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THE VASES AND VASE FRAGMENTS
By JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN
PREFACE
The publication of the Vases and Vase Fragments from the Heraeum has proved a far
more arduous task than I expected when the work was intrusted to me eight years ago.
As the time for committing it to the press approaches, I am keenly conscious of its many
shortcomings, for, in the six years which have elapsed since the completion of the work
and its final revision before going to press, the quantity of new material found in Greece,
which might serve to throw new light upon many of the problems the vases from the
Heraeum afforded, has increased enormously, and the greater part of it, being as yet
unpublished, has been inaccessible to me. I could also wish that it had been possible
for me to make the final revision of the work in Athens, with the actual material at my
command, since I realize very clearly that many of the points which have presented
themselves to me during the six years since I left Athens must remain all too super-
ficially treated, owing to incomplete notes and a memory sometimes treacherous. Such
cases, I hope, will not prove of vital detriment to the value of the work.
Two facts must be mentioned to secure a fair understanding of the work. First,
owing to the smallness of the means at my command, I am unable to publish the mate-
rial as I had originally hoped, and consequently have omitted much which, though not
of supreme importance, would have been of distinct benefit had it been possible to retain
it. Secondly, I see very clearly that the enormous mass of material should, to secure the
best results, have occupied the attention of several wrorkers for at least twice the length
of time I have been able to devote to it. Thus the work as it now appears is a small
selection of the total material, and cannot in the strictest sense be called either final or
complete. I have endeavored as far as possible to present, or at least to mention, all the
types and classes that were found; but important omissions must inevitably occur when
over two hundred thousand fragments are to be dealt with. Classes like the Geometric
or Argive should each be treated in as much space as the whole of this volume, if their
elaboration were to be considered final. But the desire to make known to the world as
soon as possible the results of one of the most important modern excavations has induced
us all to hasten the completion of our several tasks, and leave the various finer points to
be more carefully investigated by our successors.
It is a great pleasure, on the completion of my task, to look back on the warm friends
it has brought me, and to thank them for the many and various kindnesses received at
their hands. First and foremost, I wish to thank most heartily my friend and chief,
Professor Charles Waldstein, for the ready help and encouragement he has always given
me, for his keen and intelligent interest in my work, and for the various suggestions and
theories he has outlined for my benefit. The departure from Athens at the end of the
first year's work of Dr. Theodore Woolsey Heermance, who had shared with me the dis-
agreeable task of cleaning and sorting the fragments, deprived me of most valuable assist-
By JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN
PREFACE
The publication of the Vases and Vase Fragments from the Heraeum has proved a far
more arduous task than I expected when the work was intrusted to me eight years ago.
As the time for committing it to the press approaches, I am keenly conscious of its many
shortcomings, for, in the six years which have elapsed since the completion of the work
and its final revision before going to press, the quantity of new material found in Greece,
which might serve to throw new light upon many of the problems the vases from the
Heraeum afforded, has increased enormously, and the greater part of it, being as yet
unpublished, has been inaccessible to me. I could also wish that it had been possible
for me to make the final revision of the work in Athens, with the actual material at my
command, since I realize very clearly that many of the points which have presented
themselves to me during the six years since I left Athens must remain all too super-
ficially treated, owing to incomplete notes and a memory sometimes treacherous. Such
cases, I hope, will not prove of vital detriment to the value of the work.
Two facts must be mentioned to secure a fair understanding of the work. First,
owing to the smallness of the means at my command, I am unable to publish the mate-
rial as I had originally hoped, and consequently have omitted much which, though not
of supreme importance, would have been of distinct benefit had it been possible to retain
it. Secondly, I see very clearly that the enormous mass of material should, to secure the
best results, have occupied the attention of several wrorkers for at least twice the length
of time I have been able to devote to it. Thus the work as it now appears is a small
selection of the total material, and cannot in the strictest sense be called either final or
complete. I have endeavored as far as possible to present, or at least to mention, all the
types and classes that were found; but important omissions must inevitably occur when
over two hundred thousand fragments are to be dealt with. Classes like the Geometric
or Argive should each be treated in as much space as the whole of this volume, if their
elaboration were to be considered final. But the desire to make known to the world as
soon as possible the results of one of the most important modern excavations has induced
us all to hasten the completion of our several tasks, and leave the various finer points to
be more carefully investigated by our successors.
It is a great pleasure, on the completion of my task, to look back on the warm friends
it has brought me, and to thank them for the many and various kindnesses received at
their hands. First and foremost, I wish to thank most heartily my friend and chief,
Professor Charles Waldstein, for the ready help and encouragement he has always given
me, for his keen and intelligent interest in my work, and for the various suggestions and
theories he has outlined for my benefit. The departure from Athens at the end of the
first year's work of Dr. Theodore Woolsey Heermance, who had shared with me the dis-
agreeable task of cleaning and sorting the fragments, deprived me of most valuable assist-