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On November 20 2012, the Greek Minister of Culture, Mr. Tzavaras,

inaugurated the EEA Grants project, “Reviving the Ancient Agora, the Birthplace of Democ-racy.”

The upper floor of the Stoa of Attalos has reopened to the pub-lic with a sculpture exhibition. In the impressive open colon-nade, 52 pieces of ancient sculp-ture have been newly restored and are now on display, includ-ing an important collection of Roman portraits. Additionally, a new transparent wall enables visitors to view the areas where antiquities are stored. The reno-vation doubles the permanent exhibition space accessible to the public and provides an area for temporary exhibitions, educa-tional programs, and lectures.

In another component of the EEA project, over 300,000 exca-vation records, photographs and negatives, drawings and maps, and archeological notebooks are in process of being digitized; altogether, they document the American School’s work in the Agora over many decades.

The aim of the digital project is to provide scholars and the interested public access to the complete archives of the Agora excavations, extending back to 1931. Access will be possible on the web but also using portable devices, such as the iPad.

Already a prototype is being used during excavation by field-workers in the trenches. Using a WIFI connnection, excavators have access to the records and at the same time are inputting data from the field.

Further developments will allow visitors to the Agora to access information while touring the museum and the site. Agora Excavations Deputy Director Craig Mauzy notes, “The elec-tronic resources we have devel-

EEA Grants Project “Reviving the Ancient Agora, the Birthplace of Democracy” Inaugurated at the Stoa of Attalos

oped with the aid of the EEA grant will permit all who visit our site to re-imagine the past.”

This project was imple-mented by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the First Ephorate of Pre-historic and Classical Antiqui-ties of the Hellenic Ministry of

U.S. Ambassador Daniel Smith (center) and other dignitaries walk through the new sculpture exhibit in the renovated Stoa of Attalos.

Culture and Tourism. Having a total cost of almost one million euros, the project was funded by the EEA Financial Mechanisms together with the Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Transport and Networks with the overall objective to preserve and promote the cultural heritage

and historic role of the Athenian Agora.

In commemoration of the event, an illustrated, full-color 72-page booklet was developed detailing the project. It can be read at www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/Spiffs/eea-project-feature2.

Ron Stroud, Klio Distin-guished Professor of Classical Languages and

Literature Emeritus at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, is the 2013 recipient of the Aristeia Award for Distinguished Alumni/ae of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The award, now in its third year, honors alumni/ae who have provided exceptional service to the School and have contributed in extraordinary ways to the School’s mission in teaching, research, archaeological explora-tion, or publication.

Long an active participant in the School community, Professor Stroud first came to Athens as a Seymour Fellow in 1959 and was a Member of the School in 1959–63, 1964–65 (Capps Fellow), 1969–70, and 1973–74. He has served as Secretary of the School (from 1960 to 1963) and as a member of the Managing Com-mittee (since 1969), and shaped the careers of numerous classical scholars as Whitehead Professor in 1993–94 and as Mellon Pro-fessor from 1996 to 1999.

Professor Stroud has done extensive work excavating and

Stroud to Receive Aristeia Award at AIA Meeting

Ron Stroud in Thessaly, 1960.Photo courtesy Patricia Lawrence

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The excavation season is an obvious focus of activity at the School’s Corinth Excavations, but it’s only one aspect of work at Corinth. Here, Director Guy D.R. Sanders reports on the plethora of activities that have recently occu-pied Corinth staff and scholars.

In 2011 the Emeritus Direc-tor of the Corinth Excava-tions, Dr. C.K. Williams, II,

directed excavations in the West Hall of the Theater at Corinth. A footnote to Corinth II p. 53, in which Richard Stillwell reported “vast quantities of sheep and cattle” bones, tempted Williams out of retirement to investigate how these bones related to ac-tivities in the theater. Williams uncovered more of the bone deposit, finding that it dated between A.D. 450 and 600 and had nothing to do with the the-ater per se. Well over a ton of bones were recovered, making it one of the largest deposits of its kind in the Mediterranean.

