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AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

AT ATHENS

FOUNDED 1881

Incorporated under the Laws of Massachusetts, 1886

~INETY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

1971-1972

.AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

1972

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY J• H. FURST COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

BoARD OF TRUSTEES

MANAGING COMMITTEE

CoMMITTEES OF THE MANAGING CoMMITTEE

STAFF oF THE ScHooL

CouNCIL OF THE ALUMNI AssociATION

THE AuxiLIARY FuND Assoc iATION

CooPERATING INsTITUTIONs

REPORTS:

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Director 20

Librarians and Assistant Librarians of the School 26

Director of the Gennadius Library . 29

Professor of Archaeology 32

Professor Emeritus of Archaeology . 33

Field Director Emeritus of the Agora Excavations 34

Field Director of the Agora Excavations . 35

Field Director of the Corinth Excavations 40

Special Research Fellows : Visiting Professors 45

Secretary of the School . 48

Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and Fellowships 49

Director of the Summer Session I 51

Director of the Summer Session II 54

Chairman of the Committee on Publications 57

Report of the Treasurer . 67

Treasurer of the Auxiliary Fund 80

The Alumni Association 81

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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

BE IT KNOWN WHEREAS James R. Lowell, T. D. Woolsey, Charles Eliot Norton, William M. Sloane, B. L. Gildersleeve, William W. Goodwin, Henry Drisler, Frederic J. de Peyster, John Williams White, Henry G. Marquand and Martin Brimmer, have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the

TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

for the purpose of the establishment and maintenance of a school of classical studies at Athens, in Greece, for American students, and have complied with the provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Committee of said Corporation, duly approved by the Commis-sioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office:

Now, THEREFORE, I, HENRY B. PIERCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Do HEREBY CERTIFY that said J. R. Lowell, T. D. Woolsey, C. E. Norton, W. M. Sloane, B. L. Gildersleeve, W. W. Goodwin, H. Drisler, F. J. de Peyster, J. W. White, H . G. Marquand and M. Brimmer, their asso-ciates and successors are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the name of the

TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions which by law appertain thereto.

(Seal)

WITNESS my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed this twenty-third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

(Signed) HENRY B. PIERCE

Secretary of the Commonwealth

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AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

.AT ATHENS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1971-1972

Joseph Alsop ................... 2720 Dumbarton Avenue, \Vashington, . District of Columbia

J olm Nicholas Brown ........... SO South Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island

Frederick C. Crawford, Chairman.23555 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio John Dane ..... . ............... Choate, Hall and Stewart, 28 State Street,

Boston, Massachusetts i-Jathanael V. Davis ............. Box 6090, Montreal 3, Quebec, Canada Philip Hofer ................... 88 Appleton Street, Cambridge, Massa-

chusetts Harry M. Lyter ................ 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York,

New York Robert A. McCabe ......... . .... Lehman Brothers, 1 \Villiam Street, New

York, New York John J. McCloy ............... . 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York,

New York Lincoln MacVeagh ............ . Avenida Biarritz 12, Direito, Estoril,

Portugal Charles H. Morgan ............. Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Andre \V. G. Newburg .......... 52 Wall Street, New York, New York Thomas A. Pappas .............. 3 Metropoleos Street, Athens, Greece 'vVilliam Kelly Simpson, President . Yale University, 102 Hall of Graduate

Studies, New Haven, Connecticut tSpyros P. Skouras ............. 444 West 56th St., New York, New York Homer A. Thompson ........... Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,

New Jersey VVard M. Canaday, Chairman

Emeritus ...... . ..... . .. . .... The Overland Corporation, 500 Security Building, Toledo, Ohio

Henry D. Mercer, Emeritus ...... 90 Broad St., New York, New York Rkhard H. Howland, ex officio ... . The Smithsonian Institution, Washington,

District of Columbia

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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

OFFICERS

Ward M. Canaday, Chairman Emeritus

Frederick C. Crawford, Chairman William Kelly Simpson, President

Nathanael V. Davis, Vice Pt·esidenl John ]. McCloy, Treasurer Harry M. Lyter, Secretary Richard ]. Carroll, Assistant Treasurer

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Frederick C. Crawford, Chairman John J. McCloy Nathanael V. Davis William Kelly Simpson

John J. McCloy, Chairman Frederick C. Crawford Harry M. Lyter

FINANCE COMMITTEE

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Robert A. McCabe Charles H. Morgan

MANAGING COMMITTEE 1971-1972

Members Institution and Address

Richard H. Howland, Chairman ... The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia

John L. Caskey, Vice Chairman ... . University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Alan L. Boegehold, Secretary ..... . Brown University, Providence, Rhode

Island Walter R. Agard .... , ....•. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Harry C. Avery ........... University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-

vama Helen Bacon .............. Barnard College, New York, New York Anastasi us C. Bandy ....... University of California, Riverside, California Robert F. Banks ........... College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massa-

chusetts John J. Bateman ........... University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Dorothy M. Bell ........... Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Massa-

chusetts Alfred R. Bellinger ......... Yale University; 30 Homeland Terrace, Ham-

den, Connecticut David Belmont ............ Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Anna S. Benjamin ......... Rutgers, the State University, New

Brunswick, New Jersey Emmett L. Bennett ........ University of ·wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Jack L. Benson ............ Un iversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massa-

chusetts Charles R. Beye ........... Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Vvilliam R. Biers .. . . . . . . . . . University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri J. David Bishop ........... Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts Peter H. von Blanckenhagen Institute of Fine Arts, New York University,

New York, New York t Carl W. Blegen .. . ....... University of Cincinnati; 9 Plutarch Street,

Athens, Greece Francis R. Bliss ........... University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont Edward W. Bodnar, S. J . ... Georgetown University, \Vashington, District

of Columbia Cedric G. Boulter .......... University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Patricia Neils Boulter ..... 1 Rawson Woods Circle, Cincinnati, Ohio

(Representing the Alumni Association) Oscar Broneer ............. University of Chicago; Ancient Corinth, Greece

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Members Institution and Address

Anne Brooke ...•.•••.•...• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Reuben A. Brower ••.•.•..• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Frank E. Brown .•••.••...• American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo

Masina 5, Rome, Italy Robert J. Buck ...••••••.•. University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta

' ' ' Canada Ann Pippin Burnett •••..•. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Th:~dore V. Buttrey ....... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Wilham M. Calder III •...•. Columbia University, New York, New York Rhys Carpenter .. . .••••.... Bryn Mawr College; Goose Walk, R. . D. 1,

Chester Springs, Pennsylvania Harry J. Carroll, Jr ........ Pomona College, Claremont, California Elizabeth G. Caskey ....... Randolph-Macon Woman's College,

Lynchburg, Virginia Lionel Casson ...••.•••••.•• New York U.niversity, New York, New York Peter Charanis ...•......... Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick,

New Jersey John F. Charles .•.•••••.... Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana Harold F. Cherniss ........ Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New

Jersey Paul A. Clement .....•..... University of California, Los Angeles, California Benjamin C. Clough ........ Brown University; 26 Loring Avenue, Provi-

dence, Rhode Island John E . Coleman ........... Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Joseph M. Conant ......... Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Kenneth J. Conant ..•...... Radcliffe College; 274 Grove Street, Wellesley,

Massachusetts W. Robert Connor ••....... Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey James S. Constantine ....... University of Virginia; 1109 Park Street,

Charlottesville, Virginia J. S. A. Cunningham ....... Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Lloyd W. Daly ............ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn-

sylvania Jean M. Davison ........... University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont Thelma B. DeGraff .....•... Hunter College, New York, New York William B. Dinsmoor ....... Columbia University; American School of Clas-

sical Studies, Athens, Greece Norman A. Doenges .....•.• Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire William P. Donovan ....... Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Sterling Dow ...........•. • Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Glanville Downey ...•••.••. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Colin N. Edmonson ........ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Morton S. Enslin .......... 708 Argyle Road, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

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Mnnbers Institution and Address

Elizabeth C. Evans ......... . Connecticut College for Women, New London, Connecticut

M M t University Hamilton, Ontario, J. A. S. Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . c as er , Canada

Douglas D. Feaver ........ . Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania John H. Finley, Jr. . ....... Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass~c~usetts Richard M. Frazer ......... Tulane University, New Orleans, Loutstana Joseph N. Garvin .......... University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, · Indiana Alfred Geier .............. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York David Gill, S. J. . .......... Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massa-

chusetts Daniel J . Gillis ............. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania Mary G. Goggin ........... State University of New York at Albany,

