material Culture,” focuses on of the Samourka Collection. Writ- Renaissance, 1478–1598.” The the impact of Greek immigration ten by historian George Tolias exhibition presented various car- on the material culture of the and bibliographer Leonora Na- tographic conceptions of Greece homeland and the host coun- vari, this beautifully illustrated during the early modern period, tries. The huge wave of Greek book presents the history and showcasing the formation and immigration to the United States, evolution of Greek cartography, development of the basic models Canada, and Australia between focusing on the changing geo- for the cartography of Greece. 1900 and 1915 left an indelible graphical conception of Greece One of the most important mark on Greek society, but also according to the school of collections of its kind in the created new diasporic communi- thought to which their European world, the Samourka Map Col- Catalogue cover. 10th table ties in the host countries. Greek cartographers subscribed. In the lection has been a subject of of Europe, from Ptolemy’s immigration, Xenitia, has been preface, Margarita Samourkas systematic research and the Geographia (Rome, 1478). studied by various disciplines, discusses the importance of basis for numerous exhibitions entering the popular mainstream maps for the advancement of and publications. Assembled by through movies, comedy, televi- knowledge, as well as their sig- Margarita Samourkas, a devoted 1700 historical early modern sion, academia, museums, and nificance as works of art and as trustee of the Gennadius Library, maps of Greece, which cover the culinary institutions. The histori- instruments of the imagination. e the unique collection comprises major part of the cartographic cal enterprise of Greek immigration in the twentieth century, however, has lacked a significant archaeological voice. This pub- Gennadeion Hosts Wide Range of Lectures and Events lication, put together by guest editor Kostis Kourelis, contains Cotsen Series 2008-09 sold to the British Museum in costumes from the National essays by Susan Buck Sutton, the mid-nineteenth century. Her Theater of Greece, and excerpts In November, Diana Gilliland Timothy E. Gregory and Lita presentation was accompanied of the movie “Night Adventure,” Wright, NEH Fellow at the Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Philip by a historical and archaeological written and directed by Angelos School, launched the year’s Duke, Kostis Kourelis, Natalia analysis of the period by the Di- Terzakis, 1954. Cotsen Lecture Series with a pre- Vogeikoff-Brogan, Eleni N. Gage, rector of the Gennadius Library, The Cotsen Lecture Series sentation on “Ottoman-Venetian and Jack L. Davis that address Maria Georgopoulou, and the closed out the year in June with Cooperation in Post-War (1463– this lacuna. New archaeologi- Director of the 23rd Ephorate of a presentation in Greek by Pro- 1478) Morea,” based on the cal data from Epeiros, Kythera, Byzantine Antiquities, Eugenia fessor Eleni Bastea of the Uni- letters of two Venetians who had Keos, the Southern Argolid, and Gerousi. versity of New Mexico, whose participated in a series of coop- the Nemea Valley highlight the Leda Costaki, responsible for talk was entitled “Athens, 1896. erative Venetian-Ottoman efforts. effects of emigration, and data cataloguing the Gennadeion’s ar- Karaghiozes and the Olympic This lecture was co-sponsored from Colorado, Philadelphia, chives of novelist and playwright Games.” by the Director of the School. In and Sydney illustrate the effects Angelos Terzakis, organized in e December, Cotsen lecturer Dimi- Other Lectures of immigration. February a celebration to mark tri Gutas, Professor of Arabic at the completion of the archive’s Together with the Fulbright Yale University, explored “The catalogue. Theater director Spy- Foundation in Greece, in No- Gennadeion News pages are com- Arabic Background of Western piled by Gennadius Library Director ros Evangelatos of the Academy vember the Library presented an Philosophy and Science,” with a Maria Georgopoulou, Librarian Irini of Athens, award-winning author event headlined by Olga Brou- focus on the transmission of an- Solomonidi, and Archivist Natalia Menis Koumantareas, Ms. Costa- mas, poet and Director of Cre- cient Greek scientific and philo- Vogeikoff-Brogan, and edited by ki, researcher Bart Soethaert, and ative Writing at Brandeis Uni- Catherine deG. Vanderpool, Presi- sophical knowledge into Arabic, the novelist’s son Dimitris Ter- versity, entitled “Translation and dent of the Board of the Genna- and subsequently into Latin. zakis presented aspects of “The Original: the Journey of Poetry.” dius Library, and Sally Fay, Editorial In January, Bet McLeod, Associate. Multifaceted Angelos Terzakis Ms. Broumas spoke about the Curator at the Department of This publication is produced semi and his Archive at the Genna- complexities of decoding poetry Prehistory and Europe of the annually. Address all correspondence dius Library.” The speeches were into another language, focusing British Museum, presented a sig- via e-mail to [email protected]. This is- accompanied by an exhibition on poems of the speaker herself, nificant jewelry hoard found in sue is reproduced in color at: www. of manuscripts and photographs Odysseus Elytis, W. C. Williams, ascsa.edu.gr/publications/Akoue. the area of Halkis (Euboea) and from the Gennadeion Archives, continued on page G3 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S G3

2006 I visited him at his house From the Archives in Pyrgos in order to receive Gennadeion Lectures some of his papers, which he continued from page G2 Poet Yorgis Paulopoulos donated his papers to the Gennadius Library wished to donate to the Genna- Archives. Here, Research Archivist Leda Costaki recalls his work. dius Library Archives. Although his health was already failing, orgis Paulopoulos be- I will always remember how longed to the first post- soft-spoken he was, extremely Ywar generation of poets. polite, and, along with his wife, Paulopoulos and a number of Metse, very hospitable. The pa- other poets and novelists born pers he donated to the Archives in Eleia, such as Takis Sinopo- consist of his correspondence ulos, Nikos Kachtitses, and Elias with George Seferis and Nikos Papademetrakopoulos, form an Kachtitses, as well as various interesting group of intellectuals typescripts of their works in bound by strong ties of friend- progress given to Paulopoulos. ship. Scarred by the hardships of Yorgis Paulopoulos (1924–2008) Seferis’ letters to Paulopoulos the German Occupation, the Re- date from 1962 to 1971 and Professor Paul Magdalino with sistance, and the Civil War, their provide evidence of a warm Library Director Maria work is permeated by unfulfilled published over six collections of relationship; Seferis frequently Georgopoulou. Photo: H. Akriviadis visions and by ever-present love poems, the most recent posthu- sent his comments on Paulopou- and death. Stanley Kunitz, and Kiki Di- mously, under the title Να μην los’ poems and also dedicated Paulopoulos, a respected fig- moula. Ms. Broumas has also τους ξεχάσω (Kedros 2008). His a poem to him, ‘Η δεσπονίς ure in the modern Greek literary most famous collections, The Πίτυς’ (1963), in remembrance begun to translate the poems of scene and a poet associated with Cellar, The Passkeys, and A Little of an excursion they went academician Kiki Dimoula, who George Seferis, had a mundane Sand, were translated into Eng- on at Drouva, near Olympia. was present, and who regaled the job in the local bus company lish, the first by Peter Levi, the Kachtitses’ letters to Paulopoulos audience with a reading of her and lived all his life in his home others by Darlene Fife. Seferis cover the period from 1952 to poems. town, Pyrgos. The impact of described the poetry of Paulo- 1967 and are written from Ath- For the third year the Library nearby ancient Olympia (which poulos as being effective without ens, Cameroon, and Montreal, co-organized a lecture with the he visited thousands of times, Alexander S. Onassis Public Ben- any ornaments (‘ψιμύθια’). Pau- where Kachtitses finally settled. as he himself says in one of his lopoulos collaborated with his There are also typewritten manu- efit Foundation. Professor Peter interviews), and the Eleian land- friend Takis Sinopoulos in writ- scripts of Kachtitses’ books with Bien of Dartmouth College, a scape, especially the rivers La- ing jointly experimental poetry. handwritten corrections, among former Onassis Foreign Fellow, don, Alpheios, and Erymanthos, Like Sinopoulos, he was an ama- which the best known is Ο spoke on “The Philosophical is evident in his work. teur painter and had participated Ήρωας της Γάνδης, published in Basis of Kazantzakis’s Writings,” He published his first poems in a panhellenic art show. 1967. Paulopoulos’ own notes on exploring Kazantzakis’s attempt in 1943 in the journal Odys- Yorgis Paulopoulos died on Kachtitses’ work are an impor- to align religion with twentieth- seas of Pyrgos and ultimately November 26, 2008. In June tant addition to the collection. e century science. In March, Paul Magdalino, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History at St Andrews Scholars at the Gennadeion University, delivered the 28th Walton Lecture. His talk, “Byz- uring the 2008–09 aca- Princess Izambo and the relation books of the seventeenth century antium as the New Israel,” ana- demic year at the Genna- to historical events surrounding as well as old and rare publica- lyzed the sacral quality of Byz- Ddius Library, three Work- the composition of the work. tions to explore the educational antine political identity, which in-Progress Seminars were held Nikolaos Chrissidis of South- and cultural activities of Greek found expression in the idea that in the Mandilas Rare Book Read- ern Connecticut State University scholars in the establishment of the Byzantines were the Chosen ing Room. Museologist Alexan- and Christos Cabolis of the the first academy in early mod- People of God and Byzantium dra Bounia of the University of Athens Laboratory of Business ern Moscow. was a New Israel. e the Aegean presented her study Administration (ALBA) present- Also at the Gennadeion in about the collection of Heleni ed their work on indulgences in 2008–09 M. Alison Frantz Fel- Stathatos and raised issues of the Eastern Orthodox Church as low Stavroula Konstantopou- Save the Date! display of private collections in evidence of oligopolistic behavior. lou, a graduate student at Ohio On February 15, 2010, the institutions open to the public. The recipient of the Cotsen State University, used the Genna- Gennadeion celebrates the Bart Soethaert, a Ph.D. candidate Travel Fellowship, Nikolaos deion collections for her disser- tenth anniversary of its Clean at the Freie Universität of Berlin, Chrissidis, Professor of History tation, “The Historical Role and Monday event in New York explored the appearance of the at Southern Connecticut State Profession of the Byzantine Diplo- City. Mark your calendars! Slavs in Angelos Terzakis’s novel University, studied Greek text- mat, 4th–6th centuries A.D.” e G4 G E N N A D E I O N N E W S

