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. The recipes for the event were culled from ancient texts by Professor Phyllis Bober of Bryn Mawr College, who also spoke on ancient cuisine. Professor Caro­ lyn Koehler, of the University of Mary­ land at College Park, who has been Dr. Virginia Grace's assistant for many years, followed with a presentation of the Amphora Project. The evening, which was underwritten by the Associa­ tion of Greek Wine and Spirits Produc­ ing Manufacturers, netted a profit which has been applied to the computerization of the Amphora files and archives.

For copies of some of the recipes, write to Friends of the ASCSA , 41 East 72nd Street, New York , ΝΥ 10021.

Clockwise from top: Sotiris Kitrilakis, owner of the Peloponnese Food Company, who developed the Amphora Benefit menu and prepared the food as well as contributing some of the raw materials imported from Greece, conf ers with Professor Phyllis Bober of Bryn Mawr College, who drew up the recipes and lectured on ancient cuisine; Angel Stoyanof, of Stoyanofs Restaurant in San Francisco, who served as master chef f or the event; Yiannis Boutaris, President of the Association of Greek Wine and Spirits Producing Industry and Managing Director of ]ohn Boutaris & Son wine manufacturers; Professor ]ames R. McCredie, Chairman of the ASCSA Managing Committee greets ASCSA Friends.

3 New Slant on Thera Frescoes May Meetings in NewYork Mary Berg Hollingshead (ASCSA 1969-70) makes some fresh obser­ vations on the familiar "Spring Fresco" from Akrotiri. The Managing Committee of the Ameri­ can School of Classical Studies at Athens Α back corner of the well-known "Spring scape 011 which crocuses, rather than \il­ is meeting in New York on May 14 at the Fresco," or "Room of the Lilies" (Room 2 ies are growing. The birds and the rocks Institute of Fine Arts, hosted by Profes­ of building Delta) at Akrotiri on Thera are like those of Delta 2, but the flowers sor James R. McCredie, Chairman. One has yielded new information about how are different. Elsewhere in Xeste 3, de­ of the main items on the agenda is the Theran frescoes were painted. Although tails of a yo ung woman plucking a crocus electi on of a new Director for the Gen­ Delta 2's lyrical scene of swallows flying indicate that, as in Delta 2, the flower nadius Library, who will serve a three­ over red lilies growing out of a rocky was painted last. year term beginning in 1989. The meet­ landscape is often reproduced in text­ These observations of technique a11d ing \vill be followed by lunch at Mayer books and pocket guides, the detail sequence suggest to me that a painter House. shown above is rarely illustrated . lt specializing in plants completed these Also at Mayer House , the ASCSA shows a swallow wheeling up and around frescoes , which had been designed and Board of Trustees is holding its bi-annual in characteristically acrobatic flight. Α begun by another artist. Red lilies and meeting on May 24, chaired by W. Kell y large red lily is painted over one wing. In crocuses appear often in Theran (and Simpson, Chairman of the Board of a composition which we intuitively as­ Minoan) painting, perhaps with symbol­ Trustees. The meeting agenda includes a sume to be painted from the ground up, ic significance. Specialized flower paint­ discussion of the plans and fund-raising we are surprised to find that the lilies ers would seem to confirm the impor­ strategies for the Blegen extension. The were painted after the swallows. More tance of lilies and crocuses for the resi­ sa me evening, the Trustees, National intriguing, why was the lily painted over dents of Akrotiri. Our semi-obliterated Councillors and guests will attend a din­ the swallow? We know that the artist swallow from Delta 2 thus provides ner, followed by a \ecture by Professor who painted this and the other swallows graphic evidence of Theran priorities, of Mary Berg Hollingshead 011 wa\1-paint­ in Room Delta 2 had a fine eye for the lilies over swallows. ings at Santorini. species' elegant profile and agility in flight. While he uses foreshortening suc­ cessfully in a swallow on the west wall, here he appears to have tried a more dif­ New Trustee for ASCSA ficult pose, without making it visually comprehensib\e. The large red lily paint­ Α. Bartlett Giamatti, former Presi­ ed across the bird's right wing may rep­ dent of Yale University and currently resent an attempt to convey pictorial the President of the National League depth, or it may be the artist's frustrated of Professional Baseball Clubs, has attempt to conceal the unsuccessful swal­ joined the Board of Trustees of the low. Or, it may be the work of a second American School of Classical Studies painter. at Athens, it was announced recently The "second painter" theory finds in New York by Board President Do­ support in frescoes from building Xeste reen C. Spitzer. 3, in which a swallow of comparable Α scholar of Renaissance litera­ style flies above a similar rocky land- ture, Mr. Giamatti has written nu­ merous books, articles, essays and re­ views in his fi eld. At the same time, his interest in baseball has led him to publish a number of articles in this area as well, including "Tom Seaver's Humanities, and the National Com­ Farewell ," a story which appeared in mission on Excellence in Education. Harper's Magazine in 1977 and which He is also a Trustee of the Ford Foun­ won the Ε. Ρ. Dutton Best Magazine dation, and of Mt. Holyoke College, Sports Story of the Υ ear. where his daughter is a student. After graduating from Yale Uni­ In 1986 Mr. Giamatti left Yale versity in 1960, Mr. Giamatti returned and took on the leadership of the Na­ in 1966 as a member of the faculty in tional League of Professional Baseball the Department of English and Com­ Clubs. In a recent speech to the Mas­ parative Literature, and was appoint­ sachusetts Historical Society, he ed Yale's 19th President in 1978. He is pointed out that for native-born a member of the Modern Language Americans baseba\1 recalls "an earlier, Association, the American Philosophi­ less bitterly knowing country ," while cal Society, the Dante Society of for newcomers to American society it Detail from the "Spring Fresco" from America, the Council for Financial provides "a commo11 language in a Aid to Education, the Commission on strange land." Akrotiri (after Ch. Doumas, Thera. Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean, Fig. 28).

