American School of Classical Newsletter Studies

at Athens Fall 1994 Νο. 34

Rare Book School Broadens Library Connections

Dαvid Jordαn , Gennadius Librαry Direc­ tor, shares here the benefits of α month spent αt the Rαre Book School at the Unίversίty of Virgίnίa. In the summer of 1993 , two librarians from a distinguished institution in New Υ ork dropped in at my office in the Gen­ nadeion. We talked for some hours, dur­ ing which Ι confessed that Ι felt - as Ι am sure my predecessors must have done - that none of us has been the "competent and specially trained bibliognost" that Joannes Gennadius required in his formal Deed of Gift to the American School in 1922 . "Do what we did," one of the 7he harbor of Mochlos, ίn East Crete. visitors urged: ' Άttend the Rare Book School at the University ofVirginia." 'Γhis Construction Slated for East Crete past summer, thanks to the enlightenment Research Center conιinu ed on page 4

The signing of α contrαct on July 27, 1994, for the purchase of four stremmata of land on the Gulf of Mίrαbello ίn Eαst Crete, paved the wαy for the constructίon of α permanent storαge and study fαcίlίty for American and joίnt Greek αnd Amerίcαn projects. Present αt the sίgnίng were Costis Dαvarαs , the Ephor of Eαst Crete; Williαm D.E. Coulson, ASCSA Dίrector; αnd Phίlίp Ρ . Betαncourt , Laurα Η. Cαrnell Professor of Art Hίstory αnd Archαeology αt Temple Universίty αnd Executίve Dίrector of the lnstίtute for Aegeαn Prehistory (INSTAP) . ln the followίng, Director Betαncourt r' revίews the Amerίcan presence ίn Crete αnd forecasts the ίmpαct of the new center on the future.

Carrying on a tradition that began in excavations in the prehistoήc Greek world. 1900 when Harriet Boyd began excava­ It will operate as an independent facility tions in this region, seven separate projects under the guidance of its own Managing have worked in the area of the Gulf of Comrnittee and Board of Directors. Mirabello in recent years. With the pur­ The center has two purposes. In com­ chase of land in the village of Pacheia Am­ pliance with Greek law , it will provide a mos , a major step has been taken to fulfill storage facility for the many objects found a long-felt need for a study and storage by American excavations and surveys in center, a modem facility to support the on­ eastern Crete. The second purpose is to going American projects. house support services for the American The center is being built by the Institute teams: space for strewing and studying Among the rare books ίn the Gennadeίon for Aegean Prehistory, which is based in pottery and other finds , computer facilities, collectίon, α first edί tίon of Homer, prίnted New York and which has been active in a conservation room, and dark room and

ίn Florence, 1488. recent years supporting a lecture seήes and continued on page 1 Ο

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Α Fond Farewell On a green hillside in the peaceful tree­ she would have the memorial service in the clad cemetery of Cold Spring Harbor, New School garden in June. The occasion was York, Virginia Randolph Grace, known brimrning over with respect and love, pride also to some as Aunt Martha or simply in her achievements, appreciation of having " Mart," lies next to the tombstone of known her, the prornise of continuing inte­ Frederick Schaefer, whom she would have grity, comrnitment, intelligence, civility married had he not died in 1936. Friends, and humor, characteristics endernic to her colleagues, nieces, nephews and cousins, family ; the prornise also that her life's work under the tent as a gentle rain was falling, will be carried on in the hands of able and spoke eloquently of Virginia Grace ... the dedicated successors. rigorous pioneering scholar, renowned in The sun was shining as the service drew the archaeological world for her work on to a close, with lines from Ihe Chambered the stamped amphora handles ... the astrin- Nautilus, a favorite poem of Virginia's gent critically caring friend .. . her richly ending furnished stimulating rnind ... her challeng­ "till thou at length art free, ing wit ... her thoughtful kindnesses .. .the leaving thine outgrown shell by life's warm generous hospitality in her apartment unresting sea. " at 33 Plutarchou and her ''amphora shop'' Doreen C. Spitzer in the Stoa of Attalos. (See obituary on page Π.) As Homer Thompson said, Virginia her­ self would have enjoyed this gathering, as Virgίnίa R. Grace. Photo: Ε . Vanderpool, Jr.

Russian Academy of Sciences Opens Doors for ASCSA

At the invitatίon of the Instίtute of American scholars and to offer research Moscow as part of the program. The pur­ Unίversal Hίstory ofthe Russίan Academy opportunities to Russian scholars of anti­ pose of my trip was to establish contacts of Scίences, Willίam D. Ε. Coulson vίsίted quity. Some ofthe most interesting and vir­ with Russian and Ukrainian archaeologists, Russίa and the Ukraίne for two weeks bet­ tually unknown work (at least to western and to investigate opportunities for work ween August 25 and September 9, 1994, scholars) is being carried out at ancient in the Black Sea region for members of the as he reports here. Greek cities in Russia and the Ukraine. American School. Α number of Russian scholars have The trip concentrated on sites along the The invitation to visit Russia and the already spent time at the School: the Direc­ eastern Black Sea and southern Crimea. Ukraine came as part of aπ on-going ex­ tor of the Institute, Grigory Bongard­ Tanais, currently being excavated by Ta­ change between the Academy of Sciences Levin, and his colleagues Sergei Karpyuk, tiana Michaelovna Arseneeva of the In­ in Moscow and the American School. Our Lilia Bayum, Vera Golovina, Dimitri stitute of Archaeology at the Russian goal is to make the Russian excavations on Afinogenov, and Sergei Saprikin. Mellon Academy of Sciences, boasts a residential the Black Sea coast better-known to Professor John Camp has also visited continued on page 1 Ο

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NEWSLEττER Fa\1 , 1994 Νο . 34 Edίtίng and Design: Nancy Μ. Wolfe, EnandEm Graphics, Inc. The Newsletter is published semi-an­ nual1y by the ASCSA under the direction of Doreen C. Spitzer, Vice-President, Board of Trustees, and Catherine Vanderpool, U.S. Director ofthe ASCSA. Please address a\1 inquiries to the Newsletter Editor, ASCSA Centra1 Office, 993 Lenox Drive, Suίte 101 , Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 . Tel. (609) 844-7577; Fax (609) 844-7524. Early Christίan Basίlίca at Chersonnesos.