in The Byzantine Economy. In Memoriam The Library will hold a con- Busy Year ference in her memory titled Angeliki Laiou “Migration, Gender, and the for Philoi 1941–2008 Economy in Byzantium” in The Philoi of the Gen- Cotsen Hall on October 23rd. nadius Library rounded A great Byzantine historian who — Maria Georgopoulou out an eventful year with had been associated with the Ed note: the full tribute can be found a bookfair in the Gen- Gennadius Library for many at: www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/gennadeion gardens to raise years, Angeliki E. Laiou died of nadius/newsDetails/angeliki-laiou/ funds for the Library. cancer in Cambridge, Massa- Held in May in honor of chusetts on December 11, 2008. Theodore Samourkas Florence/Anthi Gennadius, the bookfair was a great success and An indefatigable scholar of the 1928–2009 was followed by a cocktail party organized by Gennadeion Direc- social and economic history of tor Maria Georgopoulou in appreciation for the Philoi’s support. the Byzantine Empire, she was a Theodore Samourkas, a promi- Also on the Philoi’s calendar this past year were lectures by pioneering woman in the inter- nent international businessman musicologist Nikias Lountzis and by former Gennadeion Director national academic world and in and philanthropist whose family George Huxley; visits to the New Acropolis Museum, the Numis- the Greek government. foundation gave generously to matic Museum, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, In 1978–79 she served as the Gennadius Library, passed the Karamanlis Foundation, and the Greek Parliament and its Samuel H. Kress Professor of away in January this year after libraries; a concert of music from the time of John Gennadius, by Hellenic Studies at the American a long illness. Born in 1928 in famous soloists Maria Asteriadou (piano) and George Demertzis School, in charge of the Genna- Athens, he graduated from Ath- (violin); and a trip to Prague, organized with the help of the Am- dius Library. During her tenure ens College, going on to found bassador of the Czech Republic, Hanna Mottlová. at the Library she was involved his own businesses, the highly with the School’s academic successful Bravo Coffee Compa- program and organized a col- ny in Greece and the Anderson Hugh’s College, Oxford Univer- loquium on “Trade and Art in Catherine Organization, a real estate com- sity, in 1958, and a master’s de- the Eastern Mediterranean in the Grigoriou-Theocarakis pany in the US. gree, also from Oxford, in 1974. Thirteenth Century.” 1960–2009 In 1987 he and his wife, Mar- She met her husband when he Her research and publica- garita (who has served as a Board was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford tions (fourteen authored and Catherine Grigoriou, wife of Member of the Gennadeion since in the late 1950s; they married edited books) on the crusades, Gennadeion Trustee Nicholas 1999), established The Samour- in 1960 and she took an active on peasant society, on the role Theocarakis, passed away ear- kas Foundation, which has role in his political career. of women in Byzantium, and on lier this year. Born and raised in supported a wide range of edu- In 1978 she joined the fac- marriage and the law broke new Greece, Catherine was educated cational, cultural, and scientific ulty of the Gilman School in ground in Byzantine history and in the classics and literature, then projects in Greece and the United Baltimore, Maryland, where she inspired numerous historians in strategic studies at Cambridge States. Under his stewardship, the taught Latin and Greek for more who hold teaching positions in University. An accomplished Foundation also gave generously than 20 years, retiring in 2000. universities all over the world. poet in both Greek and English, over the years to the Gennadius Prior to that, she was a lecturer A true cosmopolitan combin- Catherine’s most recent publica- Library. Perhaps even more im- in classics at Goucher College. ing European elegance with aca- tion, The Transatlantic Icarus, portant for those in the Genna- In addition to pursuing a ca- demic rigor, Professor Laiou was reflected her “double destiny,” as deion family who were fortunate reer as an educator, assisting her a powerful presence with a sharp she expressed it, since her adult enough to know him, Theodore husband in his political career, intellect and a clear mind in the life was divided between the Samourkas was an inspirational and raising three children, Mrs. classroom and in public. She was worlds of Greece and New York figure; his incisive intelligence, Sarbanes served on a number also an efficient administrator, a City, her other home. Her explo- kindly advice, and warm human- of boards. She joined the Gen- brilliant organizer of symposia, ration of the duality that, in her ity will be sorely missed. nadeion Board in 1995 and also and a great force at ensuring own words, “exists everywhere served on the Board of Direc- support for major projects such in our lives,” her search for “the tors and Trustees of Baltimore’s as The Oxford Dictionary of Byz- known and the unknown,” her Christine D. Sarbanes Enoch Pratt Free Library for the antium (1991), edited by Alex- 1936–2009 “passionate pursuit for alterna- past decade. A longtime UNI- ander Kazhdan, and Economic tive answers,” her struggle to CEF volunteer who in 2008 won History of Byzantium: From the confront “the division of self Christine D. Sarbanes, member the President’s Volunteer Service Seventh Through the Fifteenth which, nevertheless, manages to of the Gennadius Library Board Award for her work with the Century, published in English retain unity and coherence due of Trustees, retired educator, UNICEF board, she was also ac- (2002) and Greek (2007). For to a higher goal” characterized and wife of former Sen. Paul S. tive in the Maryland Humanities this monumental work she as- her work, which also extended to Sarbanes, died in March at the Council and the Washington- sembled a team of great scholars the visual arts, as photographer age of 73. based Society for the Preserva- and wrote eight chapters herself. and independent filmmaker. Her Born in London, Mrs. Sar- tion of Greek Heritage, as well In 2007 she published a shorter luminous presence will be sorely banes earned a bachelor’s degree as the board of the University of synthesis with Cécile Morrisson missed by all. e in Literae Humaniores from St. Maryland Medical School.   9

Summer Session I  kai gegono  kai 9 participants, led by Timothy Winters (red shirt) and Eleni Hasaki (striped tee) pose for a group pho- gegono to, while School Sec- People & Places People retary Bob Bridges gets a playful shove in foreground.

Former School bursar Niamh Michalopoulou assumed a new Photo: C. Mauzy position in January as manager of Loring Hall, succeeding Dem- Working in the apotheke of the Stoa of At- etra Barbou, who retired at the end of 2008 after many years of talos, 2008–09 Eugene Vanderpool Fellow devoted service to the School. Succeeding Niamh as bursar is new Thomas Henderson (Florida State Univer- School staff member Denise Giannari. Pictured here (from left), sity) examined an ephebic honorary decree Richard Rosolino from the Princeton office with Athens staff for his dissertation, “Citizen Training and Dina Zissopoulou, Niamh, Denise, and Demetra Bakodima. Public Culture in Hellenistic Athens.”

Photo, left: Bryan Burns (Wellesley College) and Christina Salowey (Hollins University) enjoy the sound and light show projected onto the eastern façade of the new Acropolis Museum on June 21, 2009. Photo, right: Research As- sociate and former Faunal Fellow Deborah Ruscillo examines a juvenile proboscidean tibia (elephant-family shin bone) in the Wiener Laboratory.

18 At the School in spring 2009 was Solenne Mil- bled, an intern working in the conservation laboratory of the Agora Excavations. Solenne is finishing a Masters Pro- gram in Conservation of Archaeological Arti- facts at the University of Paris I – la Sorbonne; the final year of the program is dedicated to internships in institutions either at home or abroad. Before coming Eleni Panagopoulou (Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleolo- to the Agora Excava- gy of S. Greece), lecture speaker Katerina Harvati, ASCSA Director tions, Solenne worked in Albania and on the Greek island of Jack Davis, and Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Ephor of Paleoan- Thasos for the French School of Athens. thropology and Speleology of S. Greece) at the ASCSA lecture “Out of Africa and Into Eurasia: An Eastern Mediterranean Perspective.”

Photo: J. Herbst Photo: T. Garvey Photo, left: Dina Boero, Jody Cundy, and Alicia Carter at the School’s Ancient Corinth excavation in summer of 2009. Photo, right: 2008–09 Regular Members Will Bruce and Eric Cox listen to Kiersten Spongberg presenting under the colonnaded skene of the theater at Oropos.

Photos: H. Akriviadis The School held its Open Meeting in Cotsen Hall on March 13, 2009. Pictured here (at left), David Rupp, President of Athens College and Director of the Canadian Institute in Greece; Sharon Stocker; School Director Jack Davis; and Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Director of the National Archive of Monuments of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Photo, right: Christos Doumas, Professor emeritus of the University of Athens and Director of the Akrotiri (Thera) excavations, speaks with ASCSA Board Chairman Charles K. Williams, II.