4 Acrocorinth Focus of Annual Meeting Plans Underway for Blegen Extension The Annιιal Open Meeting of the Ameri­ can School of Classical Stιιdies at Athens Thanks to a generous grant from the took place on March 31 in Athens, with American Schools and Hospitals Abroad/ keynote speaker Professor Ronald Stroιιd Agency for International Development, presenting the excavations at the Sanc­ the America ή School of Classical Studies tιιa r y of Demeter and Persephone on Ac­ at Athens has moved ahead with plans rocorinth. for the Blegen Library extension and Cιι rr e n t l y on sabbatical leave from associated remodelling of the Main the Classics Department at the Univer­ Building, Director's Residence and the sity of California at Berkeley, Professor Gennadeion. S tr o ιιd headed the excavations from After considering proposals submit­ 1961 to 1965, and was s ιι cc eed ed as Di­ ted by four Athenian architectural rector by Dr. Nancy Bookidis, who over­ firms, the School has selected the designs saw the project ιιntil its completion in of architect Nikos Zarganis, who recent­ 1975. Professor Stroιιd and Dr. Bookidis ly completed an addition to the library have cooperated on the recent Corinth of the British School of Archaeology, the Notes Νο. 2, in the ASCSA P i c t ιι r e Book ASCSA's next-door neighbor. series and are readying the vo lιι me on In an early February meeting with topography and a r c hit e ctιιr e . Other Mr. Zarganis, Trustee William Loomis forthcoming volιιmes inclιιd e Dr. Eliza­ and Managing Committee Chairman beth Pemberton's on Greek pottery and James McCredie reviewed the archi­ Kathleen Slane's on Roman pottery and tect's proposals which had originally lamps. Also in preparation is the report been submitted to the Trustees in late on the terracottas, being prepared by Romαn portrαit of α young priestess 1987. Completion of the final proposals Gloria Merker and Jean Tιιrfa. found in α well in The Sαnctuαry of is scheduled for late spring 1988. In his lectιιre , Professor Stroιιd sιιr­ Demeter αnd Persephone on The plans call for a new wing which v~yed the Sanctιιary's history, beginning Acrocorinth, second cent. A.D. will extend the present building west of wιth a reference to Paιιsanias, who noted the present building, adding some the site briefly in his visit to Corinth in 35,000 square feet to the present stack 160 A.D. , and described its antiqιιities as Conference on Greek space. The four story structure will also revealed in a decade and a half of exca­ Archaeology Features house the expanded School Archives, the vations. Along with nιιmeroιιs votive ASCSA Speakers proposed photographic laboratory, read­ offerings to the two goddesses, the sanc­ ing tables and carrels, and computers. tιιary also prodιιced some fragmentary For the time being, the basement will re­ The ASCSA will be well-represented stone scιιlpture of the Roman period main unfinished until the space is among the participants at a symposium found mainly in destruction debris needed. While the main entrance will on Greek archaeology, to be held in New dating to the fourth century A.D . The continue in its present position, the fa­ York on October 30, 1988. architectural remains include numerous cade of the new extension, which looks Honorary Chairman is Professor dining rooms, a rock-cut theatral area out onto Gennadius Street, has been de­ Homer Α. Thompson, while Managing and three Roman temples, one of which signed to blend in with the appearance Committee Chairman Professor James has a mosaic floor . of the original Blegen Main Building. R. McCredie and Professor David G. Ro­ The ASCSA also sponsored a series of The Gennadeion remodelling is on a mano will be presenting lectures. seven lectures throughout the academic much smaller scale, involving only the The conference is sponsored by Kri­ year 1987-1988. Most recently, Dr. west wing basement, which had been kos, a professional association of Greek Theodora Karayiorga, the Ephor of left unfinished when the wing was added engineers and scientists working in the Athens, spoke on public works and exca­ in 1972. It will now be completed for vations in Athens in the last five years. United States. Co-sponsored by the New stacks and storage of archives. York Society of the Archaeological Insti­ Other speakers included Dr. Olga Tza­ It is estimated that the proposed ex­ cho-Alexandri, the Director of the Na­ tute of America, the conference, the fourteenth in a series of annual events tension and remodelling will cover the tional Museum, who surveyed eighth School's needs for space for the next thir­ century ship representations, Alexander will take place at the Metropolitan Muse~ um of Art. For further information, con­ ty years, at a total cost of approximately MacGillivray, Co-Director of the Palai­ $1,035,000. The ASHA/ AID grant is kastra Excavations, who presented his tact Dr. Thomas V. Papathomas at (201) 377-2362, evening hours. providing $450,000 of this amount, leav­ recent work, Claire Palyvou, from the ing $585,000 to be raised before the Ephoreia of the Cyclades, who spoke on building is completed, which is projected Akrotiri on Santorini, Helen North, with for 1990. a lecture on the iconography of elo­ We regret to report the death, in In the late 1950's, the ASCSA added quence, and Nicholas Coldstream, who January, of Thomas Α. Pappas, at the Davis wing to the original library, delivered a lecture on ninth centιιry age 89, who was a member of the but the continuing growth of the collec­ tombs at Knossos. Board of Trustees of the School from 1969 to 1981. tion and increased readership has neces­ sitated the current expansion program.