Study of the bones was un-dertaken by Professor Michael MacKinnon in the summer of 2011 and, with Regular Mem-ber Flint Dibble, in the spring

Beyond the Digging at Corinth Excavations

of 2012. MacKinnon identified the bone as adult cattle and adult goats, in a ratio of about 4:1. The bones relate to large-scale butchery and processing events and complement another of the biggest assemblages of bone in the Mediterranean, also excavated by Williams, in the shops in the East of the Theater excavations three decades ago. The amount of bone is so great that it has enabled MacKinnon to develop a methodology for distinguishing between cow and bull bones. Williams is currently studying the ornate colored marble revetment recovered from the West Hall and now has a good idea how the room was decorated.

Meanwhile, Director Guy Sanders took the opportunity to complete re-reading of the hundreds of contexts of pottery saved from the excavations of Henry Robinson in the early 1960s, located south of the South Stoa. This material has now been dated and scores of pieces have been drawn and photographed.

In 2012, excavation south of the South Stoa continued a fresh section excavated im-

mediately to the south of Rob-inson’s trenches. The work was designed to better understand and interpret Robinson’s field record. It was clear that his excavators had faced a complex problem. A Mr. Giambouranis, the owner of a nineteenth-century house over the founda-tions of the “Turkish House” adjacent to both excavations, seems to have been something of an archaeologist as well: he dug a number of large, deep pits, perhaps looking for wells, in which he re-deposited quan-tities of mendable pottery from much earlier contexts, along with scraps of pottery from his own household trash. In one case the re-deposition was of third-century round-mouthed pitchers and in another an early-thirteenth-century as-semblage of wares for cooking, storage, and table. An undis-turbed thirteenth-century dump contained several restorable glazed pitchers and fragments of gilded bone used to decorate a small box, of which the clasps were also preserved. Two depos-its produced quantities of rare material, both imported cook-ing ware and amphoras dating

to the “Dark Age” of the eighth and ninth centuries.

Also in 2012, Sanders began conservation and consolidation of the Frankish Area excavated in the 1980s and 1990s. Exist-ing walls were pointed with a harmoniously colored mortar and robbed-out walls were rebuilt to above-ground level. The interior spaces contained by the conserved masonry were also treated. So far the team has completed about one-half of the large courtyard building report-ed in the pages of Hesperia.

Corinth has been busier than ever with visiting scholars. The 2012–13 Kress Publica-tions Fellow, James Wiseman, is working on the publication of the Gymnasium and Fountain of the Lamps and is also assist-ing the EPKA with their efforts to drain and clear the Fountain of the Lamps. Corinth Excava-tions Assistant Director Emerita

Conservation of Frankish area in progress.

Professor Michael MacKinnon and Regular Member Flint Dibble studying the animal bones from the 2011 Theater excavations.

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While the 2012 AIA/APA convention was going on in

Philadelphia last January, an important meeting occurred at a nearby Chinese restaurant. The members of the ASCSA Class of 1986–87, sometimes known as “The Year of Incandescent Bril-liance,” gathered to hold their 25th anniversary reunion. Many had since moved on to other careers and would not have oth-erwise made the wintertime trip to frigid Pennsylvania, but so im-portant to them were the experi-ences they had and the personal connections they made during their time in Athens that all but a few of the original group managed to attend, with some traveling from as far as Chicago and Kansas City. The former classmates reminisced about their adventures, which included climbing down into the very gruesome depths of the Kaiadas and up to the dizzying heights of Lykaion (where, owing to dense fog, they saw neither their own shadows nor much else); they traded stories about the recently departed Emmett Bennett, who was a Whitehead Professor that year; and they passed around a cell phone to extend greetings to the other Whitehead, Gerry Schaus.

