Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (4.1885-1886)

I

PREFACE.

This fourth volume of the Papers of the American School of
■Classical Studies at Athens follows the first after an interval of three
years. The first volume represented the work of the first year of the
School, 1882-1883, and it was hoped that it would be followed by a
similar volume for each succeeding year. But as no material for a
volume of Papers to represent the second or the third year of the
School has come to the Committee of Publication, it has been decided
to devote the second and third volumes (belonging to the years
1883-1884 and 18S4-1885) to the publication of the reports of
Dr. J. R. S. Sterrett's two journeys in Asia Minor, with his large
collections of inscriptions, most of which have never been published
before. These journeys were made in the summers of 1884 and
1885, to a great extent under the auspices of the School at Athens.
A Preliminary Report of the journey of 1884 was published in 1885 ;
and it was at first intended to make this a part of the second volume
of Papers, which the Committee then hoped to publish within the
same year. But the great importance of that journey, and the large
collection of new and valuable inscriptions discovered and copied by
Dr. Sterrett in the course of it (of which the Preliminary Report
contains only a small portion), have made it necessary to devote a
whole volume to the publication of its results. This will form the
second volume of Papers of the School. It is now in press, and will,
it is hoped, be published in the autumn of the present year.

The results of Dr. Sterrett's journey of 1885, known as " The
Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor," the expense of which was defrayed
by the late Miss Catharine L. Wolfe of New York, through the
agency of the Managing Committee of the School, fill the third
volume of Papers. This will be published in advance of the second,
at about the same time with the present volume.