2 Wiener Lab Convokes Summer Workshop

With the aim of promotiπg a co πtiπuiπg types of materials aπd fiπd s . Maπy practi­ dialogue bet weeπ scholars iπ the fi elds of cal s ugge s tioπ s were offered by the archaeology aπd the πatural scieπce s, the speakers for the meaπ s to overcome prob­ Wieπer Laboratory offered a oπe-day lems iπ field coπditioπs , iπc1udiπg workshop eπtitled ''The Practical Impact methodologica\ policies which help to of Scieπce οπ Field Archaeology: Maiπ­ elimiπate uπwaπted bias iπ assemblages. taiπiπg Loπg-term Aπalytical Optioπs, " Α commoπ theme of the preseπtatioπs with support from the Samuel Η. Kress was the complemeπtary πature of maπy Fouπdatioπ. scieπtific techniques of aπalysis, aπd the The iπformal meetiπg , held at the πeed to adopt iπterdiscipliπary approaches Vickelaia Library iπ Iraklioπ , Crete οπ to the study of recoνered material. For ex­ July 30, 1994, covered the maπy practical ample, studies of palaeodiet from humaπ coπcems associated with the applicatioπ of skeletal material iπvolve aπ awareπess of scieπtific techπiques to the study of ar­ soil chemistry, physicochemical, rnicro­ chaeological materials. Eight seπior bio1ogical and fuπgal alteratioπs to archae­ scho\ars were iπvited to speak οπ their ological boπe, aπd the behavior of certaiπ fields of expertise and to coordinate discus­ isotopes iπ differeπt burial coπditioπs, as sioπ; Della Cook, Uπiversity of Iπdiaπa, well as a know1edge of palaeopathological William Α . Slaughter οπ humaπ skeletal remaiπs; Richard Ever­ coπdi t ioπs reflectiπg dietary deficieπcies. shed, Bristol University, οπ archaeological Ιπ additioπ, the importaπce of coπsideriπg chernistry; Julie Haπseπ , Bostoπ Uπiver­ archaeological data withiπ multidimeπ­ New Trustee for sity, οπ palaeobotaπy; Liπa Kassiaπidou , sioπal coπtexts was uπder1iπed, to eπsure ASCSA Uπiversity of Cyprus, οπ metallurgy; the iπtegratioπ of aπalytica1 , cu1tural, Walter Κlippel, Uπiversity of Teππessee, socio-ecoπornic aπd palaeoeπvironmeπtal At its meeting in November 1993, the Kπoxville, οπ zooarchaeology; Alice iπformatioπ for purposes of interpretatioπ. ASCSA's Board ofTrustees welcomed to Paterakis, Atheπiaπ Agora Coπservator, Α small handbook of field protocols was its ranks William Α. S1aughter. In joiniπg οπ coπservatioπ; George Rapp, J r. *, proposed, aπd will be drafted by the the Board, he returned to his uπder­ Uπiversity of Miππesota, Du1uth, οπ speakers for distributioπ iπ the future. The graduate interests. After receiviπg his Β.Α. geoarchaeology; Sarah Vaughaπ, Wieπer success of the Iraklioπ workshop has cum laude from Ya1e University in art Laboratory, οπ ceramics aπd buildiπg prompted aπ iπvitatioπ to preseπt a sirnilar history in 1975, he returπed to Yale's Law materials. eveπt πext year ίπ Cyprus. School, completiπg his J.D. in 1979. Α The audieπce of approximate1y 150 stu­ 1itigation partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews deπt aπd seπior excavators, aπalysts , aπd ~-- & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Mr. Slaughter coπservators focused οπ a πumber of *Professor Rapp had to returπ to the U.S. serves on the boards of the Academy of issues, from recovery strategies, field uπexpectedly ίπ July, aπd Scott Pike, Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the equipmeπt aπd excavatioπ protocols, to Fu1bright Scholar and Research Associate Chestnut Hill Hospita1 HealthCare, coπsideratioπs of haπdliπg, cleaniπg , coπ­ ίπ the Wiener Lab, presented the section on Woodrow Wilson Council, and the Horace serving and methods of storage for specific geoarchaeo1ogy . W. Go\dsmith Fouπdatioπ .

Archivist Returns to Work ο η Lerna

Ι η J uly, Carol Zerner, whose preseπce Mrs. Zerner became full-time Archivist returniπg to her οwπ scholarly work which in the School Archives spanned nearly a for a five-year period from 1989 to 1994, began with her doctoral dissertatioπ , "The decade, resigπed in order to devote herself thanks to a grant from the Melloπ Fouπda­ Begiππiπg of the Middle Bronze Age at to her scho1arly work. She joined the tioπ. Duriπg that time, the School built aπ Lerπa" (Uπiversity of Ciπciπnati , 1978) . ASCSA staff ίπ 1982 as Administrative exteπsioπ οπtο the Blegeπ Library which She ποw turπs her attentioπ full-time to Assistaπt at Mayer House in New York, iπcluded a1most an eπtire floor devoted to Lema V: The Middle Bronze Age, for then went to Atheπs, where she served a the Archives. With the he1p of s tu deπt which she did field work as Jacob Hirsch term as Actiπg B legeπ Librariaπ in 1984. vo1 u πteers, she moved the scattered and Fellow '78-'79, aπd Lema V/: The Shaft Ι π 1985, workiπg as a part-time staff disparate Schoo\ Archives ίπtο the πew Graves. member, she initiated the archival program space. Haviπg \aid the foundatioπ for the ίπ the Blegen Library , begiπ n iπg the Carol Zerπer's scholarly associatioπ School's Archives program, Carol Zerner mo πu meπtal task of sorting and classifyiπg with the School precedes her years as a has passed the batoπ to Natalia Vogeikoff, its e π ormous collectioπ of photographs, staff member, first as the John Williams Actiπg Archivist for 1994-95. The Schoo1 papers, documeπts and archaeo1ogical arti­ White Fellow ίπ 1975, aπd theπ as aπ is enormous1y grateful to Carol Zemer ποt facts. Her work with the artifacts was com­ Hoπorary School Fellow aπd Louise Taft οπ1y for the order she brought to chaos p1eted this past year, with the registration Semp1e Fellow ίπ 1976. Although she over the years, but also for the warmth and of some 4,000 pieces with the Greek 1eaves the Archives, she remaiπs at the kiπdness she bestowed οπ her co-workers goverπmeπt. Schoo1 as a Seπior Associate Member, aπd studeπts a\ike.