Albany, New York

C . . H Gordon Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts )'I US . • • • ' ' ''' '' Claireve Grandjouan ....... Hunter College, New York, New _Y~r~ Perry E. Gresham .......... Bethany College, Bethany, \i\fest Vtrgmta William M.A. Grimaldi, S. J .. Fordham University, New York, New York George M. A. Hanfmann .... Radcliffe College, Cambridge: Massachusetts. J. Penrose Harland ........ University of North Carolma;. Laurel Htll · Road, P. 0. Box 48, Chapel H1ll, N. C. George McLean Harper, Jr ... Williams Coll~ge, ~Villian:stown, Massachusetts Evelyn B. Harrison ....... Princeton Umverstty, Pnnccton, New Jersey Christine Mitchell Havelock .. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Robert B. Bennion ......... CollP.ge of the City of New York, New York,

New York Priscilla Capps Hill ........ 71 Braeburn Drive, Princeton, New Jersey

(Representing the Auxiliary Fund)

Vivian Holliday ........... College of \i\Tooster, Wooster, Ohio . . Clark Hopkins ............. University of Michigan, Ann Arb~r, Mtchtgan Roger A. Hornsby . .. .. .. ... State University of I~wa, .Iowa Ctty, Iowa_ Eleanor G. Huzar .......... Michigan State Umvers1ty, East Lansmg,

Michigan

H In1n1erwahr Universit)' of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, enry · · · · · · · · · North Carolina

Harald Ingholt ............ Yale University, New H~ven, .connec~icut Michael H. Jameson ........ University of Pennsylvama, Fhtladelphta, Penn-

sylvania William T. Jolly ........... Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee Leslie W. Jones ........... College of the City of New Yo~k; ~7

Kensington Road, Berkeley, Cahforma

.11 embers institution and Address

Charles Kahn ............. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

George A. Kennedy ........ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Gordon M. Kirkwood ...... Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Donald R. Laing, Jr ........ Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,

Ohio Mabel Lang ............... Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania John F. Latimer ........... George Washington University, Washington,

District of Columbia Chauncey D. Leake ........ University of California Medical Sch01>l, San

Francisco, California ~1ary Rosenthal Lefkowitz . Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massa-

chusetts Phyllis 'Williams Lehmann .. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Valdis Leinieks ............ University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Robert J. Lenardon ........ Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Harry L. Levy ............ City University of New York, New York, New

York (van M. Lin forth ......... University of California; 72 Tamalpais Road,

Berkeley, California Mary Lord ... . .. .. ....... Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut Barbara P. McCarthy ...... Wellesley College; 9 Cross Street, Wellesley,

Massachusetts Leo P. McCauley .......... Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts John J . McCloy ........... I Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, New

York (ez officio, as Treasurer of the School)

James R. McCredie ........ Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, New York

(also ex officio as Director of the School)

John B. McDiarmid ........ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Alan MacDonald . ... .. .... George Washington University, Washington,

District of Columbia William A. McDonald ...... University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minne-

sota l\1alcolm F. McGregor ...... University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Canada Cyril Mango . ............. Dum barton Oaks Research Library, Wash-

ington, District of Columbia Peter Marshall ............ Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Hubert Martin ............ University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

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Members Institution and Address

Frederick R. Matson ....•.. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Machteld Mellink .......... Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Benjamin D. Meritt ........ Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New

Jersey Lucy Shoe Meritt ......•... Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New

Jersey Bruce M. Metzger ......... Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton,

New Jersey George C. Miles ........... American Numismatic S::Jciety, New York,

New York Fordyce W. Mitchel ........ University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Charles H. Morgan ........ Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Charles T. Murphy ........ Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio George E. Mylonas .....•.. Washington University; American School of

Classical Studies, Athens, Greece Helen North .............. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

(Representing the Advisory Council of the Classical School at Rome)

Oscar E Nybakken ........ State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa JacobE: Nyenhuis ......... Wayne State Univ~rsity: Detroi~, Michigan James H . Oliver .......... Johns Hopkins Umverstty, Baltimore, ~ary-

land; 322 St. Dunstans Road, Baltimore, Maryland

Philip Oliver-Smith ........ University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas Martin Ostwald ........... Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsyl-

John Overbeck

David Packard

vania ............ State University of New York at Albany,

Albany, New York ... .. ....... University of California, Los Angeles, Califor-

nta .. . ........ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Robert R. Palmer .......... Scripps College, Claremont, California Elizabeth G. Pemberton ..... University of Maryland, College Park, Mary-

land Clyde Pharr .............•. Vanderbilt University; 1500 West 32nd Street,

Austin, Texas Anthony J. Podlecki ....... Pennsylvania State University, University

Park, Pennsylvania Jerry J . Pollitt ............ Yale University, New Hav~n, Connect~cut Norman T. Pratt .......... Indiana University, Bloommgton, Indtana William Kendrick Pritchett .. University of California, Berkeley, California Elizabeth Hedberg Quinn ... Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massa-

chusetts

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Me1nbers Institutic; n and Address ·~ '

Antony E. Raubitschek .... . Stanford University, Stanforq, California Graydon W. Regenos ....... Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Oscar W. Reinmuth ....... University of Texas, Austin, Texas Gi sela M. A. Richter ....... 81 Viale delle .Mura Gianicolensi, Rome, Italy Edward A. Robinson ....... l{utgers, the State University, Newark, New

Jersey Henry S. Robinson ........ Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,

Ohio Carl A. Roebuck .........• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Duane Vv. Roller ........... Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster,

Pennsylvania Thomas Rosenmeyer ....... University of California, Berkeley, California John J. A. Savage ......... Fordham University; 1 Craigie Street, Cam-

bridge, Massachusetts Alfred C. Schlesinger ...... Oberlin College; R. D., Williamstown, Massa-

chusetts Raymond V. Schoder, S. J. .. Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois William C. Scott ....•...... Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Robert L. Scranton ........ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois James E. Seaver ........... University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Kenneth M. Setton .. ...... Institute for Advanced Stt:dy, Princeton, New

Jersey R. Hope Simpson ......... Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Gertrude Smith ............ University of Chicago; Martin College, Pulaski,

Tennessee Evelyn Lord S111ithson .. . .. State University of New York at Buffalo.

Buffalo, New York J olm E. Stambaugh ... .. ... Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts J olm B. Stearns ........... Dartmouth College; 3 Downing Road, Han-

over, New Hampshire ]. Peter Stein .. ... .. ...... Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Richard Stillwell .......... Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Arthur F. Stocker .. ....... University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Lloyd Stow ............... Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Ronald S. Stroud ... . ...... University of California, Berkeley, California Homer A. Thompson . ... ... Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New

Jersey Lynette Thompson ......... Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Hazel M. Toliver .......... Lindenwood College, Saint Charles, Missouri Daniel P. Tompkins ........ Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Peter Topping ............. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio James N. Truesdale .... . ... Duke University. Durham, North Carolina

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M embers Institution aud Address

Byron C. P. Tsangadas ..... University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida

L C T b .11. . University of Mississippi, University, Missis-ucy . urn u ......... . sippi

Terpsichori Tzavella-Evjen ... University of Colorado, Bo~lder, Co~orado Eugene Vanderpool ........ American School of Classical Studies, Athens,

Greece Agnes Carr Vaughan ....... Smith College; 70 La Salle Street, Apt. 14a,

. New York, New York Emily Townsend Vermeule ... Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Frederick 0. Waage ....... Cornell University, It~aca, .New york Malcolm V. T. Wallace ..... Saint Bonaventure Umverstty, Samt Bonaven-

ture New York Saul S. \Veinberg . ... ...... Unive;sity of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Mary E. vVhite .. . ........ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontano,

Canada J olm C. Williams ......... Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut . \H'JJ' H W 1' )J1's Duke University Durham, North Carolma 'v 1 1an1 . . . . . . . . . . . , Pearl C. Wilson .. . ........ Hunter College; 600 West 116th Street, New

York, New York J~. d · k E W 1'nter University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, :•te enc . . ..... .

Canada James R. Wiseman ......... University ~f Te~~s, Austin, Texas

(Representing the Alumm Assoctal!on)

Daniel E. Woods .......... Manhattan ville College, Purchase, New York John Rowe Workman ...... Pembroke College, Providence, Rhode Island George Ernest Wright ..... Harvard Univers.ity, Cambridge, Massachusetts

(Representing the American Schools of Onental Research )

W 'll' F W att Jr Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 11am. y, ....... ' . Arthur H. Young .......••• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-

vania John H. Young ............ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,

Maryland . . R d S Y University of Pennsylvania, Ph1ladelph1a. o ney . oung .. .. ...... .