19 NEH Fellows Report on Progress Malta, Up Close and Personal After several years of research on the island of Malta resulting from her husband’s Three scholars spent time at the School during work there, Amelia Robertson Brown (ASCSA Associate Member 2006–09) was the 2007–08 academic year thanks to fellow- inspired to share this unique island and its archaeology with her American School ships funded by the National Endowment for colleagues. With the welcome aid of then–Mellon Professor John Oakley and Univer- the Humanities; their research accomplish- sity of Cincinnati graduate student Natalie Abell, as well as scholars on Malta who ments are summarized here. generously shared their knowledge of sites small and large, Ms. Brown organized and led a School trip to Malta and its smaller sister island Gozo in April 2008. Thanks to the National Endowment for For four days, 23 American School members, staff, and spouses saw sites ranging the Humanities and the American School from Neolithic temples through medieval monuments of the Knights of St. John, of Classical Studies, I was able to spend sometimes built on top of one another. The group met the departments of classics six months in Athens (January–June 2008) and archaeology of the University of Malta, strolled the ancient citadels of Mdina and working on a book on the History of Ni- Victoria, and toured new conservation labs of Heritage Malta, the national agency for ketas Choniates. The History is the single museums and sites. Other highlights included a troglodyte village, a Roman villa in most important source for the crucial era a church basement, Jewish catacombs used as bomb shelters in World War II, rock- in Byzantine history that begins with the cut wine-presses or dye-vats, and masterpieces by Caravaggio. death of Alexios I Komnenos in 1118 and culminates with the capture of Constan- tinople by the armies of the Fourth Cru- sade in 1204. It is the only contemporary narrative covering the final decades of the twelfth century, and the only Greek eyewit- ness account of the events of 1204 and its aftermath. The significance of the work as a source is equally matched by its sophis- tication and stylistic brilliance. Because of this, the History has been widely utilized by scholars and has exerted a catalytic influence on virtually all modern presentations, which base their narrative and interpretation of the period largely on Choniates’s account. While numerous studies have examined particular aspects or individual sections of the work, the History has never been the subject of a comprehensive monograph-length study. My work attempts to provide a general understanding and interpretation of this lengthy, significant, and multi-faceted Photo: A. Brown text. It builds upon my Ph.D. dissertation, “Studies on the Composition of Niketas Trip participants (including Ms. Brown, standing, fourth from left) at the Dwejra Choniates’s History” (King’s College, Lon- cliffs of Gozo. don, 2004) which examined the complex manuscript tradition of the text and offered a description and analysis of the different mainly through the structure and charac- his own values and interests as a narrator phases of its composition. More specifically, teristic elements of the revised narrative as well as those that prevailed the literary the two main versions of the text—an origi- as well as the presentation of historical culture of the twelfth century. nal, shorter version, written before 1204, characters and themes. The identification My study of the History of Niketas and a critically revised and significantly ex- and analysis of contemporary sources Choniates will contribute to our under- panded version, written after 1204—have from which the historian compiled his standing of the text both as a historical become the starting points of my current account as well as personal observations source and as a literary artefact. It will not investigation. The chronology and distinc- and the information gathered from eye- only allow us to better evaluate Choniates’s tive features of the versions of the History witnesses are important in understand- testimony in comparison to related pieces are examined with the aim of uncovering ing his working method, orientation, and of evidence, but also serve as a case study in the circumstances of their composition and intervention in the narrative. Finally, the the still underdeveloped field of Byzantine the purpose of the author. This is followed literary models from which our historian historiography. by a discussion of the historian’s reconstruc- learned historical concepts, rhetorical — Alicia Simpson tion and interpretation of the period as seen techniques, and textual strategies reflect Koç University, Istanbul continued on next page

20 Mellon Fellows Research Politics, Ceramics

Fellowships through the Council of Ameri- rial in the archives of the Benaki Museum, Sciences; a monograph on Greece’s Balkan can Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) crucial to the advancement of her research. policy (1880–1903) is also in the works. funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Founda- Ms. Konstantinova also acquainted herself Krzysztof Domz˙alski (Polish Academy tion brought three scholars from central/east with printed materials that offered perspec- of Sciences, Warsaw) was in Athens to Europe to the School during the 2007–08 tives on a wider range of problems associ- conduct library and museum studies on academic year to advance their research in ated with the Balkan policy of Greece in her selected groups of Aegean fine ceramics diverse subject areas. Yura Konstantinova period of study, and attended two interna- exported to the Black Sea region in the Hel- (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia) came tional conferences that exposed her to new lenistic period and in Late Antiquity. His to the School to work on her project, “The trends in the field of Balkan studies. studies helped him complete and prepare Role and Place of Stephanos Dragoumis in Toward the end of her fellowship, Ms. for publication the results of two ongoing the Balkan Political Elite in the Late 19th Konstantinova presented her research in projects. The first,Late Roman Red Slip Pot- and the Early 20th Century.” She found ac- the Gennadius Library’s Mandilas Rare tery in the Region of Kimmerian Bosporos, cess to the archives of Stephanos Dragoumis, Book Reading Room. She planned to con- is a monograph based on Mr. Domz˙alski’s Ion Dragoumis, Markos Dragoumis, Anas- tinue to work on an article on Stephanos Ph.D. dissertation, presenting finds dated tasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis, and Stephanos Dragoumis, to be published in Etudes bal- to the fourth through early seventh centu- Skouloudis (all of which reside in the Gen- kaniques, a magazine of the Institute of Bal- ries A.D.; the second, Hellenistic Colour- nadius Library), and to other relevant mate- kan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of coated Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean continued on page 23

NEH Fellows continued from previous page conduct my research. I also benefited from focus and emphasis will provide a fresh During the tenure of my five-month NEH the opportunity to discuss my research look at a period that has not received the fellowship at the ASCSA (Spring 2008), I with American, Greek, and other European attention it deserves, both within Greece made significant progress in concluding scholars and graduate students working on and outside. the research and preparation of publica- relevant material to a degree not possible Byzantine archaeology has matured tion for two separate books presenting the elsewhere. The research I conducted for significantly in the past decades and the results of a major excavation of the Early these two publications will also enhance information now available makes this new Iron Age settlement on the Kastro at Ka- the courses I have created and teach for research possible, but at the same time it vousi, located in Eastern Crete: 1) Kavousi the Classical Studies Program at Iowa State is clearly neither desirable nor practically IV: The Kastro. The Late Minoan IIIC through University, all of which deal with the mate- possible to write an encyclopedic work Orientalizing Pottery, and 2) Kavousi V: The rial culture of ancient Greece and include that summarizes all of those data. Accord- Kastro. Excavations and History of the Settle- significant components on the periods from ingly, my approach has been to provide a ment. (I am the author of the first volume the Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, and primary historical narrative based largely and editor and contributing author of the the Early Archaic period. on a series of important problems and second.) Full publication of the results case studies. Such an approach allows me — Margaret S. Mook from the excavations on the Kastro will to provide a significant depth of treatment Iowa State University provide evidence for the process of culture while avoiding a clutter of information that change in a historically pivotal but poorly ddd will distract the reader who wishes to fol- understood chronological transition in low a basic chronological and geographical Cretan archaeology and in Greek history, I dedicated most of the period of my NEH thread through the thousand-year period one that culminated in the development fellowship to work on a new history of of the Greek Middle Ages. of the Archaic Greek city-states. These Byzantine Greece based primarily on the During my time at the School I was able two volumes, Kavousi IV and V, will be rich published and unpublished archaeo- to make significant progress on this project, published by the INSTAP Academic Press, logical information now available for this working on a series of the more impor- which is publishing the final reports of the period, a book I have tentatively called An tant case studies ranging from the early Kavousi Project. Archaeological History of Byzantine Greece. Byzantine (early Christian) period to the My time under the NEH fellowship was The book will focus primarily on central late period of the fourteenth and fifteenth extremely productive and beneficial in that and southern Greece, since the regions of centuries. These case studies provide the I completed approximately two-thirds of Thessaly, Macedonia, and Thrace had a sig- basic organization for the book, and during the work projected in what was an ex- nificantly different history from that of the the year I was able to write drafts of all of tremely ambitious program of research. south. My project is designed to clear new them. These chapters will frequently argue The ASCSA’s Blegen Library possesses one ground by using the archaeological infor- for interpretations that differ considerably of the world’s best collections for research mation as the main means of organization from much of the “inherited wisdom” in Greek archaeology and, because it is and presentation of the work, rather than about the Byzantine period in Greece. I completely non-circulating and accessible focusing primarily on the existing historio- will suggest, for example, that the contest to members around-the-clock, it was for graphic traditions deriving from the (rela- between polytheism and Christianity in the me the best library in the world at which to tively few) narrative written sources. This continued on page 25

