October 1951 (55.4)

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AJACover1950-1954

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Articles

On Theseus and the Tyrannicides (pp. 293–300)
Chrysoula P. Kardara

The Roman Style in Gandhāra (pp. 301–319)
Alexander C. Soper

Paintings of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom at Bersheh (pp. 321–332)
Wm. Stevenson Smith

Notes and Discussions

A Fragment of a Stele from Cyprus (pp. 333–336)
J.D. Beazley

A Boeotian Bell-Krater in Rochdale (pp. 336–339)
J.M.T. Charlton

The Ship-Rhyton in Boston (pp. 339–343)
G.S. Kirk

The Mechanical Engraving of Circular Letters (pp. 343–344)
A.E. Raubitschek

Roman Panther Tripods (pp. 344–347)
Dorothy Kent Hill

The Senatorial but Not Imperial Relatives of Calpurnia Ar[ria] (pp. 347–349)
James H. Oliver

The Inscription on a Silver Chalice from Syria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pp. 349–353)
G. Downey

An Old Nubian Inscription from Kordofan (pp. 353–354)
A.J. Arkell

The Bronze Age in the Near East: A Review Article [Part I] (pp. 355–365)
Statigraphie comparée et Chronologie de l’Asie Occidentale (IIIe IIe Millénaires), Syrie, Palestine, Asie Mineure, Chypre, Perse et Caucase, by Claude F.A. Schaeffer
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann

A Preliminary Report on Some Unpublished Mosaics in Hagia Sophia: Season of 1950 of the Byzantine Institute (pp. 367–370)
Paul A. Underwood

Archaeological News (pp. 371–386)

Archaeological Bibliography (pp. 387–398)
C. Bradford Welles

Book Reviews

A Hundred Years of Archaeology (p. 399)
By Glyn E. Daniel
Reviewed by George E. Mylonas

Excavations at Island MacHugh (pp. 399–400)
By O. Davies
Reviewed by Hugh Hencken

Základy Hallstattské Periody v. Čechach (pp. 400–402)
By Jaroslav Böhm
Reviewed by Robert W. Ehrich

The Lascaux Cave Paintings (pp. 402–403)
By Fernand Windels and C.F.C. Hawkes
Reviewed by Hallam L. Movius, Jr.

The Körös Culture (pp. 403–404)
By I. Kutzián
Reviewed by Hazel D. Hansen

Chronologie der jüngeren Steinzeit Mittel- und Südosteuropa (pp. 404–409)
By Vladimir Milojčić
Reviewed by Saul S. Weinberg

Ugaritica II. Nouvelles Études relatives aux Découvertes de Ras Shamra (pp. 409–411)
By Claude F.A. Schaeffer
Reviewed by Ann Perkins

The Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millennium B.C. and Its Chronological Background (pp. 411–412)
By Marian Welker
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann

Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East (p. 412)
By Theodore H. Gaster
Reviewed by Stith Thompson

Early Khartoum: An Account of the Excavation of an Early Occupation Site Carried Out by the Sudan Government Antiquities Service in 1944–45 (pp. 413–415)
By A.J. Arkell
Reviewed by Helene J. Kantor

The Royal Cemeteries of Kush, Volume I: El Kurru (pp. 415–416)
By Dows Dunham
Reviewed by Nora Scott

Jebel Moya (pp. 416–417)
By Frank Addison
Reviewed by Bernard V. Bothmer

Middle Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt, 2300–1590 B.C. (p. 417)
By Cyril Aldred
Reviewed by James H. Breasted, Jr.

Les Premières Civilisations, by P. Jouguet, J. Vandier, G. Contenau, E. Dhorme, A. Aymard, F. Chapouthier, and R. Grousset; Peuples et Civilisations, Histoire Générale, by L. Halphen and P. Sagnac (pp. 417–418)
Reviewed by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.