This gathering fortuitously coincided with another develop-ment taking shape in meeting rooms at the convention. ASCSA Executive Committee Member Paula Perlman, along with Alum-ni/ae Council members Mary Dabney, Liz Langridge-Noti, and Heather Grossman, were launch-ing a fundraising initiative for the School designed to capitalize on the personal connections that School Members maintain with people in their yearly cohort. Their plan was to seek out vol-unteers from each regular year and each Summer Session to act as grassroots organizers. These “class agents” would take the

lead in seeking out and contact-ing as many people as possible from their group and encourag-ing them to contribute to the School in the name of their year/session.

When they heard about this initiative, the Year of Incandes-cent Brilliance decided to serve as a model that other groups could strive to emulate. Under the leadership of class agent Nicolle Hirschfeld, the group quickly put together a contribu-tion of over $4,000 to the School in the name of the Class of 1986–87.

Contributions to this effort can now be made through the School’s website. Anyone inter-ested in serving as class agent for his/her year is invited to contact any of the organizers: Mary Dab-ney (mdabney@brynmawr.edu); Paula Perlman (perlman@austin.utexas.edu); or Liz Langridge-Noti (langridgenoti@acg.edu).

— Bill HuttonASCSA Managing Committee

Member (College of William and Mary), and Regular Member,

ASCSA Class of 1986–87

Class Contribution Sets Shining Example

Then and now: The Class of 1986–87 in action in Greece; reunion at the AIA meeting in January 2012.

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Nancy Bookidis and her team are working diligently on the Demeter Sanctuary finds. Pro-fessor Steve Ellis (University of Cincinnati) and his colleagues are using Corinth as a base to finish up their study of the East Field at Isthmia. They, with the individual visiting scholars working on Corinthian material, have increased traffic at Corinth fourfold over the past ten years.

Our understanding of Corinth’s archaeology has changed immensely with the public rescue excavations taking place in the plain. Construction

of the railway added significant stretches of the vast North Cem-etery with graves dating from the Sub-Mycenaean to the Late Roman period and Corinthia’s first Mycenaean tholos tomb. The most recent project, the widening of the highway to Pa-tras, has revealed a long section of the Archaic fortification wall, a sprawling Mycenaean settle-ment, several Geometric houses, and a spectacular painted tomb of the third century C.E. Two illegally excavated kouroi from Tenea are now in the Ephoreia’s workrooms undergoing conser-

vation. These new finds need to be displayed, and the School will be vacating the sculpture storage in the museum, which was originally designed as a gal-lery, to provide space.

Visit www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/Spiffs/a-corinthian-summer-2012 for a behind-the-scenes look at the Corinth Excavations’ busy, fascinating, and productive summer, as described by Assistant Direc-tor Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst.

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Co-directors of the Excavations at Kenchreai, Joseph L. Rife (Vanderbilt University) and Elena Korka (Greek Ministry of Cul-ture), share here an exciting over-view of the results of their excava-tions on the Koutsongila Ridge. See www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/Spiffs/report-on-kenchreai-2012 for a more detailed preliminary report and slide show.

A new picture of a thriv-ing commercial center in Roman Greece is emerg-

ing from the recent collaborative Helleno-American excavations at Kenchreai, conducted under the auspices of the ASCSA. The work of the team has concen-trated on the Koutsongila Ridge, which formed the periphery of the ancient settlement north of the harbor from Early Roman to Early Byzantine times. The campaign of intensive digging in 2007–2009 produced many important discoveries, which have come into focus as the study and publication phase approaches its conclusion in 2013. Among the highlights are lavish buildings perhaps repre-senting a residential quarter, a ritual-structure and pyre debris on the slope above the town, a sprawling cemetery, and a very significant Late Antique octago-nal building. These discoveries shed important new light on life and death at a small but diverse and prosperous Greek port-town that flourished during the Roman era and survived into the Early Byzantine period.

