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ArticleThis article rethinks the presence of the lion in Bronze Age Crete and its participation in poetic culture in the Aegean. In the absence of living lions on the island, representational embodiments were the basis of people’s encounters with…

124.3 By Margit von Mehren (AnalRom 52). Rome: Edizioni Quasar 2019. Pp. 276. €32. ISBN 978-88-7140-936-8 (paper). Reviewed by Marshall Joseph BeckerVon Mehren’s impressive volume provides one means of gauging the progress that has been…

Museum ReviewThe Museum of Fine Arts in Boston holds the finest collections of antiquities from ancient Nubia outside Egypt and Sudan, but the museum has only rarely displayed this material since its excavation by George Reisner in the early 20th…

ArticleAnalyses of the organization of craft production in prehistoric societies have tended to build on evolutionary, typological models that see domestic, household-based production as simple, small-scale, and unspecialized in contrast to workshop…

124.3 Edited by Attila Gyucha (Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Proceedings 8). Albany: State University of New York Press 2019. Pp. xii + 390. $100. ISBN 978-1-4384-7277-5 (cloth).  Reviewed by Thomas E.…

124.3 Edited by John Haldon, Hugh Elton, and James Newhard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018. Pp. xxxix + 377. $125. ISBN 978-1-1085-5775-7 (cloth). Reviewed by Michael J. DeckerCentral Anatolia is one of the lesser known parts of…

124.3 Edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. Pp. xxxvi + 643. $150. ISBN 978-1-107-15668-5 (cloth). Reviewed by Georgia M. AndreouWhile cultural-historical narratives…

124.3 By Caitlín E. Barrett. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019. Pp. xxiv + 445. $99. ISBN 9780190641351 (cloth). Reviewed by Stephanie PearsonWith this book, Barrett has greatly advanced the study of Egyptian imagery in Rome with respect…

124.3 By Dimitra Rousioti. Athens: Maistros 2018. Pp. 490. €38. ISBN 978-960-6846-28-1 (paper). Reviewed by Anna Simandiraki-GrimshawMycenaean religion has occupied a sizable part of the bibliography pertaining to the Bronze Age Aegean, as…

124.3 By Ivo van der Graaff. Oxford and New York: Routledge 2019. Pp. xvi + 281. $150. ISBN 978-1-4724-7716-3 (cloth). Reviewed by Steven M. CeruttiThere is an old saying when it comes to walls: “A wall is a wall is a wall: seen one, seen…

124.3 Edited by Jacopo Tabolli (SIMA 149). Uppsala: Astrom Editions 2018. Pp. x + 273. €68. ISBN 978-9925-7455-2-4 (cloth) Reviewed by Carrie L. Sulosky WeaverThe investigation of the burials of infants and children has always been a…

124.3 By David B. Small (Case Studies in Early Societies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. Pp. xvi + 270. $34.99. ISBN 978-0-521-71926-1 (paper). Reviewed by Sarah C. MurrayThis book treats the long-term history and social…

124.3 By Pier Luigi Tucci. 2 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press 2017 (cloth). Vol. 1, Art and Culture in Imperial Rome, pp. ix + 1–488, $90, ISBN 978-1-107-16247-1; vol. 2, Remodelings, Conversions, Excavations, pp. viii + 489–1121…

Field ReportThis article presents the results of the first excavations at the site of ancient Eleon in eastern Boeotia, Greece. Fieldwork focused on the elevated limestone ridge on the western edge of the village of Arma about 14 km east of Thebes.…

ArticleIn recent years, scholars have become increasingly skeptical of the idea that there is any relationship between the capacities of entertainment structures such as theaters and amphitheaters and the populations of Graeco-Roman cities. In this…

124.3 Edited by Konstantinos Chalikias and Emilia Oddo. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press 2019. Pp. xviii + 143. $45. ISBN 9781931534994 (paper) Reviewed by L. Vance WatrousThis slim volume is a collection of eight papers originally given…

124.3 By Jodi Magness. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2019. Pp. x + 265. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16710-7 (cloth). Reviewed by Karen B. Stern“A dream of ages has come true: Masada has been excavated and reconstructed.” So wrote Yigael…

Field ReportAt Gerace near Enna in Sicily, excavation on a Roman villa-estate has revealed a freestanding bath house erected ca. 380 CE. It may never have been completed; one of three pools in its cold room was never installed, and the room’s wall…

124.3 By Elizabeth Lyding Will and Kathleen Warner Slane (MAAR 14). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2019. Pp. xi + 214. $90. ISBN 978-0-472-13143-3 (cloth). Reviewed by J. Theodore PeñaThis volume represents the final publication of…

HAIFA, ISRAEL—According to a Live Science report, an examination of the bones of lizards and snakes recovered from el-Wad Terrace, a cave near Mount Carmel in northern Israel, indicates that reptiles such as the legless European glass lizard and the…