Clarke, Joseph Thacher: Report on the investigations at Assos, 1881 (Boston, 1882)

PRELIMINARY REPORT

OF THE

INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS

DURING THE YEAR 1881.

THE following account of the first year's work of the
expedition to Assos sent out by the Archaeological
Institute of America must be prefaced by a reminder that
the time has not come for a thorough and conclusive publi-
cation of the results achieved. It is evident that descriptions
of monuments but recently discovered, and in part still hidden
beneath the earth, will be extended, and possibly corrected,
as the studies upon the site advance. Indeed, many points
are touched upon in this Report only to indicate the direc-
tion and scope of the work. After the termination of the
investigations, it is hoped to present the full results in a
monumental volume upon Assos and the Southern Troad.

The present Preliminary Report is divided into two parts.
The first — more or less introductory — contains a notice of
the visits to the site by travellers and archasologists during
the past century, and an account of the present expedition.
The second treats of the geographical conditions of the region
and their influence upon the development of Assos during
antiquity, of the history and topography of the city, the ar-
chitectural monuments investigated, and the sculptures and
inscriptions discovered.