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List of Books Received

April 2016 (120.2)

Books Received

List of Books Received

Abadie-Reynal, Catherine, and Jean-Baptiste Yon, eds. Zeugma VI: La Syrie romaine. Permanences et transferts culturels (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 68). Pp. 301, figs. 134, b&w pls. 16, maps 18, tables 2. Maison de l’Orient et de La Méditerranée, Lyon 2015. €40. ISBN 978-2-35668-049-5 (paper).

Beit-Arieh, Itzhaq, and Liora Freud. Tel Malhata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev (Tel Aviv University Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series 32). 2 vols. Pp. xiii + ix + 778, figs. 300, tables 54. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2015. $179.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-385-0 (cloth).

Bernhardt, Johannes Christian. Das Nikemonument von Samothrake und der Kampf der Bilder. Pp. 169, figs. 42. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014. €42. ISBN 978-3-515-10864-5 (cloth).

Böhr, Elke. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Germany 98. Munich 18: Attisch bilingue und rotfigurige Schalen. Pp. 159, figs. 112, b&w pls. 84. C.H. Beck, Munich 2015. $98. ISBN 978-3-406-67748-9 (cloth).

Bourdin, Stéphane, and Vincenzo D’Ercole. I Vestini e il loro territorio dalla preistoria al medioevo (Collection de l’École Française de Rome 494). Pp. 322, figs. 233, b&w pls. 10. École Française de Rome, Rome 2014. €64. ISBN 978-2-7283-0980-1 (paper).

Bouzek, Jan, Pavel Titz, and Petra Tušlová, eds. Pistiros V, Supplementum (Studia Hercynia 17[1]). Pp. 132, figs. 58, color pls. 21. Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Prague 2013. €40. ISBN 978-80-7308-501-8 (paper).

Brecoulaki, Hariclia, Jack L. Davis, and Sharon R. Stocker, eds. Mycenaean Wall Painting in Context: New Discoveries, Old Finds Reconsidered (Meletemata 72). Pp. 403, figs. 196, table 1. National Hellenic Research Foundation / Institute of Historical Research, Athens 2015. Price not available. ISBN 978-960-9538-34-3 (cloth).

Brindle, Tom, Martyn Allen, Emma Durham, and Alex Smith, eds. TRAC 2014: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Pp. vi + 121, figs. 20, tables 4. Oxbow Books, Havertown, Penn. 2015. $60. ISBN 978-1-78570-002-6 (paper).

Buchwald, Hans. Churches EA and E at Sardis (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports 6). Pp. xvii + 341, figs. 384, tables 8. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2015. $90. ISBN 978-0-674-50440-0 (cloth).

Clare, Lee, Kristin Heller, Maha Ismail-Weber, and Carsten Mischka. Die Bandkeramik im Altdorfer Tӓlchen bei Inden (Rheinische Ausgrabungen 69). Pp. x + 425, figs. 392, b&w pls. 56, color pls. 3, maps 2, CD-ROM 1. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015. €69. ISBN 978-3-8053-4879-9 (cloth).

Cole, Dan P. Lahav V: The Iron, Persian, and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif. Excavations in the Field II, 1977–1980 (Reports of the Lahav Research Project 5). Pp. xvii + 267, figs. 78. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2015. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-300-3 (cloth).

Collins, Steven, Carroll M. Kobs, and Michael C. Luddeni. The Tall al-Hammam Excavations. Vol. 1, An Introduction to the Tall al-Hammam, with Seven Seasons (2005–2011) of Ceramics and Eight Seasons (2005–2012) of Artifacts. Pp. xxxvii + 362, figs. 91, b&w pls. 181, color pls. 88, tables 15. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2015. $89.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-369-0 (cloth).

Cosmopoulos, Michael B. The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis. The Bronze Age (The Archaeological Society at Athens Library 295, 296). 2 vols. Pp. xix + 766, figs. 287, b&w pls. 82, tables 12. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. €85. ISBN 978-618-5047-15-3 (paper).

D’Andria, Francesco, and Katia Mannino, eds. L’imperatore torna sulla scena: La statua loricata riscoperta nel teatro romano di Lecce. Pp. 64, figs. 62. Edizioni Esperidi, Monteroni di Lecce 2014. €13. ISBN 978-88-97895-45-9 (paper).