Pennsylvama (also ex officio as President of the Archaeological Institute of America)

John w. Zarker ........... Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

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COMMITTEES OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE 1971-1972

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Members ex officio

Richard H. Howland, Chairman Cedric G. Boulter, Chairman of the John L. Caskey, Vice Chairman Council of the Alumni Association Alan L. Boegehold, Secretary

Elected Members

Machteld Mellink (1968-1972) Peter von Blanckenhagen (1970-1974) John H. Young (1968-1972) Norman T. Pratt (1970-1974) Henry S. Robinson (1969-1973) Claireve Grandjouan (1971-1975) Carl A. Roebuck (1969-1973) Phyllis W. Lehmann (1971-1975)

COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Mabel Lang, Chairman (1971-1972) Fordyce W. Mitchel (1971-1974) Charles Kahn (1971-1973) I'Vfalcolm F . McGregor (1971-1975)

COMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL

Lloyd W. Daly, Chairman. ( 1969-1972) EYelyn B. Harrison (1971-1973)

Ronald S. Stroud (1971 -1974)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS

Lucy Shoe Meritt, 1972)

Chairman (1971-Martin Ostwald (1971-1975)

Donald R. Laing, Jr. (1971-1977) Mary E .. YYllite (1971-1978) Homer A. Thompson ( 1971-1972)

William H. Willis (1971-1974)

CoMMITTEE ON THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY

William H. Willis, Chairman 1972)

Peter Charanis ( 1971-1972) Peter Topping (1971-1973) Charles T. Murphy (1971-1973)

(1971- Elizabeth G. Caskey (1971-1974) George C. Miles (1971-1975) Theodore V. Buttrey (1971-1975) Celia Sachs Stillwell (1971-1974, ex

officio)

COMMITTEE ON THE SUMMER SESSION

vVilliam P . Donovan, Chairman (1971-1975)

Evelyn L. Smithson (1971-1972)

Anna S. Benjamin (1971-1973) Alan L. Boegeholcl ( 1971-1974)

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STAFF OF THE SCHOOL 1971-1972

Director ........................• James R. ;{-.cCredie Professor of Archaeology··········· C. W. ~- wt Field Director of Agora Excavations .. T. Les!te Shear, Jr. Field Director of the Corinth Excava- . . II

· Charles K. Wtl!tams, Di~~~~~r ·~f· ;h~ ·G~~~~di~; .Lib·r~~;::: Francis ~- WaltonPI .

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Librarian of the School ............ . Mary Zeha Pease 11 tppt es (to De-cember 21, 1971)

Harr C Avery Oscar W. Reinmuth Visiting Brofessors ........ ·..... . . . y S .Ben ·an~in, Brunilde S. Ridg-Directors of the Summer SessiOn .. ... At~~:y .(197{); Joseph M. Conant,

William F. Wyatt, Jr. (1972) Editor of Pub!tcahons . . ..... . . .. . . . . . . Lucy Shoe Meritt Architect of School Excavations ..... John Travlos .

· \.Villiam B Dmsmoor, Jr. Architect of Agora ExcavatiOns . . . . . . S b . 30 Secretary of the School ... ...... .. . . Robert L. Pounder (to eptem et '

1971) Executive Assistant to the Director .. Linda A. Bacon . Assistant Librarian of theGennadeion. Sophie Papa~eorg!Ott 1 r 30 Assistant Librarians of the Gennadeion . Sharon A. Kmtner (pto SJe~t~m Je(fron~

1971) ; Thomas . e e e . September 1, 1971), Nancy A. Wm-ter (from October 1, 1971)

Secretary of the Agora Excavations .. Poly Demoulini (t_o August 31, 1971i, Efie Sakellarakt (from August , 1971)

Sec.retaries of the Corinth Excava- n C. Herbert, Mary C. Sturgeon hons .. .................... ... . Sharo

Photographer of the Agora Excava-tions ......... . .. ....... . . . .... Eugene VCablderTpooll, Jr.

· · S t Ann Me a e we e Publtcat!Ons ecre ary . . . . . . . . . . . . . V d . ool Professors Emeriti of Archaelogy ... Oscar Broneer, Eugene an et p Field Director Emeritus of the Agora

Excavations ............ . .... · · · . Homer A . Thompson

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Of the School

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Others

Nancy Bookidis (Corinth) Stephen Bowman ( Gennadeion and

Fulbright Fellow) Joan Fisher (Corinth) Alison Frantz (Agora) Virginia Grace (Agora) John Kroll (Agora) Stella Grobe! Miller (Agora) Stephen Miller (Agora)

William B. Dinsmoor Harry L. Levy (A. C. L. S. Fellow) Paul M. Mylonas (Ford Foundation

Fellow) James R. vViseman (Guggenheim

Fellow)

Of the School

FELLOWS

Others

Pamela F . Benbow (Honorary School Fellow and Charles Eliot Norton Fellow, Harvard University)

Carl Bennett (Maurine Dallas vVat-kins Fellow)

David R. Cole (James Rignall Wheel-er Fellow)

Peter Gruen (George Henry McFad-den Fellow)

Richard S. Mason (Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow)

Robert L. Pounder (Eugene Vander-pool Fellow)

William G. Thalmann II (Thomas Day Seymour Fellow)

Cynthia L. Thompson (Edward Capps Fellow)

Nancy R. Eals (Fulbright Fellow) Susan D. Kallemeyn (John Wesley

Brittan Fellow, University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley)

HEGULAR MEMBERS

Daniel Boyd J oan D. Carpenter P. Daniel Emanuele

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Catherine E. Hobey Allan C. Mueller Nina P. Zouck

AssociATE MEMBERS

Herbert Abramson (Benjamin P. vVall Memorial Fellow, University of California, Berkeley)

Peter Allen Catherine De Grazia Steven Diamant (Olivia James Fellow,

A. I. A.) Geraldine Gesell Michael Goldstein (University of Cal-

ifornia Regents Fellow, Berkeley) Stephen Hutzel (N.D. E. A. Title IV

Fellow) David Jordan Merle Langdon Brian Legakis Patricia Lowenstam

Steven Lmvenstam Carol Mattusch ( S. P. Kress Research

Fellow) Otto Meinardus Woodard Openo Dorothy R. Patton (1st term) Elsa Peterson Leslie Preston Charlene Roufas Ernest Saunders Jeffery Soles (Fulbright Fellow) Lindley Vann Meri von Sternberg Wendy P. -vv:hite (2nd term) Frank E. Wozniak (Fulbright Fellow) John G. Yonnger

COUNCIL OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (1 971)

Elected by the Association:

Cedric G. Booulter (1971-1973) Chair·man

Lucy Shoe Meritt (1971-1975) S ecretary-Treasurer

Ann Konrad Knudsen Khalil (1967-1971)

Frances Follin Jones (1968-1972) George F. Bass (1968-1972) Elizabeth G. Caskey ( 1969-1 973) William R. Biers (1970-1974) Thomas W. Jacobsen ( 1971 -1 975)

Elected by the Nlcmaging Committee:

Claireve Grandjouan ( 1970-1972) Jerry J. Pollitt (1970-1973) Mary G. Goggin ( 1971-1974)

Representatives on the M anagiHg C o1n:mittee:

Patricia Neils Boulter (1970- 1972) James R. Wiseman (1971-1973)

Richard H. Howland, ex officio

THE AUXILIARY FUND ASSOCIATION

Charles H. Morgan , Chairman

Di1'ector s:

Priscilla Capps Hill , Treasurer

T erm ending May, 1972 : Term. endiHg May, 1973: T erm ending i'vfay , 1974:

John L. Caskey Mrs. Marvin Hoffman Frederick M. Combellack Lois Ashton Larson Glenn R. Morrow Peter Demarest Emeline Hill Richardson Jerry J. Pollitt Katharine Shepard Marion Tait Chester Starr H ester Harrington Stow

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COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS

American Numismatic Society Amherst College Barnard College Bethany College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Bradford J unio:: College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Case Western Reserve University Catholic University of America City University of New York Claremont College College of the City of New York College of the Holy Cross College of Wooster Columbia University Connecticut College for Women Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Emory University Florida State University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Georgetown University George Washington University Hamilton College Harvard University Haverford College Hunter College Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study Institute of Fine Arts, New York

University Johns Hopkins University

Lehigh University Lindenwood College Loyola University of Chicago Macalester College McMaster University Manhattanville College Michigan State University Mount Holyoke College New York University Northwestern University Oberlin College Ohio State University Pembroke College Pennsylvania State University Pomona College Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton University Queen's University, Ontario Radcliffe College Randolph-Macon Woman's College Rutgers University Saint Bonaventure University Scripps College Smith College Smithsonian Institution Southwestern at Memphis Stanford University State University of Iowa State University of New York at

Albany State University of New York at

Buffalo Swarthmore College Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University University of Alberta University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley

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University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Riverside University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado University of Illinois University of Kansas University of Kentucky University of Massachusetts University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Mississippi University of Missouri University of Nebraska University of North Carolina University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Richmond

University of Rochester University of St. Thomas University of the South University of South Florida University of Texas University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin Vanderbilt University Vassar College Wabash College Washington University Wayne State University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Wheaton College Williams College Yale University

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR

To the Managing Committee,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to present a report of the activities of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from April 1971 through March 1972.1

Though program and policies remain faithful to our tradition, this has been a year of change both in key personnel and in our physical plant. From them we may expect healthy new departures in the execution of our work, which, I am confident, will become as much a part of our tradition as their predecessors.

