Archaeology Magazine - March 1963 - 57

ARCHAEOLOGICAL
produced many interesting findsmost striking, perhaps, a terracotta
figurine seven inches high. T. Leslie
Shear, Jr. discussed features of the
palace at Mycenaewhich have been
clarified by recent excavation. Sara
A. Immerwahr showed a series of
vases from a Mycenaean tomb in
Athens which appear to have been
covered with tinfoil, to imitate silver. Besides throwing light on burial customs, they give information
concerningthe Mycenaeantin trade.
The chance discoveryof Mycenaean
chamber tombs in Caria was reAIA Annual Meeting, 1962
If proof were needed of the vi- ported by George F. Bass. This is
the third Mycenaeansite found
tality of archaeologicaland Classi- only
cal studies it could be found in the in Asia Minor, hence of great imA Protogeometric tomb
unremitting activity of the eight portance.
was also located. In the final paper
hundred membersof the Archaeoof the session William A. McDonlogical Institute of America
and the American Philological As- ald reported on his continuing sursociation who met in Baltimore, vey of Messenia. In 1962 eleven
December 28-30, 1962. With at- pre-Mycenaean and seventeen Mytendance among the largest on rec- cenaean sites were found. Geologithe
ord, the meeting was notable for cal and demographicstudies of
as
well
as
been
have
area
begun,
the number of papers presented
for
of
the
pollen
samples
collecting
some
caused
double
sessions
(though
unhappiness) and for the success- analysis.
In the evening the President of
ful efforts of the local committee
to have everythingrun smoothly.
At the Council meeting, conducted as usual on the first morning, membersof the AIA re-elected
Jotham Johnson as President and
Richard H. Howland as Vice-President. Clairève Grandjouan was
electedGeneral Secretary.
The Friday afternoon session
was devoted entirely to matters
Minoan and Mycenaean. Cyrus H.
Gordon reported his findings as a
result of reading Linear A and Eteocretan texts as a Northwest Semitic language. George E. Mylonas
(his paper read in his absence by
lone Mylonas Shear) presented the
Mycenaean spouted jug found in
results of his work last summer at
Caria (Turkey), indicating the site
Mycenae.Excavationin three areas of a Mycenaeancolony.

Obituaries
We report with regret the following deaths in the archaeological
world:
Jaroslav Boehm, dean of Czechoslovakian archaeologists, Director
of the Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences,died December 6, 1962;
Hazel D. Hansen, Professor of
Classical Archaeology at Stanford
University, known for her work in
Greek prehistory, died December
19, 1962.

NEWS
the American Philological Association, Inez Scott Ryberg, addressed
the customary joint meeting of the
two societies. Her talk, entitled
"Clupeus Virtutis," provided a synthesis of the archaeological,literary
and historical evidence for the imperial virtues. It was illustrated
with slides showing sculptured reliefs which express these attributes
in visible form.
Saturday morning's papers were
divided into two sections. In Section A, J. Walter Graham showed
slides of the Athens Gallery recently opened at the Royal Ontario
Museum; experimentationwith coloring sculpture and architecture is
one of its novel features. Donald
F. Brown described recent exploration at Sybaris, in southern Italy,
which necessitatedunusual excavation techniques owing to the quantity of alluvium with which the
remains are covered. De Coursey
Fales, Jr. attributed a black-figured
vase fragment to the painter Klitias.
Three new illustrations of scenes
from the Trojan War, on vases in
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
were presented by Emily T. Vermeule, who discussed the relation
of these paintings to Archaic and
Classical literary sources. On the
basis of stylistic criteria Rhys Carpenter re-dated an inscriptionfound
on Salamis from 479 (the generally
accepted date) to 600 B.c. Donald
W. Bradeen identified three fragments of a fifth-century inscription
as part of the list of eponymous
archons set up about 425 b.c. With
the aid of these fragments a reconstruction of the entire monument
was attempted. Another epigraphical paper was that of William Calder III, who suggested a date of
413 b.c. for IG XIV 268 on the
assumption that the defeat of Ni57

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