3 Rare Library News continued from page 1 and generosity of an anonymous donor, Ι Argos Project Receives Mavrikiou brings efficient organizational was able to do just that. skills and archival dedication to her task, The RBS began in the summer of 1983 Ε. U. Approval welcorning occasional help from other under the SP.Onsorship of the School of Library Service of Columbia University The European Union, through its members of the Philoi. Furnishing her own and moved in 1992 to Charlottesville. Science and Technology program, has ap­ equipment and supplies, as well as recent Every summer it offers a variety of fi ve­ proved funding fo r the ARGOS (Archae­ reference books, she is continually refin­ day courses on bibliographical subjects, ological Greek On-Line System) Project, ing her system as new categoήe s of objects each taught by highly qualified specialists. to computerize 15 archaeologicallibraries come to light in the col\ections. Daily she Ι wrote to Terry Belanger, the director of in Athens including both the Blegen and descends the narrow steep stairs from her the RBS , describing our collections and Gennadius Libraries. The Greek National "attic" above the mezzanine floor , to needs, and was placed in four weeks of Research Foundation, under the auspices search the contents of the library for courses. of the Center for Greek and Roman Anti­ sources and comparanda relating to each The first, '' Managing the Past, '' was aπ quities and the Documentation Center, is ''scrap. ' ' introduction offered by Nicholas Barker, to administer the project. The Documen­ Out of this never dull rniscellany of rare long one of our own advisers, who in fact tation Center will house a central database maps, interspersed with theater programs, gave the Francis Walton Lecture of two of all of the libraries' holdings, and in­ stamps, costumes, newspaper clippings, years ago. Next came an intensive week dividual libraries wili be connected by postcards, original drawings, posters, of " Book Illustration to the Year 1880," modem or dedicated lines. The database watercolors, and reproductions, plus the taught by Director Belanger, in which we will eventually be made available multitudinous sheaves of personal cor­ learned to distinguish wood cuts, wood worldwide through Internet. The level of respondence amassed by Mr. Gennadius, engravings, etchings, and so on; funding will be announced shortly. come fascinating insights into his active political, cultural, historical and social knowledge which will be particularly ~ world and the personalities of his time. The useful for cataloguing the old maps and other illustrations in Gennadius' scrap­ 'Όwl in the Attic" diligence of one devoted volunteer is ad­ ding yet another dimension to the impor­ books. There followed five extremely full Catalogues Scrapbooks tance of the Gennadeion as a research days, with over a thousand slides, of \ec­ library. tures on ''European Bookbinding, Proving that the Philoi are truly friends 1500-1800," given by Nicholas Pickwoad, in deed and word, Fotine Mavrikiou has Chief Conservator at the Harvard Univer­ been working for the last two years in the Blegen Librarian to Visit sity Library. As a grand finale , the Direc­ little known and seldom visited " attic" tor and David Ferris, Curator of Rare rooms of the Gennadius Library. She is U.S. Libraries Books at the Harvard Law Library, gave sorting, cleaning, photographing, inven­ their famous ''Introduction to Descriptive torying, and cataloguing her way through Nancy Winter, Blegen Librarian, will Bibliography. '' the nearly 250 " scrapbooks," as Joannes visit ten American libraries during It was all hard work, but exhilarating, Gennadius called the assortment of December and January to leam more about and my excited account convinced Sophie memorabilia which he collected in addition current library practices in the areas of Papageorgiou, our own Librarian, that we to his books. 'Έxtraordinarily interesting computerization, conservation, and must try to find funding for her to attend material here," she says, " that could be physical plant requirements. In particular, next year. made into anything from a novel to a she hopes to farniliarize herself with a wide Among the students and teachers were dissertation." range of databases , both on-line and on not only librarians, but collectors, Α bom researcher with the zeal , cuήosi­ CD-ROM, and to make these available to booksellers, printers, and bookbinders. ty and enthusiasm of a scholar, Mrs. readers within the library. One of the best features of the RBS was • ' meeting these people outside the classroom and learning how willing they are to share DOE Funds Archives Project information. They now know more about the Gennadius Library, and Ι now know The ASCSA has received a grant of Getty Center for the History of Art and the many experts to whom we can turn for $37 ,000 from the U.S. Department of Humanities, travelled to Greece in October friendly counsel. Education (DOE) to fund the first year, to meet with Project Directors David Jor­ starting October 1, 1994, of a three-year dan, Director of the Gennadius Library, project to continue the process of profes­ and Nancy Winter, Blegen Librarian. In sionalizing the Gennadeion and Blegen Ar­ the course of her one-week stay, she carήed Survey Work chives under the direction of a new Ar­ out a general assessment of the Archives, Α chivist. The goal is to assess the collec­ with particuiar attention to the questions Permits vailable tions, and then plan and implement a long­ of conservation and preservation. In the se­ For 1996, permits are available for term program of preservation, processing cond phase, Ms. Doo1ey will assist in the survey work in Greece. People who and cataloguing in order to assure the sur­ hiring process, drafting a job description are interested should contact the vival of these precious documents. and helping to assess applications for the Director of the ASCSA , W.D.E. In the first phase, Jackie Μ. Dooley, position . The ASCSA hopes to have the Coulson, to discuss their plans. Head of Collections Cataloguing at the Archivist in place by July 1, 1995 .

