Excerpt from Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 4

This fourth volume of the Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens follows the first after an interval of three years. The first volume represented the work of the first year of the School, 1882 - 1883, and it was hoped that it would be followed by a similar volume for each succeeding year. But as no material for a volume of Papers to represent the second or the third year of the School has come to the Committee of Publication, it has been decided to devote the second and third volumes (belonging to the years 1883 - 1884 and 1884 - 1885) to the publication of the reports of Dr. J. R. S. Sterrett's two journeys in Asia Minor, with his large collections of inscriptions, most of which have never been published before. These journeys were made in the summers of 1884 and 1885, to a great extent under the auspices of the School at Athens. A Preliminary Report of the journey of 1884 was published in 1885 and it was at first intended to make this a part of the second volume of Papers, which the Committee then hoped to publish within the same year. But the great importance of that journey, and the large collection of new and valuable inscriptions discovered and copied by Dr. Sterrett in the course of it (of which the Preliminary Report contains only a small portion), have made it necessary to devote a whole volume to the publication of its results. This will form the second volume of Papers of the School. It is now in press, and will, it is hoped, be published in the autumn of the present year.

The results of Dr. Sterrett's journey of 1885, known as The \volfe Expedition to Asia Minor, the expense of which was defrayed by the late Miss Catharine L. Wolfe of New York, through the agency of the Managing Committee of the School, fill the third volume of Papers. This will be published in advance of the second, at about the same time with the present volume.

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