Archaeological

TL;DR: Archaeological articles on various topics, including temple cornices, vase representations, and glaze composition.

Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology. XII. Part 4. 1908. H. N. Fowler, Charles Eliot Norton (obituary notice). G. P. Stevens, The Cornice of the Temple of Athena Nike (ten cuts). Identifies the cornice assigned by Daumet to the Nike temple as the raking cornice of the north portico of the Erechtheum. J. M. Paton, The Death ofThersites on an Apulian Amphora in the Boston Museum (plate, two cuts). The vase represents Achilles in an aedicula, with the decapitated body of Thersites before him. The story varies from those in the known literary versions, and seems to suggest that told by Harpocration, s.v. <f>dpna.Kos, in which Thersites was punished for theft. O. S. Tonks, Experiments with the Black Glaze on Greek Vases. Claims to have solved the problem of its nature; denies that the red is a glaze, but the black is of that character, made from clay combined with iron and soda. F. B. Tarbell, A White Athenian Lecythus belonging to the University of Chicago (cut). An unusual type, with lines of thin glaze on brownish slip, about 450 B.C. ; subject, three stelae on a pedestal, with names (of members of a family) inscribed. D. M. Robinson and W. N. Bates, Notes on Vases in Philadelphia. Discussing an amphora by Meno (Noel des Vergers, iii. pi. 9). A. L. Frothingham, The Real Title of Botticelli's Pallas. Pallas is to be interpreted as Florentia. Archaeological Discussions, ed. W. N. Bates. Supplementary Part: Annual Reports of American Schools and Archaeological Institute.