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GENERAL MEETING OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL

INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

DECEMBER 28-30, 1904

THE Archaeological Institute of America held its sixth general meeting for the reading and discussion of papers at Boston and Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 28-30, 1904.

The business meetings of the Managing Committee of the School in Rome, the Managing Committee of the School at Athens, and the Council of the Institute were held on the same days, at 9.30 A.M.

The meeting of Wednesday evening was held in the Rogers Building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, the meetings of Thursday afternoon and evening in the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge; all the other meetings in the Walker Building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Addresses were delivered each day at 11.30 A.M. in the Museum of Fine Arts, as follows: Wednesday, by Mr. Edward Robinson, Director, on The Collection of Vases in the Museum; Thursday, by Mr. Matthew S. Prichard, Assistant Director, on The Terra-cottas, Bronzes, and Coins in the Museum; Friday, by Mr. B. H. Hill, Assistant Curator of Classical Antiquities, on The Original Sculptures in the Museum.

Friday, from 1 to 2 P.M., Mrs. John L. Gardner received about forty of the visiting members of the Institute and Managing Committees at Fenway Court.

American Journal of Archaeology, Second Series. Journal of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Vol. IX (1905), No. 1.

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Thursday, at 6.30 P.M., a dinner - at which one hundred and seventy persons were present- was given by the Boston. Society to the visiting members of the Institute in the Living Room of the Harvard Union, in Cambridge. At 10 P.M. Professor and Mrs. John Williams White received the visiting members of the Institute at their house.

The museums of Harvard University were open to visitors every day during the meeting.

On Friday, at 1.30 P.M., the Boston Society gave a luncheon to the Council and the Managing Committees, at the Hotel Brunswick.

A joint resolution was passed, thanking the authorities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of Harvard University, and of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the President and members of the Boston Society, Mrs. John L. Gardner, and others for the hospitable reception given to the Institute and the Managing Committees.

A joint resolution was also passed, thanking the Carnegie Institution for the generous grants of pecuniary assistance which it has made to the Schools at Athens and in Rome.

There were five sessions, at which addresses and papers, many of which were illustrated by means of the stereopticon, were presented. The brief abstracts of the papers which follow were, with few exceptions, furnished by the authors.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 3 P.M.

Professor Thomas Day Seymour, President of the Institute, presided.

Address of welcome by President Henry S. Pritchett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Addresses in commemoration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Institute by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard University, President of the Institute from 1879 to 1890, Professor John Williams White, of Harvard University, President of the Institute from 1897 to 1903, Professor James R. Wheeler, of Columbia University, Chair

man of the Managing Committee of the School at Athens, Professor Andrew F. West, of Princeton University, Chairman of the Managing Committee of the School in Rome, Professor George F. Moore, of Harvard University, Chairman of the Managing Committee of the School in Palestine, and Mr. Charles P. Bowditch, Chairman of the Committee on American Archaeology.

1. Professor James C. Egbert, of Columbia University, Fasti recently found at Teano.

While on an epigraphical tour last March through the towns of Campania, I found in the house of Signor Orazio Pasquale in le Curti an inscription on marble which proved to be fasti of a municipium. It was said to have been originally found at Teano, ancient Teanum Sidicinum. It measures: breadth 9 inches, height 9 inches, thickness 1 inch. There are ten lines, six of which are complete and easily read. The letters belong to the scriptura actuaria, and in this these resemble other fasti. Apices are found over a in Silanus, a in Vipstanus, u in Iulius, and over ae in Laelius and oe in Coelius. One tall i is seen in Silanus. The inscription reads as follows:

[M]agrius Sagit (ta) Fal(ernia tribu) Venid (ius) Vitul (us)
Valerius Asiaticus M. Silanus

K(alendis) Mart(iis) loc(o) Valer (ii) Vetus Antistius
K(alendis) Iuliis D. Laelius Balbus

Kalendis) Oct(obribus) C. Terentius Tullius Gemin (us)

Q. Coelius Gallus A. Badius Sext(us) IV vir(i)

M. Plinius Gall(us) M. Oppius Val(erius) aed (iles)
Vipstan (us) Popl (icola) Mess (alla) Vips......

magistrat (us) ex.............
August.....