4 School Reports

Recent Rediscoverίes in Ancίent Lebadeίa

Ιπ the spriπg of 1436, Cyriacus of Απ­ cοπa visited the towπ of Lebadeia, moderπ Livadia, in πorthwestem Boeoria. There he sketched some ancieπt blocks and recorded several inscriptioπs . Amoπg the latter was aπ early Romaπ (betweeπ 172 and First Ceπtury B.C.) dedicatioπ to Hera Basilis aπd the city of Lebadeia made by οπe Meπaπdros, who had beeπ a priest for four years aπd whose wife was a priestess (/G VΠ.3097) . The fiπdspot of this inscriprion, as wel\ as the locatioπ ofthe illustrated an­ tiquities, was reported to be amoπg the ruiπs of a temple. After Cyriacus' day, ear­ ly travellers reported seeiπg the dedicatioπ built iπto the minaret of a mosque, and \ater, built iπto the doorway of a farm in the area of the town called Zagara, πear the church of Aghios Nikolaos . Siπce the Pleased wίth the redίscovered Hera dedίcatίon , (left to rίght) Lee Ann Turner, Nίkolaos 1892 publicatioπ of /G VII, however, πο Rebapίs , and property owner, Antonίs Ballίos . οπe has meπtioπed seeiπg the dedicatioπ ποr is it registered iπ any knowπ epigraphic Basileus (/G VII.3096). The eastern eπd curreπtly undergoiπg renovations. Perhaps collectioπ. of the temple was cleared by the Greek Ar­ as the layers of plaster and paint are Ιπ the spring of 1994, Sharoπ Gerstel chaeological Service (ΑΑΑ,1969 , pp. 230- removed, more spolia from the He\lenistic (Gennadeioπ Fellow '89-'90) aπd Ι visited 231) aπd the fouπdarions caπ still be seeπ Temple of Zeus Basileus at Lebadeia will Livadia aπd were takeπ to a property today. The superstructure of the temple, come to light. where a "beautiful" inscriptioπ had beeπ however, is completely goπe. It is usually Lee Ann Tumer used as a door jamb. With the property suggested that the ancieπt blocks were used Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow '91- '92 owπer' s perrnissioπ , aπd assistaπce , we to build the πearby church of Prophetis ~ removed the plaster and paiπt from this iπ­ Elias (Frazer, νο\ . V, p. 199). scriptioπ aπd discovered, or rediscovered, This spriπg , however, the priest of Angel Fellows Actίve the Hera dedication. The property is, iπ­ Aghios Nikolaos in Zagara, Dimitris deed, aπ old house πear the church of Mangeras, informed us that the remains of Lisa Μ. Little, J. Lawreπce Angel Fellow Aghios Nikolaos ίπ Zagara, aπd is situated the Temple of Zeus had beeπ used to build for '93-'95, from Indiana University, began οπ the comer of Odos Amartoloπ aπd Odos the church of Aghios Nikolaos rather thaπ research for a biological distance study of Kleftoπ. The iπscriptioπ itself is ίη good that of Prophetis Elias. In particular, the Aegean Bronze Age populatioπs. The goal coπdition aπd remaiπs protected from the support for the altar table was said to be of the project is to identify the cranial and elemeπts by a porch roof. Ι would like to a column drum from the temple. We were dental genetic traits which distiπguish the thank Fanis Trikoupis, Nikolaos Rebapis, showπ the altar support and discovered that Aegean populatioπ as distinct breediπg aπd the property owπer Antonis Ballios, it was, in fact, a fluted column drum, pro­ populations, and to deterrnine the patterns for their time, eπthusiasm, aπd help ίπ bably of the local blue-gray limestoπe. and degrees of population mixture through briπgiπg this iπscription back into the Ιπ July we returned to Livadia iπ the time. This type of biological data caπ be public record. compaπy of Jim Sickinger (Vaπderpool used to address questioπs of social The temple where the Hera Basilis Fellow '90-'91, Spitzer Fel\ow '91-'92) behavior, such as patterns of matiπg ίπ an­ dedicatioπ was originally fouπd by who was able to go behind the iconostasis cient populations, and patterns of popula­ Cyriacus should most likely be equated of the church aπd measure the columπ tion movemeπts aπd their relationship to with the remaiπs of a large uπfinished tem­ drum. We are pleased to report that the movements of material culture and techno­ ple located οπ Prophetis Elias Hill, south­ drum is 0.75 meters high with aπ upper logical knowledge. Α few of the skeletal east of the modern towπ . Such a temple, circumfereπce of approximately I. 81 aπd col\ections which will be included ίπ this dedicated to Zeus Basileus, is meπtioπed a lower circumference of 1. 85 . Moreover, research are the tombs at Halasmenos, by Pausanias (IX. 39.4) aπd is the subject the flutes meet in arrises and are 20 ίπ Mochlos, and Kritsa οπ Crete, and of a series of buildiπg iπscriptioπs (see πumber . Since there are iπdicatioπs ίπ οπe Myceπaean tombs ίπ the area ofLarnia, the especially /G VII.3073:93). That Hera of the buildiπg iπscriptioπs, attributed to Atheπian Agora, and Apatheia/Galatas. Basilis or Hera Basileia is esseπtially the the series (BCH, 1940/41 , p. 37, πο. 23), In additioπ to her dissertation research, coπsort of Zeus Basileus at Lebadeia is that the Temple of Zeus was Doric, the Ms. Little was also involved ίπ the analysis clear from /G ΙΧ . \.98: 15, where the two column drum ίπ the church of Aghios of siπgle skeletoπs from various sites are πamed together, aπd from a secoπd Nikolaos could, ίπ fact, beloπg to that an­ arouπd Greece includiπg 0\ympia, the dedicatioπ by Meπaπdros , this time to Zeus cieπt structure. Notably, the church is continued 0 11 page 8

5 Trustees Visit Samothrace Following their semi-annual Board meeting in Athens on May 30, Trustees of the American School visited the Corinth excavations as guests of Charles Κ. Williams, 11 , followed by an excursion to Samothrace. James R. and Marian McCredie hosted a two-day visit to the island and his excavations. Pictured: Mr. McCredie (top left) opens the tour with an explanation of the excavation site, and William Τ. Loomis (top right) eschews the staircase in his island explorations. Enjoy­ ing a less strenuous approach are (below left to right) Alan L. Boegehold, Chair­ man of the Managing Comrnittee; Mrs. McCredie; and Elizabeth Sidamon­ Eristoff, wife of Board President Hunter Lewis. Photos: C. Vanderpool

The ASCSA's 1994-1995 Lecture Series and Philippa Matheson, University of Keeper, British Library; March 31, Open at the School in Athens opened on October Toronto, "Names on Knidian Amphora Meeting on the Work of the School in 1994 25 with Edwin Brock, Royal Ontario Stamps;" February 7, David Romano, and lecture by Susan Rotroff, Hunter Col­ Museum, Toronto, presenting "The University Museum, University of Penn­ lege, ' 'rhe Missing Κrater and the Development of Egyptian Royal Sar­ sylvania, ''rhe Planning of Roman Cor­ Hellenistic Symposium;'' April 11, Third cophagi," followed by Nanno Maήnatos , inth, 44 B.C.;" February 21, Sigrid Annual Wiener Laboratory Lecture, College Υ ear in Athens, presenting ' 'rhe Jalkotzy, University of Salzburg, and M.G.I. Baillie, Queens University, Minoan Frescoes in Egypt, Tell el-Dab'a" Phanouria Dakoronia, Ephoreia of Belfast, "Bad for Trees, Bad for Humans: on October 26. The full slate of lectures Classical Antiquities of Larnia, ''rhe Sudden Environmental Changes and Their through the winter and spring includes : Nekropolis of Elateia and the Transition Implications for Our Understanding ofthe January 17, Lecture in Memory of from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age ;" Past;" May 9, Emmanuel Microyan­ Virginia Grace, Carolyn Koehler, March 7, 14th Annual Walton Lecture, nakis, University of Athens, ' Ήistory and University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Dennis Ε. Rhodes, Former Deputy Plato's Politeia. "

6 ------yι yιψι),, και yιyουοτα ι>ι·ιψ\ι· <.ιιιιl ι)Ι<ιιτs yc:yoυos- και yεyοvύτα

At the party on May 9 ce lebratίng publίcatίon ofThe Archaeology of Atheπs and Attica under Thebes excavator, Vasίlίs Aravantίnos , ίnspects newly found Lίnear Β tablet as ' Όn-Sίte " the Democracy, proceedίngs of the December members look on,· (jrom left) Barbara James, Doreen Spίtzer, Dalton Deg ίtz, leader Cynthίa '92 conference, cont rίbut ors (above) /smene Shelm e rdίne , Clara Rankίn, Madelene Grίffin , and Percy Jones, Photo: Ε. Godwίn Trίantί , and (below) John ΜcΚ. Camρ 11.