21 James H. Ottaway Jr. and School Publications Program Honored

On the invitations to a dinner held at the the Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2000, complete the publication of archaeological Yale Club on May 15, 2009, guests were and Chair of the Publications Committee material, as well as helping to defray the invited to “honor the Publications program of the Board from 1991 to 2008. operational expenses of the Publications of the American School.” However, as the During his time as a Trustee, Mr. Ot- Office. The Lerna series has been a partic- evening progressed, it became clear that taway has been outspoken about the prob- ular beneficiary of his personal generosity, some subterfuge was at work, and the real lems of archaeological publication. As he with its three most recent books including honoree was James H. Ottaway Jr., Trustee wrote in 2001, “all excavators of ancient dedications to him. The dinner concluded of the School from 1988 to 2008, Chair of sites and objects have a moral and profes- with a presentation by the Chairman and sional obligation to publish their finds as President of the Trustees to Mr. Ottaway quickly as possible, as public information of a Sony Reader digital book onto which that belongs to the world of scholarship, had been loaded The Neolithic Pottery from and to the history of mankind.” The fact Lerna (Lerna V), the latest volume in the that so many do not do so was, he sug- Lerna series. At the same time, it was an- gested, a scandal for the profession. From nounced that all previous volumes in the an early date, Mr. Ottaway saw the poten- Lerna series had been digitized and are tial of electronic technologies to help this now being made available free of charge situation. In 1997 he wrote that, “in the for download and use on the American archaeological professions, we must find School’s website. ways to publish material more quickly on Mr. Ottaway made a gracious accep- the internet, while following established tance speech in which he described the and accepted methods of peer-review so growth of his interest in the problems that the quality of electronic publishing is of archaeological publication. All in the not in fact or in perception second rate.” He room were relieved and pleased to hear is one of the main architects of the transi- of his commitment to remaining on the Photo: I. Romano tion from print to electronic publication Publications Committee of the Trustees Board President James R. McCredie, that the Publications Office of the School and continuing to actively support the Trustee Emeritus James H. Ottaway, and is going through. School’s Publications program in his new Board Chairman Charles K. Williams, II Over the years, Mr. Ottaway has support- capacity as Trustee Emeritus. e at the Trustees dinner. ed the work of many authors attempting to

Publications News continued from page 9

The last issue of Hesperia for 2008 (77.4) As well as being available in print and and the first issue for 2009 (78.1) contained electronic media for subscribers, all ar- The New Griffon • 10 ΑΘΗΝΑ 2008 articles on a range of subjects, including ex- ticles published in Hesperia are available

Griffon New The cavation reports from prehistoric mortuary online for individual purchase. Visitors to The ArchAeology of XeniTiA: greek immigrAT ion And m AT eriAl culTure sites at Barnavos in the Nemea valley, and the publications section of the American Hagios Charalambos Cave in the Lasithi School’s website (http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ plain, Crete; a survey of the ancient sanc- publications) will now find a searchable tuary of Hieron at the mouth of the Black index of articles with links to the electronic

reek reek Sea; a technical study of the sculptures versions. Many of the links point to JSTOR i The Arch The mmigr from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia; and (http://www.jstor.org), the archive of digital AT A ion ion a reconstruction of the route of the road scholarly content originally founded by the eology of Xeni of eology A nd nd from Corinth to Argos and its important Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As well as mAT

eri role in the history of the city of Kleonai. An all back issues of Hesperia published since A T l l i A c : ul

T unusual study highlights the role that the 1932, the School has made available in ure exchange of sacrificial legs of meat played JSTOR all volumes in the Athenian Agora in ancient Greek religion and society. Ar- and Corinth series, and all books published ticles currently under preparation present as Hesperia Supplements (a total for all se- new scholarship about warfare in Neolithic ries of over 70,000 pages). So as not to un-

ISSN: 1107-3136 10 ΓΕΝΝΑΔΕΙΟΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ Thessaly, Corinthian roof tile manufacture, dermine sales, recent books and journal ar- ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΣΧΟΛΗ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ fifth-century B.C. boundary markers from ticles are not made available in JSTOR until Aigina, and the underwater exploration of three years after they were first published. The Archaeology of Xenitia, the 2008 issue a fourth-century B.C. shipwreck discovered of The New Griffon, guest edited by histo- off the island of Chios. — Charles Watkinson rian Kostis Kourelis. Director of Publications

22 Kress Fellowships Support Agora, Corinth Publications

Before pen touches paper, much research chitectural development of the Greek city and 86 B.C. His Kress fellowship enabled and conceptual groundwork must be ap- at Corinth. The Kress grant gave Mr. Rho- him to put significant effort toward resolv- plied to the School’s scholarly publications. des the valuable opportunity to immerse ing logistical and organizational issues re- Thanks to continued generous support himself in the second phase material for lated to the publication, documenting (via from the Kress Foundation, several schol- several months before his crew arrived for photographs and drawings) artifacts, ana- ars are able to spend time at the ASCSA the first field season of work on it. His ef- lyzing excavation records, and writing of each year advancing their work on publish- forts focused on reexamination of the ex- the manuscript. Mr. Lawall’s consultations ing material from Corinth and the Athenian tremely fragmentary architectural remains with Agora staff as he sought to work out Agora, under Kress Corinth/Agora Publica- of the Greek city and evaluation of the ex- the logistical issues of documenting the tion Fellowships. isting publications of the architecture, as amphora fragments also led to a decision Among the recipients of grants for well as planning of the graphical content to restructure the Agora amphora storage 2007–08 were Robin Rhodes (University and format of the publication. Before the system in a way that will both greatly in- of Notre Dame) and Mark Lawall (Uni- regular field season commenced in May, a crease the ease of future scholars’ access to versity of Manitoba), whose publication general work strategy and schedule had the published material and facilitate more assignments will contribute to the body been mapped out that is designed to allow consistent monitoring of the condition of of material on the School’s excavations at the final study and analysis of each building the collection. Overall, the grant enabled Corinth and the Agora, respectively. and the compilation of images for publica- Mr. Lawall not only to complete a number Mr. Rhodes’ fellowship enabled him tion to be undertaken and completed over of elements of the manuscript but also to to conduct preliminary work on the sec- the next three seasons of field work. refine the scope and goals of the printed ond phase of his project for the study and The ultimate goal of Mr. Lawall’s publi- manuscript alongside the developing pos- publication of the Greek stone architecture cation assignment is the final preparation of sibilities of digital presentation. e at Corinth. The goal of this phase is the a manuscript on transport amphoras at the creation of a synthetic history of the ar- Athenian Agora datable between ca. 525

Student Reports Mellon Fellows continued from page 12 continued from page 21 in a manner and with a level of detail that, a viable dissertation topic. I plan to exam- and the Black Sea Areas, is a substantial pa- as an ancient historian, I had not previously ine the formation of regional identity using per on the kind of table ceramics that can undertaken. Additionally, sifting through cult as a focal point around which these be regarded as a direct predecessor of terra the publications from other archaeological identities are created. I will be looking at sigillata, produced in the third through sec- schools helped me to improve my read- Artemis cult in particular, as her cult is one ond centuries B.C. ing proficiency of modern languages. The of the most widespread of Greek cults, and While at the School, Mr. Domz˙alski fall trips also expanded my diachronic un- she was worshipped in connection with took advantage of the opportunity to con- derstanding of Greece. Though I was well an assortment of aspects. Since my time in sult with Hellenistic and Roman ceramol- versed in the history of Greece in antiquity, Greece had been so fruitful academically, ogy specialists Susan Rotroff and Kathleen the varied reports on topics ranging from I decided to apply for a second-year fel- Slane about several specific questions per- the War of Independence to the Frankish lowship to work on my dissertation idea. taining to his research. Morea to Ali Pasha helped to fill out the rest I am quite pleased that I was able to work ddd of the historical picture. However, I feel the on a regional analysis of Artemis cult in Bogdan-Petru Maleon (Alexandru most important benefit from the fall trips mainland Greece as the 2008–09 Edward Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) spent is the overall picture of the archaeological Capps Fellow. his time in Athens conducting research for sites in Greece. As of result of our travels, I am extremely grateful to have received his project, “Mutilation as Practice in the I feel intimately familiar with a large por- the James H. and Mary Ottaway, Jr. Fellow- Fight for Power in Byzantium.” Much of tion of the extant sites, and as a result, I am ship to participate in the School’s Regular his research involved the Byzantine sources better able to make connections between Program. I learned an immense amount and specialty literature contained in the various sites. over the course of the year and in a man- Gennadius Library and focused mainly on Indeed, the development of this over- ner that impressed it more firmly in my chronicles, travel memories, hagiographic all picture led me to begin thinking about mind than any previous year of graduate sources, correspondence, laws, and official Greece regionally. This line of thinking schooling. My experience resulted in a dis- documents. Using information collected coupled with my interest in religion and sertation idea that will most likely shape from his stay in Athens as a basis, Mr. cult (which was reaffirmed in the course my academic career, and it is a topic that Maleon planned to pursue a study of of working on my other fall report topics, would have never occurred to me had I not the genesis of mutilations as practices in the temple and oracle at Delphi and the cult participated in the ASCSA program. My fights for power (“Bodies’ Punishing. The at Epidaurus) prompted me to consider time in Athens has been incredibly fruitful, Beginning of Mutilation in Byzantine Fight regional cult differences. Ultimately, my and I eagerly look forward to continuing for Power”) and to ultimately publish a experiences during the fall portion of the my research. e book based on his research findings. e Regular Program allowed me to formulate

23 Three Lines of Latin in Los Angeles Wiener Lab News

Papyrologist Peter van Minnen (University of Cincinnati), 2008–09 Whitehead Professor new directions in the skeletal biology of ancient greece ancient of biology skeletal the in directions new at the School, reports here on how “reading between the lines” came to expand current Hesperia scholarship on a little-known type of Roman tax certificate. Supplement 43

In the journal I am editing, the Bulletin of ditional Roman way of documenting their new directions in the American Society of Papyrologists (vol. personal status with the help of wooden the skeletal biology 43, 2006, 50), reference was made to an tablets, from birth certificates to manumis- of greece online image of a wooden tablet in the Los sion tax certificates (see E. A. Meyer,Legiti - Angeles County Museum of Art: “Upside macy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae down it looks rather like a Latin text of in Roman Belief and Practice [Cambridge, which three lines are preserved.” During 2004]). Without the payment of the manu- a brief pause in my work at the American mission tax and its proper documentation

