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was scheduled- fifty-eight in alland even though two were not read,
the sessionswere long and demanding. To everyone'scredit be it said
that the speakers (under excellent
chairmanship) kept admirably well
to their allotted lengths of time,
thus making it possible for the sessions to run smoothlyand for scheduled committee meetings to take
place without their members missing important papers.
Excavationreports naturally took
up a large proportion of the sessions, for everyone was eager to
hear the latest results of the many
important campaignsconductedduring 1965. Eleven papers dealt with
excavations in Greece. Fruitful results from digging in the Athenian
Agora were reported by R. Ross
Holloway (see his article in this
issue). The latest campaign at Kato
Zakro in eastern Crete, where a
Minoan palace is being excavatedby
Nicholas Platon, was described by
Leon Pomerane. Aspects of the
work on the Aegean island of Ceos,
now going on for several years,
were treated by Elizabeth Milburn
(pottery) and by Miriam Ervin
(terracotta statues). George Mylonas describedrecent excavationsat
Mycenae, that perennially fascinating site (an ivory figurine found in
1965 is illustrated), while T. Leslie
Shear, Jr. dealt with a nearby ClasAIA General Meeting
sical sanctuary. Corinth figured in
The population explosion seems no less than four papers. The exto have affected the archaeological traordinary underwater discoveries
and philological world along with at Cenchreae,its flourishing harbor
everyone else, for no less than 907 town, were reported by Robert L.
individualsregisteredat the General Scranton, while James R. Wiseman
describedexcavationsin the gymnaMeetingof the Archaeological Institute of America and the An- sium area, Elizabeth Gummey disnual Meeting of the American Phil- cussed a remarkabledeposit of fifthological Association at Providence, century pottery found in 1964, and
Rhode Island, December 28-30, Yvonne Schwartz presented a paper
1965. This represented an increase on a test dig northwestof Temple E.
of nearly fifty per cent over the at- L. H. Sackett described the excavatendance at the 1963 meeting, the tions of 1964 and 1965 at Lefkandi
on the island of Euboea, where
last held jointly with the APA.
A very large number of papers Helladic and Geometric remains
Obituaries
With regret we record the death
of these scholars prominent in the
archaeologicalworld:
William Pitkin Wallace, Professor of Ancient History at the
University of Toronto, well known
authority on Greek numismatics,
who died December 14, 1965, at the
age of 58. (His wife, Mary Elizabeth Barton Wallace, former member of the AmericanSchoolof Classical Studies at Athens, died the
precedingJanuary.)
George Wicker Elderkin, Professor Emeritus of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, excavator of Antioch-on-the-Orontes,
author of many works on Greek religion, who died December 19,
1965,at the age of 86.
Mary J. Pearl, for many years
Professor of Classical languages at
Sweet Briar College and former
member of the American Academy
at Rome, who died February 16,
1966at the age of 65.
Frank H. H. Roberts, retired
Director of the Bureau of American
Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, a prominent authority on
Early Man in the United States,
who died February 23, 1966 at the
age of 68.

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have been found (a vase fragment
of Late Helladic III c is illustrated).
Surface exploration on the same island was the subject of Thomas W.
Jacobsen'spaper.
The results of seven important
excavationswere reported from the
Turkish side of the Aegean.Jacques
Bordaz spoke on Suberde, an early
Neolithic site in western Turkey,
while Kenan Erim described the
1965 campaign at Aphrodisias in
Caria and George M. A. Hanfmann
summarized the results of excavations at Sardis (see his article in this
issue). Karatas-Semayuk, a site in
Lycia,was reported on by Machteld
J. Mellink,and the 1965excavations
at Gordion by Rodney S. Young.
Preliminary excavations at Samosata, far to the east, were described
by Theresa Goell. Finally, an underwater dig at Yassiada on the Turkish coast was the subject of Frederick H. Doorninck'spaper.
Several reports dealt with work
farther down the coast of the Asian
continent. The investigation of a
glass factory in western Galilee was
discussedby Saul and Gladys Wein-

Ivory figurine from central room of
House Lambda on Atreus' Treasury
Hill, Mycenae.Height6.5 cm.

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