5 When we arrlved at the Church of Ancient Rites in Modern Mytilene Saint Haralambos , we found the offi cial parade of horsemen from Aghia Para­ In seαrch of the Temple αt Klopedi on Mytilene, Gerαld Ρ. Schαus , skevi already settled in . New arrivals Associαt e Professor of Clαssic s αt Wilfrid Lαuri er University in were being blessed by the priest, and Ontαrio (ASCSA Whiteheαd Professor, 1987) cαme upon α modern each rider slipped him a bill at the end of version of αn αn cie nt r i tuαl , the s αcrifice of α bull. the ritual. . At the sa me time, blessings were ex­ The deadly knife plunges to its mark , many events, which culminate in an all­ tended to lambs and kids, as well as preg­ and the huge bull falls to its bell y, then to night "glendi" of music, dancing, and nant mares and mares with young foa ls. its side, soaking the earth around it in cooking. According to local legend , a Groups of families were spreading frothy red . The closely packed crowd re­ farmer named Malomyti from Aghia Pa­ large blankets over terraces made in the acts with alarm and horror, with fascina­ raskevi lost his bull, and in trying to find rough rocky hillside, fires were already tion and awe, and a few perhaps with it he wandered further and further into burning high and water was boiling in sadness . One life ends and others go on. the hills. Suddenly a monk appeared to preparation for the meals. Α few car­ At least four times a year, this an­ him, directing him to the top of a nearby casses of recently slaughtered sheep and cient ritual takes place on the island of hill , where he found his bull standing goats hung from nearby trees, while Mytilene. Of these, the oldest and most quietly by the ruins of a country chapel music blared from radios. Nearby lay colorful ceremony is celebrated by the dedicated to Saint Haralambos. real musical instruments, ready for the town of Aghia Paraskevi in honor of Realizing that the mysterious monk night ahead of dancing and merrymak­ Saint Haralambos, patron of the Plough­ was actually the saint himself, the poor ing. New arrivals carrying heavy loads of men's Guild. farmer fell to his knees to give thanks. As provisions and blankets filed past the carts and stands where hawkPrs were Quite by accident, Ι and my group of he did so, he caught sight of a brigand students stopped in Aghia Paraskevi for who appeared from behind the Chapel. selling every kind of trinket or Greek fin­ lunch on our way to the nearby Aeolic­ Although the farmer thought his last mo­ ger food. Nuts, halva, drinks, and souvla­ style Temple at Klopedi. As we sat down, ment had come, the bandit told him that kia in pita bread, the ubiquitous ice we observed a parade of horsemen bear­ his life had just been saved by the saint, cream vendor, a π assortment of chil­ ing icons and banners clatter by. In re­ who had fuddled the bandit's aim just as dren's toys , ashtrays, lamps, china, glass­ sponse to our curious questions, we he was about to kill our hero. As he ware, and bric-a-brac, all were lined in learned that there was to be a bull sacri­ turned to run away, the bandit instruct­ neat rows to attract the celebrants. Α few fi ce at nearby Tavros that very evening. ed the farmer to give thanks not only for policemen stood by, somehow appearing How could we miss it! his bull, but also his life. Thus, the saint to be part of the confusion rather than a Part of a five-day panegyri, the sacri­ was honored thereafter by the sacrifice force for order. fi ce of the bull is the central focus of of a bull. Eastward across the pines to the plains by the coast, the last light of the sun illuminated the straits and the dis­ tant Turkish coast. With that view over the timeless landscape, our sense of liv­ ing in an earlier millenium began to grow strong. We might have been at a rural religious festival in honor of one of the Olympian gods, Dionysos or Artemis, Apollo or Athena. We were buying souvlakia and some­ thing to drink, when a bleating kid drew our attention to a big tree with a cement platform below and a great young bull tied up beside it. There was no question what this beast was for. My mind auto­ maticall y began counting away its few remaining hours and minutes. lt looked blissfully ignorant of its danger, which somewhat relieved my conscience. Now a crowd was gathering round the tree. Someone held a silver tray and certain people were taking turns putting a 1000-drachma bill on it, held down by a knife. Bidding had begun for the privi­ lege of killing the bull. With each bi ll the person's name was announced. We thought the sacrifice was drawing near, but the bidding went on and on as night At the Fes ti vα l of Sαint Hα rα lα mbos on Mytilene, α priest blesses α ho·rse αnd his fell around us. Τ\ν ο hours and many bi lls rider. later, the bidding had suddenl y ended. 1t

6 ASCSA Sponsors Lecture Tour

Frσm April18 tσ May 11 , Prσfessσr Jσhn Camp presented lectures ση the Athe­ nian Agσra tσ audiences in six cities thrσug h σ ut the cσ untr y . Cσ-spσnsσ r ed with l σcal sσc i e ti es σf the Archaeσ l σg i cal Institute σf America and university classics departments, the lecture series fσcused ση fifty years σf American Schσσl activity in σ n e σf the mσs t sign ificant sites σf the ancient wσr l d. Prσfessσr Camp's itinerary tσσk him t σ Cincinnati, C hicagσ , Minneapσ l is , Bσstσn, New Yσrk, and Was l 1ingtσn. In Professor john Camp New Yσrk, tl1 e talk was scheduled fσr the weekend σf May 7- 8 as part σf the Met­ V anderpool Honored r σ pσ litan Museum σ f Art's Special Mem­ bership Lecture series. Cσ - σ r ga ni zed Prσfessσr Eugene Vand e rpσσl , whσ with the New Yσrk Sσciety σf the ΛΙΑ , wσrk ed and taught at the ASCSA f σr Α black-figured vase from the sixth the event drew sσme 800 peσp l e . σver half a century until his retirement, century B.C., depicting α bull being led Α veteran σf many years σf excava­ was hσn σ r ed at a lecture given by Jσhn to sacrifice. ti σ n and research at the Athenian Agσra, McKessσn Camp, Π , Mell σ n Prσfessσr σf Pωf ess σr Camp recently published The Classical Studies, ση January 19, at the Athenian Agora , in the Thames and G.ennadius Library. Entitled "The Sanc­ was difficult tσ kn σ \v whσ had wσn , fσr it Hudsσn seri es ση new aspects σf antiq­ tuary σf Artemis at Braurσn ", the lec­ seemed that all the bidders were nσw uity, edited by Cσlin Renfrew. The bσσk ture drew a large audience, including h σ ldin g the bull's rσpe, pulling him σηtσ is available at a 25% discσ unt frσm the Ambassadσr σf the United States t σ the cement platfσrm, his n σse dσwn t σ an Friends σf the ASCSA , 41 East 72nd Greece, Mr. Rσbe rt Keeley and Mrs. irσn ring set firmly in the middle. There Street, New Yσrk , ΝΥ 10021 . Keeley. was a click, the bull pulled back and stumbled tσ the g rσund . Α little blσσd appeared ση its fσr e h ea d. The c rσwd pressed c l σse fσr a better view. Ι held my Vasilaras Retires σne-year σld sσn at the edge σf the circle, straining fσr a glimpse. Suddenly, as if a vσlcanσ had erupted, the huge bull fσught tσ gain its feet and a hundred ter­ rified Greeks fσught tσ escape. Ι was al­ mσ st tσppl e d σver but nσw my sσn and Ι had a clear view σ f the scene. The men h σ ldin g the rσp es pulled the bull's n σse dσwn tσ the ring again while σne f e llσw flashed a knife dσwn like a Spanish bull fi ghter and severed the bull's bac kbσn e. The creature crumpled. The knife was passed tσ anσther man whσ \Vent awk­ wardly a rσund tσ the belly side σf the beast. This Ι suppσse was the winning bidder, fσr he made the sign σf the c rσss with the knife ση the bull's thrσat , then he passed the knife tσ σthers. It was time fσr us tσ leave, strangely satisfied that we had experienced sσ an­ cient a ritual, yet still incapable σf grasp­ ing its significance. If gσσd Saint Hara­ After thirty years σf emplσyment at the ASCSA, Head Gardener Andreas Vasila­ lambσ s was hσnσr ed by these events, we ras σfficially retired this year, his retirement marked by a party ση December 15 suspect it was due tσ the c rσwds σf happy attended by the entire Schσσl family in the Main Building. Citing his rσl e in peσple rather than tσ the sacrifices σf the creating and maintaining σne σf the few σases σf green in central Athens, ASCSA animals nσ w rσasting beneath the pines, Direc tσr William Cσulsσn presented Mr. Vasilaras with a silver bσχ d ecσ rat ed σr the pungent fragrance rising tσ heav­ with the Schσσl seal. en thrσug h the s mσk e.

