List of Books Received

Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, and John M. Fossey, eds. The Levant, Crossroads of Late Antiquity: History, Religion and Archaeology (McGill University Monographs in Classical Archaeology and History 22). Pp. xxx + 478, figs. 132. Brill, Leiden 2014. $206. ISBN 978-90-04-25826-6 (cloth).

Algaze, Guillermo. Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape. Pp. xviii + 230, figs. 26, table 1. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014. $32.50. ISBN 978-0-226-14237-1 (paper).

Andersen, H. Hellmuth, and Flemming Højlund. The Barbar Temples (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 48). Vol. 1. Pp. 330, figs. 843; vol. 2, Appendices. Pp. 97, plans 10. Jutland Archaeological Society, Højbjerg 2003. kr. 500. ISBN 978-87-88415-27-9 (cloth).

Avni, Gideon. The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Pp. xvi + 424, figs. 63. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $185. ISBN 978-0-19-968433-5 (cloth).

Babbi, Andrea, and Uwe Peltz. La Tomba del Guerriero di Tarquinia: Identità elitaria, concentrazione del potere e networks dinamici nell'avanzato VIII sec. a.C./Das Kriegergrab von Tarquinia. Eliteidentität, Machtkonzentration und dynamishe Netzwerke in späten 8. Jh. v. Chr. (Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 109). Pp. xiv + 439, figs. 139, color pls. 91, tables 16. Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz 2013. €95. ISBN 978-3-88467-207-5 (cloth).

Barber, Elizabeth J. Wayland. The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance. Pp. xiv + 429, figs. 133, maps 4. W.W. Norton, New York 2013. $21.96. ISBN 978-0-393-34850-7 (paper).

Birk, Stine. Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 11). Pp. 333, figs. 91. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2013. $56. ISBN 978-87-7124-018-4 (cloth).

Blackman, David, Boris Rankov, Kalliopi Baika, Henrik Gerding, and Jari Pakkanen. Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean. Pp. xxii + 597, figs. 199, maps 3. Cambridge University Press, Oxford 2013. $160. ISBN 978-1-107-00133-6 (cloth).

Bru, Hadrien, and Guy Labarre, eds. L’Anatolie des peuples, des cités et des cultures: IIe millénaire av. J.-C.–Ve siècle ap. J.-C. Colloque international de Besançon, 26–27 novembre 2010. 2 vols. Vol. 1, Autour d’un projet d’atlas historique et archéologique de l’Asie Mineure: Méthodologie et prospective. Pp. 240, figs. 43; vol. 2, Approches locales et régionales. Pp. 374, figs. 255, tables 3. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, Besançon 2013. €60. ISBN 978-2-84867-473-5 (paper).

Bryce, Trevor. Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. Pp. xiv + 379, figs. 27, maps 12. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $50. ISBN 978-0-19-964667-8 (cloth).

Cameron, Averil. Byzantine Matters. Pp. xx + 164, figs. 11. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-691-75763-4 (cloth).

Clarke, Christina F. The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice (SIMA-PB 178). Pp. xxviii + 249, figs. 176, tables 2. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2013. €56. ISBN 978-91-7081-249-1 (cloth).

Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History). Pp. xxii + 237, figs. 12, tables 2. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6 (cloth).

Connelly, Joan Breton. The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It. Pp. xxiii + 485, figs. 132, color pls. 16. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014. $35. ISBN 978-0-307-59338-2 (cloth).

Creasman, Pearce Paul. Archaeological Research in the Valley of the Kings and Ancient Thebes: Papers Presented in Honor of Richard H. Wilkinson (University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, Wilkinson Egyptology Series 1). Pp. xx + 367, figs. 131, tables 5. University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, Tucson 2013. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-9649958-1-9 (paper).

Dakaris, S., J. Vokotopoulou, and A.P. Christidis. Τα χρηστήρια ελάσματα της Δωδώνης: Των ανασκαφών Δ. Ευαγγελίδη. Vol. 1, Επίγραφές 1–2220 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 285). Pp. xvi + 512. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5247-07-8 (paper).

Dakaris, S., J. Vokotopoulou, and A.P. Christidis. Τα χρηστήρια ελάσματα της Δωδώνης. Των ανασκαφών Δ. Ευαγγελίδη. Vol. 2, Επιγραφές 2221–4216 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 286). Pp. 601. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-08-5 (paper).

David, Bartrand, and Jean-Jacques Lefrère. The Oldest Enigma of Humanity: The Key to the Mystery of the Paleolithic Cave Paintings. Pp. 138, figs. 8. Arcade Publishing, New York 2014. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-62872-321-2 (paper).

