George Bass Papers
COLLECTION OVERVIEW
Collection Number: GR ASCSA GFB 057
Name(s) of Creator(s): George Fletcher Bass (1932-2021)
Title: George F. Bass Papers
Date [bulk]: 1955-1968
Date [inclusive]:
Language(s): English
Summary: This small collection contains transcriptions of the logbook that George Bass kept during the 1955-1956 fall and winter trips of the American School, slides of trips taken that year but also from other visits to Greece, and one CD with digitized photographs.
Quantity: 0.12 linear meters
Immediate Source of Acquisition: George F. Bass
Information about Access: The collection is available for research
Cite as: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Archives, George F. Bass Papers (Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα, Αρχείο George F. Bass)
For more information, please contact the ARCHIVES at:
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
54 Souidias Street
Athens 106 76, Greece
Phone: 213 000 2400 (ext. 425)
Email
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Fletcher Bass (born December 9, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina) is known to many in the archaeological world as the founding father of nautical archaeology. He was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: cape Gelydonia (1960). He has excavated ships from the Bronze Age to the eleventh century AD. His dry land excavations have taken him to places like Turkey, Italy, and Greece. During the years 1955-1957, George Bass was member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
In 1973 Bass founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). INA has conducted some of the most important underwater excavations of the 20th century, and its findings throw new light into areas as diverse as the beginning of the free enterprise system, the dating of Homer’s Odyssey, chronologies of Egyptian dynasties and Helladic cultures, and the histories of technology, economics, music, art and religion.
CONTENTS LIST
BOX 1
Folder 1
Transcription of 1955 American School of Classical Studies Field Trips
Transcription of 1956 American School of Classical Studies Field Trips/Trek through the Nedha Gorge
Folder 2
Slides of trips:
Sheet 1: First ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (Photographer: Bass)
Sheet 2: Second ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (part 1). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 3: Second ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (part 2). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 4: Third ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (part 1). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 5: Third ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (part 2). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 6: Third ASCSA 1955 Fall trip (part 3). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 7: Photographs from Athens 1955. Photographer: Bass
Sheet 8: Pictures in Gennadius Library 1955. Photographer: Bass
Sheet 9: ASCSA Winter Day trips 1955-1956. Photographer: Bass
Sheet 10: Lerna 1956 (part 1). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 11: Lerna 1956 (part 2). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 12: Andritsaina to the sea 1956 (part 1). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 13: Andritsaina to the sea 1956 (part 2). Photographer: Bass
Folder 3
Slides of trips:
Sheet 14: Cycladic cruise 1956 (part 1). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 15: Cycladic cruise 1956 (part 2). Photographer: Bass
Sheet 16: Aegina visit 1956. Photographer: Unknown
Sheet 17: Pylos 1957 (part 1). Photographer: Unknown
Sheet 18: Other trips in Greece 1955-1957. Photographer: Unknown
Sheet 19: Crete December 1961. Photographer: Bass
Sheet 20: Thera 1968. Photographer: Unknown
Sheet 11: Thera 1968. Photographer: Bass
CD with digitized photographs (also in Digistore):
-Aegina 1956 summer
-ASCSA Fall Trip 1
-ASCSA Fall Trip 2
-ASCSA Fall Trip 3
-ASCSA Winter Day Trips 1955-1956
-Athens
-Crete
-Cycladic Cruise 1956
-Gennadius Library
-Lerna 1956
-Neda Gorge Trek 1956
-Other Trips in Greece
-Pylos 1957
-Thera 1968