In the southeastern part of Koutsongila the team found several impressive buildings of Early to Middle Roman date (ca. first–third/fourth centuries A.D.). The surviving structures that were uncovered formed the back rooms of elaborate build-ings, perhaps houses, facing the sea. The central room in the plan of one building dis-

Kenchreai Excavation Results: A Preview

played an exquisite polychrome mosaic: a carpet of geometric borders increases in complex-ity inward to an emblema with the enwreathed head of Silenus. Comparable to some of the finest mosaics of the second and third centuries, both in the Corinthia and in western Asia Minor, the Silenus mosaic at Kenchreai is distinguished by its fine craftsmanship and its dem-onstration of prevailing tastes in the mosaic art of the eastern provinces.

A similar quality of domes-tic decoration is evident in the structures located ca. 25 m to the south, where excavation over three seasons revealed a large, richly appointed complex that could have extended as far as 30 m eastward and downhill to a now submerged sea-wall. The northern extension of the complex seems to represent an annex with a utilitarian purpose, while the plan of the southern extension is obscured by later buildings. The central area, however, is well represent-ed by walls in fine masonry and an intact stratigraphic sequence. Here a series of chambers—a

corridor with a well, a large water tank, and a room with a deep water channel—constitut-ed a hydraulic installation that apparently distributed water to a bath downslope. Destruction deposits reveal that before the late fourth century the build-ing was lavishly decorated with wall-painting, polychrome mo-saic pavement, and revetment in exotic marble. The housewares and the faunal remains indicate a diverse diet that was rich in seafood. Together, the buildings in this area thus seem to have belonged to an opulent residen-tial quarter on the edge of the port that extended northeast up the coast from the harbor.

Resourceful residents of Roman Kenchreai erected elaborate chamber tombs in a prominent location along the seaward slope of Koutsongila. These tombs have been known at the site since the early twen-tieth century and have been frequently disturbed by looters. Of the 30 so far identified in the vicinity, most conform to a standard plan: a small, gabled building erected at the surface over a descending stairway,

which entered a rectangular chamber underground, with immured burial compartments in the form of niches for the deposition of cinerary urns and loculi for the inhumation of intact bodies. Excavation inside and around three tombs has uncovered abundant evidence for funerary rituals and tomb design in the Early to Middle Roman periods.

On a prominent bedrock outcropping was situated a rectangular building with walls plastered in white, a bench or platform along the back wall, and a large circular pit at its center. The structure’s visible situation, its fine construc-tion, and its main features all suggest some ritual purpose. More secure evidence for ritual activities came to light on the adjacent slope, where pyre de-bris that had been dumped into shallow, irregular depressions were uncovered. To the best of the team’s knowledge, this field of cremation debris is the first of its kind documented in Roman Greece.

By late antiquity, the use of the Koutsongila Ridge dramati-cally changed. The impressive houses, tombs, and ritual build-ing that had distinguished the ridge during the Early to Middle Roman periods were in a state of disuse and disrepair, if not total destruction, in the fifth to sixth centuries. From then into the seventh century, the eastern slope and the ruins of earlier centuries were covered by a cemetery of Christian graves. These burials reflect the evolu-tion of local funerary practices over the long term. Most were simple cist graves cut into the bedrock displaying simple epi-taphs and containing multiple individuals and, occasionally, a few vessels, personal ornaments, or coins. Study of the skeletal

The back (west) wall inside the chamber of Tomb 7 during excavation (2007).

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remains of at least 130 individu-als interred in these graves re-veals that relatives were interred together, and that local residents during this era lived vigorous lives, and many lived into their fourth or fifth decade.

One Late Antique building on Koutsongila was exceptional: Located conspicuously on the promontory above the north mole, and built over the opulent complex described earlier, was an Octagon. Inside its massive walls were angular piers that divided an outer ambulatory from an interior chamber, the former paved with tiles and the latter with a geometric mosaic. The lower interior walls were sheathed in bluish-gray schis-tous marble carved in arched panels with fleur-de-lis motifs. Excavation uncovered several

In its 81st year, Hesperia has been honored with the Co-dex Award from the Council

of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), an Affiliated Organiza-tion of the Modern Language Association (MLA). The Codex Award recognizes the best jour-nal covering any discipline for any period prior to 1500.

