This fascicule concludes the publication of the Museum's Attic black-figured amphorae by presenting all of its neck-amphorae. As in the previous fascicule, the vases have been cleaned, and many have been newly restored. The photography is the work of William Pons and his staff, who, with consummate skill and untiring patience, accomplished an arduous task. The sequence follows the principles established in MMA fasc. 3 of segregating the vases according to shapes and their subdivisions. Though vases by the same painter are thus often separated, the overriding considerations of shape and scheme of decoration permit an objective arrangement, the significance of which can readily be grasped. Within each subdivision the order is chronological.

A major loan from the National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara.

Managing Archivist of Museum Archives James Moske discusses the recently digitized records of former Met director Francis Henry Taylor.

South Italian wares, unlike Attic, were not widely exported and seem to have been intended solely for local consumption.