With the death of Carl W. Blegen on August 24th, 1971, we lost not only our most distinguished scholar but a man on whose ready help and good counsel the School has depended for more than sixty years.

This year has seen the retirement of Eugene Vanderpool as Professor of Archaeology in Residence and of Mary Zelia Pease Philippides as Librarian of the School. We are fortunate that both remain near at hand. Professor Vanderpool, uninhibited by a more private office, continues much of his former activity, as will be clear in the following paragraphs. Mrs. Philippides has answered all calls for advice and assistance and has even returned briefly to her desk, when the Library was short-staffed. To their continuing devotion the School owes a great debt.

Robert Pounder, whose term as Secretary of the School had been a great comfort not only to our Members and visitors but particularly to me, left office on September 30th to become the first Eugene Vanderpool Fellow. Vvith his help, Linda Bacon has successfully absorbed most of the Secretary's duties, while continuing to assist in the various other business of the Director's office.

The coming months will see the retirement, too, of Efstratios Athanasiaclu; and Georgios Sakkas from the Business Office and of Pavlos Daphnis as manager of the excavation house in Corinth-three men whose service to the School has been an outstanding example of loyalty and excellence; collectively, they have devoted well over a century to the School. I am particularly grateful to Messrs. Athanasiades and Sakkas for seeing me through the first years of my appointment, to save me, as they must have saved others of the ten Directors with whom they have worked, from many oversights and errors. In our discovery of Ioanna Driva to succeed Mr. Athanasiades as bookkeeper the School has again been very fortunate, and I can only hope that our present effort to find Mr. Sakkas's replacement will meet with similar success.

1 Separate reports on the School Library, the Gennadius Library, the excavations in the Athenian Agora, and those at Corinth are attached. These important aspects of the School's work are not, therefore, discussed in detail here.

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C. W.]. Eliot has assumed the duties of Professor of Archaeology with skill and enthusiasm, mastering the mysteries of local administration as readily and as quickly as those of ancient topography. In the Library, the Assistant Librarians Nancy 'Vinter and Thomas Jedele have not only kept current services at their (now expected) high level but made such progress on the monumental job of recataloguing that the end is in sight.

We have continued to enjoy remarkably generous co-operation from all our colleagues in the General Direction of Antiquities and Restoration, both from Professor Marinatos and his staff in the central offices and from the local ephoreias. The scholarly accomplishments of the School and its members owe far more to the unflagging goodwill of these colleagues than to any administra-tive help from my office. There are, as always, changes in personnel to report ; the Service will lose two of its most energetic members when the election of George Despinis and Photios Petsas to the chairs of archaeology in the univer-sities of Thessaloniki and of Ioannina respectively are confirmed by the Ministry of Education.

Reorganization of the government in August abolished the former Ministry to the Prime Minister, and the Archaeological Service now belongs, perhaps more appropriately, to the new Ministry of Culture and Sciences. The Minister, Constantine Panayiotakis, though a civil engineer by training, seems genuinely interested in the problems of archaeology, and he early found time for a lengthy visit to the Agora. With his encouragement, Professor Marinatos publicly announced (at the inauguration of Bert Hodge Hill House) the government's intention to acquire land at its own expense to unite the Kerameikos and the Agora into one vast archaeological area. Details of the plan are still undecided, but it invites the School's co-operation in excavation of the new area.

In another area, however, the benefits which the School has enjoyed through Greek law seem likely to be curtailed. A thorough revision of taxes and duties, aimed at reforming the sometimes erratic and arbitrary collections of the past, also removed, it seems, many benefits which we have enjoyed since 1949 as a member of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies. The School has fared better than most, since we, alone of those agencies, continue to be exempted from duty on supplies imported for our operation, but our American staff may well now be liable to Greek income tax, and the freedom of our cars from circulation tax is very questionable. The whole matter is still unclear, but we should be prepared for the unforeseen burden it may place upon our budget.

Much of the year's effort has gone into construction. The new excavation house at Corinth, named after Bert Hodge Hill, was officially opened on December 1st, to unanimous praise of Charles Williams's design; the occasion is described in Mr. Williams's report. At the Gennadius Library, structural work is finished, and the installation of Mrs. Stathatou's "Macedonian room" is in progress, so that we hope to have achieved a stage by mid-May suitable

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for an official dedication during the Trustees' visit. Much, however, remains to be done, and Professor Walton is preparing to face presently the installation of air conditioning ducts in the older building, with the concomitant necessity of moving all its 50,000 odd volumes to new quarters. Construction of the new Museum at Isthmia by the University of Chicago and Indiana University is now virtually complete, but the task of installation remains to be undertaken.

The School itself has been brightened by a bit of new paint in the public rooms of the Main Building and in many Loring Hall bedrooms. Screens for the older parts of the Main Building were finally received from America and await weather suitable for their installation. Unasked, the city laid a more attractive and safer sidewalk along both sides of Souidias Street. Gennadeion East House was remodelled and redecorated to receive Professor Eliot and his family. And, most important not only for our summer readers but also for our books, the reading room of the Library has been air conditioned. A new telephone system in the Main Building with a second outside line has made it possible for people actually to reach the School during business hours and thus considerably improved the tempers of our callers.

Loring Hall continues to prosper under Mrs. Fidao's keen eye and firm hand. Although the demand for rooms was relieved when several members chose to find their own lodgings, the dining facilities have maintained their popularity of last year. With three years experience, I am now convinced that the services which Mrs. Fidao provides are more nearly perfect than I could have imagined possible, and the vagaries of their use are due entirely to the vagaries of each group's personal preferences.

The house at 9 Plutarch Street, occupied since September only by the faithful couple which maintains it now for the School as they have for so many years for the Blegens and Hills, awaits the decision of the Trustees on its disposition. The books have been carefully examined by the Library staff, and many will come to the Library as very welcome additions. Mr. Hill's papers have been sorted-a monumental task-by Nancy Bookidis and will be suitably disposed.

SPRING AND SUMMER 1971

In the spring, all but one of our Regular Members and several Associates took part in one of two two-week training sessions again offered by Charles Williams at Corinth. These sessions, which have, through annual repetition, become a regular part of the School's program, continue to be one of its most instructive features, and they provide a good example of the value our research projects can have for our educational program. Four Regular Members later assisted Mr. Williams in his spring campaign, and others worked at Porto Cheli, Samothrace, and Gordian.

The fourth double Summer Session, now a firmly established program, was led with enthusiasm by Professors Benjamin and Ridgway. Their . major innovation, a trip to Samos, will be repeated by Professors Conant and Wyatt this year. ·

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In addition to the work of the School in the Agora and at Corinth, excava-tions were conducted under the auspices of the School at Corinth (by James Wiseman for the University of Texas), at Isthmia (by Paul Clement for the University of California at Los Angeles), at Porto Cheli (by Michael Jameson and Thomas Jacobsen for the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana Uni-versity), and at Nichoria (by William McDonald for the University of Min-nesota). Supplementary work was done in Kea (by John Caskey for the University of Cincinnati) and in Samothrace (by the writer for the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).

Of more limited projects, I may note the cleaning of tombs at Gournia and Mochlos by Jeffrey Soles, under the supervision of Constantine Davaras, head of the ephoreia in Aghios Nikolaos, and the continued recording of elements of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae by Frederick Cooper as especially successful.

The Committee on Excavations met in August to consider long-range plans and the disposition of the excavation permits allowed the School under law. In accordance with the Managing Committee's desire that work be pursued at Nemea, the Committee favors assigning the next available permit (probably for 1974) to that site, and, after review of two proposals, it has encouraged the University of California at Berkeley to make the necessary arrangements for undertaking a five-year campaign.

FALL AND WINTER 1971-1972

A list of Fellows and Members appears elsewhere. To judge from early correspondence with the Committee on Admissions, the fact that, as last year, only thirteen followed the regular first-year program is not a general indication of lessening interest but a passing phenomenon. It has, however, made it possible to accommodate many Associate Members; some of them have, for all practical purposes, done the same work as the Regular Members.

In view of this clear evidence of students who are eager to participate in the program as it stands, I am less concerned than I might otherwise be by the complaint, voiced by more than one member, that our program is too "struc-tured, " leaving insufficient time for independent activities. I should like to think that such complaints stem from a failure to appreciate the program's purposes-not only to examine in detail specialized subjects of interest to the present group, but also to introduce the variety of opportunities available in Greece, and that these purposes are, appreciated or not, the right ones. Again, I would gladly have the advice of those responsible at home for each student's academic program.

