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For more information regarding this Service, please contact [email protected]. 1909 January -June ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ' NOTES ON RECENT EXCAVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES ; OTHER NEWS WILLIA~~N. BATES,Editor 220, St. Mark's Square, Philadelphiu, Pa. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS IN CAIRO. -In Kunstc?tr. XX, 1909, cols. 419-425, A1. XAASgives an account of the recent archaeo- logical congress in Cairo. For two days the meetings were held in Alex- andria. Abb6 Dusqubsne read an important paper on the sanctuaries at Aboukir. Theodor Schreiber showed that there really was an Alexandrian art with features of its oTn. I-I. Thierscli showed that the pharos built by Sostratus under Ptolemy Philadelphns in 280-279 B.C. stood 011 the site of Fort Kait and that from it developed the Egyptian minaret. He also gave a summary of the work done by his father and himself at the Serapeuni in 1900-0'2. The director of the museurn at Alexaudria showed that the mania for garlands on the part of the ancient Alexandrians had no religious significance, but mas sirnply due to sentiment. G. Steindorff discussed the excavations at the pyramid of Chephren. P. Cavradias spoke on his excava- tions at Masakarata, Cephallonia, where he has recently opened tnelre tornhs nith forty-seven graves intact. Nycenaean sherds, dating from the fifteenth to the twelfth century, B.c., Tere found, together .(\ it11 good vases of local manufacture, objects of gold, brorize, and glass. A. H. S~iiithdis- cussed fragments of the colun~nof the Treasury of Atreus, now in the British Museum. Pierre Paris denied the early connection of Egypt and Spain, shoning that the supposed evidence for such connection was a rnodern forgery. G. Karo argued that the Mycenaeans got their idea of inlaid 1 The departments of Archaeological Kews and Discussions aud of Bibliography of Archaeological Books are conducted by Professor BATES,Editor-in-charge, assisted by Professor C. N. BROWN,Bliss B~.IRY H. BCCKIXGHAM,BIr. L. D. CASKEY,Bliss EDITH H. HILL, Blr. HAROLDR. HASTINGS,Professor ELMERT. MERRILL, Professor FRAXKG. ~~OORE,Professor CHARLESR. MOKEY,Miss 111. L. KICHOLS, Professor LEWIS B. PATOX,Professor A. S. PEASE,Professor S. B. PLATNER, Professor JOHXC. ROLRE,Dr. Ii. P. VLACHOS,and the Editors, especially Pro- fessor ~~.~RQu.%xD. No attempt is made to include in this number of the JOURHALmaterial published after July 1,1!X)D. For an explanation of the abbreviations, see pp. 123, 124. 316 346 AMERICAN JOURxAL OF ARCLTAEOLOGY [Vot. SIII, 1909 Treapons from the Egyptians. A. J. Reinach argued that the sarcophagus of EIagia Triada shon-s JZpcenaean-Egyptian connections. B. Sauer showed that the newly found Xiobid in Rome is to be connected with the sculptures of the Theseurn and with the Athena from Pergamon in Berlin, and argued that 1,ycius of Eleutherae, a pupil of Jlyron, niay be the author. V. Staes dis- cussed a votive relief in Athens illustrating the story of Ion, but differingfro111 the version of Euripides. I. N. Sroronos argued that the well-known figures of the bop with the goose and the boy removing a t'horil from his foot were intended as representations of tlie sons of Asclepius. E. von Stern showed that the Iouians of Naucratis had com~nercialdealings with Olbia as early as the seventh century B.C. The bronze and silver IT-ork of Alexandria had an ilr11)ortant iutlueuce or1 southern Russia. Pharmalcowski reported upon his excaratio~~sat Olbia. In the Byzantine section Charles Diehl read two in~portantpapers. IIe showed in one that there was an importailt Egyptian elenlent it1 Byzantine art ; and in the other that the Byzantine material in the totlib of Charlemagne dates from the second half of the tenth century, and that it \\-as put into the tomb xhea it vas opened by Otto in the year 1000. Spiridion Larnbros told of his preliininary work for an Iconography of Byzantine emperors. NECROLOGY. -Frank Calvert. -Frank Calvel-t, American consul at Thprnbra on the Dardanelles, died August 12, 1908. He was much inter- ested in the archaeology of the Troad, and published several articles on Trojan topography. (Z.E/h. SL, 1908, p. 922.) Georg Kawerau.-Georg Ka\~*eraudied April 13, 1909, at the age of fifty-two. He was an architect who did important worli in the excavations at Jliletus and at Didyina, as well as on the citadel of Pergamon. (iirch. An;. 