A first series entitled “ Pictures of Greek Vases ” was founded by John D. Beazley and Paul Jacobsthal and was published by the Berlin-Leipzig H.Keller-Verlag. The first volume was published in 1930, and 12 more volumes followed by 1939. Between 1974 and 1976 eight of these works were published again as the first series of “ Research on Ancient Ceramics ”. In 1975 a second series was founded with the name " Kerameus ", which is published by John Boardman , Herbert A. Cahn , Donna C. Kurtz and Erika Simon . Both sub-series mainly comprise the results of basic research on Greek vase painting and ceramics, the individual volumes have generally become standard works. The books are published by Philipp von Zabern ; The languages of publication are German or English. Some of the works were created as university papers .