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Tracey Cullen, editor of Hesperia for 14 years, will retire at the end of June 2013. She will be dearly missed. A search for the next Hesperia editor is ongoing. A feature story on Cullen and her accomplishments as the editor of the School’s award-winning jour-nal will be forthcoming.

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The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Supplement 46), by Managing Committee Member

Kathleen M. Lynch (University of Cincinnati), has won the 2013 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the AIA in January 2013.

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Two new monographs were pub-lished this fall. Hunters, Heroes, Kings: The Frieze of Tomb II at Vergina, by Hallie Franks, is the third volume in the Getty Foun-dation–funded Ancient Art and Architecture in Context series. In it, Franks considers the painted frieze as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the pub-lic self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding Alexander the Great.

Ian McPhee and Elizabeth Pemberton’s volume, Late Clas-sical Pottery in Ancient Corinth: Drain 1971-1 in the Forum South-west (Corinth VII.6), describes

Publications Receive Honors; Cullen Set to Retire in 2013the largest deposit of pottery from the 4th century B.C. ever found in the city, along with coins, metal, and stone objects. The findings are important for understanding the function of the Classical Buildings I and II (and others), and for the chro-nology of the renovation pro-gram that included the construc-tion of the South Stoa.

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A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Chora Museum, by Carl Blegen and Marion Rawson, revised by Jack Davis and Cyn-thia Shelmerdine, is back in print thanks to a generous grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehis-tory (INSTAP).

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Readers attending the January Joint Annual Meeting of the Ar-chaeological Institute of America and American Philological As-

sociation in Seattle are invited to visit the ASCSA’s space in the book exhibit to meet Andrew Reinhard, Director of Publica-tions, Carol Stein, Managing Editor, and Tracey Cullen, and to see what’s new for ASCSA Publications.

monumental burials with rich offerings alongside the build-ing’s outer walls. Foundation and floor deposits indicate that it was built in the early to mid-fifth century and used until around the mid-sixth century. Although the building is still under study, its location, design, and the associated graves point to its possible identification as the magnificent tomb of a local holy person, cleric, or grandee. Tombs of this type were erected in Asia Minor and the Near East, but the Octagon at Ken-chreai would be an unusual case in the known sepulchral archi-tecture of Late Antique Greece.

A fuller understanding of Roman Kenchreai has emerged from exploration of Kout-songila, which has opened a window onto the settlement

stretching from its outer limits into its heart. Residents ex-ploited the natural terrain and topographic prominence of the ridge in creating domestic space and performing ritual activi-ties. The local community was small but affluent, and it shared in the styles and interests of an elite culture embraced by urban aristocrats across the Roman East. The port did not collapse in late antiquity; as its topog-raphy evolved, the people of Kenchreai continued to invest in impressive and innovative buildings, such as the rare Octagon.

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The Silenus mosaic and architecture in Area B: view to east (2007).

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In July, the School welcomed Nicholas Blackwell as Assis-tant Director of the American

School, a new twelve-month administrative position. Mr. Blackwell, whose appointment was approved by the ASCSA Managing Committee in May, will serve a three-year term at the School.

Mr. Blackwell was a Regular Member of the School in 2006–07, a Student Associate Member in 2008 and 2009, and a Senior Associate Member in 2011. Most

recently, he was Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Junior Research Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Re-search, Jerusalem. He holds a B.A. from Davidson College and an M.A. from Bryn Mawr Col-lege, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr in May 2011.

Mr. Blackwell brings to this position a wealth of administra-tive skills, relationships with both American and international

scholars, and general experience of excavating, traveling, and researching in Greece. Among his numerous awards and fellow-ships are the AIA’s Pomerance Fellowship; CAORC Multi-country Fellowship for Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey; and the Parks Fellowship from CAARI. His archaeological field experi-ence includes Mitrou (where he ran the Mitrou field school), Athienou (Cyprus), Kos, and Corinth; he also has extensive museum experience.

