ARCHEOLOGY — AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES IN ROME. 169 



American School of Classical Studies in Rome. Andrew F. West, Chair- 

 man of Managing Committee, Princeton University, Princeton, New 

 Jersey. Grant No. 408. (a) Maintenance of tzvo research felloivships 

 in classical archeology, $1,600. (&) Publication of results of scientific 

 investigation, $1,000. (For previous reports see Year Book No. 4, p. 

 54, and Year Book No. 5, pp. 56, 57.) $2,600. 



(a) The school was enabled to secure Dr. Esther B. Van Deman and Mr. 

 Morris Austin Harmon as research fellows for the year 1906-07. Their 

 reports follow : 



Dr. Van Deman writes : 



During the first few months of the year, the work on "The Imperial 

 Atrium Vestae" was revised and enlarged. To this was added also a 

 section on "The Remains of the Republican Atrium Vestae and the Domus 

 Publica." 



The later months of the year were spent in the study of Roman brick- 

 work, the aim of which was, (i) the determination of the various periods 

 into which such work is to be divided, with a general description of the main 

 features which distinguish each period, and (2) the classification chrono- 

 logically of the more important brick structures in and near Rome. 



A short paper was completed, which is soon to be published, entitled 

 "Notes on a Few Vestal Inscriptions." A longer discussion on "Epigraph- 

 ical Evidence Concerning the Cult of Vesta Publica," is partly completed. 



The material has been, during the year, completed for a discussion of 

 "The Vestal Statues," among which are many examples of the use of earlier 

 Greek models for later Roman portrait statues. Several unpublished vestal 

 heads and fragmentary statues will soon be published. 



Mr. Harmon reports : 



"My principal undertaking — the one in consideration of which I was 

 awarded the fellowship — was the study of the Cseretan red ware. This 

 ware, of which most of the extant examples came from the early exca- 

 vations at Cervetri, occurs in two shapes — pithoi about 3 feet tall and 

 large plates from i to 2.5 feet in diameter. It is made of coarse reddish- 

 yellow clay, full of black spiculae; the outside of the pithoi and the upper 

 surface of the plates sometimes show a coatiijg of cinnabar. The pithoi are 

 sometimes plain, but usually have a series of long vertical flutings on the 

 belly ; above this, and occasionally below, appears a narrow frieze of stamped 

 figures in low relief. These friezes are made either by repeated applica- 

 tions of a square stamp, which gives a paneled zone, or by the use of a 

 cylindrical stamp, which, rolled around the vase as one rolls a tracing-wheel, 

 gives a continuous zone of recurring subjects. The plates always show a 

 zone of continuous relief impressed on the rim and usually another on the 

 inner wall. Only one plate, which dififers in several other respects from the 

 rest of the series, bears a square stamp. In addition to the reliefs, many 

 of the plates have a set of concentric circles in the center. This by way of 

 brief reminder of the general features of the class. 



For the study of these vases I now have the material well in hand. I 

 have collected and read all the literature bearing directly on the subject, and 

 know either from description or personal examination 244 vases, exclusive 

 of those which bear no decoration. Interest centers, of course, in the 