Tweπty "adjuπct members of the faculty At the May 14 Managing Committee meet­ of the Uπiversity of Texas," thus ap­ iπg New York, John Fischer (Wabash pointed temporarily for coπveπieπce by College), Chair, Committee οπ Commit­ trip Jeader Cynthia Shelmerdine, of the tees, annouπced the followiπg electioπ Uπiversity of Texas, travel\ed through the results: to the Executive Committee, Ken­ Broπze Age from Juπe 4 to 21 for ' Όπ­ neth Sams (University ofNorth Caroliπa) Site '94." The route led from Atheπs dowπ aπd Kathleen Slane (Uπiversity of to Nestor's Palace at Pylos, theπ πorthward Missouri); to the Committee οπ Commit­ to visit the well-knowπ, aπd maπy of the tees , Carla Antonaccio (W esleyaπ less well-knowπ , Myceπaeπ sites aπd Uπiversity), Elizabeth Fisher (Randolph­ museums, eveπtually travelliπg clear to Macoπ College), aπd Daniel Pullen wiπdy Troy. (Florida State Uπiversity); to the Commit­ Απ eπthusiastic group, ha\f were tee οπ Admissioπs and Fellowships, Jef­ veterans of earlier 'Όn-Site'' tήps and half frey Hurwit (University of Oregoπ) ; to the were πew to the game. All participaπts are Committee οπ Persoππel , John Η. Kroll Betweeπ September 14 aπd 18 , Director grateful to Panayiotis Petropoulos, theπ (Uπiversity of Texas at Austiπ) ; to the W.D.E. Coulson led a trip to Crete for Demarchos of Chora iπ Messeπia aπd a Committee οπ Publicatioπs, Guy some tweπty-four Philoi of the Gen­ loπg-time frieπd of the School 's ar­ Hedreen; to the Committee οπ the Geπ­ nadius Library. Sites visited iπcluded chaeologists; aπd to John Fischer ίπ πadius Library, Timothy Gregory (Ohio Κnossos , Mallia, Lato, Gournia, Vasiliki, Nauplia, both of whom gave receptioπs for State University) ; to the Committee οπ the Mochlos, Petras, Kavousi, Phaistos, Ayia ' Όπ-Site" members; to Κίm Shelton, Summer Sessioπ, Jenifer Neils (Case Triada, aπd Gortyπ . Guest speakers were ASCSA '90-'91 , at Myceπae , Charles Κ. Westerπ Reserve Uπiversity) ; aπd to the Colin McDonald at Kπo ssos, Jan Williams, Π at Coriπth, Vasilis Aravan­ Excavatioπ and Survey Committee, Susan Driessen at Mal\ia, aπd Metaxia tinos, excavator at Thebes, aπd most Rotroff (Huπter Col}ege) . Tsipopoulou at Petras. particu\arly to Cyπthia Shelmerdiπe, ver­ satile architect of the trip aπd a superb iπ­ terpreter of Broπze Age civilizatioπ aJl Garden Update aloπg the way. Receπt visitors to the School πο doubt the other side by an exedra , together form­ ~ will have observed aπd woπdered about iπg a small amphitheater-Iike eπclosure This fall the Maπagiπg Committee wel­ the topographica\ chaπges occuriπg iπ the with woπderful acoustics, providing per­ comed the followiπg πew represeπtatives : lower garden. Through the generosity of an maπeπt secluded seatiπg for about thirty Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University), aπoπymous doπor, fuπds have beeπ re­ withiπ the gardeπ . Το the πorth , the walk­ Jenifer Neils (Case Westerπ Reserve ceived for the iπstallation of a fouπtaiπ way πext to the library buildiπg will be Uπiversity), David Grose (Uπiversity of (recycling) iπ the circular flower bed. This enhanced as a maiπ eπtrance to the gardeπ Massachusetts), Albert Anunerman (Col­ fouπtaiπ will become a major foca\ poiπt from Geππadeioπ Street, aπd flower/seed gate University), Roger Bagnall (Colum­ iπ the relaπd scapiπg πecessitated by the beds will be laid out to the south of the bia Uπiversity) , Sarah Peirce (Fordham πew library wing. Future plans include the arbor aπd exedra , thus visually aπd practi­ Uπiversity), Mark Β. Garrison (τriπity c reatioπ of aπ arbor walkway betweeπ the cally incorporating this previously igπored Uπiversity) , James Redfield (Uπiversity ceπtral fouπtaiπ area aπd the east gardeπ area iπto the overall gardeπ laπdscape. of Chicago), aπd Meredith Hoppin wal\ (curreπtly uπder co πtru ctio π) aπd οπ Μ. L. Coulson (Williams Col\ege).

7 Famίly, frίends and colleagues attended the memorίal servίce for Vίrgίnίa Grace, held ίn the School garden on June 27, 1994. Speakers Rίchard Anderson, Wίllίam D.E. Coulson, Dανίd Jordan , Susan Rotroff, Ενί Touloupa, Anne Parίente, and Carolyn Koehler remembered α dear frίend and dίstίnguίshed scholar. At the receptίon whίch followed, Prίscίlla Grace, Mίss Grace's sίste r-ίn-law, chats wίth Carolyn Κoehler (aboνe); close assocίates Μαrία Saνatίanou­ Petrapoulakou (top left) and (bottom left) Andreas Demoulίnίs.

~ Margaret-Anne Butterfield, Assistant to the U. S. Director and aπ eleven-year veteran of the ASCSA staff, moved from New York to Princeton last year to be closer to the School's new U.S. offices in Lawrenceville. Α serendipitous outcome of the move was her appointment in Septem­ ber as Director of the Vocal Program and Instructor of Voice at The Lawrenceville School . Her new position, however, does The 1994-95 welcome party for Regular and Assocίate Members was held ίn the School not prevent her from continuing four days garden on September 20. With smίles all around: (jrom left) Mίchele Mίller , Mίnna Mee­ a week with the American School. Young Lee, Lίsa Ben on, Hazzard Bagg, Beth Mclntosh , Karen Cox and J.B. Summίtt .

Angel continued from page 5 Keramikos, and the Athenian Agora. The Roman deposits of human skeletal remains on ''The Effects of Bone Polymeric Preser­ last of these will be the subject of a poster from Corinth, Argos, and Lema. The focus vative on Chemical Analysis of Human presentation at December's ΑΙΑ meeting. of her research is palaeopathological con­ Skeletal Remains." During the sumrner, Ms. Ms . Little also gave a well-received lec­ ditions associated with hemolytic anemias. Leonard participated in a Wiener Lab pilot ture, " Joining Archaeology and Bioan­ She is comparing the above samples with project on the application of DNA extrac­ thropology: The Past, Present, and deposits of similar age from Nea Paphos tion and PCR amplification techniques to Future,'' at the Australian Archaeological in Cyprus, using gross morphological samples of archaeological human bone, in Institute in Athens. observation, metrical assessments, and collaboration with John Vournakis (Dart­ * * * radiography. mouth College) and Cal Vary (Maine Sherry Fox Leonard, also an Angel In addition, Ms . Leonard presented a Medical Center Research Institute). Fellow for '93-'94, from the University of paper with Jessica S. Johnson (τexas Sarah J. Mιughan Arizona Department of Anthropology , is Memorial Museum) at the Intemational Ar­ Dίrector, Wίener Laboratory carrying out studies of Hellenistic and chaeometry Symposium in Ankara in May