School, I decided to have a closer look at on such tablets, freedman of those made the text. It turned out to be a Latin text of a Roman citizens in 212 risked losing out special kind: a manumission tax certificate. on Roman citizenship. Cassius Dio claimed edited by Lynne A. Schepartz, Sherry C. Fox, There was only one such text known, and that Caracalla extended Roman citizenship and Chryssi Bourbou American School of Classical Studies at Athens with the help of the new text, I was able to all free inhabitants of the empire who 2009 to improve its reading, add a third text on were not yet Roman citizens to increase the papyrus hitherto unrecognized as a copy of income from traditional Roman inheritance a manumission tax certificate, and establish and manumission taxes, both notionally the structure of such texts. 5% of the value of the inheritance or the The first Occasional Wiener Laboratory Series volume was published in 2009. The new text reads: “(N.N. manumitted slave. During Caracalla’s reign the tax was by N.N.) alias Helladius (spelled Elladio) increased to 10%, but it was restored to 5% paid (solbi(t)) the 5% (manumission) tax immediately after by Macrinus, so the new (XX) to the state (pupl(ice)). I, Aurelius text can be more precisely dated after 215. It has been another busy year in the Wiener Isidorianus, agent for the procuratores of The text in Los Angeles illustrates the Laboratory, and every day seems to bring the 5% (manumission) tax have received use of Latin and wood (rare in Egypt) af- another discovery. The Wiener Laboratory the 5% manumission (liberitatis) tax of the ter 212. It also shows that the manumis- disseminates knowledge through various Roman people (pupuli; from N.N. - - - ).” sion tax, previously collected by “societ- venues, including Tea Talks, the annual The text probably dates from after A.D. ies” of publicani or individual conductores Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture (as part of the 212, when all free inhabitants of the empire through their slaves (or in the absence School’s lecture series), and the Fitch-Wie- were made Roman citizens—if they were of suitable conductores through imperial ner Labs Seminar Series on science-based not already Roman citizens—and received slaves), was later collected by a pair of archaeology. Previously, dissemination to the gentilicium Aurelius after Caracalla. One procuratores, one of equestrian rank, one a larger audience has been accomplished can imagine the confusion this caused to imperial freedman. The edition will ap- through two Wiener Laboratory mono- people who had never experienced the tra- pear in BASP 46 (2009). e graphs, and this year (2009) marks the beginning of a new series from the Lab. We are very pleased that the first Occasional Wiener Laboratory Series volume, a Hespe- ria supplement entitled New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece (eds. Lynne A. Schepartz, Sherry C. Fox, and Chryssi Bourbou), has just been published. This volume, dedicated to the memory of J. Law- rence Angel, a pioneer in skeletal biology in the eastern Mediterranean, is composed of 17 chapters, from material ranging in date from the Middle Pleistocene to modern times, in geographical space from numerous sites around Greece and Cyprus, and includes various approaches and scientific techniques to enhance our understanding of the human past in this part of the world. We hope that everyone will enjoy it. Image of tablet M.80.202.488 at http://collectionsonline.lacma.org (turned 180 degrees). — Sherry C. Fox, Director

24 Greece with Kids

At the School as Whitehead Visiting Professor in 2007–08, Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College) experienced firsthand the joys and challenges of spending a year in Greece with his family. He invites anyone with questions about life for kids in Athens to contact him at kirk.ormand@ oberlin.edu.

I had the distinct pleasure of serving as appreciate the lesser-known, unfenced sites one of the Elizabeth A. Whitehead Profes- where the kids could clamber and explore sors during the 2007–08 academic year. things on their own. There were certain aspects of the year that Every break from school, we rented a I was pretty certain about going in—I knew car and headed out: the kids saw Delphi, that the students would be terrific; I knew Mycenae, Nemea, and Mystras, as well as that the trips would be challenging but lesser-known sites like Apollo Amyclae and invigorating; and I knew that the Blegen Perachora—a great success, despite being Library would be a splendid resource for too early in the season for swimming. Ella’s Photo: K. Ormand my work—and all of these things were favorite trip by far was to Meteora and Ver- even better than I hoped. What I was less gina, taken in the cold of January, where we Kevin and Ella enjoy a traditional fish dinner on Naxos. sure about was what it would be like tak- had the distinct pleasure of being among ing my children (Ella, aged 8, and Kevin, the only tourists. The days were cold but aged 11) to Greece for the year. Fortunately, sunny, and we hiked the traditional paths my spouse (Gayle Boyer) was able to come between monasteries before returning to strong opinions about all this “old stuff.” In as well, so the whole household moved to our deserted hotel in the evening for hot that regard my year in Athens was a great Athens together. cocoa in front of the fire. Ella still talks success, and I am deeply grateful to the As it happens, both kids took to life in about her favorite taverna in the village of American School for welcoming me and Athens like tadpoles to the Eridanos. I was Kastraki. In all, the children were intrepid my family so warmly. initially worried about their reaction to the explorers. Needless to say, some flexibility on the noise and bustle of the city; we live in a I would be lying if I said that the kids part of parents as well as children is neces- town of 8,000 in the US, virtually a chorio. had as much fun as I did. At one point, sary. Not every day was full of magic and I need not have been concerned. Within a during our trip to Sparta and environs, Ella wonder, and occasionally being far from week, both Kevin and Ella knew their way explained the situation to me in a voice that home was just plain hard. But I highly around Kolonaki, and could find their way only the parents of an 8-year-old will know: recommend the experience, for those who to the Metro while their parents lagged a “Dad, you know, we’re not archaeologists, have the opportunity to introduce their little ways behind. They loved Greek food, so this old stuff isn’t that interesting to us.” children to Athens and the School. e especially in tavernas in little towns and So I left my spouse and the children behind tourist areas like Nauplio, and Kevin quick- to have tea while I drove out and wandered ly declared that he enjoyed anything that around lost until I found the (completely NEH Fellows continued from page 21 came from the sea. He put this to the test fabulous) chamber tombs at Pellana. But by eating grilled octopus. I don’t think he on the whole, the children were remark- fourth to sixth century was not as peaceful enjoyed it as much as he claimed, but he ably patient, and usually interested enough. as it is sometimes suggested, but that it was ate it rather than abandon his gustatory They now have memories of quite a few frequently characterized by the violent epi- principles. archaeological sites in Greece, and a set of sodes we know about from elsewhere in the For me, one of the most rewarding as- Empire. Likewise, I will argue that in the pects of the year was introducing my chil- Frankish period (after 1204) we can detect dren to the world of ancient Greek history really significant differences in lifestyles and material culture. We took them to and economic connections, from region to museums and sites in Athens frequently, region within southern Greece, and that and while they were more interested in the many of these had long-term results in local turtles and frogs at the Kerameikos than the history that can still be felt today. funerary monuments, that was fine. Over There can be no question of how much the year, they developed a sense of these I profited from my tenure as NEH Fellow at sites as part of the living city of Athens. the School, and I especially enjoyed the rar- They quickly declared the Benaki their est of gifts—the opportunity to pass hours favorite museum, in part because of its of uninterrupted research and writing in manageable size, in part because of the fine two of the finest libraries of the world. I roof-top restaurant, in part because of the know that the publications, teaching, and eighteenth-century clothing and military public service that follow will largely be a equipment. Ella took a shine to Byzantine result of this time for research. churches, and Kevin got to take a friend Photo: K. Ormand from the States to Aigosthena one memo- Kevin and Ella admire the signage at — Timothy E. Gregory rably windy spring day. We quickly grew to Perachora. Ohio State University

25 Wiener Lab Report Lithic Raw Material Availability and Archaeological “Sourcing” of Chert Artifacts: Some Case Studies from Greece

Ni e l s H. An d r e as e n Un i v e r s i t y o f Camb r i d g e 2008–09 Wi e n e r Lab o r at o r y Ge o a r c h a e o l o g y Fe l l o w

