American Journal of Archaeology

In the latest Hesperia supplement, Rotroff offers a valuable addition to the growing corpus of scholarly work on private religious activities in ancient Athens. This volume treats a specific subject, industrial religion, but in doing so covers a wide range of topics: commercial and industrial activities, funerary rites, magic and superstition, and responses to societal stresses in fourth- and third-century B.C.E. Athens.

The CVA series has a long history, starting from the 1920s and continuing to the present; its original aim was to record vase collections by providing a record of each vase with small photographs and basic information, such as short description, attribution, date, and bibliographic record of each piece, but little or no commentary. Over time and in some countries, the series developed into detailed annotated catalogues and, on occasion, monographic volumes treating, for example, a specific shape within a given collection (cf. W.

This book comes from a doctoral thesis defended at the Université libre de Bruxelles in January 2011. It focuses on the origin, development, and uses of Attic alabastra (perfume vases) produced by Athenian potters from the middle of the sixth century to the start of the fourth century B.C.E. The study comprises two parts: one on the formal development of Attic alabastra and the other on their uses.

Rose summarizes his 25-year investigation of the Graeco-Roman layers of ancient Troy/Ilion by assembling an array of archaeological results not only from his excavations at Troy but also from his survey along the Granicus River and his participation in Turkish investigations of tomb robbings. He combines these with a solid command of the historical record of all things Trojan to generate a synthetic overview of the development of Ilion and the Troad from its Bronze Age origins to the Middle Byzantine era.

The 35th volume of Études Crétoises is devoted to the publication of the area northeast of the palace of Malia, the “abords Nord-Est du palais,” where fieldwork was directed by Pascal Darcque and Claude Baurain (1981–1985, 1992). The aim of the volume—first of an announced series—is both to reconstruct, adopting a global and systemic perspective, the history of the site and to contribute to the comprehension of the life cycle of the palace and of Malia as a whole.

This monograph focuses on work carried out on the extreme southwestern tip of Euboea, in the ancient political region of the Karystia. Euboea is a huge island (3,684 km²), characterized by topographic, environmental, and political diversity; the arid Paximadi peninsula comprises just a tiny 22 km² microcosm of this landmass (less than 0.5% of the total).

The present book is the (ad hoc) culmination of De Backer’s impressive research on Neo-Assyrian warfare that started at least with his (to the best of my knowledge as yet unpublished) dissertation on the equipment of Neo-Assyrian armies from Tiglath-Pileser III through to Ashurbanipal in 2004 (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium).

Following her first monograph on second-millennium minor arts of the Ancient Near East (Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an “International Style” in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 BCE [Chicago 2006]), Feldman now focuses on portable luxury objects of the Iron Age Levant.

This book is a welcome continuation of the publication series of the Egyptian Exploration Society’s (EES) rescue excavations at the site of Buhen in northern Sudan/Lower Nubia directed by Walter Bryan Emery (d. 1971). It gives a detailed account of the archaeology of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2575–2150 B.C.E.; spelling of royal names and dynastic dates follow J. Baines and J.

Vischak’s study accomplishes what far too few Egyptological volumes even attempt to do: it moves scholarly discussion away from the royal house and the pharaonic state and refocuses on community structure and identities in the provinces. This volume, a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, takes as its dataset the decorative programs from 12 late Old Kingdom tombs in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, located southwest of the frontier settlement of Elephantine Island.