8 the choruses, which seemed to be borrow­ Summer Session 11 '94 Revisited ed from Ηαίr . J. C. D. Marshall, Chaίr of the Classίcs Department and Dίrecto r of the Teachίng In the course of six weeks, we took on Fellowshίp Program at St. Paul 's School ίn Concord, New Hampshίre , chronίcles various rolls: physician, mom, dad, the trίals and trίumphs of Summer Sessίon //, wίth high praίse for sessίon leader, newscaster and entertainer, to name a few. John Η. Kroll (ASCSA '64- '66), of the Unίve rsίty of Texas. τhis extraordinary expeήence was in great measure made possible by the patience, The summer of 1994 was one of the hot­ humor, knowledge and energy of Jack test on record in Europe. Whether it was Kroll, our well-advised leader. But why one of the hottest in Greece is a point of shouldn 't Jack succeed? Odysseus had only information which the members of Sum­ one goddess to help him. Jack had three: mer Session Π preferred not to know as his wife, Sandra, and his daughters Naomi we peered from our windows in Loring and Emily. In salute to the Κroll fami ly, Hall at motionless trees, the silence punc­ the members of Summer Session Π take off tuated only by the cooing of doves and the their hats. occasional inevitable car alarm. Readers will appreciate that the Greek word for ''hot' ' has its own sense in English slang. We had many "zesty" days . Facing the challenges of a zesty day re­ CAORC Biannual quires a Homeric exercise in arming. After Meeting in Amman all, members of the School should cut a smart figure as they pass among the cafe The Director of the ASCSA, William tables in Kolonaki Square on their way to D.E. Coulson, attended the meeting of another rendezvous with antiquity . The overseas center directors sponsored by the essentials are familiar to all Summer Ses­ Council of American Overseas Research sion νeterans: sun screen, sun glasses, a Centers (CAORC) in Amman, Jordan, pouch in which money and essential papers from April 9 to April 11. Such meetings can be secured, a generous supply ofwater have been held on the average of every two and, most important, a hat. years. The last meeting was held at the

In a world in which hats matter, a leader Some Summer Sessίo n ll members take th eίr School in Athens and resulted in the deserves a leader's hat. Jack Κroll had one. hats off for α group portraίt ίn front of the publication 1he State of Archaeology: An It was an incandescent, bilious green. It il­ Lίon Gate at Mycenae. Amerίcan Perspectίve (CAORC Occa­ luminated the Corycian Cave. But Jack sional Paper no . l , Washington, D.C. needed no empty badge to declare his was fortunate indeed to have had a number 1993). The purpose of these meetings is leadership. In the face of occasional of sites presented to us by the excavation to provide a forum in which the overseas despair among his crew , Jack remained directors. We quickly recognized that the directors can discuss problems and con­ serene. style of the excavators was as dissimilar cerns of mutual interest. Consider the following scene. Construc­ as the sites themselves. At Corinth, we Α common concern for research institu­ tion has made the already narrow road were charmed by Charles Williams' use of tions in all Mediterranean countries is that from the Idean Cave even narrower. Το the first person plural with reference to in­ of cultural resource management, and this negotiate one particularly tight turn, our habitants of the ancient site. At Vronda, topic formed the first day of the meeting. driver, Dimitri, has had to put the bus in our headware was put to shame by Leslie Papers were presented by the directors of reverse. We crawl in reverse for what Day 's chapeau solaίre. At Palaikastro, we the centers in Jordan, Egypt, Israel, seems like aπ interminable period looking were startled from our postprandial Cyprus, Yemen, and India, countries for a place wide enough to allow the bus lethargy by Sandy McGillivray 's where American institutions have been to turn. Finally we stop even though the schoolmasterly tones: ' Ύοu there, who able to help in some way in the preserva­ road does not seem more than a few meters were the Minoans?" Our visit to Nemea tion of cultural property. It is anticipated wider than usual. From the back comes a with Steve Miller, however, offered the that these papers will be published in the plaintive request: ''May Ι please get off?'' quintessence of the Summer Session ex­ second of CAORC's occasional papers. Everyone quickly follows the sensible ex­ perience. On our itinerary it appeared as The second day was devoted to the topic ample of the requester. Dimitri, his eyes "Nemea (S. Miller, 11 :00), sanctuary, of grants management, and was particular­ fixed on Jack's green hat, inches the bus's lunch and pool swim. '' ly useful in providing information on the rear wheels closer and closer to the edge We sometimes found ourselves doing availability of grants from υ. s. govern­ of the cliff. Just as the small stones near improbable things. As the evening ment agencies . The third day was devoted the edge begin to dislodge, plummeting shadows lengthened and after the gates to a trip to Petra and provided further op­ hundreds of feet downward, Dimitri cuts were locked for the day , we entered the portunity for the directors to discuss their the front wheels and makes the turn. The Venetian fortress at Methoni to enjoy wine common concerns. patron divinity of bus drivers has come and sandwiches with the stealth of the In every respect it was a useful work­ through again with the help of Jack and his pirates who once frequented the area. At shop, all due to the hard work of Mary hat. Epidauros, we were treated to a perfor­ Ellen Lane, the Director of CAORC, and Although June and July in Greece is a mance of Sophocles' Antίgone-in Ruma­ to the hospitality of Pierre Bikai , the Direc­ time of heat and crowds, it is also a time nian . Familiarity with the play helped in tor of the American Center of Oriental when archaeology " happens." Our group appreciating this spectacle, except during Research, which hosted the meeting.

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Subject of ΑΙΑ photographic studio. lt will offer assistance Workshop to any Ameήcan doing research in this part of Crete, and extend this service to Nancy Moore, Editor of Monographs scholars of other nations as time and for the School's Publications Office, and facilities permit. The center will be kept Karen Vellucci , Director of Publications, open all year, allowing people to work in The University Museum, University of the winter as wel\ as in the summer. Pennsylvania, have organized a workshop American projects have made important for this year's annual meeting of the Ar­ contributions to our understanding of this chaeological Institute of America and the part of Crete in recent years. Jeffrey Soles, American Philological Association. Join­ of the University of North Carolina at ing them will be Stephen R. Stinehour, Greensboro, and Geraldine Gesel\ , of the President, The Stinehour Press, and Mat­ University of Tennessee, were the first thew Santirocco, Dean of the Col\ege of Americans to work in this part of Crete Arts and Sciences, New York University. since World War I. Mr. Soles is currently Entitled ' Ύοu Only Thίnk You're Done: uncovering the Minoan site at Mochlos Print Production from Manuscript to under a synergasίa with Costis Davaras. Bound Book,'' the workshop will take Among the many important discoveήes are listeners through the complicated steps in­ Early Minoan remains in the town of Late Minoan III C statue from Kavousi, Goddess wίth upraised hands, in the process volved in producing books in c\assics and Moch\os Island, a Late Minoan Ι industrial of restoration. archaeology, beginning with manuscript quarter on the shore opposite the island, submission and ending with printing and and a series of rich Late Minoan m tombs . on the heights ofKastro, a peak overlook­ the most common production problems. In 1978, a program of research at ing the lower settlement and cemetery. The workshop is a joint session of the ΑΙΑ Kavousi began under the direction of Kavousi's important contributions on the and ΑΡ Α and will take place W ednesday , Geraldine Gese\1 , of the University of Ten­ "Dark Age" of Greece have helped put December 28 , 9:00 a.m. - 12 :00 p.m. nessee, William D.E. Coulson, Director the period within its historica\ and ar­ of the American School, and Leslie Day, chaeological context. One highlight of the of Wabash Co\lege. The project has ex­ excavation was the discovery of a shrine cavated at the site of Kavousi as wel\ as cο ιιtίιιu ed ο ιι foll o wίιι g page