Davies, Gwyn, and Jodi Magness. The 2003–2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata. Pp. xii + 268, figs. 130, tables 18. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2015. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-347-8 (cloth).

de Cazanove, Olivier, Sophie Féret, Anna Maria Caravelli, Stéphane Bourdin, Michael Hewson Crawford, and Martine Dewailly. Civita di Tricarico II: Habitat et artisanat au centre du plateau (Collection de l’École Française de Rome 483). Pp. viii + 262, figs. 206. École Française de Rome, Rome 2014. €50. ISBN 978-2-7283-1044-9 (paper).

Dusinberre, Elspeth R.M. Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia. Pp. xxvi + 374, figs. 150, tables 3. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013. $39.99. ISBN 978-1-107-57715-2 (paper).

Fenet, Annick, and Natacha Lubtchansky, eds. Pour une histoire de l’archéologie XVIIIe siècle–1945: Hommage de ses collègues et amis à Ève Gran-Aymerich (Scripta Receptoria 5). Pp. 499, figs. 93. Ausonius Éditions, Bordeaux 2015. €25. ISBN 978-2-35613-131-7 (paper).

Fiensy, David A., and James Riley Strange, eds. Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods. Vol. 2, The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages. Pp. xviii + 467, figs. 231, color pls. 9, maps 4. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2015. $69. ISBN 978-1-4514-6742-0 (paper).

Fleury, Philippe, Catherine Jacquemard, and Sophie Madeleine, eds. La technologie gréco-romaine: Transmission, restitution et médiation. Actes du colloque organisé par l’ERSAM à Caen les 10 et 12 mars 2010. Pp. 282, figs. 104. Presses universitaires de Caen, Caen Cedex 2015. €28. ISBN 978-2-84133-517-6 (paper).

Force, Eric R. Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations: Recurrent Shakeups, Tenacity, Resilience, and Change. Pp. xii + 197, figs. 14, tables 4. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md. 2015. £52.95. ISBN 978-1-4985-1427-9 (cloth).

Giuman, Marco. Archeologia dello sguardo: Fascinazione e baskania nel mondo classico (Archaeologica 173). Pp. xv + 185, b&w pls. 24. Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, Rome 2013. €72. ISBN 978-88-7689-276-9 (paper).

Gorski, Gilbert J., and James E. Packer. The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide. Pp. xxii + 437, figs. 297. Cambridge University Press, New York 2015. $250. ISBN 978-0-0521-19244-6 (cloth).

Guérin-Beauvois, Marie. Le thermalisme romain en Italie: Aspects sociaux et culturels aux deux premiers siècles de l’Empire (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 364). Pp. xiii + 519, figs. 45, b&w pls. 14, tables 9. École Française de Rome, Rome 2015. €55. ISBN 978-2-7283-0950-4 (paper).

Guimier-Sorbets, Anne-Marie, André Pelle, and Mervat Seif el-Din. Renaître avec Osiris et Perséphone: Alexandrie, les tombes peintes de Kôm el-Chougafa (Antiquités Alexandrines 1). Pp. 177, figs. 198. Centre d’Études Alexandrines, Alexandria 2015. €40. ISBN 978-2-11-129858-2 (cloth).

Haselberger, Lothar, with contributions by Paolo Albèri Auber, Géza Alföldy, John Fillwalk, Bernard Frischer, Robert Hannah, Peter J. Heslin, Eugenio La Rocca, Günter Leonhardt, John Pollini with Nicholas Cipolla, and Michael Schütz. The Horologium of Augustus: Debate and Context (JRA Suppl. 99). Pp. 206, figs. 72. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2014. $80.50. ISBN 978-0-9913730-1 (cloth).

Hemelrijk, Emily A. Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West. Pp. xviii + 610, figs. 25, b&w pls. 20, tables 28, maps 2. Oxford University Press, New York 2015. £55. ISBN 978-0-19-025188-8 (cloth).

Hobson, Matthew S. The North African Boom: Evaluating Economic Growth in the Roman Province of Africa Proconsularis (146 B.C.–A.D. 439) (JRA Suppl. 100). Pp. 181, figs. 50, tables 9. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2015. $99. ISBN 978-0-9913730-4-8 (cloth).

Hofstetter-Dolega, Eva. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Germany 97. Dresden 2: Attisch rotfigurige Keramik. Pp. 111, figs. 46, b&w pls. 76. C.H. Beck, Munich 2015. €98. ISBN 978-3-406-67747-2 (cloth).