7 . yεyovos- και yεyοvοτα . . people and places .. . yεyovόs- και yεyοvοτα .

Moments from the Gennadius Library, 1987-1988: The Gennadeion brimmed with actiυit y this past year. (Left) At the opening of the exhibition c01nme1norating the 300 years since the bombardment of the Acropolis in 1687 by troops cornιnanded by Francesco Morosini, were Mrs. Κ. Bostantzoglou (left), Dr. George L. Huxley, Director of the Library, Mr. Ο. Kopanitsas and Mrs. Sandra Carnbani, all Friends of the Gennadius Library. (Riglιt) Dr. Carol Zerner lectures on "Kythera and the Peloponnese in the Bronze Age" at the Kythera Colloquium co-sponsored by the National Research Foundation and the Gennadius Library, 14 Noυember, 1987.

Christmas in Athens 1987: School Director William Coulson puts the crowning touch on the tree, and Kim Fritz and john Mclsaac attempt to untangle the lights.

8 I I l d l I I . ο ο ο ΎΕΎΟVΜ και ΎΕΎοvοτα ο ο ο peop e an p aces ο ο ο ΎΕΎΟVΟS' και ΎΕΎοvοτα ο

Running pαrallel to Ptolemy Street αnd Antigonus Street, in the seαside town of Coronis Attikis, is Ε. Vαnderpool Street, which honors Eιιgene Vαnderpool of the ASCSA, wh.o excavαt ed there in 1960 with jαm es R. McCredie. The three week dig uncovered α Ptol e mαic cωnp from Chre1nonides' Wαr , in which Ptolemy Ι1 αttempt e d to αid Athens in securing its independence from the Macedoniαns under Antigonus Gonαtαs. Α similα1° honor wαs αwarded by the City Council to Ioannis Papadimitriou, who was Superintendent of Antiquities αt the time of the excavαtion s.

Hesperia Seeks Increase in Contributions

In an effort to increase the number of articles submitted to the quarter­ ly Hesperia , the ASCSA Commit­ tee on Publications recentl y clari­ fi ed the gι ι id e li nes for contributors. According to Committee Chair­ man Stephen V. Tracy, potential contributors can be a member or past member of the School, or a member of the staff of a Cooperat­ ing Institution. Subject matter may be archaeological or historical from any period in Greek Studies, prehistoric to Turkish, and include synthetic studies as well as the pre­ sentation of excavated material. If none of the above categories apply to the contributor, then the article should be particularly relevant to tl1e \vork of the School. Articles are generall y consid­ ered as soon as they come in . The Committee on Publications meets twice a year, in late March and late October; articles submitted in Feb­ ruary and September are thus as­ sured of the most rapid actiono Further information can be ob­ Scenes from T lιαn ksgiving 1987: tained from the "lnstructions for Chα rl es Κ. Williams, Director of the Authors," published in Hesperia 55 excavαtion s αt Corinth, carves α turkey (1986) i-vi or from the Editor, Dro while Helen North αnd ]ωnes Marian McAllister, c/ ο The Insti­ Higginbot hαm look on; Cαrol Lαwton tute for Advanced Study, Prince­ αnd j ere Wickens draw lots f or the ton, NJ 08543-0631. seating αrrαnge me nt.

9 Crete/U.S. Team Uncovers Minoan Town

Architect john McEnroe, Professor at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, measures one of the Minoan buildings on Pseira while draftsperson Vicki Mims records his measurements. (Photo by Michael Betancourt)

Pseira, a small late-Minoan town, has northeast of the square, where work will been the focus of archaeological excava­ continue in the summer of 1988. ASCSA Sponsors tions by a joint Greek-American team Pseira's island location presents un­ since 1985. usuallogistical problems for the excavat­ Conference ση Under the auspices of the American ing team. The staff must travel to the site Terracottas School of Classical Studies at Athens, the every morning by fishing boat, returning Pseira expedition is sponsored by Tem­ to the village of Mochlos each evening. Α conference on Archaic Greek ar­ ple University, the Archaeological lnsti­ ' Ίη rough weather, when the waves chitectural terracottas will be held tute of Crete, and the Archaeological So­ break over the bow and spray those on at the School December 2-4, 1988. ciety of Crete. Joint Directors are Profes­ board with salt watμ, the trip can have a Twenty-five to thirty papers will sor Philip Betancourt of Temple Univer­ touch of adventure. On calmer days, be presented by scholars from sity, who represents Temple on the when the white seagulls or a rare dolphin America, France, England, Swe­ ASCSA Managing Committee, and Dr. come near the boat to investigate the in­ den, Germany, Italy and Greece. Costis Davaras, Ephor of Antiquities and terlopers, the scene is more idyllic," ac­ The results will be published in Director of the Archaeological Institute cording to Professor Betancourt. Hesperia. Α field trip to the Pelo­ of Crete. The houses of Minoan Pseira, built of ponnese will be held on the final Located on a small uninhabited is­ stone, were arranged into roughly day of the conference. land just off the northern coast of Crete, shaped blocks by lanes and narrow roads. Papers and attendance are Pseira consisted of at least sixty to eighty Several of the houses were built step­ heartily welcomed. For more in­ houses when it was destroyed in Late Mi­ fashion, using more than one terrace. formation, please contact Dr. noan IB, around 1550-1450 BC. In its The sea must have always played a role Nancy Α. Winter, ASCSA, 54 Soui­ three years of excavations, the expedi­ in the town's life throughout its history. dias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, tion has uncovered the town square of Foreign connections were verified by a Greece. the Minoan settlement and is working number of finds last summer, including now on clearing the facades of the build­ scraps of pottery from Knossos, from the ings which surround it. The 1987 season Mesara, and from the Cyclades, Cyprus, concentrated on a large building at the and the Levant.