The fall trips, led by C. W. J. Eliot, Charles Williams, and me, followed a familiar pattern: Central Greece and Thessaly, Thrace and Macedonia, the south and west Peloponnesus, and the Argolid and Carinthia. The weather was les·s co-operative than it might have been, while officials and excavators were more generous than one could have asked. A notable debacle occurred on Mt. Lykeion, where, having come from Athens particularly to lead a walk

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across the Sacred Peak to Lykosoura, I led the group instead into a blinding blizzard, from which only good fortune extricated us without a casualty.

During the Winter Term Professor Avery offered a seminar in Herodotos and Professor Reinmuth one in the Development of the Athenian Constitution, while Professor Eliot and I, with the help of Professor Vanderpool, Mr. Dinsmoor, and Mr. and Mrs. Miller, devoted ourselves to the topography and monuments of Athens and Attica.

The program was enriched by a number of special opportunities. Agora Fellows Stella and Stephen Miller again offered a series of sessions in excava-tion pottery, which was enthusiastically attended and singled out for praise more often than any of our activities. John Kroll gave an introductory lecture on numismatics at the Numismatic Collection, whetting the appetite of many for more study of this specialty. Richard Mason revived the idea of after-tea talks, held this year in the saloni of Loring Hall; faculty, Research Fellows, and Associate Members spoke to large, often capacity audiences, and the whole program, for which I can take not the slightest credit, was a huge success. Professor Vanderpool continued Friday and Saturday walks to favorite haunts, on which he never lacked the company of students with whom to share his enthusiasms.

Again, all but one of the Regular Members and a number of Associates will participate in a training session at Corinth; two Regular Members and four Associates will excavate during the regular campaign there, and others will work in Porto Cheli, Ischia, or Turkey. All Regular Members have, I am happy to say, submitted topics for School Papers, and this healthy exercise seems on its way to revival.

At least four Regular Members intend to remain in Athens another year, as do several Associates. Others return to graduate schools and teaching.

The annual Open Meeting of the School was held on March 15th. After my summary of the results of American excavations in 1971, Professor Vanderpool spoke on Frederick North's Athenian Sketchbook, a recent acquisition of the Gennadius Library. Professor Eliot kindly did most of the lecturing to groups outside the School, and the whole staff has helped in one way or another with the many visitors to the School.

With the Spring Term begun and excavations beginning, our work enters a new phase, and we look forward to seeing the greater number of visitors whom spring brings. In particular, the meeting of the Trustees in Athens in mid-May will provide an opportunity not only for them to see the changes in the School in the past three years but also for us to benefit from their fresh examination of all our activities.

RECOMMENDATIONS

What minor improvements I can suggest in operations and plant are embodied in my budget proposals, and I have no new project to place before you. I should like, on the contrary, to urge a note of caution.

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Recent years have seen considerable expansion of our responsibilities. Our physical plant is increased by a new excavation house in Corinth, a new house for offices at the Agora, and by the doubled size of the Gennadius Library; the Blegen house at 9 Plutarch Street is now maintained by the School while the Trustees consider its disposition. Our activities and interests have grown with resumption of full-scale excavation in the Agora, with more supplementary excavations and special projects, with accelerated acquisitions in the School Library, made possible by special funds, and with the receipt of special col-lections by the Gennadius Library. Though the number of Regular Members remains relatively constant, we serve an increasing number of Research Fellows, Associate Members, and visiting scholars, so that the" School family" has grown by nearly half in the last three years.

This expansion is all to the good, and it increases the usefulness of the School to its Co-operating Institutions and to scholarship in general. But its costs have yet to be determined, both in money and in reduced attention paid to formerly basic work of the School. Adding the employees necessary to operate our new facilities without increasing our expenses beyond reason deprives our whole Greek staff; the salaries I have budgeted are defensible but no longer generous and only barely competitive. There is little chance of increasing our faculty, especially if the budget must henceforth reckon with taxable salaries, and the present personnel must suffice. Under such conditions it appears to me no longer wise to embark on new projects in one area of the School's interest without considering both its central value to that area and its longer-range effect on our whole activity.

The situation is by no means yet desperate, but it is sufficiently serious that more thought might happily be given to priorities, both among and within our various programs. A report on the " Size and Scope of the School, " presented in 1965, dealt admirably with the problems of our Regular Session. Similar consideration might be given to guidelines for others of the School's operations, defining, for instance, general policy on the scope and aims of our excavations and on the areas to be strengthened by acquisitions in our two libraries.

With such guidelines at hand, the Director would have a better touchstone than his own immediate temper on which to test proposals that arise from day to day, and, I think, he would thus be better able to execute his duty of having " general charge of the School and its activities in Greece, carrying out the policies established by the Managing Committee." I, at least, would wel-come the advice of those better equipped than I to estimate its needs on the basic policies to be pursued in each activity.

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Respectfully submitted, JAMES R. McCREDIE Director

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN AND ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS OF THE SCHOOL

To the Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to submit the following report of the School Library for the period of April 1971 to December 1971, when I retired. The Assistant Librarians will report on the work accomplished during the entire year, until April1972.

Last April we had a staff consisting of Miss Sharon Kintner and Mrs. Eirene Zoi, together with Mrs. Efi Sakellaraki, who was engaged in bringing the topographical index of archaeological sites up to date. In June Mrs. Sakellaraki left to take charge of the workrooms of the Stoa of Attalos. In September Miss Kintner also left, for the United States and to our great regret. Through-out her year in Athens she had energetically been forwarding the work on the new catalogue, which has been in process now for several years. During the summer, Miss Demetra Andritsaki, a young graduate of the Athens Library School, was added to the staff as temporary cataloguer. She proved so excellent a worker that she has been re-engaged in the same capacity for the winter and spring of 1972. In September Mr. Thomas Jedele arrived as Assistant Librarian with a library degree from the University of Michigan, to take Miss Kintner's place as cataloguer. In October Miss Nancy Winter, close to a Ph.D. degree in archaeology at Bryn Mawr, began to work as Assistant Librarian, to undertake the varied duties of the daily administration of the Library. The three cataloguers have done so well that the new catalogue may be in use by the summer of this year, a whole year ahead of time. Miss Winter has done a detailed survey of the large number of books in the library of Professor Blegen, with a view to their best disposal, and has shown an admirable and immediate grasp of the activities involved in the running of the Library. All four members of the staff took a complete inventory of the books at Christmastime. The School is extremely fortunate in having engaged such efficient young people.

This autumn the librarians of the foreign archaeological Schools and the Greek Archaeological Society have produced supplementary lists of the holdings of periodicals of their respective libraries. The original list with its new supplement is proving invaluable. Three of the Schools are now exchang-ing cards of their new acquisitions of books.

Additions to the Library plant in the past year have been the installation of air conditioning (four machines) in the Reading Room, of a Weber repro-ducing machine in the basement for the duplication of catalogue cards, and of a new sectional cabinet for the card catalogue. The space allotted to the current

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periodicals awaiting completion before binding has been expanded, and the new periodicals assigned permanent (and labelled) places. The lighting in the upper part of the Stacks has been altered to prevent any possible danger of short circuit.

The excellent progress made in the work this year has shown that the Library, to be run efficiently, should (at least at present) not have less than three full-time people on its staff. " Ideally " this should consist of an archae-ologist or classicist, a librarian with professional training and a competent bilingual typist, all of whom would stay at the School over a period of years. Good bilingual typists, classicists with library experience, or librarians with classical training have been non-existent until very recently, and great momentum has been lost in the past by our necessary dependence on the periodic assistance of whomever happened to be available in Athens at the time, for a year and often less. Now that they do exist, however, economy in the question of professional training is not real economy, and constant changes of staff are no ecoriomy at all.

It is hard to thank adequately the people who have made the work of the Library possible. The three Directors, John L. Caskey, Henry S. Robinson, and James R. McCredie, and the Managing Committee have all considered the Library to be of first importance to the School, and their advice and support have been invaluable. I should also like to thank the members of the School who have given suggestions and help and the members of the Library staff, past and present, who have made life in the Library so rewarding. May the present staff and the School live long and prosper.

Respectfully submitted, MARY ZELIA PHILIPPIDES

Librarian of the School

I have the honor to submit the following report on the School Library's acquisitions for the year of April 1971 to March 1972.

