The following summary is principally compiled from reports supplied by the excavators or by their colleagues, to all of whom I wish to express my thanks. I again owe a special debt to the Director of the German Institute, Prof. Karo, who kindly sent me the proofs of his article in Arch. Anz. 1931, from which I have been able to fill several gaps. For details which could not, for reasons of space, be included here, I make reference to that article, to Prof. Oikonomos's Ἔκθεσις τῶν πεπραγμένων τῆς Ἀρχαιολογικῆς Ἑταιρείας and to M. Béquignon's article in B.C.H. 1930, 4520 ff.

Athens and Attica

The American excavations in the Athenian Agora, conducted by Prof. T. L. Shear, made a very satisfactory beginning in the early summer of 1931; they will be resumed in February 1932. Two sectors, each of about 1200 square metres area, were excavated, and in each important results were obtained. In the northern area the foundations of a large building which runs from north to south across the entire area as far as the cutting of the Athens-Peiraeus railway (how much further in this direction it may go cannot be said) came to light. This building, a narrow structure with two rows of columns on its east side, is identified with the Royal Stoa which Pausanias places on the right as one enters the Agora (Fig. 1); another narrow building, as yet partially excavated, may be the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios. A water-channel in a wide street immediately west of this latter Stoa yielded some inscribed stelai which had been used as cover-blocks; others are still in situ and will be removed next year.