10 ------THOMPSON WINS Archaic Art to U.S. Cont i ntι e d from p. 1. Ιη the presence of Greece's M iηi s t e r of where they were hackiηg away to re­ Culture M e liη a M e r co υr i , the Na ti oη a l move a big, loηg block, rather roυghly Gallery e xhibitioη ''τhe Ηυm a η Figυr e tooled. It did ηοt look m od e rη . The m e η ίη Early Greek Art" debuted Jaηυary 28. said that they ηeeded the s t o η e to chop Guest Curator was Diaη a Bυitron­ υp to liη e a well. Orestes told them, qυite Oliver, ASCSA 1972/ 73, who gave a spe­ correctl y, that it was aηcieηt aηd they cial t o υr to a co mbiη e d ASCSA / New s h o υld η ο t toυ c h it. They dυg the harder. γ ork Society of the Archaeological Iηsti­ Orestes a ηd Ι said to each other qυietly tute of America groυp which gathered ίη that it was probably a liηt e l block for a Washington at the Natioηal Gallery οη beehive tomb. He kη ew pl e ηt y ίη Myce­ February 27. Earlier that same week, ηae . The diggers rejoiced ίη ουr iηt e r es t. Professor Beth Coheη of Columbia U ηi­ Perhaps it was a s igη of tr eas υr e. We had versity preseηted a lectυr e at Mayer showed too mυch coηcerη. We left , bυt Ι Hoυse based ση the material ίη the ex hi­ kept worryiηg aboυt the possibility of a bitioη, entitled "Arms aηd Armor ίη tomb. We fουηd the diggers still at it ση Early Greek Art," also co-spoηsored by ουr retυrη. Agaiη we told them to stop. the New γork ΑΙΑ aηd the ASCSA . They waited till we roυηd ed a corηer bυt Also ίη coηηectioη with the exhibi­ wh eη we looked back they were at it Dorothy Burr Thompson at Phlius in tioη , the Natioηal Gallery's Ceηter for agaiη. Ι got frighteηed . Ι sυggested to ]une, 1924. Advaηced Stυdy ση the Visual Arts has Orestes that we go to fiηd the ephor, the organized a symposium ση "New Per­ ageηt of the aηtiqυities service. He pro­ believe that the Aztecs iηvaded Greece, spectives ίη Early Greek Art," schedυled tested that the doηkey was tired. So was do y ου? " for May 27-28. Divided iηto foυr ses­ Ι , bυt too mυch was at stake. Ι seηt Ores­ The Director of the School sυggested sioηs over a two day period, the sympo­ tes aηd the doηke y back to Myce ηa e aηd that Ι coηsυlt the head of the Departmeηt siυm will focυs ση several aspects of of Aηtiqυities, Professor Oikoηomos. set ουt by myself across the Argive plaiη archaic Greek cυltυre. six miles to Argos. Ι fουηd the ephor, of Here Ι fουηd υηexpected sυpport. Among the participaηts are Professor ' Όh , Americaη." Ι coυrse, haviηg his eveηiηg driηk at a ca­ yes they are felt re­ James R. McCredie, Ch a irmaη of the 'Ύου seeη feηeioη . He giggled. Not mυch hope lieved. have some examples?" ASCSA Maηagiηg Committee, Professor there. So Ι took a taxi back to the hotel ίη ' Όh, yes," he said. "Some time ago we Alan Boegehold, Vice-Chairmaη, Pro­ Myc e ηae where Ι fiηally fουηd aη ally ίη gave a permit to a German Ambassador, fessors Mabel Laηg, Evelyη Β. Harrisoη , νοη Kardorf, to briηg iη aηd later export Orestes' father. Α real archaeologist, he Jeffrey Hurwit, Alaη Shapiro, aηd Diaηa set ουt at three the ηext morηing and a collectioη that he had made wheη he Bυitroη-Oiiv e r. read the riot act to the diggers . This was Ambassador ίη Mexico." "Is he still ' Όh , ίη Ι stopped them aηd the tomb was saved. here?" yes; he lives Kephissia." Βυt ηot e the a moυηt of e ηerg y that weηt gasped. Oikoηomos offered the services Correction please iηto the r esc υe. If Ι had ηοt persisted aηd of a Greek archaeologist to pυrsυe the matter fυrth e r. We called ση the Baroη , iη s isted where woυld the gold aηd silver History Professor Charles Brand of aηd investigatioηs soon clarified the tr eas υres of the kiηg , qυeeη aηd priηc ess Bryn Mawr woηders if Professor whole story. Kardorf's two servaηts, as he of Midea have ended υp? They are now Babbitt's refereηce to Hymettus grew older, had systematically robbed ίη οηe of the richest cases of the Atheηs (NL Fall 1987) as "an easy half him. Evideηtly they had had troυble try­ Natioηal Mυse υm. hour from Souidias St." is perhaps iηg to sell the miηor aηtiqυities stored iη spurioυs, inasmυch as in Babbitt's Οηe day the gardeηer of the Ameri­ the cellar. They pυll ed the woodeη boxes year, 1895, the street was called caη School of Classical Stυdies at Atheηs out of the Baroη's property to the small Speυsippos . Mr. Braηd poiηts ουt showed me a co ll ec tioη of figυriη es that gardeη η ex t door a ηd set fire to the boxes that the ηame was chaηged , for a he said he had f ο υηd ίη his gardeη ίη Ke­ to cover themselves, bυt they did ηοt re­ part of the street, after World War phissia, a sυ bυrb of Atheηs. Βυt-Ι did alize that terracottas are ηοt d estrυctible ΙΙ to hoηor the Swedish Red Cross ηοt believe him . These qυ ee r characters by fire. So Ι was exonerated aηd the Ba­ who had looked out for both the with ηose-plυgs aηd ear plυg s were ηοt roη got back his figυriη es . British aηd the Americaη Schools Greek. Νο . They were Ceηtral Ameri­ γου too will have a dve ηtυr es. Sci­ duriηg the war. Babbitt's diary, ca η, a jυmbl e of Mayaη, Aztec, a ηd Tol­ e ηc e is fυll of straηge discoveries ηοw. faithfυlly copied by his daυghter, tec. Οη e of my more l ea rη ed frieηds at Μeη aηd womeη are workiηg υp η ew reports: 'Ό η e woυld say the top of the School agreed wi th my diagηosis, fi elds d epeηde ηt ση e x tr ao rdiη a r y tech­ Hymettus is an easy half hour aηd ου r ideas were coηfi rm ed by l oo kiη g niqυes - σ η amphora h a ηdl es , ση deep from the School." γουr editor's at the old Amer i caη periodical, Art and sea excava ti oηs , ση papyri, eveη ση air copy was ηοt so faithful (a lthoυgh Archaeology, the predecessor of the bυbbles over fifty millioη years old pre­ she too lived at the School \vhen it preseηt Archaeology , which yου sho υld served ίη amber. γου will have tr e m eη­ was on Speυsippos Street), ίη an at­ all read if o ηl y to keep yου geηe r a ll y iη­ doυs ideas to opeη υp the past. γ ου will tempt to locate the site for latter­ fo rmed . Others begaη to mυrmυr that Ι receive gold medals for really a maziηg day readers. Correctioη sυstaiηed , s h o υld co ηsυlt a psychiatrist. Οηe dis­ discoveries. γοu are already begiηηiηg . with thaηks. tressed frieηd said, ''Υ ο υ doη ' t really Keep at it. Ι wish Ι co υld join yο υ.

