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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 4

FOUNDER AND Beirut: Rediscovering the Past EDITOR.INCHIEF Reconstruction provides a chance to Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D excavate Beirut LUCY Lethbridge MANAGING

EDITOR Splendours of Ancient Egypt Anna Lethbridge M.A. from Hildesheim CONSULTING

EDITOR Florida exhibition replacing the cancelled peter clayton,

F.S.A. loan from Cairo Museum Roberts. Bianchi CONTRIBUTING

EDITORS The Chauvet Cave: Theoldestcave ~ r ~ o b e r t s - ~ i a l l c h i , New York

paintings in the world ~ e a n - ~ a r i e Chauvet, Dr London Reeves, F.S*A. Eliette Brunei Deschamps, Christian Hillaire EDITORIAL ADVISORY

BOARD DI l'ieter Meyers, Archaeology on China's Northern LO; A w l e s Dr David Mitten, Frontier Cambridge, Mci, Kenneth Painter, M.A.,

Beyond the Great Wall F i l i ~ ~ O pr FAA J; M;hael don Padgett, Princeton

Amorium in Turkey Dr Pratapaditya Pal, Los Angeles A Byzantine city during the Dark Ages CORRESPONDENTS

David Breslin, Dublin chris ~ i ~ h t f ~ ~ t Christopher Follett,

Copenhagen

The Ludovisi and Boston Sean Kingsley, feriisfllem Sybille Krause, Leipzig, Gennany Thrones: their 1 9th-century origins Jean Pierre Montesino, Part's

Jerome M. ~ i ~ ~ ~ b ~ ~ ~ DI K.D. Politis, Afnfnflii, Jordan Stephen C. Rossi,

Magna Graecia: The Greeks in Viareggio, Italy Filippo Salviati, Rome the West Laura Wynn, Litohom, Stephen C. Rossi Greece Preah Khan: Conservation of a n PUBLISHER Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. ancient temple site Denise Heywood ASSOCIATE

PUBLISHER

New Roman London Gallery Helen Beastall Published in England Jenny Hall by the proprietor

Aurora Publications Ltd., Ancient Egyptian Mining London, 14 Old WIX Bond 3DB. St, Tel: (0171) 495 2590 Jerome M. Eisenberg Fax: (0171) 491 1595

2 News 48 Book Reviews 1 47 Numismatic News 61 Calendar

IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES The synagogue in the ancient world Greek and Roman sculpture;

in Boston The royal women of Amarna Geometric diagrams of Homeric epic

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