jojs!I I TABLE DBS MATIERES de la LXI®'"® annee (2003) a r t i c l e s Wendy MAYER: Antioch and the West in Late Antiquity 5 Vassilis CHRISTIDES: Religious Syncretism in the Near East: Allat-Athena in Palmyra 33 HiA'oje GRACANIN: The Western Roman Embassy to the Court of Attila in A. D. 449 53 Franziska E. SHLOSSER: The Slavs in Sixth-Century Byzantine Sources 75 Sylvain PATRI: Les sources des «Lettres syriaques» de la Vita Constantini vieux-slave et les figurations litteraires du Logos de la Revelation 83 Noel AUJOULAT: L alteration de fame humaine d'apres Hierocles d'Alexandrie 95 Nikos IL\LOGERAS: The "Rhetoric of Emulation" in the Work of Cyril of Scythopolis and the Vita Abraamii 113 Paul SPECK: Die npri'nKfi TtpooKUvrimg Ein Detail ikonoduler Theologie 129 George C. MANIATIS: The Perishable Produce Market in Byzantium Organi/ation, Marketing and Pricing Policies 143 Veronique FRANCOIS: Elaborate Incised Ware: une preuve du rayonement de la culture byzantine a I'epoque paleologue 151 Elisabeth PILTZ: Costume comme communication theologique 169 Nicoletta ISAR: The Dance of Adam: R e c o n s t r u c t i n g t h e B y z a n t i n e x o p o ' ^ ^