My fellowship project is an attempt to advance understanding of how communities outside or at the periphery of the main obsidian network organized procurement of cherts, and how aspects of availability and accessibility of chert sources affected the organization of chert production strategies at the settlements. Research was based on analyses of archaeological chipped chert and natural chert sources at and around six Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age sites (ca. 5300–1600 B.C.) in Kefalonia, South Pieria, Boeotia, and Kastoria. Despite recent progress in research on Photo: S. Forenbaher the procurement and circulation of cherts Chert nodules embedded in limestone matrix. in Greece, it is increasingly obvious that our picture of which types of chert were available prehistorically is much too sim- Analysis of chipped stone artefacts re- imported to the site, probably as prepared ple. A way out of this predicament is for ar- covered from the six archaeological sites is cores. At South Pieria, low- and medium- chaeologists to work with geologists to ac- designed to: 1) identify different geological quality cherts are collected from expedient, curately identify, characterize, and “source” chert types in archaeological assemblages ultra-local sources in riverbeds and tertiary materials exploited prehistorically. How- in order to address the significance of the gravel deposits around the sites. Within ever, few geologists in Greece have shown distance between the nearest geological oc- these broad patterns characterizing the interest in Holocene geological deposits in currence to the archaeological site; 2) posit individual assemblages, there are further which many secondary sources of siliceous mechanisms of acquisition as related to the complexities that cannot be fully addressed rock can be found. There are no extensive technological organization; and 3) distin- until specific sources can be identified with reference collections of cherts procured di- guish differential patterns of chert selection specific raw materials. rectly from documented geological sources. per tool and debitage class. We are only going to get more nuanced Neither are most chert typologies presented The classification and analysis of natural understanding of procurement patterns in in the archaeological literature very helpful and archaeological lithic material is based Mediterranean prehistory through detailed regarding characteristics of chert types. on visual inspection of the specimens ac- bottom-up studies at the local and regional As a small contribution towards rectify- cording to a set of macroscopic variables. level. Future work concerning sourcing ing this, I have begun to sample selected Because many cherts from Greece are analysis in Greece should concentrate on materials from sites and prepare petro- macroscopically similar to one another, locating outcrops and other raw material graphic thin-sections that should help in selected samples are also subjected to mi- sources and developing viable methods to material identification, and ideally in the croscopic analysis for chert identification. document the range of variation at these identification of possible source areas. For Microscopic analysis is accomplished with sites. Certainly the usefulness of macro- my project I try to establish a combined a Zeiss polarizing light microscope at the scopic analysis in combination with basic method of relatively simple, low-cost site- Wiener Laboratory. thin-section analysis should be further test- linked raw material survey; standardized Not surprisingly, there are significant ed to determine its viability as a method to macroscopic description; and basic pe- differences in the availability of chert describe the range of raw materials. trographic thin-section analysis. Cherts and the way it is procured. For instance, Closing out my year at the Lab, I had the are further evaluated in terms of practical chert resources in Kefalonia are particu- opportunity to participate in the School’s qualities such as knappability, limitations larly abundant and of high quality. Small Tea Talk series. My presentation outlined posed by nodule size, and hypothetical amounts of obsidian and imported “honey- the current status of chert studies in Greece, prehistoric availability. This provides a flint” are present but play a numerically brought School Members up to date on natural baseline against which to evaluate insignificant role. At the agricultural set- problems associated with chert sourcing prehistoric people’s choices of raw material tlement of Avgi near the Aliakmonas river throughout Greece, and highlighted basic in the different contexts in which chert is valley in Northern Greece there are no us- assumptions regarding the results of my encountered archaeologically. able local sources and high-quality chert is recent work. e

26 Class of 2008–2009: A Wealth of Research While global financial markets may have reeled during the past academic year, intellectual pursuits held strong, with a stalwart group of scholars representing more than two dozen institutions coming to the School to pursue their diverse research interests (listed below, along with fellowships held).

Regular Members Joanna Potenza Yuki Furuya University of California at Los Angeles University of Cincinnati Ryan A. Boehm Bronze Age burial customs at Mitrou Reflections of social prominence in protopalatial to University of California at Berkeley neopalatial Cretan jewelry Fulbright Fellow Katherine A. Rask Greek archaeology, urbanism, political architecture and Ohio State University Christina C. Gieske monuments of the Hellenistic period Bert Hodge Hill Fellow University of Pennsylvania Theory and method in Greek archaeology and religion Edward Capps Fellow William Bruce Religion, culture contact, and marginalized populations, University of Wisconsin Kiersten Johanna Spongberg such as women and foreigners Heinrich Schliemann Fellow Bryn Mawr College Healing cults at Epidaurus Classical sculpture: examining literary quotes from He- Nathan Harper siod’s Theogony on the Temple of Hekate at Lagina University of Nevada, Las Vegas Eric A. Cox Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellow; CAORC University of Wisconsin Benjamin M. Sullivan Multi-Country Fellow Virginia Grace Fellow University of California at Irvine Development of the Cypriot character: Migration, Literature and landscape: representations of the physi- Thomas Day Seymour Fellow postmarital residence and acculturation in the Late cal and social environment in Homer and Herodotus Archaic Greek land warfare Bronze Age

Stella Diakou Student Associate Members Thomas S. Henderson Bryn Mawr College Florida State University Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow Niels Henrik Andreasen Eugene Vanderpool Fellow Relationship of Cyprus to the outside world during the University of Cambridge Civic ideology and public culture of Hellenistic Athens middle Bronze Age Wiener Laboratory Fellow in Geoarchaeology Studies The influence of availability and accessibility on direct- Seth N. Jaffe Tzoulia Dimitriou access exploitation of siliceous rock in late Neolithic and University of Toronto Boston University Bronze Age Greece: a petro-archaeological study Thucydidean Moral Psychology: Fear, Honor, Profit and James Rignall Wheeler Fellow the Nature of Political Order Classical literature, art and archaeology Matthew J. Baumann Ohio State University Sarah James Scott Charles Gallimore Kress History of Art and Architecture in Antiquity University of Texas at Austin University of Buffalo – SUNY Fellow The Hellenistic Pottery from Panayia Field, Corinth: A John Williams White Fellow The imagery of poet cults in ancient Greece typological and historical analysis Roman-period material culture recovered from rescue excavations in the port city of Ierapetra on Crete Alexis Marie Belis Angeliki Kokkinou Princeton University Johns Hopkins University Thomas Andrew Garvey Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow Poseidon in Attica during the Classical Period University of Virginia Fire on the Mountain: Ash altars and mountaintop Stavroula Konstantopoulou Lucy Shoe Meritt Fellow sanctuaries in ancient Greece Intersection of epigraphy and the associated literary Ohio State University genre of the epigram in both its Greek and Latin incar- Nicholas George Blackwell M. Alison Frantz Fellow nations; Greek and Roman religion, philosophy, mythol- Bryn Mawr College The historical role and profession of the Byzantine dip- ogy, paleography and comparative linguistics CAORC Multi-Country Fellow lomat, 4th–6th centuries A.D. An analysis of 2nd millennium B.C. Mediterranean Lynne Kvapil Karl F. Goetze bronze carpentry and masonry tools: Implications for University of Cincinnati University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign craftsmanship and cultural/regional interaction The intellectual history of the early Fulbright Fellow Byzantine empire Amelia Robertson Brown Aegean prehistory with a focus on Mycenaean economy University of California at Berkeley Jeremy LaBuff Mark David Hammond Greek capital cities of the later Roman Empire University of Missouri – Columbia University of Pennsylvania School Fellow Clay Cofer Fulbright Fellow Architectural sculpture during the late Roman/early Bryn Mawr College Carian sympoliteiai inscriptions Byzantine periods Historiographic approaches to eclecticism in the art of Michael Laughy, Jr. the Late Hellenistic to the early Roman period Jason R. Harris University of California, Berkeley University of Southern California Cavan W. Concannon Cult and Authority in Ancient Athens Philip Lockhart Fellow Harvard University Tanya McCullough Effects of mobility on identity in Greece during the 4th Jacob Hirsch Fellow University of Pennsylvania century and the Hellenistic period Ethnicity and civic identity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Knock-offs in Antiquity: The role of imitations of im- letters to the Corinthians by integrating literary and ported luxury objects in the Aegean during the early Sean Jensen archaeological analysis Rutgers, The State University and middle Bronze Ages Michael Jameson Fellow Benjamin Costello Andreya Lyn Mihaloew Sub-hegemony in the Delian League University of Buffalo – SUNY Harvard University The Earthquake House at Kourion: a material culture Lamps in archaic and classical Greece Daniel W. Leon analysis University of Virginia Jerolyn Morrison Martin Ostwald Fellow Jamieson Donati University of Houston Battle of Plataea as told by Herodotus NYU, Institute of Fine Arts INSTAP Study Center Towards an Agora: The spatial and architectural de- Cooking pots and cooking practices at Mochlos Marcello Lippiello velopment of Greek commercial and civic space in the Duke University Peloponnese James H. and Mary Ottaway, Jr. Fellow Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson Educational systems the Romans found in Greece and Ivan Drpic´ University of Pennsylvania how these systems changed under Roman influence from Harvard University Plotinus’s theory of consciousness the 2nd century B.C. through late antiquity Kosmos of verse: Art and epigram in late Byzantium 27 Jeremy J. Ott Thomas M. Brogan of Mafoulas of Kythnos: Evidence from the strontium New York University INSTAP East Crete Study Center and oxygen isotope ratio analysis Late antique burial at Corinth The production of perfumed oils at Mochlos, oil and wine at Papadiokambos, and colored textiles in Pacheia Ammos Jenifer Neils Hüseyin Öztürk Case Western Reserve University University of Cincinnati Miriam Caskey NEH Fellow Mycenaean identity, what makes a site-person-artifact Independent Scholar The Greek pottery of Morgantina (Sicily) Mycenaean Agia Irini on Kea Jennifer Lynne Palinkas Panagiota A. Pantou Nikolaos Chrissidis Arcadia University Center for Education Abroad University of Buffalo – SUNY Southern Connecticut State University Greek Sacred Space Ione Mylonas Shear Fellow Cotsen Traveling Fellow Mycenaean society outside the palaces: The evidence of Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy of Moscow, 1685–1725 John K. Papadopoulos the Late Helladic IIIA–B1 corridor buildings University of California, Los Angeles Rosalia Christidou Early iron age material from the Athenian Agora and Katerina Papayianni Paris X, Nanterre University excavations at Lofkënd, Albania University of Athens Wiener Laboratory Fellow in Faunal Studies Doreen C. Spitzer Fellow The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age bone tools from Anastasia Papathanasiou The microfauna from Mochlos houses C.1-C.7: A con- Kryoneri, Lower Struma Valley Wiener Laboratory Research Associate tribution to the history of Bronze Age Aegean com- Bioarchaeological analysis of health and diet of early mensalism Rick Cypert Neolithic settlements in Northern Greece Nebraska Wesleyan University Kimberley-Anne Pixley Theater and Rhetoric in Classical Greece Despina Pilides University of Toronto Department of Antiquities, Cyprus Banausic labor in Attic vase-painting Melissa Eaby Getty Research Exchange Scholar University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Stephanie Pryor Mortuary variability in Early Iron Age Cretan burials Eleni Prevedorou University of Missouri–Columbia Arizona State University Kress Joint Athens-Jerusalem Fellow Gerald Finkielsztejn Wiener Laboratory Travel Grant; Wiener Laboratory Imaging royal and ruling women from the Hellenistic Israel Antiquities Authority Research Associate to Roman periods Kress Publications Fellow Archaeological science research Rhodian amphorae and amphora stamps from the Philip Sapirstein Athenian Agora Mary Richardson Cornell University Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum The study for publication of the temple to Hera at Mon Janet B. Grossman Greek epigraphy Repos, Corfu The John Paul Getty Museum Kress Publications Fellow Deborah Ruscillo Cosmopoulos Gregory Stournaras The Athenian Agora: the results of excavations con- Washington University St. Louis Coulson/Cross Fellow to Turkey ducted by ASCSA. Catalogue of the sculpted funerary Wiener Laboratory Research Associate Thessaly during the Ottoman era: Almyros area and monuments from the Athenian Agora From Apollonia to Heraklion: Understanding the urban development Marine Resource Exploitation at two sites Martin Asenov Gyuzelev Katherine M. Swinford Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Jan Motyka Sanders University of Cincinnati Mellon East European Fellow Arcadia University Center for Education Abroad Solow Dissertation Fellow Attic black-figure pottery from Apollonia (according to The urban development of post-independence Athens Evaluating the archaeological evidence for archaic the latest data from the archeological excavations in the settlements in Macedonia Old Town of Sozopol) China Shelton Wiener Laboratory Travel Grant Christina Tsoraki John Hayes Food, ritual and society at Roman Kenchreai: A paleo- University of Sheffield Oxford University ethnobotanical project Investigating raw material selection and use for the pro- Kress Publications Fellow duction of ground-stone tools in Macedonia, Greece Continuation of research for the publication of Roman Anne Stewart coarseware from the Athenian Agora College Year in Athens Özlem Vapur Temple statues in the Hellenistic period Ankara University Sonia Klinger Coulson/Cross Fellow University of Haifa Sharon R. Stocker Ceramics study at the Athenian Agora and Ancient The small finds of the Demeter and Kore Sanctuary at University of Cincinnati Corinth ancient Corinth Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project; Blegen’s unpublished work at Pylos Angela Ziskowski Elizabeth Maya Langridge-Noti Bryn Mawr College American College of Greece Sara Strack Solow Dissertation Fellow Greek pottery, Laconia Independent Scholar Cultural identity of archaic Corinth Isthmia excavations, late Hellenistic and Roman ceramics Floyd McCoy Turan Takaog˘lu Senior Associate Members Wiener Laboratory Senior Research Fellow University of Hawaii Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Santorini Coulson/Cross Fellow Elizabeth Angelicoussis Interactions in the 5th millennium B.C. Eastern Aegean Independent Scholar Roman Art in private British collections Sally Purefoy Morris University of California, Los Angeles Leslie Threatte Prehistoric Pottery from Torone; Lofkënd, Albania University of California, Berkeley Adela Bâltâc Greek epigraphy & linguistics Bucharest University excavations Mellon East European Fellow Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova Rural structures from the Moesia Inferior and Thracia James D. Muhly University of Pennsylvania Bulgarian Academy of Sciences provinces with special regard to the south of Thoracia Mellon East European Fellow province Cretan Bronze and Iron Age; Copper and Bronze metallurgy Greek-Slavic interactions in the Canon Law literature of the post-Byzantine period (15th–18th centuries) Harriet Blitzer Polymnia Muhly Buffalo State College E. Loeta Tyree NEH Fellow Independent Scholar Excavations at Kato Symi Independent Scholar Traditional industries of Greece: their history, technol- The Skoteino cave ogy, raw materials and trade Argyro Napflioti Wiener Laboratory Travel Grant; Diana Gilliland Wright Wiener Laboratory Research Associate Independent Scholar, NEH Fellow Geographic origin of the people of the mesolithic site The 15th century Morea 28 In Memoriam

