Ancient West & East; v.3 no.2

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

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90-04-13975-3

Ancient West & East; v.3 no.2.

Title main entry. (Monograph supplement: Colloquia Pontica)

Brill Academic Publishers, [c]2004

456 p.

$134.00

The latest issue of the biannual devoted to the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world offers six articles, two notes, and many reviews of new books. The articles, discuss such topics as Medes in Media, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia: Empire, Hegemony, Domination, or Illusion; rethinking early Greek-indigenous encounters in southern Italy; jewelery evidence and the lowering of South Italian ceramic chronology; and the organization of the mint in Chersonesus in Taurica in the first half of the fourth century BC. One of the articles in is German, and another in French. The notes cover bronze punches from Berezan; and a brooch with the heads of a lion, a bull, and a human found in Celtiberia. There is no index.