April 1954 (58.2)

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Articles

Minoan Writing (pp. 77–129)
Sterling Dow

A Late Cypriote III Tomb from Kourion Kaloriziki No. 40 (pp. 131–142)
George H. McFadden and Erik Sjöqvist

Proceedings

Fifty-Fifth General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (1953) (pp. 143–151)

Necrologies

Alice Elizabeth Kober (p. 153–154)
Sterling Dow

George H. McFadden (p. 154)
A.M. Friend, Jr.

Alice Walton (p. 154)
S.B.L.

Book Reviews

The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion (pp. 155–157)
By Martin P. Nilsson
Reviewed by Sterling Dow

The Scepter of Egypt. A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom (pp. 157–158)
By William C. Hayes
Reviewed by William Stevenson Smith

Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts (p. 159)
By William Stevenson Smith
Reviewed by William C. Hayes

Decorated Chapels of the Meroitic Pyramids at Meroë and Barkal (pp. 159–160)
By Suzanne E. Chapman
Reviewed by William C. Hayes

A Family-Archive from Tebtunis (P. Fam. Tebt.) (pp. 160–161)
By B.A. van Groningen
Reviewed by C. Bradford Welles

Papyrus Grecs d’Apollônos Anô (pp. 161–162)
By Roger Rémondon
Reviewed by C. Bradford Welles

Coptic Ostraca from Medinet Habu (pp. 162–163)
By Elizabeth Stefanski and Miriam Lichtheim
Reviewed by Pierre du Bourguet

Spadework in Archaeology; A Forgotten Kingdom: Being a Record of the Results Obtained from the Excavation of Two Mounds, Atchana and Al Mina, in the Turkish Hatay (pp. 163–164)
By Leonard Woolley
Reviewed by Briggs W. Buchanan

Geschichte und Kultur der Semitischen Völker: Eine Einführung (pp. 164–165)
By Sabatino Moscati
Reviewed by Briggs W. Buchanan

Tell Halaf, Vol. II: Die Bauwerke (pp. 165–166)
By Felix Langenegger, Karl Müller, and Rudolf Naumann
Reviewed by Ann Perkins

Beth Shecarim Report on the Excavations during 1936–1940, Vol. I (pp. 166–167)
By Benjamin Maisler
Reviewed by Ann Perkins

Exploration archéologique de la Phrygie. Vol. III, La Cité de Midas. Céramique et trouvailles diverses (pp. 167–169)
By C.H. Emilie Haspels
Reviewed by Machteld J. Mellink

Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson (pp. 169–170)
By George E. Mylonas and Doris Raymond
Reviewed by Saul S. Weinberg

Griechische Vasen der reifarchaischen Zeit (p. 170)
By Reinhard Lullies and Max Hirmer
Reviewed by J.D. Beazley

Corinth, Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Volume XV, Part 2, The Potters’ Quarter, the Terracottas (pp. 170–171)
By Agnes Newhall Stillwell
Reviewed by Hazel Palmer

Amazonomachia. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Motivwanderung in der Antiken Kunst (pp. 171–173)
By Erwin Bielefeld
Reviewed by Christoph Clairmont

Asylieurkunden aus Kos (pp. 173–174)
By Rudolf Herzog and Günther Klaffenbach
Reviewed by Mortimer Chambers

La Céramique gallo-romaine en terre sigillée dElewijt (Belgique) (p. 174)
By F. Vaes and J. Mertens
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

Römische Keramik aus dem Schutthügel von Vindonissa (pp. 174–176)
By Elisabeth Ettlinger and Christoph Simonett
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Volume II, 99 B.C.–31 B.C. (p. 176)
By T. Robert S. Broughton
Reviewed by F.W. Adams

The Season Sarcophagus in Dumbarton Oaks (pp. 176–179)
By George M.A. Hanfmann
Reviewed by Andreas Rumpf

Indian Tribes of Aboriginal America (p. 179)
By Sol Tax
Reviewed by Erik K. Reed

Faunal and Archeological Researches in Yucatan Caves (pp. 179–180)
By Robert T. Hatt
Reviewed by Erik K. Reed

Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika—A with a Survey of Other Wall Paintings in the Pueblo Southwest (pp. 180–182)
By Watson Smith
Reviewed by Gordon Vivian

A Brief Survey of the Lower Colorado River from Davis Dam to the International Border (pp. 182–183)
By Albert H. Schroeder
Reviewed by Malcolm F. Farmer

Chichen Itza, Architectural Notes and Plans (pp. 183–184)
By Karl Ruppert
Reviewed by J.C. Harrington

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru (pp. 184–185)
By Gordon R. Willey
Reviewed by John M. Corbett

Chimu. Eine altindianische Hochkultur (pp. 185–186)
By Gerdt Kutscher
Reviewed by S. Linné