April 1956 (60.2)

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Articles

The Palace of Nestor Excavations of 1955 (pp. 95–101)
Carl W. Blegen

The Landholders of Pylos (pp. 103–133)
Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.

Activities in the Athenian Agora: 1955 (pp. 135–136)
Homer A. Thompson

The Protome Painter and Some Contemporaries (pp. 137–141)
Sara A. Immerwahr

Two Mycenaean Bull-Craters in the G.G. Pierides Collection, Cyprus (pp. 143–149)
V. Karageorghis

The Phaistos “Piano Nobile” (pp. 151–157)
J.W. Graham

Medea at Marathon (pp. 159–163)
B.B. Shefton

Problems of Copy and Adaptation in the Second Quarter of the First Millennium B.C. (pp. 165–170)
Berta Segall

Archaeological Notes

Notes on the Mural Paintings from Boscoreale (pp. 171–172)
Margarete Bieber and Dietrich von Bothmer

Notes on an Inscription from “Hesperia” (pp. 172–174)
Daphne Hereward

Proceedings

Fifty-Seventh General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (1955) (pp. 177–183)

Necrology

Seth Thomas Gano (p. 185)
L.W.C.

Book Reviews

Die Felsbilder Europas (pp. 187–188)
By Herbert Kühn
Reviewed by Marija Gimbutas

Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles (pp. 188–189)
By Stuart Piggott
Reviewed by Irwin Scollar

Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Meket-Rē‛; at Thebes (pp. 189–190)
By H.E. Winlock
Reviewed by William Stevenson Smith

The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Volume V, Post-Ramessid Remains (pp. 190–191)
By Uvo Hölscher and Elizabeth B. Hauser
Reviewed by William Kelly Simpson

La Cité de Midas. Topographie. Le Site et les Fouilles (pp. 191–192)
By Albert Gabriel
Reviewed by Machteld J. Mellink

Persepolis Treasury Tablets (p. 192)
By George G. Cameron
Reviewed by Richard N. Frye

The Madaba Mosaic Map (pp. 192–193)
By Michael Avi-Yonah
Reviewed by Karl Katz

Griechenlandkunde. Ein Führer zu Klassischen Stätten (pp. 193–194)
By Ernst Kirsten and Wilhelm Kraiker
Reviewed by Eugene Vanderpool

Pausanias. Beschreibung Griechenlands. Neu übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und erklarenden Anmerkungen versehen (pp. 194–195)
By Ernst Meyer
Reviewed by Eugene Vanderpool

Fouilles de Delphes III: Épigraphie. Fascicule IV. Inscriptions de la Terrasse du Temple et de la Région Nord du Sanctuaire, Nos. 87–275 (pp. 195–196)
By R. Flacelière
Reviewed by W. Kendrick Pritchett

La Carie, Histoire et Géographie Historique, avec le recueil des inscriptions antiques, Tome II, Le Plateau de Tabai et ses environs (pp. 196–197)
By Louis Robert and Jeanne Robert
Reviewed by G.E. Bean

Iscrizioni Agonistiche Greche (pp. 197–199)
By Luigi Moretti
Reviewed by G.E. Bean

La Forteresse de Rhamnonte (pp. 199–201)
By Jean Pouilloux
Reviewed by C.W.J. Eliot

Aphrodite in den Gärten (pp. 201–205)
By Ernst Langlotz
Reviewed by Marjorie J. Milne

Späthellenistische Bildnisplastik, Versuch einer landschaftlichen Gliederung (pp. 205–207)
By German Hafner
Reviewed by Margarete Bieber

Storia di Ercolano (p. 207)
By Virgilio Catalano
Reviewed by Norman Neuerburg

Furniture in Roman Britain (pp. 207–208)
By Joan Liversidge
Reviewed by Cornelius Vermeule

Lullingstone Roman Villa (pp. 208–209)
By G.W. Meates
Reviewed by Cornelius Vermeule

La Terra Sigillata à Tongres, I. La Sigillata ornée de la Collection Ph. de Schaetzen (pp. 209–210)
By Philippe de Schaetzen and Michel Vanderhoeven
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

Atti del Primo Congresso Internazionale di Studi Liguri, 1950 (p. 210)
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

Trésors monetaires d’Afghanistan (pp. 210–211) 
By Raoul Curiel and Daniel Schlumberger
Reviewed by Alfred R. Bellinger

Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. I. Introductory Orientations (pp. 211–215)
By Joseph Needham
Reviewed by Aschwin Lippe

Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley (p. 215)
By William J. Mayer-Oakes
Reviewed by Frederick Johnson

Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico (pp. 215–217)
By Karl Ruppert, J. Eric S. Thompson, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Reviewed by Richard B. Woodbury

Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Part IV: Book 3—The Origin of the Gods (pp. 217–218)
By Fray Bernadino de Sahagun, Arthur J.O. Anderson, and Charles E. Dibble
Reviewed by Raymond H. Thompson

Errata

Errata: Unpublished Greek Vases in the Robinson Collection (p. 218)