L’Art de l’Asie antérieure dans l’antiquité (p. 418)
By Godefroid Goossens
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann

Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian (pp. 419–420)
By Campbell Bonner
Reviewed by A.E. Raubitschek

Sam’al. Studien zur Entdeckung der Ruinenstätte Karatepe. Erste Lieferung (p. 420)
By B. Landsberger
Reviewed by Harald Ingholt

In Memoriam Halil Edhem (pp. 420–421)
Reviewed by Harald Ingholt

Kleinasien und Byzanz: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Altertumskunde und Kunstgeschichte (p. 421)
Reviewed by G. Downey

La Crète Dédalique. Études sur les origines d’une renaissance (pp. 421–424)
By Pierre Demargne
Reviewed by Saul S. Weinberg

The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. IV, Part 2; The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, and Cypro-Classical Periods (pp. 424–428)
By Einar Gjerstad
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann

Der grosse Fries von Pergamon. Untersuchungen zur Kunstgeschichte und Geschichte Pergamons (pp. 428–430)
By Heinz Kähler
Reviewed by Margarete Bieber

Excavations at Olynthus: Part XIII: Vases Found in 1934 and 1938 (pp. 430–431)
By David M. Robinson
Reviewed by Lucy Talcott

Sylloge Numorum Graecorum (pp. 431–432)
Reviewed by Agnes B. Brett

Apollo Delphinios (p. 432)
By Photeine P. Bourboulis
Reviewed by Machteld J. Mellink

Phidiasprobleme (pp. 432–433)
By Ernst Langlotz
Reviewed by Charles H. Morgan

Black-Figure and Red-Figure Greek Pottery (p. 433)
By J.W. G[raham]
Reviewed by Dietrich von Bothmer

The Portraits of Alexander the Great (p. 433)
By Margarete Bieber
Reviewed by George H. Chase

Alexander der Grosse, Ingenium und Macht (pp. 433–436)
By Fritz Schachermeyr
Reviewed by C. Bradford Welles

Aspects of Social Life in Antioch in the Hellenistic-Roman Period, by George Haddad; Prosopographia Ptolemaica, by W. Peremans and E. Van’t Dack (pp. 436–438)
Reviewed by C. Bradford Welles

Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de la Syrie (p. 438)
By Louis Jalabert and René Mouterde
Reviewed by W. Kendrick Pritchett

Excavations at Nessana, Volume II: Literary Papyri (pp. 438–439)
By Lionel Casson and Ernest L. Hettich
Reviewed by G. Downey

The Monuments of Ancient Rome (p. 439)
By Dorothy M. Robathan
Reviewed by Arthur E. Gordon

Die Bildniskunst der römischen Republik (pp. 439–441)
By Bernhard Schweitzer
Reviewed by Margarete Bieber

Libellus de Regionibus Urbis Romae (pp. 441–442)
By Arvast Nordh
Reviewed by T. Robert S. Broughton

Excavaciones de Asta Regia (Mesas de Asta, Jerez) Campaña de 1945–46 (p. 442)
By Manuel Esteve Guerrero
Reviewed by William J. Bryant           

Excavaciones en el Santuario Iberico del Cigarralejo (Mula, Murcia) (pp. 442–443)
By Emeterio Cuadrado Diaz
Reviewed by William J. Bryant

The “Scythian” Period. An Approach to the History, Art, Epigraphy, and Paleography of North India from the 1st Century B.C. to the 3rd Century A.D. (pp. 443–446)
By J.E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw
Reviewed by Alexander C. Soper

Classical Indian Sculpture 300 B.C. to 500 A.D. (p. 446)
By Chintamoni Kar
Reviewed by Harald Ingholt

The Coffin of Saint Cuthbert (p. 446)
By E. Kitzinger
Reviewed by Andrew S. Keck

Catalogue du Musée de Lyon, III, La Sculpture du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance (pp. 446–447)
By René Jullian
Reviewed by Sumner McK. Crosby

Objects Kairouanais, IXe au XIIIe Siècle. Reliures, Verreries, Cuivres et Bronzes, Bijoux (p. 447)
By Georges Marçais, Louis Poinssot, and Lucien Gaillard
Reviewed by Florence E. Day

Early Man in the New World (pp. 447–448)
By Kenneth MacGowan
Reviewed by H.M. Wormington

The Ancient Maya (pp. 448–449)
By Sylvanus G. Morley
Reviewed by J. Eric S. Thompson

The Stratigraphy and Archaeology of Ventana Cave, Arizona (pp. 449–451)
By Emil W. Haury
Reviewed by Erik K. Reed

Flint Quarries—The Sources of Tools and, at the Same Time, the Factories of the American Indian (pp. 451–452)
By Kirk Bryan
Reviewed by Arnold M. Withers

Uaxactun, Guatemala: Excavations of 1931–1937 (pp. 452–453)
By A. Ledyard Smith
Reviewed by Linton Satterthwaite