Dessales, Hélène. Le partage de l’eau: Fontaines et distribution hydraulique dans l’habitat urbain de l’Italie romaine (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 351). Pp. xvi + 602, figs. 191, b&w pls. 7. Écoles Françaises de Rome, Rome 2013. €150. ISBN 978-2-7283-0944-3 (cloth).

Dever, William G. Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qa’aqir and Be’er Resisim (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 6). Pp. viii + 378, figs. 339, tables 44. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2014. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-947-0 (cloth).

Ferrari, Gloria. Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta. Pp. viii + 184, figs. 23. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014. $35. ISBN 978-0-226-66868-0 (paper).

Ficuciello, Laura. Lemnos: Cultura, storia, archeologia, topografia, di un'isola de nord-Egeo (Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e della Missioni Italiane in Oriente 20[1]). Pp. 455, color pls. 15, figs. 166, tables 7, CD-ROM 1. Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, Rome 2013. €90. ISBN 978-960-9559-03-4 (paper).

Fragaki, Hélène, and Anne Marie Guimier-Sorbets. Un édifice inachevé du quartier royal à Alexandrie: Étude suivie de un fragment de corniche peinte hellénistique à Alexandrie (Études Alexandrines 31). Pp. 149, figs. 131. Centre d'Études Alexandrines, Alexandria 2013. €40. ISBN 978-2-11-129851-4 (cloth).

Frey-Kupper, Suzanne. Die antiken Fundmünzen vom Monte Iato 1971–1990: Ein Beitrag zur Geldgeschichte Westsiziliens (Studia Ietina 10). Vol. 1. Pp. xvi + 522; vol. 2. Pp. viii + 291, b&w pls. 65. Éditions du Zèbre, Prahins 2013. €167. ISBN 978-2-940351-16-9 (vol. 1); 978-2-940351-17-6 (vol. 2) (cloth).

Fulminante, Francesca. The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. Pp. xx + 411, figs. 133, tables 25. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-03035-0 (cloth).

Funke, Peter, and Matthias Haake, eds. Greek Federal States and Their Sanctuaries: Identity and Integration (Ancient History). Pp. 244, figs. 6. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2013. €52. ISBN 978-3-515-10307-7 (cloth).

Geiger, Joseph. Hellenism in the East: Studies on Greek Intellectuals in Palestine (Historia Einzelschriften 229). Pp. 177. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2014. €49. ISBN 978-3-515-10617-7 (cloth).

Georgiou, Giorgos, and Vassos Karageorghis. A Cypro-Archaic Tomb at Xylotymbou and Three Cypro-Classical Tombs at Phlasou: From Exuberance to Recession (SIMA 140). Pp. xvi + 99, figs. 53, tables 5. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2013. €40. ISBN 978-91-7081-254-5 (cloth).

Gleba, Margarita, and Judit Pásztókai-Szeöke, eds. Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities (Ancient Textiles Series 13). Pp. xviii + 238, figs. 72, tables 6, maps 5. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2013. $60. ISBN 978-1-84217-767-9 (cloth).

Guidobaldi, Maria Paola, and Domenico Esposito. Herculaneum: Art of a Buried City. Pp. 352, figs. 339. Abbeville Press, New York 2013. $125. ISBN 978-0-7892-1146-0 (cloth).

Hilton, Anna. Failaka/Dilmun: The Second Millenium Settlements. Vol. 4, The Stone Vessels (Danish Archaeological Investigations on Failaka, Kuwait, Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 17[4]). Pp. 191, figs. 448. Jutland Archaeological Society, Moesgård Museum, Højbjerg 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-87-88415-80-3 (cloth).

Højlund, Flemming. The Burial Mounds of Bahrain: Social Complexity in Early Dilmun (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 58). Pp. 178, figs. 301, tables 2. Jutland Archaeological Society, Moesgård Museum, Højbjerg 2007. Price not available. ISBN 978-87-88415-45-2 (cloth).

Hughes, J. Donald. Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean. 2nd ed. (Ancient Society and History). Pp. xxii + 306, figs. 42. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2014. $27.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-1211-5 (paper).

Iakovidis, Spyros. Ανασκαφές Μυκηνών. IV. Η Οικία στις Πλάκες (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 288). Pp. xii + 331, figs. 25, b&w pls. 53, color pls. 28, plans 2. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-06-1 (paper).

Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos. Το ιερό της Αρτέμιδος Ταυροπόλου στις Αλές Αραφηνίδες (Λούτσα) (Πραγματειαι τες Ακαδημίας Αθηνών 71). Vol. Αʹ. Pp. 524; vol. Bʹ. Pp. 221, b&w pls. 115, color pls. 54. Academy of Athens, Athens 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-960-404-273-9 (paper).

Kalyanaraman, Srinivasan. Meluhha: A Visible Language. Pp. 811. Sarasvati Research Center, Herndon, Va. 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-0991104819 (paper).

Kalyanaraman, Srinivasan. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms in Meluhha Cipher. Pp. 773. Sarasvati Research Center, Herndon, Va. 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-0-9911048-2-6 (paper).

Kirch, Patrick Vinton. Kua’āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui. Pp. xxiv + 310, figs. 77, tables 6. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu 2014. $49. ISBN 978-0-8248-3955-0 (cloth).

Kjaerum, Poul, and Flemming Højlund. Failaka/Dilmun: The Second Millenium Settlements. Vol. 3, The Bronze Age Architecture (Danish Archaeological Investigations on Failaka, Kuwait, Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 17[3]). Pp. 162, figs. 207. Jutland Archaeological Society, Moesgård Museum, Højbjerg 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-87-88415-63-6 (cloth).

Knapp, A. Bernard, Jennifer M. Webb, and Andrew McCarthy, eds. J.R.B. Stewart: An Archaeological Legacy (SIMA 139). Pp. xviii + 239, figs. 116, tables 3. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2013. €80. ISBN 978-91-7081-253-81 (cloth).

Kouki, Paula, and Mika Lavento. Petra, The Mountain of Aaron. Vol. 3, The Archaeological Survey (The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan). Pp. 413, figs. 440, color pls. 43, tables 41, map 1, CD-ROM 1. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki 2013. €125. ISBN 978-951-653-400-1 (cloth).

Kristensen, Troels Myrup. Making and Breaking the Gods: Christian Responses to Pagan Sculpture in Late Antiquity (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 12). Pp. 297, figs. 100, table 1. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2013. $56. ISBN 978-87-7124-089-4 (cloth).

McKenzie, Judith S., Joseph A. Greene, Andres T. Reyes, Catherine S. Alexander, Deirdre G. Barrett, Brian Gilmour, John F. Healey, Margaret O’Hea, Nadine Schibille, Stephan G. Schmid, Wilma Wetterstrom, and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur. Vol. 1, Architecture and Religion (AASOR 67). Pp. xxviii + 340, figs. 446, diagrams 5, maps 5. American School of Oriental Research, Boston 2013. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-89757-035-0 (cloth).

McKenzie, Judith S., Joseph A. Greene, Andres T. Reyes, Catherine S. Alexander, Deirdre G. Barrett, Brian Gilmour, John F. Healey, Margaret O’Hea, Nadine Schibille, Stephan G. Schmid, Wilma Wetterstrom, and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur. Vol. 2, Cultic Offerings, Vessels, and Other Specialist Reports (AASOR 68, Manar al-Athar Monograph 2). Pp. xx + 329, figs. 148, tables 18, maps 2. American School of Oriental Research, Boston 2013. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-89757-036-7 (cloth).

Michaelides, Demetrios, ed. Epigraphy, Numismatics, Prosopography and History of Ancient Cyprus: Papers in Honour of Ino Nicolaou (SIMA 179). Pp. xxviii + 334, figs. 143, tables 6. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2013. €64. ISBN 978-91-7081-252-1 (cloth).

Netherton, Robin, and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds. Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Vol. 10. Pp. xiv + 205, figs. 30, tables 5. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-84383-907-7 (cloth).

Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier P., Reinhard Bernbeck, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, and Jana Rogasch, eds. Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia (Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 9). Pp. 520, figs. 365. Brepols, Turnhout 2013. €110. ISBN 978-2-503-54001-6 (paper).

Oleson, John Peter, and Robert Schick. Humayma Excavation Project. Vol. 2, Nabataean Campground and Necropolis, Byzantine Churches, and Early Islamic Domestic Structures (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 18). Pp. xxviii + 594, figs. 386, tables 24. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2013. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-89-757037-4 (cloth).

Papuci-Władyka, Ewdoksia. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Poland 11. Krakow 1: Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology 1. Pp. 216, figs. 96, b&w pls. 106, color pls. 17, CD-ROM 1. Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow 2012. Price not available. ISBN 978-83-7676-142-8 (cloth).

