January–March 1939 (43.1)
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Archaeological Notes
Two Recent Acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pp. 1–9)
Gisela M.A. Richter
The Orient and Europe (pp. 10–26)
V. Gordon Childe
The Lost Pedimental Sculptures of Bassae (pp. 27–47)
William Bell Dinsmoor
The Fourth Campaign at Olynthos (pp. 48–77)
David M. Robinson and George E. Mylonas
Watchtowers and Fortresses in Argolis (pp. 78–84)
Louis E. Lord
The Primitive Smelting of Iron (pp. 85–101)
T.A. Rickard
The Inscribed Pithoi from Kourion (pp. 102–103)
John Franklin Daniel
Turkeys or Cranes on a Laconian Hydria (pp. 104–105)
W.A. Oldfather
Archaeological News and Discussions (pp. 107–132)
Stephen B. Luce and Elizabeth Pierce Blegen
Excavations in Samothrace (pp. 133–145)
Karl Lehmann-Hartleben
Archaeological Exploration and Excavation in Palestine, Transjordan and Syria during 1938 (pp. 146–157)
Nelson Glueck
Book Reviews
Le Pithecanthrope était-il un Pygmée? (p. 158)
By Paul Buyssens
Reviewed by T.D. McCown
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim, Vol. II, The Bronze Age (pp. 158–159)
By William Foxwell Albright
Reviewed by Robert H. Pfeiffer
Nuzi. Report on the Excavations at Yorgan Tepa near Kirkuk, Iraq, Conducted by Harvard University in Conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University Museum of Philadelphia, 1927–1931 (p. 159)
By Richard F.S. Starr
Reviewed by W.F. Albright
La Civilisation d’Assur et de la Babylone (pp. 159–160)
By G. Contenau
Reviewed by Albrecht Goetze
Mounds in the Plain of Antioch: An Archaeological Survey (pp. 160–161)
By Robert J. Braidwood
Reviewed by W.F. Albright
Fouilles Exécutées à Mallia, Deuxième Rapport: Exploration du Palais (1925–1926) Études Crétoises IV (p. 161)
By Fernand Chapouthier and René Joly
Reviewed by John Franklin Daniel
Deux Épées d’Apparat Découvertes en 1936 au Palais de Mallia; Etudes Crétoises V (p. 162)
By Fernand Chapouthier
Reviewed by John Franklin Daniel
The Mediterranean World in Ancient Times (p. 162)
By Eva Matthews Sanford
Reviewed by Allan Chester Johnson
Food in Early Greece (pp. 162–163)
By Kenton Frank Vickery
Reviewed by Carl W. Blegen
Greek Wolf-Lore (p. 163)
By Richard Preston Eckels
Reviewed by Francis Redding Walton
Satyroi (pp. 163–164)
By Frank Brommer
Reviewed by Joseph E. Fontenrose
Viergespanne in Vorderansicht (pp. 164–166)
By German Hafner
Reviewed by D.A. Amyx
Altertümer von Pergamon, Band X, Die Hellenistischen Arsenale (pp. 166–167)
By Akos von Szalay and Erich Boehringer
Reviewed by Lucy T. Shoe
Corolla Ludwig Curtius (pp. 167–168)
Reviewed by Rhys Carpenter
Etruscologia, 1935–36 (p. 168)
By Aldo Neppi Modona
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann
Altetruskische Plastik I. Die menschliche Gestalt in der Rundplastik bis zum Ausgang der orientalisierenden Kunst (pp. 168–169)
By Georg M.A. Hanfmann
Reviewed by Edith H. Dohan
Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pp. 169–170)
By Gisela M.A. Richter
Reviewed by Rhys Carpenter
Ritual and Cults of Pre-Roman Iguvium (pp. 170–171)
By Irene Rosenzweig, Kirsopp Lake, and Silva Lake
Reviewed by George M.A. Hanfmann
The Clothing of the Ancient Romans (pp. 171–173)
By Lillian M. Wilson and David M. Robinson
Reviewed by Margarete Bieber
Vassal—Queens and Some Contemporary Women of the Roman Empire (p. 173)
By Grace Harriet Macurdy
Reviewed by Lily Ross Taylor
Notes on Antique Folklore on the Basis of Pliny’s Natural History, Bk. XXVIII, 22–29 (pp. 173–174)
By X.F.M.G. Wolters
Reviewed by Marion E. Blake
Essai Sur la Guerre Parthique de Trajan (114–117) (pp. 174–176)
By Julien Guey
Reviewed by Alfred R. Bellinger
La Composition du Sénat Romain de Septime Sévère à Dioclétien (p. 176)
By Pierre Lambrechts
Reviewed by T.R.S. Broughton
Der Quellbezirk von Nîmes (pp. 176–178)
By Rudolf Naumann
Reviewed by Karl Lehmann-Hartleben
Der Tempelbezirk in Altbachtale zu Trier, Heft 1. Planausschnitt, Ritonatempel und Umbegung (p. 178)
By Erich Gose, Ludwig Hussong, Wilhelm Jovy, and Siegfried Loeschcke
Reviewed by Marion E. Blake
Opgravingen op het Domplein te Utrecht III: de opgravingen in juni en juli 1934 (pp. 178–179)
By C.W. Vollgraff and G. van Hoorn
Reviewed by Howard Comfort
Het Grafveld onder Hees bij Nijmegen (p. 179)
By H. Brunsting
Reviewed by Howard Comfort
The Richborough Hoard of “Radiates,” 1931 (pp. 179–180)
By Harold Mattingly and W.P.D. Stebbing
Reviewed by Alfred R. Bellinger
Quantulacumque, Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake (pp. 180–182)
By Robert P. Casey, Silva Lake, and Agnes K. Lake
Reviewed by C. Bradford Welles
Iconography of Southern India (p. 182)
By G. Jouveau-Dubreuil and A.C. Martin
Reviewed by W. Norman Brown
Indian Temples (pp. 182–183)
By Odette Bruhl and Sylvain Lévi
Reviewed by W. Norman Brown
Schweden und das Karolingische Reich. Studien zu den Handelsverbindungen des 9. Jahrhunderts (p. 183)
By Holger Arbman
Reviewed by H. O’Neill Hencken
Ancient Caves of the Great Salt Lake Region (pp. 183–185)
By Julian H. Steward
Reviewed by Frederica de Laguna
Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro Indians (p. 185)
By M.W. Stirling
Reviewed by Frederica de Laguna