Jacobs, Paul F. Lahav IV: The Figurines of Tell Halif (Reports of the Lahav Research Project 4). Pp. xvi + 88, figs. 44, tables 5, CD-ROM 1. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2015. $49.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-299-0 (cloth).

Johnston, Paul F. Shipwrecked in Paradise: Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawai’i (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series). Pp. x + 204, figs. 208. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2015. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-62349-283-0 (cloth).

Kalas, Gregor. The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity: Transforming Public Space. Pp. xv + 228, figs. 101. University of Texas Press, Austin 2015. $60. ISBN 978-0-292-76078-3 (cloth).

Kazakidi, Natalia. ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ ΕΝ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΩ. ΕΡΓΑ ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟ: Ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα και νησιά του Αιγαίου. Pp. 354, b&w pls. 15. University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2015. €42. ISBN 978-960-12-2173-1 (paper).

Kritsky, Gene. The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. Pp. xiii + 133, figs. 101, color pls. 16. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-936138-0 (cloth).

Laird, Margaret L. Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy. Pp. xvii + 349, figs. 100. Cambridge University Press, New York 2015. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-00822-9 (cloth).

Larsen, Mogens Trolle. Ancient Kanesh: A Merchant Colony in Bronze Age Anatolia. Pp. xii + 330, figs. 44. Cambridge University Press, New York 2015. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-11956-7 (cloth).

La Torre, Gioacchino Francesco, and Fabrizio Mollo, eds. Finziade I: Scavi sul Monte Sant’ Angelo di Licata (2003–2005) (Archaeologica 172). Pp. xiii + 564, figs. 336, color pls. 16. Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, Rome 2013. €270. ISBN 978-88-7689-279-0 (paper).

Leary, Jim. The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age (Debates in Archaeology). Pp. 164, figs. 5. Bloomsbury, New York 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4742-4590-6 (paper).

Lee, Geoff, Helene Whittaker, and Graham Wrightson, eds. Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research. Vol. 1. Pp. xvi + 361. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015. £52.99. ISBN 978-1-4438-7694-0 (cloth).

Lindner, Molly M. Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome. Pp. xxii + 291, figs. 87. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2015. $95. ISBN 978-0-472-11895-3 (cloth).

MacDonald, Burton. The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley: The Bronze Age to the Islamic period (3800/3700 BC–AD 1917). Pp. 118, figs. 24, color pls. 48. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2015. £60. ISBN 978-1-78297-832-9 (cloth).

Magness, Jodi. The Archaeology of the Holy Land: From the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest. Pp. xiv + 385, figs. 201. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012. $34.99. ISBN 978-0-521-12413-3 (paper).

Marder, Tod A., and Mark Wilson Jones, eds. The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present. Pp. xix + 471, figs. 165, color pls. 24. Cambridge University Press, New York 2015. $99. ISBN 978-0-521-80932-0 (cloth).

Moignard, Elizabeth. Master of Attic Black-Figure Painting: The Art and Legacy of Exekias (Library of Classical Studies). Pp. xxi + 177, figs. 70, color pls. 8. I.B. Tauris, New York 2015. £68. ISBN 978-1-78076-141-1 (cloth).

Morehart, Christopher T., and Kristin De Lucia, eds. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life. Pp. xi + 338, figs. 42, tables 8. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2015. $36.95. ISBN 978-1-60732-371-6 (paper).

Östenberg, Ida, Simon Malmberg, and Jonas Bjørnebye, eds. The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome. Pp. xiv + 361, figs. 32. Bloomsbury, London 2015. $138. ISBN 978-1-4725-2800-1 (cloth).

Paoletti, Orazio, ed. La Corsica e Populonia: Atti del XXVIII Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici; Bastia, Aléria, Piombino, Populonia, 25–29 ottobre 2011. Pp. 602, figs. 162, b&w pls. 84, tables 9. Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, Rome 2015. $236.24. ISBN 978-88-7689-286-8 (paper).

Papadopoulos, John K., Sarah P. Morris, Lorenc Bejko, and Lynne A. Schepartz. The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania (Monumenta Archaeologica 34). 2 vols. Pp. xxxvii + xxv + 1,118, figs. 773, tables 68. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles 2014. $169. ISBN 978-1-938770-00-5 (cloth).

