From the Results of Excavations Conducted by The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this sequel to Corinth Vol. VII Part I "The Geometric and Orientalizing Pottery", by Saul Weinberg, has only come to the authors light in gradual stages. The germ of it may be traced to the their initial attempts to locate the unpublished items listed in Payne's "Necrocorinthia" which were said to be at Corinth. These efforts had brought to their notice so large a body of unpublished pottery from old excavations as to make a publication of an article on the subject seem inadequate. Therefore in 1963, the authors sought the advice of then Director of American School of Classical Studies, Prof. Henry S. Robinson, who relayed their question to the Publications Committee. The outcome was the proposal to combine selected examples of still unpublished Archaic Corinthian pottery, with a special section devoted to the rich hoard of material found in 1962 in the well at Anaploga. This division of the volume into two distinct parts is logical and practical. The Anaploga material naturally follows upon the rest, since there is very little in the first Section that does not come from excavations prior to 1962; there is a further distinction in that much of the older material was inventoried without context and is here published primarily in its own right as pottery, whereas the Anaploga Well, being a closed, significantly stratified deposit, derives much of its importance from the context.
Hence there is considerable diversity in the former Section, complete unity in the latter. (It follows that the catalogues are differently organized, the former in roughly chronological, the latter in basically stratigraphic order; the catalogue numbers for the Anaploga Well are distinguished by the prefix "An".) Both authors have personally examined, several times over, all of the material treated in this volume. As a practical means of organizing the work, Amyx has been principally engaged in writing and editing the text of the first Section, Lawrence that of the second. But the authors have, at all stages, consulted constantly and acted jointly in the study of all the vases. The authors also take joint responsibility for their conclusions.
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