REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY To the Members of the Managing Committee of the America n School of Classical Studies at Athens: During the academic year 1942-1943 my activities have been divided between Baltimore and Princeton. As visiting Lecturer in Greek at the Johns Hopkins l!nivers_i~, I have offered two courses in the Graduate School, a Seminary course to Eunptdes and a pro­ Seminary in Herodotus. I was fortunate in being able to arrange the classes on con­ secutive days, Tuesday and Wednesday, so as to be able to spend the rest of the week at Princeton. In connection with the preparation for my lectures on those two authors. I have continued my research on the cults and monuments of Athens. As a result ~f th~s stu~y I have finished an article on the "Tent of Xerxes and the Greek Theater, wh1ch WI~ appear in the University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology. It JS an attempt to find a solution to the vexed problem of the origi~ ~f s~ ene. My thesis is that the royal tent, turned over to Mardonios before the Kings fhght to the Hellespont, was captured by the Greeks at Plataea, and that this tent gave the form and the name skene to the Greek scene-building. The paper was originally prepared to be presented at the meeting ~f the Archaeological Institute at New York, and after the meeting was canceled Jt was expanded and corrected for publication. A great deal of my time this year has been spent with volunt~e.r. w~rk for various government agencies in Wash~ngt_on. The nature of these l!Ctlv!t!es IS such as cannot be included in a report of thiS kmd. Princeton, New Jersey April 30, 1943 32 Respectfully submitted, Oscar Broneer Professor of Archaeology REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS To the Members of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at A thens: On behalf of the Publications Committee I beg co submit the following report of activities since the annual meeting of the Managing Committee in May, 1942. The year has been one in which there were unforeseen difficulties and many interruptions to the planned work of the Committee, and yet some of the scheduled projects have been brought safely to completion. The membership of the Committee on Publications for the greater parr of the year has consisted of Professors Capps, Chase, Cherniss and Meritt (Chairman). In November of 1942 Professor Cherniss entered the United States Army. It became apparent that it would be impossible for him to take a very active part in the work of the Committee, although he continued for a time to give valuable assistance to it. Professor Roy J. Deferrari was appointed, therefore, early in 1943 to take the place of Professor Cherniss on the Committee. The work of the Committee has been conducted as usual in the offices made available by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Miss Mugot Cutter has continued to take care of the business connected with Hesperia and Hesperia Supple­ ments and in general to handle all correspondence and to keep all the files which cover the general affairs of the Committee. Mr. Paul Clement has continued to serve as Managing Editor of all publications. The Committee again expresses its gratitude to th e Institute for Advanced Study for generously providing adequate quarters and for contributing not only the services of Miss Cutter but also the sum of $500 toward the salary of Mr. Clement. One of the items of unfinished business during the past year has been the prepa­ ration of the Index to the first ten volumes of Hesperia, and to its first six supple­ ments. Work on the general index of subjects was begun in the swnmer of 1941 by Mr. Rodney Young and Miss Alison Frantz with a grant of $1,000 to pay for the cost of preparation. Before the year had passed Mr. Young was compelled ro relinquish his part in the undertaking because of service with the Government. He and Miss Frantz were successful in reducing the index almost in its entirety to alphabetized cards, but in the Summer of 1942 Miss Frantz also entered Government service, and it was found impossible to systematize the index further without making new ar­ rangements. In the meantime the Chairman, with the assistance of Mr. W. Ken­ drick Pritchett, the recently appointed Instructor in Epigraphy at the School, and Mr. Anthony Raubitschek, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, had pro­ ceeded with the preparation of the Index of Greek names and inscriptions. Mr. Pritchett entered the army in the Spring of 1942, and at about the same time Mr. 33