Papathanasiou, Anastasia, Michael P. Richards, and Sherry C. Fox, eds. Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary Reconstruction from Stable Isotope Analysis (Hesperia Suppl. 49). Pp. xii + 211, figs. 52, tables 31. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2015. $75. ISBN 978-0-87661-549-2 (paper).

Parpola, Asko. The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization. Pp. xvi + 363, figs. 121, tables 4. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015. $35. ISBN 978-0-19-022692-3 (paper).

Patay-Horváth, András. The Origins of the Olympic Games (Archaeolingua Series Minor 37). Pp. 156, figs. 16. Archaeolingua, Budapest 2015. €24. ISBN 978-963-9911-72-7 (paper).

Pedersen, Ralph K., ed. On Sea and Ocean: New Research in Phoenician Seafaring. Proceedings of the Symposion held in Marburg, June 23–25, 2011 at Archäologisches Seminar, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Marburger Beiträge zur Archäologie 2). Pp. ix + 129, figs. 124. Eigenverlag des Archäologisches Seminar der Philipps-Universität, Marburg 2015. €69. ISBN 978-3-8185-0516-5 (cloth).

Robinson, Damian, and Franck Goddio, eds. Thonis-Heracleion in Context (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph 8). Pp. xiii + 319, figs. 235, tables 6. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford 2015. £45. ISBN 978-1-905905-33-1 (cloth).

Scafuro, Michele. L’area tra il Kolonos Agoraios e l’Areopago dall’XI al VI sec. a.C.: Contesti e aree funzionali (SATAA 8). Pp. 182, figs. 141, CD-ROM 1. Pandemos, Paestum 2015. €80. ISBN 978-88-87744-62-0 (cloth).

Sheridan, Thomas E., Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Anton Daughters, Dale S. Brenneman, T.J. Ferguson, Leigh Kuwanwisima, and Lee Wayne Lomayestewa, eds. Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History. Vol. 1, 1540–1679. Pp. xi + 346, figs. 5, maps 4. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2015. $65. ISBN 978-0-8165-3184-4 (cloth).

Spadea, Roberto, ed. Kroton: Studi e ricerche sulla polis achea e il suo territorio (Atti e Memorie della Societá Magna Grecia, Quarta Serie 5). Pp. xix + 564, figs. 82, b&w pls. 123, color pls. 16, tables 3. Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, Rome 2014. $182.55. ISBN 978-88-7689-277-6 (paper).

Steffian, Amy, Marnie Leist, Sven Haakanson Jr., and Patrick Saltonstall, eds. Kal’unek from Karluk: Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site. Pp. xiv + 383, figs. 407. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks 2015. $50. ISBN 978-1-60-223244-0 (cloth).

Stoneman, Richard. Xerxes: A Persian Life. Pp. ix + 275, b&w pls. 44, tables 4, maps 4. Yale University Press, New Haven 2015. $38. ISBN 978-0-300-18007-7 (cloth).

Strange, John, ed. Tall al-Fukhãr: Results from Excavations in 1990–93 and 2002 (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus 9). 2 vols. Pp. 680, figs. 3, b&w pls. 222, color pls. 15, tables 3. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2015. $80. ISBN 978-87-7124-409-0 (cloth).

Talalay, Lauren E., and Margaret Cool Root. Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors and Collections from the Kelsey Museum (Kelsey Museum Publication 13). Pp. ix + 205, figs. 282. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Mich. 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-990-66233-4 (paper).

Wegner, Josef, and Jennifer Houser Wegner. The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia: The Story of the Colossal Sphinx in the Penn Museum. Pp. xi + 239, figs. 445. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-76-6 (cloth).

Williams, Howard, Joanne Kirton, and Meggen Gondek, eds. Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape. Pp. xiii + 279, figs. 90, tables 4. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2015. $99. ISBN 978-1-78327-074-3 (cloth).

Zimmermann-Elseify, Nina. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Germany 99. Berlin 16: Attische Salbgefässe. Pp. 127, figs. 20, b&w pls. 24, color pls. 60. C.H. Beck, Munich 2015. €98. ISBN 978-3-406-68353-4 (cloth).

List of Books Received

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 120, No. 2 (April 2016)

Published online at www.ajaonline.org/books-received/2628

DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1202.BooksReceived