The holdings of the Davis Library benefited amply this year by gifts above and beyond the annual budget. The most extensive of these was the library left to us by Carl Blegen, which has provided some 500 books and volumes of periodicals not previously in our collection, an innumerable set of off-prints from periodicals not part of our library, as well as many second copies of older publications which have become unavailable on the market today but are in constant demand by our readers. Many fairly complete sets of off-prints from periodicals are being bound into volumes, either according to author or by site, to provide ready access to articles otherwise scattered throughout different journals. All in all, perhaps 1000 new additions to our library come from the Blegen library.

With money from the Lucy Talcott Fund, several missing issues and some new sets of periodicals were purchased. Other investments enabled by this fund

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included Lane-Poole's Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum,· the Corpus papyrorum, Judaicarum,· Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia,· Dikaios, Enkomi, 1948-1958, to mention just a few.

A generous gift from the Kress Foundation is being used to acquire Thieme-Bekker's Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenen Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, among other things.

Besides these, countless individual authors have enriched our collection with copies of their works, for which we are greatly indebted. The annual budget has allowed us to keep abreast of the current periodicals and most essential new books published in Classics and archaeology, which are ever increasing ia number and price and which will require an even larger budget than this year's.

This year's good fortune-the accession of around 1300 volumes besides the Blegen books-has, however, brought our problem of lack of space to severe proportions, and means of remedying the situation are being sought. Even more desperate than need for book space at the present time is that of desk and table space for our readers and for the library staff. The work load of the library office has so increased over the years that even with 4 persons working in the office, one can hardly keep ahead. The fact that the offices were not designed with such a staff in mind has hindered considerably the efficient progress of daily tasks. Yet we hope that it will be possible both to continue with an enlarged staff and to provide adequate working space.

We have distributed to the other Schools and institutions of Athens the following publications of the School: J. Lawrence Angel, The People (Lerna, II), Oscar Broneer, The Temple of Poseidon (Isthmia, I), and Sara Immer-wahr, The Neolithic and Bronze Ages (Athenian Agora, XIII).

Respectfully submitted, NANCY A. WINTER Assistant Librarian

At last the recataloguing which Mrs. Philippides began in 1960 is nearing its end, thanks largely to the special funds which Mr. McCredie allotted to the Library this last year. With them we have been able to employ Miss D. N. Andritsaki as temporary second cataloguer and so, for the first time, to get decisively ahead of the routine work required by over 1500 new volumes each year. Miss Andritsaki recatalogued all the Greek literature, all the epigraphical works, and all that had been passed over before. This represents about 20-25 per cent. of the whole collection. Essentially only Latin literature remains to be redone, and then the alphabetizing and final adjustments of the new catalogue.

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Respectfully submitted, THOMAS P. ]EDELE Assistant Librarian

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY

To the Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to submit a report on the Gennadius Library for the period

April1971 to March 1972. The chief focus of interest during the year under review has been the building

program. Once the plans had been finally approved by all concerned, bids submitted for the construction, and the contract signed, work began in earnest: walls were breached, trees uprooted, and a series of mechanical monsters, each larger and more curiously articulated than the last, carried through the excava-tions with amazing speed. Ground was broken in the third week of May and already by July 30th the foundations were complete and the walls had risen high enough to permit the traditional hagiasmos to take place at ground level. The" dipterous" plan of the construction seemed to call for a double ceremony and the ritual blessing was performed first at the East wing and then repeated at the West.

As of late March 1972, the external structure is essentially complete and it is expected that the new wings will be formally dedicated in mid-May, while the Trustees are meeting in Athens. Meanwhile we are waiting for the stacks in the East wing to be readied so that the original building can be vacated fo r the installation of the new heating/ air-conditioning system and for some essential renovation. The Library will necessarily be closed to the public for at least some weeks while this work is in progress.

Despite the distraction and occasional inconveniences of the activity going on outside our windows, the Library has had a busy and productive year. The readers' tables are almost invariably crowded and we look forward to gaining extra space for readers when some of the display cases are moved into the West wing.

Books catalogued and accessioned from 20 March 1971 to 16 March 1972 amount to 1022 titles (in 1143 volumes ), of which 480 were gifts. While markedly clown from the 1355 titles of 1969/ 70 and the 1749 titles of 1970/ 71 , this year's figures reflect far more accurately our current rate of growth, uninfiatecl by any considerable carry-over from previous years. The great majority of our new acquisitions are, naturally, recent publications, but five percent of the total are books elated prior to 1801 ( 19 of the XVIth century, 10 of the XVIIth, and 23 of the XVIIIth) and a much larger number are of the XIXth century.

Virtuaily all sectors of the Library have been in some measure enriched. For

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the second year running we have been able to make significant additions of books from or relating to the Ionian Islands, especially for the period 1797-1864. In the field of Modern Greek literature we have embarked on a set program of collecting works of the leading contemporary and near-contem-porary writers, an area in which our holdings have hitherto, with few exceptions, been almost negligible. In view of the rising interest in America in Modern Greek Studies, this policy seems amply justified. Our collection of early Greek grammars is, by any standards, remarkable, beginning as it does with 10 of our 39 Greek incunabula, the earliest dated 1476. This year we were able to add three choice items : J. Ceporinus, Compendium grammaticae Graecae, Zurich, 1546 ; G. Fabricius, Syntaxis Graeca, Strasbourg, 1576; and N. Clenardus, Rudimenta linguae Graecae, Brescia, 15%. Of these particular editions no copies are recorded either in the British Museum or in the Cam-bridge University libraries.

The 150th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence was widely cele-brated in 1971. Many books, pictorial albums, and pamphlets were published on all aspects of the historic event and copies of most of these were presented to the Library. The contribution of foreign philhellenes to the Greek cause was admirably illustrated in three exhibitions, sponsored respectively by the Institut fran

REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY

To the Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honour to submit to you the following report on my activities since assuming my duties on July 1, 1971.

Because of a previous commitment, which the School generously allowed me to keep, my first period of residence was little more than three weeks, during which time my family arrived and we moved into Gennadeion East House. I then left for Anamur, a late Roman site on the southern coast of Turkey, east of Alanya, which is being excavated jointly by the University of Toronto and the l!niversity of British Columbia. I remained there until the end of August. It wtll take another three seasons of work to finish our study of the major standing buildings, and it is my hope to take part in the short four-week cam-~a~gn ~lanned for May-June this spring. My responsibilities here preclude par-ttctpatton for any longer period or in any other season.

From September until now I have been in Athens, assisting in the well-known program. I shared with the Director the trip to Central Greece and Thessaly, and I led the one to Olympia and the Southern Peloponnesus. Since Thanksgiving, Monuments and Topography of Athens and Friday trips have occupied much of my time. Finally, the Director and I took the members to Euboea for two days. In all of these activities, I have been encouraged and helped by my predecessor, Eugene Vanderpool, who has made available at all times his experience and knowledge. And on several occasions he has " done " the monument or trip with me the day before. Without such support, my first year would have been much harder, with many more mistakes. As it is, I have enjoyed it greatly, and I look forward to the future.

My own studies have centered mostly around my lectures. But I have still found time to complete an essay on the identification of the architect of the English Church ?f St. Paul and to begin another on the later history of the Tower of the Wmds. A lecture I gave just before leaving Canada on " John Galt: A Scotsman's View of Greece " is being printed in the first number of a new magazin.e called Omphalos. In the next two months I hope to complete some other assignments, long since promised !

:\1arch 13, 1972

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Respectfully submitted, C. W. J. ELIOT Professor of Archaeology

REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

To the Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to present to you the following account of my activities for the year 1971-1972. .

The greater part of the year I have devoted to preparation for the definitive publication of the Isthmia excavations. /sthmia, I, The Temple of Poseidon, appeared in print in the autumn of 1971, and the manuscript for Isthmia, II, Topography and Architecture, is now in the hands of the Publications Com-mittee. Both volumes are published by the American School of Classical Studies.

In addition to these major undertakings, I have written an article on ":Paul and the Pagan Cults at Isthmia "; this was published in the Paul Lapp memorial issue of Harvard Theological Review, LXIV, 1971, pp. 169-187. The October issue of the A.J.A. for 1971 carried my review of Theatri Classici in Asia Minore, 2, by Daria de Bernardi Ferraro.

In the course of the year I have lectured at Isthmi~ to several groups of students and visitors : members of the American School (regular and summer session), Greek Heritage Symposium, the International Olympic Academy, and others.

In December I attended the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America at Cincinnati, where I read a paper on " Starting Devices in Greek Stadia. "

Ancient Corinth March 17, 1972

Respectfully submitted, OSCAR BRONEER

REPORT OF THE FIELD DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE AGORA EXCAVATIONS

To the Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to report once more on my activities of the past year in connection with the School.

