January 1979 (83.1)

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Editorials

Editorial Note (p. 1)
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway and Tamara Stech Wheeler

Presidential Letter (p. 2)
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

The Archaeological Institute of America, 1879–1979: A Centennial Review (pp. 3–17)
Phoebe Sherman Sheftel

Articles

An Archaic Recording System in the Uruk-Jemdet Nasr Period (pp. 19–48)
Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Further Notes on Minoan Palace Architecture: 1. West Magazines and Upper Halls at Knossos and Mallia (pp. 49–63)
J. Walter Graham

Further Notes on Minoan Palace Architecture: 2. Access to, and Use of, Minoan Palace Roofs (pp. 64–69)
J. Walter Graham

Ares and the Heads of Heroes (pp. 71–78)
Steven Lattimore

Lydos and the Gigantomachy (pp. 79–99)
Mary B. Moore

Archaeological Notes

Thera and Mycenaean Greece (pp. 101–102)
Sp. Iakovidis

A Foreign Vase Painter in Sparta (pp. 102–106)
Gerald P. Schaus

The Arnoaldi Mirror: An Addendum (p. 106)
Larissa Bonfante

Book Reviews

The Akhenaten Temple Project, Vol. I, Initial Discoveries (p. 107)
By Ray Winfield Smith and Donald B. Redford
Reviewed by John D. Cooney

Early Bronze Age Burial Habits in the Cyclades (p. 108)
By Christos Doumas
Reviewed by John E. Coleman

Die deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Argissa-Magula in Thessalien III. Die frühe und beginnende Mittlere Bronzezeit (pp. 108–110)
By Eva Hanschmann and Vladimir Milojčić
Reviewed by Saul S. Weinberg

The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (pp. 110–112)
By Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Reviewed by John Griffiths Pedley

The Aeolic Style in Architecture: A Survey of Its Development in Palestine, the Halikarnassos Peninsula, and Greece, 1000–500 B.C. (pp. 112–113)
By Philip P. Betancourt
Reviewed by G. Kenneth Sams

The Architectural Development of the Greek Stoa (pp. 113–114)
By J.J. Coulton
Reviewed by Stella G. Miller

Ancient Copies. Contributions to the History of Greek and Roman Art (pp. 115–116)
By Margarete Bieber
Reviewed by Carol C. Mattusch

Festschrift für Frank Brommer (pp. 116–117)
By Ursula Höckmann and Antje Krug
Reviewed by Cedric G. Boulter

Terrakotten von Pergamon (pp. 117–118)
By Eva Töpperwein
Reviewed by Dorothy B. Thompson

Paphos I, a Ptolemaic Coin Hoard (pp. 118–119)
By Ino Nicolaou and Otto Mørkholm
Reviewed by Orestes H. Zervos

Kleinasiatische glasierte Reliefkeramik (50 v. chr. bis 50 n. chr.) und ihre oberitalische nachahmungen (pp. 119–120)
By Anne Hochuli-Gysel
Reviewed by Frances Follin Jones

Salamine de Chypre, VII. Les Lampes du Musée de Chypre, by Thérèse Oziol; Handbuch der Schweiz zur Römer- und Merowingerzeit. Die Römischen Lampen in der Schweiz, by Annalis Leibundgut (pp. 120–123)
Reviewed by Hector Williams

Myra. Eine lykische Metropole in Antiker und Byzantinischer Zeit (pp. 123–125)
By Jürgen Borchhardt
Reviewed by Machteld J. Mellink

Palmyre VII. Le Tombeau de Famille de Alainê (pp. 125–126)
By Anna Sadurska
Reviewed by Elaine K. Gazda

Books Received

List of Books Received (pp. 126–129)

Recent Dissertations in Archaeology

Recent Dissertations in Archaeology (p. 130)