The inscription therefore gives the names of consuls of 46 A.D., three consules suffecti, municipal quattuorviri, and aediles. The three consules suffecti for this year have never been known before. The consul suffectus given in the edict of Claudius de Civitate Anaunorum, Q. Sulpicius Camerinus, is not named in these fasti from Teano. This is true also of Vellaeus Tutor, hitherto doubtfully assigned to this year. The exactness shown in the use of loco Valerii is not characteristic of other fasti, particularly of fasti minores. Vipstanus Popl(icola) Mess(alla) may be the consul of 48 A.D., or more probably magistratus indicated in the following line. The date may be the latter part of the first century. Finally,

it is noteworthy that the Emperor Claudius established a colonia at Teanum Sidicinum, and after that time inscriptions of that place have the names of quattuorviri and aediles. These fasti may

therefore belong to the time of the founding of that colonia.

2. Professor William N. Bates, of the University of Pennsylvania, A Signed Amphora of Meno.

Among the vases of the Free Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsylvania is a large red-figured amphora, bearing the signature of the painter Meno. The vase, which is remarkably well preserved, has painted, in panels, on one side Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, and on the other a youthful warrior leading two horses. The signature is on the base MENONEPOIESEN. Meno is not otherwise known, but there is some reason for thinking that he was the grandfather of the artist Meno who prosecuted Phidias. Meno's work resembles that of Andocides, but differs from it in the extensive use of unpainted lines put in with a dull tool and in the use of raised black lines. As an artist Meno must be ranked very high. It was argued from the character of the letters and from the technique that the vase was painted about 510 B.C. Two new names of horses, Σkóvwv and Kpôs, occur on the vase.

3. Professor C. C. Torrey, of Yale University, A Greek Inscription from the Lebanon.

The paper related to a Greek inscription which was found in the year 1901 in situ, just above the village of Jebâ'a, in the Lebanon, a few hours east of Sidon and perhaps twenty-five hundred feet above the sea. The inscription is on a limestone boulder, near the path to Jezzîn. The characters are about 6 inches high, well executed, and nearly all easily legible. It might be read: 'Opad-Aλa Oias, and translated: "To the Mountain-(Goddess)-Allath of Oia." The goddess Allath is well known in several Semitic lands, but has not hitherto been found in Phoenicia.

4. Dr. Arthur Stoddard Cooley, of Auburndale, Mass., Archaeological Notes.

This paper was a brief report of recent archaeological work on the Erechtheum, at Corinth, on the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi, on the Olympieum opposite Syracuse, and on the Rostra in the Roman Forum, illustrated by slides from photographs taken the past summer.

In the long trench dug at Corinth last spring in the western part

of the Agora a massive wall was found, apparently part of a great Doric stoa on the south side of the market-place. By plans it was shown that this probably has connection with walls found about four hundred feet to the east in 1898 in Trench XXIII.

The Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi is being rebuilt by the city of Athens with the old blocks, some new marble, and casts of the sculptures now in the Delphi museum.

As accurate measurements as the scanty remains permit were made by Dr. Cooley this summer at the Olympieum opposite Syracuse, showing that the temple measured about 210 x 74 feet and had six columns on the ends and seventeen on the sides. The columns standing are the second from the south on the east front and the tenth from the east on the south side. They are monoliths about 18 feet high, with a basal diameter of about 5 feet 9 inches, intercolumnium of nearly 13 feet, and sixteen channels. A curious feature is a stone ring or hoop at the bottom of the column, noticed also in some of the oldest columns of the temple of Hera at Olympia.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 8 P.M.

Mr. Charles P. Bowditch, President of the Committee on American Archaeology, presided.

Addresses were delivered by Mr. Charles F. Lummis and Dr. F. M. Palmer, of Los Angeles. Mr. Lummis spoke on the importance of archaeological work in the southwest, where the Society of the Southwest of the Institute is actively engaged in collecting and preserving the relics of the aboriginal inhabitants and the Spanish settlers, and more particularly on The Primitive Music of the Southwest. His address was illustrated by means of the phonograph, which gave reproductions of Indian and Spanish melodies. Dr. Palmer spoke on The Indian Archaeology of Southern California, describing remains of Indian life and emphasizing the importance of work in this field.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. 3 P.M.

Professor John Williams White, of Harvard University, Honorary President of the Institute, presided.

Address of welcome by President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University.

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