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The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893‑1 is a scholarly periodical that gathers original articles, correspondence, book notices, reviews and archaeological news from the American Institute of Archaeology and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Its opening pages explain that the journal serves as the official organ of these institutions, publishing reports on excavations throughout Greece and elsewhere, as well as studies by directors and members of the School. The volume is organized into quarterly numbers, each containing dozens of articles on topics ranging from the Temple of the Acropolis burned by the Persians to notes on Greek temple sculptures, Egyptian chronology, and recent fieldwork in Sparta, Sicyon and Argos. Detailed plates, heliotype and half‑tone illustrations accompany the texts, and the contents are indexed with an alphabetical table of papers, making the work a comprehensive record of contemporary discoveries and scholarly debate.
The prose reflects the formal, citation‑heavy style of late‑Victorian academic publishing, with footnotes, extensive references to earlier reports and a tone that assumes a knowledgeable readership. Its voice is that of learned archaeologists and art historians, many of whom are prominent European scholars such as Dörpfeld, Furtwängler and Maspero. Readers who appreciate meticulous excavation reports, dense scholarly argumentation, and a broad survey of classical, Oriental and early Renaissance art will find this volume rewarding, while casual visitors to archaeology may prefer more narrative‑oriented accounts.
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PROGRAM.
The JOURNAL treats of the various branches of archæology and art history--Oriental, Classic, Christian and Early Renaissance. Its original articles are predominantly classic on account of the fact that it has become the official organ of the ARCHÆOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA and of the AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS, and the JOURNAL will aim to further the interests for which the Institute and the School were founded. In it are published the reports on all the excavations undertaken in Greece and elsewhere by the Institute and the School, and the studies carried on independently by the Directors and members of the School. By decision of the Council of the Archæological Institute the JOURNAL has been distributed during 1893 to all members of the Institute, and the same distribution will be made during 1894.
Beside articles the JOURNAL contains CORRESPONDENCE, BOOK NOTICES AND REVIEWS AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL NEWS. It is its aim to give notices of all important publications recently issued, sometimes written expressly for the JOURNAL, sometimes summarized from authorized reviews in other publications.
The department in which the JOURNAL stands quite alone is the RECORD OF DISCOVERIES AND INVESTIGATIONS. While all periods and all countries are represented, special attention is given to Egypt, Greece and Italy. Not merely are the results of actual excavations chronicled, but everything in the way of novel views and investigations as expressed in books and periodicals is noted. In order to secure thoroughness, more than one hundred periodicals are consulted and utilized. By these various methods, all important work is concentrated and made accessible in a convenient but scholarly form, equally suited to the specialist and to the general reader.
It has been the aim of the editors that the JOURNAL, besides giving a survey of the whole field of archæology, should be international in character. Its success in this attempt is shown by the many noted European writers whose contributions have appeared in its pages during the past eight years. Such are: MM. Babelon, de Marsy, Maspero, Menant, Müntz and Reinach for France: MM. Dörpfeld, Furtwängler, Hirschfeld, Michaelis, Mommsen, Schreiber and Wolters for Germany; MM. Gardner, Murray, Pinches and Ramsay for England, etc.
The JOURNAL is published quarterly and forms, each year, a volume of between 500 and 600 pages royal 8vo, illustrated with Page v colored, heliotype, phototype, half-tone and other plates and numerous figures. The yearly subscription is $5.00 for America; and for countries of the Postal Union, 27 francs, 21 shillings or marks, post-paid.
Vol. I, containing 489 pages, 11 plates and 16 figures; Vol. II, containing 521 pages; 14 plates and 46 figures; Vol. III, containing 531 pages, 33 plates and 19 figures; Vol. IV, containing 550 pages, 20 plates and 19 figures; Vol. V, containing 534 pages, 13 plates and 55 figures; Vol. VI, containing 612 pages, 23 plates and 23 figures; Vol. VII, containing 578 pages; 26 plates and 8 figures; Vol. VIII, containing 631 pages, 18 plates and 26 figures--will be sent bound for $5.50, unbound for $5.00.
Vol. I has lately been out of print, but will be reprinted shortly in view of the increasing demand for back volumes; all who desire to complete their sets should send in their application.
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