Sara Anderson Immerwahr Malcolm Barton Wallace 1914–2008 1942–2008

Sally Immerwahr died on June 25, 2008, In response to a survey a few years ago ask- just two months shy of her 94th birthday. ing what former members owed the ASCSA Her life was long and full, especially in (of which he was member 1976–77), Mac’s those ways that are unique to a career in ar- answer was typically succinct: “My life. My chaeology. She began with an undergradu- parents met at the American School.” ate degree in classical archaeology at Mount When the Wallace family was in Greece Holyoke College in 1935, and then a Ph.D. on sabbatical leave in 1961, Mac, then an from Bryn Mawr in 1943. She taught first undergraduate, participated in the full at Wellesley College, then Bryn Mawr, and school program, which meant preparing finally at the University of North Carolina and giving reports at various sites. Eu- Photo: ASCSA Archives at Chapel Hill. Sally became a member of gene Vanderpool later commented that the School in Athens in 1938, and it re- Sally Immerwahr Mac’s reports were as good as those of the mained the true center of her academic life very best of the graduate students. Vir- throughout the rest of her career. It was in ginia Grace, another good friend of the Loring Hall in 1939 that she met her future was always listening, inserting pertinent Wallaces, later induced Mac to join his husband Henry. When Henry became di- comments (and occasional corrections) sister Philippa and Carolyn Koehler in rector of the School in 1977, no one could into every conversation. After her death, her work on amphoras; her appeal to his deny that it was a team effort; and no one her ashes were buried by her family on their metrological instincts, hitherto applied to could deny that they had nearly as much beloved Chebeague Island off the coast of Greek numismatics, resulted in the experi- love and respect for the School as they had Maine, where they had owned a vacation ments in the Stoa basement that many of for each other. cottage since 1951. us remember—Mac pouring water, bird In addition to her many published ar- A memorial for Sally was held in Cha- seed, or styrofoam pellets into amphoras ticles and book reviews, Sally produced pel Hill in September, and the speakers (depending on their state of preservation) two major books: The Neolithic and Bronze included her daughter Mary Hiniker, her to measure their capacities. Always recep- Ages (Vol. XIII in the Athenian Agora series; last graduate student Anne Chapin, and tive to new approaches to ancient studies, 1971), and Aegean Painting in the Bronze UNC Art Department colleague Jaroslav he encouraged the early harnessing of the Age (1990). Both are useful and important, Folda. They each spoke in turn, between computer to bibliographical, amphoric, which are standards all too seldom attained movements of Schubert’s Piano Trio, op. and prosopographical opera, despite his by scholars. 99. Selected by Henry, the music provided own ambiguous relationship with the ma- During her last decade, Sally demon- welcome and calming interludes of con- chines (he used to say they had free will). strated yet again the resilience and deter- templation between speakers. But it was Mac inherited his attraction to Euboia mination that had served her so well in her something more: a recording of this work from his father, who did a model study of earlier years, when the abilities of female was the first gift Henry ever gave to Sally the demes of Eretria, and was made an hon- scholars were often underestimated and (before either of them even had a record orary citizen of Histiaia in recognition of underappreciated in a male-dominated aca- player). A Classical scholar might see ring his scholarly work on that polis. Mac did a demic world. Heart surgery was followed composition here; those in attendance Toronto Ph.D. (directed by Mary White) on by a stroke that would have marked the heard a fitting tribute to a life well lived. Karystos, and was later co-director (with end of most her age. . .but not for Sally. Sally Immerwahr leaves behind her Don Keller) of the South Euboia Explora- She battled back through physical reha- husband, daughter Mary, son-in-law Je- tion Project. A high point of the American bilitation, slowly but surely, demonstrat- rome, and three grandchildren. But like School On-Site Tour in the summer of 1990 ing a power of will that belied her small many gifted researchers and teachers, she was a visit to Mac at Karystos. He “talked physical stature. And unlike many in that also leaves generations of current and fu- Karystos” solidly, on foot, over tea, on the time of life, Sally never lost her appetite, ture archaeologists better equipped for bus; then on the way back to Chalkis he either for food or for intellectual stimula- their profession. Her publications serve started a debate on the pros and cons of tion. In addition to belonging to a reading those who did not know her personally, but the Athenian Empire: the front of the bus group at Carol Woods Retirement Com- for those who did know her, these pages (Mac) was con, the back (Traill) was pro. munity, she kept up with newly published are embellished by her keen sense of aca- The victory was won by “con” with supe- academic books and articles of interest, and demic curiosity, her able guidance, and her rior knowledge and arguments, which Mac, she was able to see her last article in print: generous spirit. with typical modesty, explained: “I had the “Left or right? A study of hands and feet,” microphone.” in Aegean Wall Painting: a Tribute to Mark — Richard Liebhart Mac’s polymathia, matched by an Cameron (2005). Even in her last months, indelible, defining generosity, extended to as her speech became more strained, she all he met and knew. Pacing thoughtfully,