, As usual I spent the summer months in Athens pursuing my studies in the topography of the Agora, in consultation with those in charge of the new phase of the Agora excavations and in giving an occasional guided tour, e.g. to the students of the Summer Session. ·

In the course of the past winter on this side of the water I have lectured on various aspects of the Agora to four local Midwestern Societies of the Archae-ological Institute of America, to eight universities in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, to the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut and to the College of Wooster in Ohio.

The comprehensive volume on the Agora which I have written in collabora-· tion with R. E. Wychereley is now in page proof and is expected to appea; shortly as Agora, XIV.

April 17, 1972

Respectfully submitted, HOMER A. THOMPSON Professor of Archaeology (Agora)

·REPORT OF THE FIELD DIRECTOR OF THE AGORA EXCAVATIONS

The Director,

American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to submit the following report on the excavations in the Athenian Agora during 1971-72.

The long-standing commitment of the American School to the exploration of the Athenian Agora reached a significant milestone during the past year. May 25, 1971 marked the fortieth anniversary of the excavations, for on that same spring day just forty years before the first ground was broken in the area which we now know to lie just east of the Metroon. Over the years the enter-prise has proven to be one of the School's principal contributions to the advancement of archaeological knowledge, and it has absorbed the efforts of more than a hundred scholars. It may be well, however, to call to mind at this juncture what an extraordinary privilege it has been that successive govern-ments of Greece should permit foreign scholars to work so long and so freely in the heart of their modern capital. This is the kind of generous hospitality which those of us who know Greece well have come to consider typical of the country, but it is a pleasure nevertheless to acknowledge with warm gratitude our long indebtedness to our Greek hosts and colleagues. Indeed, the recent campaigns of excavation have been made possible largely because of the friendly spirit of co-operation which animates our relations with the Greek Service of Antiquities and Restoration. We have enjoyed at all times the keen interest and helpful support of the Inspector General of Antiquities, Professor Spyridon Marinatos, and of all the members of his department, but especially of Mr. George Dontas, Ephor of the First Archaeological District, which includes the Agora.

As in recent years, the archaeological work of the last season was financed entirely by the grant of the Ford Foundation given to the School in 1966. From the beginning of the new phase of the excavations in 1968 to the end of the fiscal year 1970-71, something over half of the Ford grant has been consumed. Enough remains, however, to see us through the campaigns of 1972 and 1973. It is a pleasure to record here our thanks to the Ford Founda-tion without whose financial support the new excavations could never have come to fruition. Financial assistance of a different sort was received once again from the Greek Government which turned over to the School for excavation in the spring of 1971 another block of 8 properties acquired by expropriation at the expense of the Government.

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STAFF

During the season of 1971, the Agora staff numbered some 24 regular members half of whom were directly concerned with the progress of the current excavations. Three excavators were continuously in charge of sections in the field: Mrs. Stella Grobe! Miller, Mr. Stephen G. Miller, and Mr. John McK. Camp II. Miss Susan Rotroff supervised the recovery of marbles from the demolition of modern houses in the eastern block. Mr. John H. Kroll con~ tinued to have charge of the numismatic department and divided his time between the identification and recording of newly found coins and the study of older material.

The architectural work of the season was in the capable hands of Mr. Willia~ B. Dinsmoo~, Jr. who produced a fine series of plans and drawings record111g all the architectural remains uncovered during the season. Mr. John Travlos, in addition to general supervision of the architectural department, took charge of the conservation and landscaping of the excavated areas during the autumn, in the absence of the undersigned. The architects were assisted by Mrs. :rel~n Besi, who also busied herself with numerous drawings of objects for publicatiOn. Mr. Eugene Vanderpool, Jr. was responsible for all the photography of the season both in the field and in the studio. In a season whi~h was especially rich in finds the Agora catalogue performed yeoman serv1ce. Mrs. Poly Demoulini was in charge of the Records Department and was assisted by Miss Susan Rotroff and Miss Ellen Reeder. It is with great regret that we must record here Mrs. Demoulini's decision to step down from her post as Secretary of the Agora Excavations at the end of the season. Her succes~or, Mrs. Efi Sakellaraki, joined the Agora staff in August 1971 and now. s1t_:; at the nerve-center of the Stoa of Attalos. An experienced archae-ologist 111 ~er own ri~ht, Mrs. Sakellaraki has already contributed significantly to the efficient operatiOn of the Agora, and she is ably assisted by Miss Soula Adracta. Thanks are due here also to Mrs. Marian McCredie who volunteered her help to the Records Department from time to time during the year.

Side b~ side with the excavating staff, a group of senior scholars pursued resea~ch 111 the Stoa of Attalos, in an effort to advance the systematic study of matenal from 40 years of excavation. These included Homer A. Thompson ( ~r.ch~tecture and topography), Eugene Vanderpool ( ostraka, graffiti and dlp111h), Do roth~ ~- Thompson ( terracottas), Virginia Grace assisted by Andreas Demouhms and Maria Petropoulakou (wine jars), Alison Frantz (post-classica~ antiquities), Evelyn B. Harrison (sculpture), Evelyn L . Smith-son ( geometnc pottery), G. Roger Edwards (Hellenistic pottery). The Agora wa~ also visited more. briefly by several scholars at work on the publication of vanous classes of obJects: Mabel L. Lang (graffiti and dipinti), Gladys D. Weinberg (glass), John Hayes (Roman pottery).

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STORAGE A ND OFFICE FACILITIES

As the operations of the Agora have expanded in recent years, the office space, storage and working facilities of the Stoa of Attalos have frequently been sorely pressed, especially during the summer months of the excavating season. During the spring and summer of 1971, measures were taken to alleviate this situation. A small house at 6 Polygnotou Street, one of the buildings in the eastern block turned over to the School for excavation, was not demolished but retained and remodeled to serve as a supplementary excavation house. Its three upstairs rooms have been converted into offices. On the ground floor are mending and workrooms, while the courtyards have been fitted out with tables for sorting pottery and shelves for storage of marbles and sherd containers. Thus the excavators of the eastern zone have their offices and workrooms virtually beside their trenches. One of the offices is now occupied by Mr. John Travlos who was responsible for overseeing the remodeling of the building.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

The field work of 1971 was conducted on an extensive scale. For five months, from March 22, 1971 to late August, a labor force averaging 61 men worked constantly in four different sections. Our principal efforts were con-centrated in the two northern sections along Hadrian Street and in the late Roman Philosophical School on the slopes of the Areopagus. At the northwest corner of the market square, the area just opposite the Stoa Basileios was cleared to classical levels and thoroughly investigated under the supervision of Mrs. Stella Grobe! Miller. This area included the actual corner of the Agora where the Panathenaic Way formed an intersection with the street bordering the west side of the square. Here there came to light in the closing days of the season a small sanctuary of the classical period, which consisted of a square enclosure surrounding a rough, unworked stone altar. A row of thin poros slabs was set on edge along a stone sill and may have been crowned originally by a stone coping: The tiny enclosure measures ca. 3 m. on a side and was not provided with an entrance; it formed rather a low parapet to protect the altar-stone. On top of the stone a large deposit of votive offerings was uncovered in the positions in which they had been thrown into the shrine in the closing decades of the 5th century B.c.

Among the dedications were great numbers of terracotta loomweights, several babies' feeding cups, and some pieces of women's jewelry, which suggest that the deity or hero to whom the shrine was dedicated may have been female. By far the majority of the pottery consisted of drinking cups of various shapes and miniature lekythoi. Also in the votive deposit was found the lovely

·marble head of a herm dating to the late 5th century B.c., which was probably broken from its shaft and deposited in the shrine in 415 B.C. After the end of

· the 5th century, votive offerings were not allowed to accumulate in the little

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enclosure, but they were evidently gathered up and deposited in the neighboring public well. This produced literally hundreds of pots and other objects of exactly the same types as those found in the sanctuary, although of later date. The feminine character of the dedications together with the topographical position of the shrine suggests the possibility that it should be recognized as the Leokorion, the shrine of the daughters of Leos. But this conclusion is tentative and may or may not be confirmed by further digging in and about the enclosure during the season of 1972.

In the area across the railroad from the Stoa of Attalos, excavations super-vised by Mr. Stephen G. Miller yielded more evidence concerning the plan of the great basilica which came to close the northeast corner of the Agora during the reign of Hadrian. The whole south end of the ruinous structure bas now been cleared, and foundations for its exterior walls and interior peristyle have been exposed. Beneath the floors of the basilica, earlier stratified deposits revealed remains of small classical buildings, doubtless private shops, which had occupied the site from the 5th century B.c. until Roman times. Parts of two such buildings have been explored, each with a row of five shops along the street bordering the north side of the square.