Parker, S. Thomas, and Andrew M. Smith II. The Roman Aqaba Project: Final Report. Vol. 1, The Regional Environment and the Regional Survey (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 19). Pp. xii + 384, figs. 114, tables 35. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2014. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-89-757042-8 (cloth).

Pisani, Marcella. Avvolti dalla Morte: Ipotesi di ricostruzione di un rituale di incinerazione a Tebe (ASAtene 21). Pp. 221, figs. 3, b&w pls. 33, color pls. 14. Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, Rome 2013. €80. ISBN 978-960-9559-04-1 (paper).

Potts, Daniel T. Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era. Pp. xxv + 558, figs. 21, tables 5. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-19-933079-9 (cloth).

Prettejohn, Elizabeth. The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (New Directions in Classics 2). Pp. xvi + 302, figs. 51. I.B. Tauris, London 2012. £18.99. ISBN 978-1-84885-903-6 (paper).

Radner, Karen, ed. State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Pp. xiv + 306, figs. 47, tables 4. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $74. ISBN 978-0-19-935477-1 (cloth).

Russell, Ben. The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Pp. xxii + 449, figs. 97, tables 6. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013. $150. ISBN 978-0-19-965639-4 (cloth).

Sakellarakis, Yannis. Κύθηρα: Ο Άγιος Γεώργιος στο Βουνό. Μινωική λατρεία. Νεότεροι χρόνοι (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 287). Pp. 333, figs. 113. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-03-0 (paper).

Sarti, Susanna. The Campana Collection at the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels) (Études d’archéologie 4). Pp. 207, figs. 233. CReA-Patrimoine, Brussels 2012. €80. ISBN 978-946-1360-25-0 (paper).

Sijpesteijn, Petra M. Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Pp. xxvii + 524, figs. 52, maps 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013. $150. ISBN 978-0-19-967390-2 (cloth).

Stefani, Evengelia. Αγγελοχώρι Ημαθίας: Οικισμός της Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού. Vol. 1, Angelochori: A Late Bronze Age Settlement in Emathia, Macedonia, Greece. Pp. 333, figs. 48, color pls. 42, tables 13, maps 5. Kyriakidis Brothers, Thessaloniki 2010. Price not available. ISBN 978-960-467-209-7 (cloth).

Thompson, Jennifer L., Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, and John J. Crandall, eds. Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity. Pp. xiv + 270, figs. 23, tables 22. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-8130-4983-0 (cloth).

Todd, Ian A. Vasilikos Valley Project 12: The Field Survey of the Vasilikos Valley. Vol. 3, Human Settlement in the Vasilikos Valley (SIMA 71[12]). Pp. xxx + 252, figs. 18, b&w pls. 68, color pls. 3, tables 2. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2013. €76. ISBN 978-91-7081-251-4 (cloth).

Tsingarida, Athena, and Didier Viviers, eds. Pottery Markets in the Ancient Greek World (8th–1st Centuries B.C.): Proceedings of the International Symposium Held at the Université libre de Bruxelles 19–21 June 2008 (Études d'archéologie 5). Pp. 306, figs. 107, tables 6. CReA-Patrimoine, Brussels 2013. €91. ISBN 978-9461360335 (paper).

Tsukamoto, Kenichiro, and Takeshi Inomata, eds. Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power. Pp. vi + 266, figs. 51, tables 7. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2014. $65. ISBN 978-0-8165-3058-8 (cloth).

Van de Noort, Robert. Climate Change Archaeology: Building Resilience from Research in the World's Coastal Wetlands. Pp. xiv + 272, figs. 54. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013. $125. ISBN 978-0-19-969955-1 (cloth).

von den Hoff, Ralf, Wilfried Stroh, and Martin Zimmerman. Divus Augustus: Der erste römische Kaiser und seine Welt. Pp. 341, figs. 74, maps 3. C.H. Beck, Munich 2014. €26.95. ISBN 978-3-406-66052-8 (cloth).

Waters, Matt. Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE. Pp. xx + 252, figs. 28, maps 6. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $28.99. ISBN 978-0-521-25369-7 (paper).

Williams, Gareth, Peter Pentz, and Matthias Wemhoff, eds. Vikings: Life and Legend. Pp. 288, figs. 310. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 2014. $35. ISBN 978-0-8014-7942-7 (paper).

Zarmakoupi, Mantha. Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples: Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE‒79 CE) (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation). Pp. xxii + 315, figs. 135, tables 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $160. ISBN 978-0-19-967838-9 (cloth).