1909, ~01s.78-74.) Abraham Leissauer. -Abraham Leissauer died September 30, 1908, at the age of seventy-six years. As a physician, he interested hi~nselfin sani- tary legislation, investigation of water impurities, etc., but prehistoric and antl~ropologicalstudies took up a large part of his time in later life. His chief archaeological work is --lltertiimer rler Bronzereit der Provinz IVestprel~s- sen und rler angrenzenden Liincler, published in 1891. (Z. Eth. XL, 1908, p. 922.) August Mau. -On the 6th of ;\larch, 1909, August Nau died at Xonte, three days after the death of his wife. He was born at liiel in 1840, and while still a young man suffered so severely from pulmonary disease that his life TYas despaired of. But by liviug in Italy, at Rome and Kaples (Pompeii), he prolonged his life many years. From 1873 he was connected with the German Archaeological Institute at Eoine. IIis chief work was in connec- tion ~~ithPontpeii, which he knew more intimately then any other man except, perhaps, Fiorelli. To Mau is due the recognition of the four suc- cessive styles of Pompeian wall-paintings. His edition of Overbeck's Ponipei and his Po~npeii,its Life and Art, are known by all classical archaeologists. The two volumes of his I<[icctalog der Bibiiothek des Kaisnrlich deutschen archneo- logischen Iilstituts in ROVEconstitute a most valuable bibliography of archaeo- logical literature. and his nanlerous articles, chiefly in the Riiin. ;lfitt., are distinguished by sound scholarship and learning. He was a man of great industry and equally great modesty, who took no pains to impress his merits upon the world, but whose death is felt as a great loss by all classical GENERAL] ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATEIS, 1909 347 archaeologists. (S. R., El. Arch. XIII, 1909, p. 262. JIany other notices have been published.) Selah Merrill. -On January 22, 1909, Dr. Selah Iferrill died at Fruit- vale, California. He was born in 1887 at Canton Centre, Connecticut, and entered Tale University with the class of 1866, but left before graduation to enter the Sen Haven Theological Seminary. In 1874 he was appointed archaeologist of the American Palestine Exploration Society, a position nhich he resigned to become Professor of Hebrew at the Andover Theologi- cal Seminary. He served as United States consul at Jerusalem from 1882 to 1886 and from 1891 to 1894, and was appointed for the third time in 1898. TIThileat Andover, he established the Biblical and Oriental Museum. He was an authority on the Holy Land and published many books and articles upon it. (Boston Herald, January 24, 1909.) Victor R6csey. -The death is announced of Dr. Victor RBcsey, one of the best-Bnomn archaeologists in Hungary. He was born in 1858 at Nagys- zombat, entered the Benedictine order, and became professor in 1884 at Sopron. In 1894 he became director of the library of the monastery of Pannonhalma. Among his works are L'Anclen nom de Sopron et les inscrzp- tions romaines duns le comztal cle Sopron; Les mc~nuscritset les incunables de la htblioth2que e$i~copalede Knssa ;Les rester de l'cjllse Saint-Laurent h Esiter- gom : Fouilles dons la rejion du lac Balnton; Les ce~tzyesdes communes ro- nzczines de Pnnnonze h Esitergom; Les inscr+tions des ctnciens hc'ros Tnayyars, clans les cntacombes romnlnes. (Polgbiblion, 1908, pp. 466-467.) Ernst aus'm Weerth. -Professor Ernst aus'm TT'eerth, for many years director of the Rhenish Provincial Nuseum, has died at Bonn in his eightieth year. He was the author of Bar1 der romischen T'illa bei dllenz, Mosaihboden von St. Gereon zu Coln, and Tlhndmalereien des chri.\tlichen Mittelalters zu Coln. (.lthen. April 17, 1909, p. 473.) SERVIA. -Excavations at Vin6a in 1908.-In R. A rrh. XIII, 1909, pp. 213-95 (pl.), MILOJER1. VASSITSdescribes and discusses dis- coveries made in 1908 at VinEa, on the right bank of the Danube, about 15 km. below Belgrade (abbreviated by S. Reinach). Stone utensils, rude statuettes of terra-cotta (among them the first male terra-cotta statuette found in Servia), fragments of bone, obsidian, and other materials were found. Pottery of vaiious kinds came to light, much of it ornamented with geometric designs. The anthropomorphic vases of the lowest stratum are coiltemporary with Troy 11. This stratum om7es its existence to a wave of civilizatioil coming from the southeast.