i;70 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



stamped friezes. They show the use of 83 different stamps, of which 29 

 are square and 54 cylindrical. 



Before I undertook this task there were accessible in printed description 

 only about 60 vases, bearing 47 different stamps. Many of the descriptions 

 were defective or faulty, and of the 39 illustrations, most of which are pub- 

 lished in Pottier's catalogue, there are fev\^ that are good, owing mainly to 

 the excessive reduction in scale. As I shall be able to give full and accurate 

 descriptions of all the stamps and to publish at least 30 new ones in an 

 adequate way, the accessible material will be about doubled by my publica- 

 tion. I have aimed to make it as complete as possible, and feel that little 

 can have escaped me. There may be a few scattered examples that I do 

 not know, but it is not likely that any of them would present new features. 



The allied Greek fabrics with reliefs obtained by means of a cylinder 

 stamp are as yet very little known. Outside of the Sicilian ware few 

 examples have been found, and classification has hardly been attempted. 

 I shall be able to add something here by publishing an interesting piece 

 from Tanagra in the Athens Museum, one from Macedonia in the Berlin 

 Museum, and one from the Caucasus in the Louvre, and shall try to do 

 something in the way of classification. 



So much of my time has been spent in gathering this material that I have 

 had little chance to work it up. Consequently it is too early to speak with 

 confidence of results. I hope to establish the location and date of the 

 factory and its relation to other factories making similar ware, to fix its 

 place in the history of Etrusco-Ionic art, and, if possible, to determine the 

 influences which shaped that art. The treatise will be long and will stand 

 in need of rich illustration. It can hardly be completed before next May, 

 perhaps not as soon as that. Could I have devoted all my time to it during 

 the past year I might have been able to finish it, but other matters have 

 claimed a large share of my attention. 



Next in importance to the Caeretan ware was the Catalogue of the School 

 Museum. It is now completed and in the hands of Professor De Cou for 

 revision. It includes everything except a quantity of Egyptian objects 

 recently loaned by Professor Norton, and reaches more than 500 numbers, 

 some of which are of considerable interest. The specimens are all numbered 

 and as well arranged as the very limited space of the room would permit. 

 They are to be transferred this summer to more commodious quarters in 

 the old dining-room, where they can be displayed to great advantage. I 

 hope that this will lead to an increase of interest in the museum. It would 

 not be either difficult or expensive to foster it, and the School would benefit 

 greatly thereby. Not only would the museum be an attraction to visiting 

 archeologists, but it would be made a valuable help in teaching, especially 

 in seminary work. 



I have also nearly ready my paper on a certain group of black-figured 

 cylices. It might have been completed this spring, but I held it back in the 

 hope of discovering other vases of the same type in Paris or London. The 

 search was fruitless, however, and the paper will be sent in as soon as I have 

 had an opportunity of going over it again with the resources of a good 

 library at my command. 



Of late I have been interested in the Panathenaic amphon-e. and have taken 

 notes that may result in a paper when I find time to work them up. There 

 are two matters which I should like to straighten out — the dating of those 

 amphorae which bear no inscription, and the meaning of the date on the 

 inscribed amphorse. 