11 School Wins Major Grant Support

With almσst $1,000,000 ίη haηd by mid­ March, ησt iηcludiηg a deferred gift σf well σver $500,000, the Americaη Schσσl σf Classical Studies at Atheηs is ση its way tσ a very successful year ίη the area σf fuηd-raisiηg. Αmσηg the mσst sigηificaηt gifts ίη haηd are $15,000 frσm the Samuel Η . Kress Fσuηda t iση . Althσugh the graηt, fσr use by the Phσtσg r aphic Archives, was awarded last year, it is payable this year, a l σηg with aη addi ti σηal gift σf $10,000 fσr the Kress Fe ll σwship ίη the H i s t σ r y σ f Art. A l sσ, the David a η d Lucile Packard F σuηd a ti ση awarded $183,000 f σ r the purchase σ f l a ηd f σ r ex­ ca va tiση iη the Ath e ηiaη Agσra aηd $25,000 fσr dem σ litiση wσrk ση laηd pr e viσusly purchased with Fσuηdatiση fuηds . Ιη aησth e r impσrtaηt gift, the D e mσs Fσuηdatiση awarded $10,000 tσ At the opening of the exhibition, ' Ίre land and the Hellenic Tradition," on suppσrt a bibliσgraphical assistaηt ίη the February 9, Dr. George Huxley points out aspects of the collection to the Geηηadius Library. Ambassador of lreland to Greece, Η . Ε. Eamonn Ryan. Ιη additiση , the Getty Graηt Prσ­ gram σf The J. Paul Getty Trust has awarded the Schσσl a majσr graηt σf $334,000 payable σver fσur years fσr ac­ ATHENS REVISITED continuedfromp. 2. quisitiσηs ίη the Blegeη Library aηd fσr suppσrt σf the Phσtσgraphy Archives. aηd frieηds σf the schσσl , the Christmas cσηviηced thaη ever that we must maiη­ The graηt fuηds will be used tσ iηcrease tree-trimmiηg party with carσls (iηclud­ taiη aηd streηgtheη the Greek require­ the Library's hσldiηgs aηd tσ duplicate iηg the marvelσus parσdy σf the "Twelve meηt fσr admissiση aηd fiηd ways tσ iη­ aηd preserve the Schσσl's phσtσgraphy Days σf Christmas," which recσrds iη ev­ crease the ηumber σf philσlσgists whσ archives. ery staηza the multiple gifts σf Jσhη apply. Ιη σther areas σf fuηd-raisiηg activ­ Camp tσ the studeηts- " five thσlσs Every studeηt σf the Greek wσrld ity, the ηumber σf Frieηds rσse this year tσmbs" etc.), aηd the cσηce rt σf Christ­ ηeeds tσ be able tσ deal with Greek tσ 393. Iηstituted last year, the Frieηds mas music ση aηcieηt iηstrumeηts , fσl­ sσurces at first haηd, prehistσriaηs aηd prσgram was iηitiated tσ brσadeη the lσwed by a sumptuσus buffet-these Brσηze Age specialists as well as thσse Schσσl's base σf suppσrt by expaηdiηg were highlights ίη a semester that was whσse iηterests lie iη the Classical periσd the ηumber σf dσησrs tσ the Aηηual brighteηed iη maηy ways by the eηergy aηd thereafter. By the same tσk e η , first­ Fuηd. Α ηumber σf Frieηds aηd suppσrt­ aηd imagiηatiση σf Mary Lee. haηd acquaiηtaηce with Greece itself­ ers σf the Schσσl alsσ atteηded the Am­ Ιη returη fσr all this, Ι am cσηsciσus sites, tσpσgraphy, artifacts, museums­ phσra Beηefit ίη Nσvember, which that my σwη cσηtributiση was merely a is e sseηtial fσr the philσlσgist. Αηd ησ raised $8,000 fσr Dr. Virgiηia Grace's tσkeη-a Greek semiηar aηd a series σf σηe, whatever the specialty, shσuld wσrk iη the stσrerσσms σf the Atheηiaη sessiσηs tσ read the'' Aeneid ίη the weeks cσηsider a year speηt at the Schσσl a Agσra. betweeη Thaηksgiviηg aηd the Christ­ delay ίη progress tσwards the Ph.D. aηd mas break. My semiηar ση rhetσric aηd the jσb-market. It is a year that may well Alumni Association Elects σratσry ίη Platσ's dialσgues attracted make the differeηce betweeη becσmiηg sσme very rewardiηg studeηts , whσse a rσutiηe traηsmitter σf secσηd-haηd New Officials cσmmeηts aηd reactiσηs were helpful tσ impressiσηs aηd aη iηspired iηt e rpreter me ίη my wσrk ση Platσ's rhetσric, but Ι σf Greek culture, whether literary, his­ Ιη the December Alumηi Assσciatiση regretted that this year relatively few σf torical, σr archae σlσgical (as if the three electiσηs, Prσfessσr William Murray aηd the regular members were able tσ read cσuld really be separated). Suzaηηe Petersση Murray were elected Greek with sufficieηt facility tσ take full As Ι write this repσrt , Ι am e ηcσur­ fσr a three year term as Secretary-Treas­ advaηtage σf the semiηar. As a member aged tσ fiηd a sigηificaηt iηcre ase ίη the urer. At the same time, Prσfessσr Jσhη σf the Cσmmittee ση Admissiσηs aηd ηumbe r σf applicaηts t a kiηg the eη­ Cargill σf Rutgers Uηiversity was chσseη Fellσwships Ι have \σηg beeη cσηcerηed traηc e exams fσr 1988, aηd what lσσk s fσr a five year term as a Cσuηcil Mem­ abσut the decliηiηg staηdard σf Greek, like a distiηct imprσve m e ηt ίη the ηum­ ber, aηd Sarah Mσrris was elected tσ a as well as the d ecliηiηg ηumber σf appli­ ber σf philσlσgists. F σ r maη y r e a s σηs , Ι three year term as R e preseηtative tσ the caηts , especially philσlσgists . Ι came e ηv y η e xt year's Whitehead F e ll σws . Maηagiηg Cσmmittee. away frσm the Schσσl this year mσr e