In April, Charles K. Wil-liams II, ASCSA Trustee and Field Director Emeritus of the Corinth Excavations, was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Soci-ety, the oldest learned society in the United States.

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At a ceremony on the island of Kythera in June, George L. Huxley, former Director of the Gennadius Library (1986–1989), was honored by the Mayor of Kythera at a ceremony marking a half-century since the beginning of joint work by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British School at Athens on the island. Huxley, who co-directed (with Nicolas Cold-stream) excavations at Kastri, gave a lecture on the island as it was fifty years ago, and there was an exhibition of photo-graphs by dig photographer Ivan Strahan.

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Managing Committee Member Peter Krentz, W.R. Grey Pro-fessor of Classics and History at Davidson College, was the recipient in October of the col-lege’s Thomas Jefferson Award,

which honors a faculty member who by personal influence, teaching, writing, and scholar-ship promotes the high ideals of Thomas Jefferson.

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Former School Director Jack L. Davis has been elected as one of six external members of the newly formed Presidential Coun-cil of the National and Kapodis-trian University of Athens. The Council, formed in response to an act of Parliament, is charged with broad oversight of the uni-versity’s structure, operation, quality, and internationalization.

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Managing Committee Member Sheila Dillon (Duke University) will become the next Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology in 2013, following the highly successful editorship of Managing Committee Member Naomi J. Norman (University of Georgia).

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Stephen Tracy, former Chair of the Managing Committee and past Director of the School, reports the publication in Ger-many (by Walter De Gruyter) of his fascicle (with collaborator and co-author Voula N. Bardani)

Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Ed. tertia. Pars I: Fasc. 5: Leges et decreta annorum 229/8–168/7. The work was done under the auspices of the In-scriptiones Graecae project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

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Managing Committee Member Brenda J. Longfellow (Uni-versity of Iowa) is the winner of a 2012–13 Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize (Fel-lowship in Ancient Studies) from the American Academy in Rome, for her project “Past Lives, Pres-ent Meanings: Reused Statues in Imperial Rome.”

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Donald C. Haggis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Managing Committee nominee-and co-director (with Margaret S. Mook) of the Azoria Project, was awarded a three-year Col-laborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, entitled “The Azoria Project Excavations: A Study of Urbanization on Crete, 700–500 B.C.” The $250,000 award con-stitutes a significant contribution in support of on-going excava-tions at Azoria, which are sched-

uled to reopen in 2013 for a second five-year campaign, to focus on an Early Iron Age temple partially exposed in the 2006 season and several Early Iron Age buildings and Ar-chaic houses on the west slope of the South Acropolis.

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Managing Committee Member Jeremy B. Rutter, professor of classical studies and the Sher-man Fairchild Professorship in the Humanities (Emeritus) at Dartmouth College, is re-ceiving the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement of the Archaeo-logical Institute of America at the Annual Meeting in Seattle on January 4.

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Managing Committee Vice Chair Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University) gave a lecture at Columbia University in September, entitled “The Athens of the South: William Bell Dinsmoor and the Design of the Nashville Parthenon.” The lecture was co-sponsored by the ASCSA, the Columbia Center of Archaeology, and Co-lumbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology.

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New Assistant Director Making His Mark

Nick Blackwell lectures on Eutresis on a student trip this fall.

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In Memoriam

EVELYN BYRD HARRISON1920–2012

Renowned art historian Evelyn Byrd (Eve) Harrison died peace-fully in her New York City apart-ment on November 3.

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1920, Eve Harrison received her A.B. from Barnard College in 1941 and her M.A. from Columbia University in 1943, but her graduate studies were interrupted by the Second World War. Until the end of 1945, she served as a Research Analytic Specialist, translating intercepted Japanese messages for the War Department.

