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Newsletter Studies Spring 1988 at Athens American School of Classical Newsletter Studies Spring 1988 at Athens Kavousi Excavations Resumed Thompson Wins Under the direction of Professor Leslie Preston Day of W abash Gold Medal College, William D. Ε. Coulson, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and Professor Geraldine C. Gesell of the While many of our readers will have already read or heard the citation which University of Tennessee, α team has begun new excavations on the accompanied the Gold Medal award of mountain sites of Vronda and the Kastro at Kavousi, Crete, first the Archaeological Institute of America explored by Harriet Boyd in 1900. Their joint account follows. to Dorothy Burr Thompson, we would like to present some excerpts from her The recent cleaning of Vronda and the building below the summit on the south­ response which reflect the wit and wis­ Kastro at Kavousi in Crete has shown east, which has several phases of occupa­ dom she has displayed in her lectures their potential for furnishing informa­ tion, with whole pots smashed on its and in her writing since she first came tion about this critical but little-under­ latest floors . In the investigation of to the ASCSA almost 60 years ago. stood period between the Minoan and buildings on the west side of the summit the Dorian eras on Crete. later graves were discovered. In the cor­ ... What makes a good archaeologist? Carried out with the permission of ner of a room an adult and infant were Patience to bear the drudgery of note­ the Greek Archaeological Service and Continued on p. 13. taking day in and day out. Endurance the cooperation of the Ephoreia of East against the hot sun and the cold cellars, Crete, the work was supported by the In­ not to mention the chilly diving suit. stitute for Aegean Prehistory, Packard Above all, curiosity is your stimulant. Foundation, National Geographic Socie­ Stop, look, and listen. ty, St. Catherine's and Gustavus Adol­ Stuff your mind. Modern computers phus Colleges, and private donors, as will always know more, but your own well as the sponsoring institutions. head will have to ask the right questions On Vronda the crew concentrated on and apply the answers. You must know uncovering more of the buildings a lot to do a little. You must go to a lot of cleaned in 1983 and 1984, and in deter­ museums and take notes, and reread mining the boundaries of the settlement. them so that you use what you know. Progress was made in excavating a large Ask yourselves questions. Watch the techniques in different regions. This will develop a talent for identification of parallels. Once Ι was spending an Easter holi­ day in the Argolid. Ι hired a boy, proper­ ly named Orestes, son of the foreman of . the excavation of the beehive tomb at Vaphio. His donkey carried my para­ phernalia and me so that Ι could look at the landscape and not only at the ground beneath my feet. We headed toward the t.t town of Dendra, ancient Midea, to the ιr east of Mycenae. As we climbed toward ~ the Acropolis, Orestes, a good Greek, al­ .. ways interested in people, pointed out ι ι ~ two men digging in a field . Why should Ι care, who was' bent on my reaching Mi­ Late Geometric burial at Vronda, Kavousi (Crete): pottery and skeleton from cist dea? Curiosity. We walked over to grave. Continued on p. 11. --------- Published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens --------- BAkouc! Look to the Future Doreen C. Spitzer, President of the Board of Trustees of the ASCSA, spent this spring in Paris. One of her first stops was at the Louvre, which inspired her editorial for this issue . Α coll ection of remarkable Old Master an entire culture even , or a system of endangered species" like mosaics, or a drawings, assembled by a Parisian ama­ trade, or a method of manufacture ... section of wall, or the eroded figures of teur, Saint-Morys, between 1778 and and preservation of a site, a great monu­ "a faceless emperor and his ho llow-eyed 1790, had somehow escaped the Revolu­ ment, or a single small object, may be ac­ soldiers" on a triumphal arch, these, like tion intact; selected items from the col­ complished through careful , accurate, manuscripts, like artists' sketches, are lection were exhibited this winter in the informed description, through photo­ original sources: unique, vulnerable, and Louvre. Α number of the careful draw­ graphs, computerized data, reconstruc­ irreplaceable. ings as well as the quick sketches provide tion, whatever means are appropriate Increasingly, efforts are being made the onl y surviving record of paintings, and available. This was the theme of the to save our original sources from further monuments and sculptures that no long­ plenary session of the ΛΙΑ meetings. The neglect, erosion and pollution, though in er exist. Α glorious ceiling, painted by message was clear. Archaeologists are many cases it may already be too little Titian in the Doge's palace, was de­ trained, as Dorothy Thompson remind­ too late. Archaeologists and classicists stroyed within ten years of its comple­ ed us , to know the ολοκληpο so well that everywhere, the ASCSA not least among tion ; the artist's drawing is all that re­ they can at once identify and place in them, have a preservation job to do for mains to preserve the idea, the intention, context τα κομμάτια . They learn to ob­ the future. Reconstruction, as in the Stoa the thought-in-the-mind that produced serve, to respond to every anomaly, and of Attalos , has, in a sense, preserved the the ΠΟ\ν lost original. to interpret it in the light of their knowl­ ancient original. The British team of Preservation of an original idea, of edge and experience. Whether it be "an Morrison, classical scholar, and Coates, naval architect, using the scanty extant archaeological and literary original Athens Revisited sources, have reproduced, and thus pre­ served, the trireme which won the battle Helen F. North, Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, spent of Salamis for Athens in 480 B.C. Α major function of the ASCSA is to the fall of 1987 in Athens as the Whitehead Professor at the ASCSA, provide experience and training in the over α decade since her last stay at the School, as Visiting Professor, in identification and interpretation of origi­ falll975. She contributes here some impressions and thoughts based nal sources in the ancient classical world. on her stay. The message is clear. Document your rec­ ords today with all possible precision , Like all who have been lucky enough to Thasos and many other places, where he clarity, and understanding. You may be enjoy this opportunity Ι am deeply in­ shared his prodigious and exact know­ providing the only original sources for debted to the School for a cornucopia of ledge of Greek history and literature with preservation or reconstruction tomorrow! good things-access to the Blegen and a busload of fervent admirers. Fred Win­ Gennadius Libraries (twenty-four hours ter, my fellow Fellow, enlightened me a day in the case of the first) , comfort­ about fortifications wherever we found AMERICAN SCHOOL OF able and convenient quarters, with relief them, in addition to hauling me bodily CLASSICAL STUDIES Α Τ Α THENS from the time-consuming chores of through the brambles and over the walls 4 I East 7 2nd Street housekeeping, best of all a total absence of Samothrace. Both Joan Winter and New York. New York 100:21 of demands on my time, until after Davina Huxley were generous with their τ el. (2 12) 861-030:2 Thanksgiving. For once Ι exercised a superior knowledge of provincial Greece, modicum of sophrosyne in regard to from birds and flow ers through local cus­ NEWSLEΠER Spring 1988 fi eld trips and limited myself to the one Ι toms to reliable places to eat. Spectacular had missed in 1975, Thrace and Macedo­ memories include wading in the quarries nia, which rewarded me richly in the of Thasos at sunset, as an indignant octo­ Edίtor : Doreen Canaday Spitzer itinerary, the weather, and especially the pus attacked an intrepid student, seeing Ass't. Edίtor : Catherine Vanderpool company. The students were a source of the interior of the so-called Tomb of Phil­ Typesettίng : Sarah Figueira endless enlightenment and diversion­ ip at Vergina and hearing Professor An­ generous too in playing Cole Porter tapes dronikos defend hi s dating of the va ult, Desίgn Ξ layout: Easy Graphics on the bus in deference to tastes that and gliding across the calm waters from Princeton, NJ were formed long ago on Anything Goes Samothrace to Alexandroupolis with dol­ and Kiss Me, Kate. phins in attendance. The Newsletter is published bi­ Ι remember with admiration John Thanksgiving and the beginning of annually. Please address all inquiries Camp's leadership on all the sites, as well the Christmas holidays were made fes­ to the ASCSA. 4 I East 72nd Street. as the special contributions of Mary Lee tive by the Coulsons. Thanksgiving din­ New York, ΝΥ I 00:21 . Coulson among the Byzantine churches ner, for close to one hundred members of Thessaloniki and George Huxley in Continued on p. 12. 2 Ancient Recipes Benefit Amphora Project Rabbit with fresh quince, red mullet in herb and wine sauce, poached figs with honey and wine sauce, grilled semolina bread, barley bread, shrimp in vine leaves, roasted onions with honey and vinegar and wheat pilaf-all these and more were served at the Amphora Din­ ner and Symposium, organized in No­ vember in New York to benefit the Am­ phora Project.
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