ASCSA Announces Russia Positions Α vailable cο ιιι ίιι u ed from page 2 The most interesting and extensive of the area equal to none, where some 3,000 am­ Black Sea sites, however, is Chersonnesos, The ASCSA announces openings and phoras have been found , many ofthem with currently being excavated under the direc­ terms for the following positions: stamps from Rhodes, Heraklea, and Sinope. tion of Galina Michaelovna Nikolaenko of Secretary of the School, July 1, 1996 to Some 300 kilometers to the south of Tanais the Chersonnesos Museum. In addition to June 30, 1997; Director, Malcolm Η. lies the port city of Gorgippia near modem the site itself, which ranges from the Ar­ Wiener Laboratory , July 1, 1996 to June Anapa, whose excavation is cuπently under chaic Greek to the \ate Byzantine periods, 30, 1997 (τhe incumbents are eligible to the direction of Ekaterina Michaelovna its chora , which contains several fortified re-apply); and Elizabeth Α. Whitehead Alexeeva, also of the Institute of Archae­ villages and villas, needs excavation. Visiting Professors (two positions) , ology of the Academy of Sciences. Many of Similarly, a sanctuary high in the moun­ September 15 , \996 to June 1, 1997. the ancient remains Iie under the modern tains behind the town of Yalta, currently For the positions of Schoo\ Secretary town , but a good seGtion of the residential being excavated by Natalia Novichenkova and Wiener Laboratory Director, applica­ area has been preserved for view. The near­ of the local museum, has produced an tions should consist of a cover \etter and by unexcavated site of Sernibratneye on the unusually large deposit of animal bones a currίculum vίtae . Applications for Kuban River presents an excellent oppor­ from more than a thousand years of use. visiting professors should include a cur­ tunity for the study of relations between the Russian and Ukrainian scho\ars are rίculum vίtae with a list of publications, a Greeks and neighboring tribes. hospitable and generous, and welcome statement of current and projected The Tarnan peninsula contains a number American participation. Both countries research, and an account of the frequency of large and virtually unexcavated sites, have a wealth of Greek and Roman archae­ and length of earlier visits to Greece. The such as Phanagoria and Hermanassa, as ological material, including, arnong others, application deadline is February 15, 1995. well as a fine museum in the town of the Semibratneye site, the chora of Cher­ Please address applications and requests Taman. Crossing the straits from the sonnesos, red-figured pottery, and for information to Eugene Ν. Borza, Taman peninsula to Kerch in the Ukraine zoological finds . The current political Chair, Committee on Personnel, Dept. of is an adventure in itse\f. The site of Pan­ situation is favorable to Ameήcan scholars, History, 105 Weaver Bldg. , Pennsylvania tikapaion at Kerch, whose excavations are and because of the contacts the American State University, University Park, ΡΑ being conducted by the Pushkin Museum School has made, and continues to main­ 16802 . in Moscow, has yielded a dazzling array tain, it is in a unique position to help its of Attic red-figured pottery , all of which members find research possibilities in the needs further study. Black Sea region. ------10------cο ιιιίιιιι ed jrorιι precedi ιι g page Writing about Virginia Grace when she from the end of the Bronze Age with In Memoriam received the ΛΙΑ Gold Medal (Newsletter, "snake tubes," goddesses with upraised Spring 1990), co-workers Carolyn Koehler hands, and other cult furniture. and Philippa Matheson said, ''With hind­ Α synergasίa directed by Mr. Coulson Virginia R. Grace sight, perhaps the most remarkable thing representing the American School and 1901-1994 about her achievement is not that amphora Metaxia Tsipopoulou representing the studies couldoe made to yield such impor­ Ephoreia of East Crete has begun work at Virginia Randolph Grace, a legendary tant results, but that there is such a con­ Halasmenos. The Late Minoan illC site is member of the American School and the trast between the meagerness of the finan­ remarkable for its excellent preservation. recipient of the Gold Medal of the Archae­ cial resources available and the richness of Many ofthe floors are well preserved, with ological Institute of America in 1989, died the human resources which Miss Grace pottery and other objects ίn sίtu. at her home in Athens on May 22 , 1994 . was able to press into amphora service. '' The writer's synergasίa with Costis Bom in New York City , she attended the Davaras at Pseira has excavated a Minoan Brearley School, then Bryn Mawr College, town and cemetery as well as a small where she earned her doctorate in classical Byzantine monastery . Among the archaeology in 1934. After graduation, Elizabeth G. Caskey discoveries are two stone dams from Late Miss Grace worked briefly at The Metro­ 1910-1994 Minoan Ι, important because they fιll a gap politan Museum of Art, taught high school in our knowledge of dams in Egypt and English in New York and mathematics at Elizabeth G. Caskey, professor of classics, W estern Asia and later examples known Brearly. emerίtus, at Randolph-Macon Woman's from Mycenaean Greece. She first travelled to Greece in 1927 as College, died in Lynchburg, Virginia in Α rescue excavation at Kalo Horio, a Regular Member of the School, begin­ January 1994. As Librarian of the directed by Donald Haggis of the Univer­ ning an association that would continue American School at Athens from 1948 to sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has throughout her life. In 1931-32 she ex­ 1958, she worked with her husband, John uncovered a house dating to the Early cavated at Halai and started her work on L. Caskey, in excavations at Ayia Irini , Bronze Age. stamped transport amphoras at the Athe­ Lerna and Eutresis (Hesperia 29, 1960: Four surveys have been made by nian Agora. As a Fellow of the Athenian 126-127), and for eleven years during his American teams in the region. The Agora Excavations from 1932 through directorship, as first lady of the School. Kavousi and Pseira projects conducted 1939, she began the stream of amphora In 1967 she joined the faculty at Ran­ regional surveys as part of their larger publications which eventually led to the dolph-Macon where she made a new life research plans. Barbara Hayden, of the revision of Hellenistic chronology, based for herself, returning to her early acadernic University Museum of Archaeology and largely on her meticulous lists of Jove, Plato, for research and publication. Anthropology, University of Pennsyl­ magistrates named on amphora stamps. At Randolph-Macon, and for several years vania, and Jennifer Moody, of Baylor In the final days before Greece entered after her retirement in 1979, she taught University, are now studying the finds World War Π , Miss Grace decided not to Greek, Ancient History, Classical Art and from their survey of the Vrokastro area. return to the United States, going instead Archaeology, to devoted students in whom This area includes sites from the Neolithic to Cyprus where she he1ped store excava­ she took a great personal and professional to modem tirnes, with especially irnportant tion records against possible invasion. interest. Iron Age and Geometric period remains. During the war years that followed, she Elizabeth Caskey represented Randolph­ The most recent American survey pro­ served with the State Department and in Macon on the Managing Comrnittee of the ject in the Gulf of Mirabello region is the the OSS in Cairo, Eritrea, Arιkara, Istan­ ASCSA and at the University Center in Gournia survey by L. Vance Watrous, of bul and Smyrna. Virginia. An active member of the the State University of New York at Buf­ After the war, she returned to her work American Association of University falo. Gournia, first excavated by Harriet on Greek amphoras, first at the Institute Women, the League of Women Voters and Boyd in 1901 , was surely the chief city of for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 1949 the First Unitarian Church, she was also the region during the Minoan period. An she returned to Athens and the Agora ex­ an avid conservationist, an experienced understanding of its history is crucial to cavations, where she remained until her bird-watcher, an inveterate concert-goer, any interpretation of the region as a whole. death this year. ι and a most cherished friend. The many American projects have col­ Jected tens of thousands of artifacts and other finds. Pottery, stone tools, bronzes, ASCSA Admissions Deadlines animal bones, marine shells, soil samples, and finds in many other categories will re­ Jan. 5, 1995 Applications for Regular Memberships and First Year Fellowships quire years of study. In addition to the Jan. 31, 1995 Student Associate Membership; The Jacob Hirsch Fellowship; publications resulting from the inωaJ pro­ Gennadeion Fe\lowship jects, the fmds represent a ήch store of data Feb . 1, 1995 Anna C. & 0\iver C. Colburn Fellowship for future generations. Perhaps the most Feb. 15, 1995 Summer Sessions important aspect of the INSTAP Research Mar. I, 1995 The Oscar Broneer Fellowship Center will be its lasting contribution to Mar. 5, 1995 Wiener Laboratory Larry Angel Fellowship, Geoarchaeology future students and scholars. By providing Fellowship, and Faunal Studies Fellowship a repository for the storage of carefuL!y ex­ Mar. 15 , 1995 Mellon Research Fellowships for Central/East European Scholars cavated and meticulously documented finds Please contact the ASCSA U.S . office for full application details: Tel. (609) 844- from America projects, it will make them 7577; 993 Lenox Drive, Suite 101, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 available to the future. ------11------. και τα λοιπαI ... ΙΗ'\\ s ~ιιΗ Ι ιωtι's ... και τα λοιπαI ... ΙΗ'\\ s ίΗΗ Ι 11otι·s .. και τα λοιτιαI .