In 1949, she joined the staff of the ASCSA’s Athenian Agora Excavations. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1952, and a revised version of her dissertation on the portrait sculpture found in the Agora inaugurated the series The Athe-nian Agora: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Her Portrait Sculpture was followed in 1965 by Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture, volume XI of The Athe-nian Agora.

Professor Harrison began her teaching career in 1951 at the University of Cincinnati, where she taught not only art history but also first-year Greek and Latin. After a second research position with the Agora Excava-tions between 1953 and 1955, she joined the faculty of the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia Uni-versity, where she was named full professor in 1967. Four years as Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University followed, and in 1974 she was named Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts at the In-stitute of Fine Arts of New York University.

She was honored for her contributions to art history and

archaeology by election as an Honorary Councilor of the Ar-chaeological Society of Athens, a member of the German Archaeo-logical Institute, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Archaeological Institute of America recognized her lifetime of accomplishment by awarding her its Gold Medal for Distin-guished Archaeological Achieve-ment in 1992.

Eve Harrison was remem-bered by former students and colleagues at a memorial ser-vice held in New York City on November 15; their personal recollections and insights can be found at www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/alumni/eve-harrison-memorial-service-remembrances.

RICHARD BURGI1921–2012

Slavicist and School alumnus Richard Burgi passed away in Athens on July 26, at age 90. He spent many terms at the American School: in 1960–61 as Senior Research Fellow from Yale University; and in 1970–71, 1976–77, and 1995–96 as a Senior Associate Member from Princeton University. After his retirement he lived in Athens and was well known to many members of the School.

CHAD DIGREGORIO1985–2012

Chad DiGregorio, Boston Uni-versity graduate student in the Department of Archaeology and assistant field director of the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey, died July 19 in a tragic accident in western Turkey, the victim of an apparent fall in a rugged area of hills and caves in the province of Manisa. He was a Visiting Student Associate Mem-ber of the ASCSA in 2011.

MIRANDA MARVIN1941–2012

Miranda Marvin, Professor Emer-ita and longtime faculty member of Wellesley College’s art and classics departments, died July 2 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A Student Member of the ASCSA in 1963–64 and a Senior Associ-ate Member in 1982–83, she was the ASCSA Managing Committee representative from Wellesley College from 1974 until her retirement in 2012, and was a Managing Committee Member emerita until the time of her passing.

CRAWFORD H. GREENEWALT, JR.1937–2012

Archaeologist Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., Emeritus Pro-fessor of Classical Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley and longtime field director at Sardis, passed away on May 4 at the home of his sister in Delaware. “Greenie,” as he was known by friends and colleagues, was a member of the 1957 ASCSA Summer Ses-sion and a School Member in 1961–62.

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publishing (with Nancy Booki-dis) the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth (Corinth XVIII.3) and has published wide-ly and influentially in the fields of Greek archaeology, epigraphy, history, and law. His publications include Drakon’s Law of Homi-cide, The Axones and Kyrbeis of Drakon and Solon, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (editor, 26 volumes, with H. W. Pleket and A. Chaniotis), and The Athe-nian Grain Tax Law of 374/3 B.C.

The award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the ASCSA Alumni/ae Association, held during the AIA/APA Annual Meetings in Seattle in January 2013.

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The article appearing on page 5 of the Spring 2012 issue of ákoue (No. 66), about new Managing Committee Chair Jenifer Neils, included the statement that “Two major international exhibitions on Greek Art were organized by Ms. Neils: Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992) and Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (2003).” “Coming of Age” was in fact co-organized and co-curated by both Ms. Neils and John Oakley. We regret the omission.

ákoue has transitioned to the shorter publication that you see here. However, we will continue to post additional stories and reports on our website at www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/newsletter/ and elsewhere as noted. Look to this link for reports from students, Managing Committee busi-ness, and more.

Eve Harrison

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Medieval pottery (ca. first quarter of 13th century) from the Corinth Excavations

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