On the slopes of the Areopagus, Mr. John McK. Camp completed his excavation of the late Roman Philosophical School which he had begun in 1970. This great rambling structure is now seen to have comprised some 25 rooms ranged around two peristyles. It was built initially in the late years of the 4th century after Christ; but the building was extensively remodeled in the first quarter of the 6th century, at which time it seems to have fallen into Christian hands. A well closed at the time of remodeling yielded three marble portrait busts and a statue of Herakles about half life-size. Best of the group was a splendid portrait of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. This find brings to 12 the number of marble sculptures recovered in the excavation of the building ; and it is clear that they formed an ancient collection of antiques of various periods gathered together to decorate the Philosophical School.

During the summer of 1971, we commenced excavation of a large block of properties lying between the Stoa of Attalos and the Roman Market. Time permitted the clearing of only about one-third of the block, and our efforts were thus concentrated on the western portion which overlay the Library of Pantainos. The eastern half of the library including its principal reading room was laid bare to the level of the Roman floor ; and parts of the colonnade and shops which lined the street leading to the Roman Market were also cleared. Much work remains to be done on the Library of Pantainos in 1972, and the eastern parts of the block have yet to be cleared from the modern surface.

PUBLICATIONS

During 1971, the program of publications of the Athenian Agora progressed significantly. In addition to preliminary publications of the current excavations another volume of the series of monographs also appeared: Agora, Xlli, Th;

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Neolithic and Bronze Ages by Sara A. Immerwahr. It is also a pleasure to be able to report that four other volumes are at present in press: Agora, XIV, The Agora of Athens, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center by Homer A. Thompson and R. E. Wycherley; Agora, XV, Inscriptions, The Athenian Councillors by Benjamin D. Meritt and John S. Traill; Agora, XX, The Church of the Holy Apostles by Alison Frantz and Agora, XVII, Inscrip-tions, Funerary Monuments by Donald W. Bradeen. The more popular series of picture books was also augmented in 1971 with the publication of An Ancient Shopping Center: the Athenian Agora (Picture Book No. 12) by Dorothy B. Thompson.

At the present writing, as we are just commencing another campaign of excavations in the field, we can look back over 1971 as another year of significant discoveries in the Athenian Agora. But perhaps the most important fact which has emerged from the last two seasons of excavation is the quantity of new information about all facets of the ancient city which can still be re-covered through archaeological excavation. It has become increasingly apparent that massive material remains still lie awaiting discovery beneath the streets and basements of modem Athens.

Athens, March 26, 1972

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Respectfully submitted, T. LESLIE SHEAR, JR. Field Director

REPORT OF THE FIELD DIRECTOR OF THE CORINTH EXCAVATIONS

To the Director,

.American School of Classical Studies at Athens:

I have the honor to submit the following report of the Corinth Excavations .for the year of April, 1971, to April, 1972.

STAFF

This year there were five regular members of the excavation staff: Miss Sharon Herbert and Dr. Mary Sturgeon, who together shared the duties of Corinth secretary; Miss Joan Fisher, the excavation numismatist; Dr. Nancy Bookidis, who continued her excavation and study of the Demeter sanctuary, and Charles K. Williams, the Field Director. Part-time help was supplied by Misses Sarah Bancroft of the American School, 1970-71, Dorothy Monahan of the University of Washington, M. Pounder of Bryn Mawr, and Mr. N. Vasels of the University of California at Riverside. The technical staff members of the museum were Messrs. N. Didaskalou, A. Papaioannou, and G. Arberoris; Miss Bouzaki has worked for two months cleaning and preserving sculpture from the collection. The general excavation photographs are still taken by the Athenian photographers, I. Ioannidou and L. Bartzioti. The foreman remains Photios Notis, assisted by D. Papaioannou. The every-day amenities, both when we were in our temporary quarters in the town and since we have moved back to the new dig house, have been managed by Mr. Paul Daphnis, aided by two full time maids, Maria Karagiannis and Maria Emmanouil. Whatever thanks I can give to all of those who have worked at Corinth are little in com-parison with the amount of energy, good spirit, and hard work that I have received from them in the past year. In ways it has been a difficult year, with much of it spent in temporary quarters and overcrowding and with a flood of water and mud in the museum basement and on the site; but despite all, it has been a good year, crowned by the opening of the new dig house.

HILL HOUSE

The dedication of the new excavation house, built on the site of the old house that had been donated by Horace Oakley, was celebrated on December 1, 1971. The new building has been named in memory of Bert Hodge Hill, who is closely associated both by Greeks and Americans with the Corinth Excavations of the American School. Hill House contains all of the facilities of Oakley House and adds three bedrooms, an architect's office, a separate library, and a

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~ell-equipped photographic dark-room, as well as new servi~e ro~ms at~d storage space. The most comforting feature for the year-round mhab1tants 1s,

however, the central heating. . . The dedication was attended by over 110 friends of the Connth Excavatwns,

among whom were Professor S. Marinatos, Inspector General of the Archae-ological Service, the Metropolitan of the Cori~thia, who bless~d the house, the Governor of the Carinthia, Mrs. Tasca, the w1fe of the Amencan Ambassador to Greece, and the Directors of the British, French, Swedish, and American

Schools. The staff and visitors are enjoying and profiting from the generosity of a

number of gifts made to the new dig house. Special thanks are due the Alumni Association of the School, which gave $500.00 for the purchase of a new dining table. This has enabled us to retire the old one to use in the library. Professor Eugene Vanderpool has given the dig library his volumes o~ the Corpus V asarum, and the library has been further enlarged by the gtft of reference books and periodicals from the library of Elizabeth and Carl Blegen. Professor and Mrs. Boulter have presented the house with a gift of money ·which has enabled us to purchase new light fixtures and other necessities for the expanded facilities. An anonymous gift, specifically for ~he c~mplete fur-nishing · and equipping of the excavation dark-room, was g1ven m honor of Professor Alfred Bellinger, under whose incentive the construction of the new

dig house was initiated. · . . . Orie other gift, given in 1969 by the Cumberland FoundatiOn, IS mak~ng

'possible the planting of trees within the archaeological zone. This landscapmg is being done slowly, for the trees are being planted only in backfilled areas where excavation has gone to bedrock. The gift of $500.00 does insure, how-ever future shade in what has been an almost totally sun-drenched site.

The extent of the enthusiasm and generosity shown to the Corinth Excava-tions recently is much less easy to express in a report than to enjoy while working here. I expect that the 1972 spring training sessi~ns, being parti.ci-pated in by 19 members of the School, will be more effic1ent and effective because of the new facilities, and the 1972 regular session, starting on May 8, will profit accordingly.

EXCAVATIONS

The American School Excavation during the spring of 1971 was centered on two areas of Ancient Coiinth, the first in the Demeter sanctuary on the north slope of Acrocorinth, the second in the area west of the bema and north of the South Stoa under the Roman levels of the forum. In the Demeter sanctury Dr. Bookidis was assisted by a first year student, Miss Cynthia Thompson. In the forum area supervisors were Misses Sarah Bancroft and Sharon Herbert and Messrs. Michael Goldstein and Richard Mason. All were first year students, except Miss Herbert, the Capps Fellow of .the Sch~ol. The· purpose of the forum excavation was to gather more general mformatwn

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as to the sort of buildings lying in this area before the South Stoa was built. A series of well-built fourth century structures was found, beneath which were fifth century levels, and, beneath all, buildings constructed in the Middle Protocorinthian period. The area around the underground shrine, dug in 1936-1937, was expanded; indications suggest that the area may have had a cult of Artemis and, perhaps, a cult of Poseidon. Much pottery was recovered during the season and, despite the continued, concentrated efforts of our three potmenders, some material will have to be stored without being completely mended in order to ready the workrooms for the 1971-72 season.

Summer excavation was conducted by Case Western Reserve University under the supervision of Professor Henry S. Robinson. The area examined was along the north slope of Temple Hill. More of the remains of the prede-cessor of the archaic temple were found, and the roadway that stretches northeast-southwest has been further exposed. A deposit of Corinthian aryballoi produced some of the best finds of the area for the season.

During July and into August Dr. Bookidis continued her exploration in the Demeter Sanctuary. The Corinth field director and Mr. Michael Katzev, of Oberlin College, continued investigation within the limits of the spring dig with detailed examination of specific areas.

In September, Professor James Wiseman of the University of Texas returned from his excavation at Stobi in Yugoslavia to complete excavation of the Roman gymnasium in Corinth. In order to make available to him the maxi-mum number of local workmen, we suspended the planned fall excavation of the American School in the Demeter sanctuary. Professor Wiseman continued work until the end of November.

PUBLICATION

The publication of the 1970 excavation in the Roman forum has appeared in Hesperia, XL, 1971, fasc. 1; the results of the 1971 excavation will appear in Hesperia, XLI, 1972, fasc. 2. The report of the Demeter sanctuary dig