October–December 1939 (43.4)

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Volume 43 (1939) Index (Open Access)

Archaeological Notes

Excavations at Pylos, 1939 (pp. 557–576)
K. Kourouniotis and Carl W. Blegen

Discoveries in the Agora in 1939 (pp. 577–588)
T. Leslie Shear

The First Dome of St. Sophia and Its Rebuilding (pp. 589–591)
Kenneth John Conant

Excavations at Corinth, 1938–1939 (pp. 592–600)
Saul S. Weinberg

How Were Imperial Portraits Distributed throughout the Roman Empire? (pp. 601–617)
Meriwether Stuart

Prometheus Fire-Lighter (pp. 618–639)
J.D. Beazley

Mima Saltatricula (pp. 640–644)
Margarete Bieber

Psiax (pp. 645–646)
Gisela M.A. Richter

An Ancient Oriental Source of Christian Sacred Architecture (pp. 647–668)
Richard Bernheimer

Note on the Potnia Taurōn (pp. 669–671)
Karl Lehmann-Hartleben

Archaeological News and Discussions (pp. 672–700)
Stephen B. Luce, V.J. Fewkes and Elizabeth Pierce Blegen

Book Reviews

Handbuch der Archaeologie im Rahmen des Handbuchs der Altertumswissenschaft (pp. 701–702)
By Walter Otto
Reviewed by Hermann Ranke                             

Les Peuples de L’orient Méditerranéen (pp. 702–703)
Reviewed by E.A. Speiser

La Neuvième Campagne de Fouilles à Ras Shamra-Ugarit (pp. 703–705)
By Claude F.-A. Schaeffer
Reviewed by Robert J. Braidwood

Un Grand Port Disparu, Tyr (p. 705)
By A. Poidebard
Reviewed by Robert J. Braidwood

Early Ivories from Samaria, Samaria-Sebaste. Reports of the Work of the Joint Expedition in 1931–1933 and of the British Expedition in 1935, No. 2 (pp. 705–706)
By J.D. Crowfoot and Grace M. Crowfoot
Reviewed by Valentin Müller

Argolis, Band I, Landeskunde der Ebene von Argos und ihrer Randgebiete (p. 706)
By Herbert Lehmann
Reviewed by Lucy T. Shoe

Excavations at Olynthus, Part VIII, the Hellenic House, a Study of the Houses Found at Olynthus with a Detailed Account of Those Excavated in 1931 and 1934 (pp. 707–708)
By David M. Robinson and J. Walter Graham
Reviewed by Lucy T. Shoe

The History of the Greek and Roman Theater (pp. 708–710)
By Margarete Bieber
Reviewed by James Turney Allen

Zur Datierung Attischer Inschriften, by Emanuel Loewy; Der Beginn Der Rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei, by Emanuel Loewy (pp. 710–713)
Reviewed by A.E. Raubitschek

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America, Fasc. 7: The Robinson Collection, Baltimore, Md., Fasc. 3, by D.M. Robinson; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. France, Fasc. 14: Louvre, Fasc. 9, by N. Plaoutine (pp. 713–714)
Reviewed by D.A. Amyx

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland: Berlin, Antiquarium, Band 1 (pp. 714–715) 
By Richard Eilmann and Kurt Gebauer
Reviewed by Rodney S. Young

Katalog der Goldschmiede-Arbeiten, Museum Benaki (pp. 715–716)
By Berta Segall
Reviewed by Christine Alexander

The Cults of Lanuvium (pp. 716–717)
By A.E. Gordon
Reviewed by Agnes Kirsopp Lake

Römische Kopien Griechischer Skulpturen des IV. Jahrhunderts vor Chr. (pp. 717–718)
By Carl Blümel
Reviewed by Margarete Bieber

Studien Ueber den Bergbau der Roemischen Kaiserzeit (pp. 718–719)
By Ulf Täckholm
Reviewed by Valentin Müller

Der Münzfund von Viminacium, Vorläufiger Bericht (pp. 719–720)
By Erik Gren
Reviewed by Edward T. Newell

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Vol. III, The Lockett Collection, Part I, Spain-Italy (p. 720)
By E.S.G. Robinson
Reviewed by Edward T. Newell

Forma Orbis Romani: carte archéologique de la Gaule romaine dressée sous la direction de M. Adrien Blanchet. Fasc. VII; carte et texte complet du départment de Vaucluse (pp. 720–721)
By M. le Chanoine Joseph Sautel
Reviewed by Walter Woodburn Hyde

Das Römerlager in Oberaden und das Uferkastell in Beckinghausen an der Lippe (pp. 721–723)
By Christoph Albrecht, Kurt Regling, and August Oxé
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

Frühgeschichtliche Funde aus Westfalen im Städtischen Kunst- und Gewerbemuseum Dortmund (p. 723)
By Christoph Albrecht
Reviewed by Howard Comfort

Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome, IV–IX Century: Vol. I, No. II (pp. 723–725)
By Richard Krautheimer
Reviewed by Dimitris Tselos

Ancient Andean Life (p. 725)
By Edgar L. Hewett
Reviewed by Frederica de Laguna

Dating Prehistoric Ruins by Tree-Rings (pp. 725–726)
By W.S. Stallings
Reviewed by Edgar B. Howard

Mapungubwe: Ancient Bantu Civilization on the Limpopo. Report on Excavations at Mapungubwe (Northern Transvaal) from February, 1933 to June, 1935 (pp. 726–728)
By Leo Fouché
Reviewed by H.U. Hall

L’art Pré-Roman (pp. 728–730)
By Jean Hubert
Reviewed by J.C. Sloane, Jr.

Antiken in deutschem Privatbesitz. Festschrift zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Bestehen der Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst (pp. 730–731)
By Karl Anton Neugebauer
Reviewed by Gisela M.A. Richter