The Art Museum at Princeton University has published a catalogue of its Greek Preparation of Disks for Publication sculpture, ttnder the supervision of The Publications Office requests that all authors contact the office before sub­ Brunilde Ridgway, ASCSA '55-'56, of mitting disks (in DOS or Macintosh format) with their manuscripts. The office has Bryn Mawr College. The Greek originals, developed a written set of guidelines to be followed when preparing disks for transfer Roman copies and variants are described to the system used by them. by ten past and present students from Mrs. Ridgway's graduate serninar. Four of the ten author/scholars are alumnae/i of recent ASCSA Summer Sessions: Thomas Machteld Mellink, Professor Emerίtus of Α Greek Countrysίde , The Southern Brogan, '86 ; Susan Jones, '91 ; Ann­ Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, and Argolίd from Prehίstory to the Present Marie Κnoblauch, '92; and Thomas a distinguished and longtime friend of the Day, by Michael Η. Jameson, Professor Milbank, '89. School, was presented with the Lucy Emerίtus Stanford University, ASCSA Wharton Drexel Medal at the University '49-'50, '77-'78 and '79-'80, Curtis Ν. of Pennsy lvania on April 13 , 1994, the Runnels, Boston University, ASCSA On May 27, Thomas G. Palaima, first woman to be so honored. Awarded '77-'78, and Tjeerd Η. Van Andel, Pro­ ASCSA '76-'77 and '79-'80, Raymond periodically by The University Museum , fessor Eme rίtus Stanford University, was Dickson Centennial Professor of Classics the University of Pennsylvania, for published in October by the Stanford and Director of the Program in Aegean distinguished achievement in excavation University Press. The 880 page volume Scripts and Prehistory ( Ρ ASP) at the and publication in archaeology, the first presents the rich findings of the Argolid University ofTexas at Austin, was award­ recipient was W.M. Flinders Petrie, Exploration Project, first begun in the ed an honorary doctorate by the followed by such noted archaeologists as 1950's, which has recovered almost Humanistic Faculty of the University of Arthur Evans and Sir Leonard Wooley. 50,000 artifacts from 329 sites. Α register Uppsala in Sweden. The last scholar in of sites, by Mr. Runnels and Mark Η. ~ Aegean studies so honored was Michael Munn, ASCSA '77-'78 and '79-'80, is ίn­ Ventris, who in 1952 deciphered, without The Archives of the American School en­ cluded in the volume. the aid of a bilingual inscription, the joyed the assistance this fall of five student Minoan-Mycenaean wήting system known volunteers from College Year in Athens. as Linear Β . Sincere thank:s are offered to Cathy Pack, Chris Trinacty, Karen Clancy, Chris Peter Krentz of Davidson College, DiMeo, and Duncan McCreary, who ASCSA SS '75 , Senior Associate '85-'86, and Everett L. Wbeeler ofDuke Univer­ transι::ribed old diaries of Ida Thallon Hill, mounted pictures, and rehoused old sity, ASCSA '75-'76, have published Katherine Schwab, ASCSA SS '78 , Chair and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts documents. Polyaenus, Stratagems of War (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 1994), two volumes. The at Fairfield University, was awarded an ~ work includes both text and translation of Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship by the Lucy Shoe Meritt, for many years Editor Polyaenus' Strategίka, the anonymous Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of fιfty­ of Publications and author of the second Excerpts of Polyaenus, and Stratagems, at­ eight 1994-95 fellowship recipients, the volume of the School 's history, received an tributed to Emperor Leo VI the Wise. The award is to work on her contribution to a honorary doctorate from Hamilton College, \atter two works appear in English for the monograph on the Parthenon North Clinton, New York, on May 22 , 1994. first time. Metopes, which depict the sack of Troy.

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