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29 When Mrs. Philippides came as Mary Zelia Pease Philippides Librarian to the American School in 1958, 1906–2009 the Davis Wing was under construction. In 1960 she initiated a project to create Mary Zelia Pease Philippides, Librarian of a new card catalogue for the library with the School from 1958 to 1971, was born in full bibliographic standards and subject New York City on January 19, 1906, and headings, a project that was completed passed away in Athens at the age of 103 on only after her retirement. This catalogue January 23, 2009. She first came to Greece formed the basis for the electronic and to the ASCSA in 1927 after completing catalogue now used by the School, the her B.A. in classical archaeology and Greek completeness of its information allowing at Bryn Mawr College, and was a member electronic matching of records in U.S. of the School many times before becoming databases. She also envisioned a “union Librarian of the School, initially to work catalogue” of periodical holdings at the on her dissertation, later as a fellow at foreign archaeological schools in Athens, Photo: ASCSA Archives the Agora Excavations and a member of an idea that had to wait for successors and Mac Wallace, his father William Wallace, the excavations at Corinth. A specialist in digital technology to make possible. After and Mary White sitting at a fountain in Attic black-figured pottery, she received her retirement from the library she was Euboia in 1961. her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1934 honored by the School with the title of with a doctoral thesis on the pottery from Librarian Emerita. None of this conveys the special he would consider any idea put to him, person that she was. Over six feet tall, she quizzically extract clarification, and stood ramrod straight, her eyes twinkling patiently lead associates to a sharper and a smile always hovering, a hearty framing of their thoughts and students to an chuckle not far away. She was a master of encouraging enlightenment. His criticisms understatement. Working in Greece as a were incisive and positive, never harmful volunteer for UNRWA after World War II, or personal, and his comments were she met and later married John Philippides invariably accompanied by a smile and/ (the scion of a distinguished family from or a laugh. Legions benefited—members Milies and the well-known nineteenth- of the ASCSA, high school students and century Admiral Constantine Canaris), teachers, colleagues of every description. with whom she had a daughter, Dia, now A renowned scholar once remarked that professor in the Dept. of Classical Studies everything good that came out of Toronto at Boston College. Devoted to her family, in Classics bore the mark of Mac in some Greece, and the ASCSA, Mary Zelia also way or other. loved classical music and mountains (she He spent some part of each summer in climbed Mt. Olympus in 1934 with Virginia Greece, at the ASCSA but also working Grace and Oscar Broneer), and couldn’t at Karystos, enjoying his relations with care less about food. The library was her modern Greek institutions of all kinds, Photo: ASCSA Archives passion and she labored well into the night including the staff of museums and Mary Zelia Pease Philippides on her and on Saturdays working on the new card the Greek archaeological ephoreias. He 101st birthday. catalogue, the only times she could be supported the Canadian Institute in Greece assured of no interruptions. To step into (formerly CAIA), as president and long- her shoes as librarian was a formidable task, serving member, intellectually, personally, the Gallatin Collection, a study that was made easier only because of her grace in and financially. enlarged and published jointly with G. H. withdrawing into the background, always Although his favorite author was Chase’s on the Fogg Museum collection as ready to help with information whenever Herodotus, and he certainly possessed Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum U.S.A., fasc. needed but never seeming to hover. She the wide, humane interests of that writer, 8, pp. 79–116, in 1942. “The Pottery from and her husband welcomed members of he was a master also of the other greatest the North Slope of the Acropolis” was the School into their homes in Athens and Greek historian, and the words of Perikles published in Hesperia 4 (1935) 214–302 on Aegina, a factor that eased considerably in the pages of Thucydides come most to and “The Cave on the East Slope of the the transition from life in America to life mind with respect to Mac: “The whole Acropolis. II. The Pottery” in Hesperia 5 in Greece and imparted to all their love of world is the tomb of famous men—not only (1936) 254–272. “A Well of the Late Fifth the country and its people. The School has do inscribed stelai commemorate them in Century at Corinth,” Hesperia 6 (1937) lost one of its most loyal former members their own country, but also in foreign lands 257–316, is among the most frequently and staff, and she is sorely missed. an unwritten memorial has been preserved cited works on pottery at Corinth. Her not in monuments but in the minds of study of the black-figured pottery from the — Nancy Winter individuals.” Athenian Agora was published jointly with Mary B. Moore as Athenian Agora XXIII — John Traill and Carolyn Koehler in 1986.

30 until her death, Dr. Kohler was a research an M.A. in classics from the University of Daniel Joseph Geagan 1937–2009 associate of the Mediterranean section. Cincinnati in 1960, and his Ph.D. in clas- Born in Washington, she studied Latin sics, also from the University of Cincinnati, and medieval Latin, earning a B.A. and in 1965. He taught at Washington and Jef- Daniel Joseph Geagan passed away at St. M.A. from the University of Washington. ferson College (1954–59) and the Univer- Joseph’s Villa, Dundas, Ontario, Canada She earned her Ph.D. in classical archae- sity of Cincinnati (1960–61), and in 1962 on February 6, 2009, at age 72. Professor ology from Bryn Mawr College in 1958. joined Case Western Reserve University’s Emeritus of history at McMaster University, Dr. Kohler was a Regular Member of the Department of Classics, where he taught he devoted his life to education and work ASCSA (Ella Riegel Fellow) from 1948 to for more than 40 years, remaining active within his community. 1950 and an Associate Member (Fulbright even after his retirement in 2003. Professor Geagan received his A.B. from Fellow) from 1949 to 1950. She also served Mr. Laing was a member of the ASCSA’s Boston College and Ph.D. from Johns Hop- as representative of the Alumni Association 1957 Summer Sessions and a Research Fel- kins University, and taught at Dartmouth to the Managing Committee from 1967 to low of the School (holding the AIA Olivia College after serving in the military for two 1969. James Fellowship) in 1967–68. He also years. He joined the Department of History directed two Summer Sessions, in 1976 at McMaster University in 1973 and until and 1987, and represented Case Western 2001 taught ancient history, especially an- Reserve University to the ASCSA Managing Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III cient Greece, with an emphasis on social 1925–2008 Committee since 1968. He worked closely and institutional history. with Henry S. Robinson at the excavations He was a Member of the School and the on Corinth’s Temple Hill in the 1970s as David M. Robinson Fellow in 1962–63. Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III died in part of the Case Western Reserve Univer- (His future wife, Helen Augusta von Raits, Cambridge, Massachusetts on November sity expedition team, and at the time of his who survives him, was also a Member that 27, 2008, after a brief illness. He was 83 passing he was working on some unpub- year.) In 1963–64, he was an Associate years old. Mr. Vermeule, renowned in the lished Greek inscriptions unearthed during Member and Edward Capps Fellow. He field of classical art and archaeology, was those excavations. returned to the School in 1969–1970 as a Curator of Classical Art and Senior Cura- His research interests included Greek Senior Research Fellow, holding a A.C.L.S. tor from 1956 to 1996 at the Museum of history, especially Athenian naval inscrip- Fellowship, and was assigned to publish Fine Arts, Boston. Upon his retirement in tions, on which he published several ar- all Greek and Roman dedications from the 1996, Mr. Vermeule was named Curator ticles. Mr. Laing was a long-time member of Athenian Agora Excavations and the Latin Emeritus by the Trustees of the Museum the Cleveland Archaeological Society and inscriptions from the University of Chicago of Fine Arts. served as both its vice-president and presi- Excavations at Isthmia. Mr. Vermeule received his A.B. in 1949 dent; an annual lecture of the Society has Geagan was the author of “The Athe- and his M.A. in 1951 from Harvard Uni- been endowed and named in his honor. nian Constitution after Sulla,” Hesperia versity, and earned his Ph.D. in 1953 at Supplement 12, published in 1967, and the University of London. He was a Senior ddd his publications include seven articles in Research Fellow of the American School The School community also mourns the Hesperia. His book, Inscriptions: The Dedi- from 1964 to 1965. passing of alumna Sarah Bancroft, who catory Monuments (Agora XVIII), will be Prior to joining the Museum of Fine died on August 13, 2008. A Regular Mem- published posthumously. Arts, Mr. Vermeule taught fine arts at the ber (1970–71) and a Student Associate University of Michigan (1953–55) and was Member (1974–76) of the School, she a professor of archaeology at Bryn Mawr earned her doctorate in classical archaeol- College. While teaching at Bryn Mawr, he Ellen Lucile Kohler ogy in 1979 from Princeton University and met a former acquaintance, Emily Dick- 1916–2008 also studied at the NYU School of Busi- inson Townsend, a distinguished archae- ness Administration. Five years ago, after ologist, classicist, and art historian, whom a 23-year career in the corporate world, Dr. Ellen Lucile Kohler of the University of he married in 1957. A campaign to fully she became Sister Katrina, a member of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and endow a Regular Member Fellowship in Nuns of New Skete, an Eastern Orthodox Anthropology passed away November 3 at her name is ongoing. the age of 91. monastery in upstate New York. Dr. Kohler was an Anatolian and clas- ddd sical archaeologist and was one of the key Donald R. Laing, Jr. original members of Penn Museum’s Gor- 1931–2009 We also note with sadness the death dion excavation team from 1950 to 1973. of Larry Forrest on June 27, 2008. Mr. Over the course of more than a half century, Forrest, who taught in the art history Dr. Kohler was a Penn Museum curator, Donald R. Laing, Jr., long-time professor of department at Savannah College of Art and a lecturer, and a registrar of the museum, Classics at Case Western Reserve Univer- Design from 1990 until his death, held a with the responsibility of maintaining the sity, passed away on April 2 after battling Gennadeion Fellowship from the ASCSA records of every Gordion artifact. In addi- complications from lymphoma. in 1986–87. tion, she served as executive editor of the Born October 5, 1931 in Richeyville, Gordion project’s publications and editor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Laing received his A.B. at the Penn Museum publications. From 1968 Washington and Jefferson College in 1953,

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