Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1.1882-1883)

PREFACE.

The regulations of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens provide that " there shall be published
annually a volume of Papers of the School, to be made up
from the work of the Director and the students during the
preceding school year." This volume, now issued in tardy
compliance with the rule, represents portions of the work
of the first school year, 1882-1883. The publication has
been delayed by various unavoidable difficulties, among
which must be mentioned those which have attended the
preparation and the printing of two collections of Greek
inscriptions. Even now it has been necessary to post-
pone the appearance of Dr. Crow's paper on the Pnyx:
this, and probably one or two other papers belonging to
the work of the first school year, will form part of the
second volume, which, it is hoped, will be published before
the end of the present year. One paper which will be
included in the second volume, Dr. Sterrett's Preliminary
Report of his journey in Asia Minor in 1884, with his col-
lection of inscriptions (including those of forty-two Roman
milestones), has been published already in a separate form.

The first place in the present volume is given to the
Inscriptions of Assos, collected in 1881 and 1882 by the
expedition sent out by the Archaeological Institute of
America. These have been edited by Dr. Sterrett, who