12 ------ΚΑ VOUSI EXCA VATIONS RESUMED Continued f rom p. 1. cremated , possibly a woman who had determine the extent of the settlement died in childbirth in the Early Oriental­ tl1 ere and to test fo r stratified deposits izing Period. which could reveal the history of the si te. Another grave nearby was of a type ln eleven trenches the team explored not found before at Kavousi: a stone­ both inside and outside the areas dug by lined rectangular cist grave dug into the Boyd, expanding investigation out to the coll apsed rubble of one of the rooms. false peak on the west. In all areas the ex­ This "double decker" grave had two cavators found stratified Middle to Late major phases of use: the lower deposit Geometric levels. Most interesting was a contained several cremations with nu­ Late Geometric shrine with unusual ex merous weapons and tools of iron; while votos found on a lower terrace on the above this the body of a man was buried. west side of the peak. The fin e Late Geometric pot found with The season off ered many surprises this individual gives a date for this latest and much new information. The shrine burial in the tomb. Α similar cist grave material places Vronda squarely in the with both cremations and an inhumation LM 111 tradition and demonstrates the was found on the slope to the southwest. continuation of Minoan practices which lt is now clear that the settlement area, is also observable in the pottery and ar­ after a period of abandonment, was ex­ chitecture. The kiln provides evidence of tensively reused for burials in the Late 12th century technology. The graves Geometric Period. have furnished evidence for burial prac­ Just below the summit to the south­ tices and about the people of Geometric west was found a deposit of broken cult Kavousi. equipment, including fragments of at Many questions remain to be solved. least two snake tubes and fiv e large terra­ Of particular interest is the relationship cotta goddesses with upraised hands, between Vronda and the Kastro. Is the Late Geometric burial at Vronda , similar to those found at Karphi and Kastro a later settlement of the Vronda Kavousi (Crete ): terracotta figurine. Gazi. Work next season will concentrate people or a new group? Are the Geo­ on locating the shrine from which this metric burials at Vronda from a nearby of floral and faunal remains (recovered material came. village yet to be discovered or from the through dry and water sieving), and the In a fi eld further to the southwest the Kastro? Why were these sites chosen for analysis of the geomorphology of the geophysical survey conducted by a team settlements? lt is expected that excava­ area will provide the answers to some of from the University of Patras in 1986 tion, surface survey of the area, the study these questions. had located a promising anomaly. Exca­ vation showed this to be the lower por­ tion of a pottery kiln. The kiln was oval , in plan; its stoking chamber was cut out Ν ew and noteworthy from the ~ of the bedrock and lined with fired clay. I In the center a column of stone and clay ASCSA Publications Office ~ supported the clay vaulting on which the ~ fl oor rested. Α small portion of floor was ~ Corinth, ΧΙΙ , The Minor Objects by Gladys R. Davidson. still preserved, and it was pierced by W Reprint of 1952 edition. $50.00 ~ holes which allowed heat to rise into the firing chamber. Sherds give an LM IIIC ~ Hellenistic Pottery and Terracottas by Homer Α. and Dorothy Β. Thompson. ~ (C. 1200 B.C.) date for the structure. Ex­ Eleven articles reprinted from Hesperia with prefaces cavation in the area showed that the kiln W~ by Susan Rotroff to both sections. $40.00 ~ lay outside the boundaries of the town. ~ Isthmia, IV , Sculpture I. 1952-1967 by Mary C. Sturgeon. $60.00 Investigation around the tholos ~ tombs uncovered in 1900 by Boyd re­ ~ Forthcoming: ~ vealed another cist grave contemporary Attic Grave Reliefs that Represent Women in the Dress of Isis with those found in the settlement. Al­ ~ (Hesperia Supplement ΧΧΙΙ) by Elizabeth J. Walters. $40.00 ~ though no new tholos tombs were lo­ The Athenian Agora, XXIV, Late Antiquity: A.D. 267-700 by Alison Frantz. cated , Boyd's dump produced much ~ $50.00 ~ skeletal material, which will provide in­ formation about the people who lived ίη ~ Corinth, XVIII, i, The Demeter Sanctuary: The Greek Pottery ~ the Vronda settlement in the twelfth and by Elizabeth G. Pemberton. $50.00 eleventh centuries B.C. ~ ~ Order from ASCSA c/ o Institute for Advanced Study ~ The fin al two weeks of excavation, ~ Princeton, NJ 08543-0631 W despite tem peratures over 100°, were spent high on the peak of the Kastro, to L ~ 13------Dams Open on 72nd Street George Ε. Mylonas, 1898-1988 Not one, but two, century-old water the elevator machinery was destroyed mains burst at 72nd and Madison early and l1ad to be rebuilt. Just as The Newsletter was going to press, in the morning of January 11 , flooding Sludge coated masses of papers and word arrived of the death of Professor some of the priciest basements in New documents which had been stored George Emmanuel Mylonas, member of York. downstairs, as well as Mayer House fur­ the ASCSA Managing Committee repre­ Mayer House, which stands just a niture, some of which had to be reuphol­ senting Washington University at St. few feet from the source, absorbed a cel­ stered and rebuilt. After sojourning a Louis since 1937 and a lifelong friend of lar-full of \Vater, which took eight hours week ση Administrative Director Lud­ the School. He began his career at the to pump out, while staff and tenants mila Schwarzenberg's office floor, the ASCSA in 1926 first as bursar, then as an were deprived of heat, phone, and for a papers finally could be refiled and assistant at the Gennadius Library. Later, \vhile, electricity. The boiler revved up repacked. he served as Annual Professor twice, and after its fourteen hours under water, but also as Director of the Summer Session for two seasons. Professor Mylonas excavated for many years at Mycenae. Α fuller obit­ uary will follow in the Fall Newsletter.

Travelers Take off for Greece

Some twenty lucky travelers are partic­ ipating in the American School's first ar­ chaeological trip to Greece open to non­ professionals in the field . Between June 25 and July 11 , the group will travel through central Greece and tl1 e Peloponnese under the guidance of Professor Alan Boegehold and his wife Julie. Among the lecturers who will be speaking to the visitors on-site are Dr. Evi Touloupa, Director of the Acropolis Museum , John Camp, Stephen Miller, John Fischer, Charles Williams, Nancy Bookidis, Betsy Gebhardt, Mary Lee Coulson , George Huxley, Chris Pfaff, Scene inside and out: The basement of Mayer House, post-jlood, and excavation at Fred Cooper, Tim Wright, and Carol 72nd and Madison to repair the broken water mains. Zerner. In its efforts to promote the trip, the S c iΊ oo l has received assistance from the Greek National Tourist Oι-ganizati on as part of its efforts to encourage develop­ ment of specialized travel to Greece.

Tlιe Newsletter is for you, and aboιιt you! School alumni are among the most active and prolific scholars in the study of ancient Greece, and the ASCSA is proud of its accomplishments in training ne\v generations of scholars or fa­ cilitating established scholars in tl1eir work. Help The Newsletter make these accomplishments bet­ ter known by keeping the Editor informed of your new research, ex­ cavations, or publications . Send material to The Editor, ASCSA Ne\νs l etter , 41 East 72nd Street, New York , Ν . Υ . 10021.

14------All Hands on Deck!

It was standing room only as Paul Lipke described the pleasures and the perils of rowing a trireme through the Saronic Gulf in a lecture he presented at Mayer House on March 24. Built, launched and operated by the British Trireme Trust and the Hellenic Navy, the Olympias is a reconstruction of a 170-oared ramming warship of the type used by the Athenian navy in the fifth century BC. The launch and first sea trials took place in the protected wa­ ters off Poros in August 1987, assisted by 180 volunteer oarsmen and women, most Scale drawiη.g of 0\ympias, s howiη.g profile αη.d top view, reproduced from of whom came to the project with racing Archaeology Magazine, March / Aprill988. shell and scull experience. These modern day thranites, thalamians and zygians, reme questions, from the vessel's appear­ Trireme: Hig\1 Tech Engineering and packed into the light wooden hull of the ance, to its speed, construction and oper­ Athletics in Ancient Greece," was co­ Olympias, managed to achieve a top ation. After some modifications sug­ sponsored by the ASCSA and Archaeolo­ speed of seven knots (more than eight gested by the sea trials of 1987, the gy Magazine, which featured an article mph) for a s\1ort burst. Olympias will undergo a second set of by Lipke on the Trireme project in its The British Trireme Trust was trials in July-August 1988, which may March-April issue. Guests at the lecture founded in 1981 by Professor John S. include a 235 kilometer row from Poros were hosted at a reception afterwards Morrison of Cambridge University and to Nafplion. sponsored by Carillon Importers Ltd. colleagues equally fascinated by the tri- The lecture, entitled ' 'τhe Athenian

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Professor Speros Vryonis, ASCSA 1950- Beginning in Spring 1988, the ASCSA Professor Mabel Lang, Chairman of the 51 and member of the Managing Com­ turned its attention to tiny scholars as ASCSA Managing Committee 1975- mittee, has been named Director of the well. As part of its cultural outreach pro­ 1980, will present a course at Bryn Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at gram, the School is providing archaeol­ Mawr's Alumnae College May 22-27, New York University. Established by a ogy 'workshops' to elementary school 1988, coordinating lecturers in ancient $15 million gift from the Alexander S. children in the New York area. In April, Greek, literature and archaeology. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the third-graders at St. Bernard's School in Center will promote scholarship reaching Manhattan, excavating in a cardboard across the span of Greek history, from box with a stratified assortment of finds, antiquity through Byzantium to the received an introduction to methods and Trustee Marianne MacDonald once modern era. Α portion of the Founda­ terminology. again hosted Dr. George Huxley, Direc­ tion's gift will support the creation of six tor of the Gennadius Library, when he faculty appointments in Hellenic Studies, spoke at the University of California at scholarships and fellowships to prepare San Diego in April. Amid her many the next generation of specialists in Gifts to the School are not always in cash. other activities are lectures on ancient Hellenic Studies, a cultural outreach Α most welcome donation came recently Greek tragedy here and ίη Europe, and program, and the establishment of a from Professor Linda Collins Reilly of the on-going work in conjunction with library. the College of William and Mary the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), (ASCSA 1966-67), who contributed a the largest computerized data bank of large number of fin e linens and em­ ancient Greek text. broideries, a definite asset in enhancing In honor of the annual joint meetings of the School's ambiance and surroundings. the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Associa­ The American Committee for Tyre tion which took place this year in New sponsored a symposium entitled "The York , the ASCSA decided to throw a Professor Brunilde Ridgway, of the De­ Heritage of Tyre" in Washington last Christmas Party at Mayer House on De­ partment of Near Eastern and Classical January. Organized by ASCSA Trustee cember 28 for Friends and alumni. Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, has Arthur Α. Houghton 111 in cooperation Held in the parlor, which has been been appointed Whitehead Professor at with the Smithsonian Institution, the recently restored to its nineteenth cen­ the ASCSA for Fal\1988. Also appointed symposium brought together scholars tury glory, the party drew some 150 as Whitehead Professors are Professor and old Tyre hands from a variety of dis­ alumni and Friends. Highlight of the Diskin Clay, of the Department of Clas­ ciplines as well as government represen­ evening was an im prom ptu concert by sics at The John Hopkins University, for tatives. With the exception of two per­ New York staff members, who per­ Faii-Spring 1988-89, and Professor Jen­ sons, the entire American membership formed on the 1912 Steinway-Hamburg ifer Neals, Chair of the Department of of Professor James Pritchard's Sarepta baby grand piano, part of Mayer House's Art at Case Western Reserve University (Sa raphand), Lebanon, excavations was original furnishings. for Spring 1989. present.

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