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Contacts with India - F. DE ROMANIS and A. TCHERNIA (edd.), CROSSINGS. EARLY MEDITERRANEAN CONTACTS WITH INDIA (Manohar Press in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, and Italian Cultural Centre, New Delhi 1997). Pp. 284, 4 pls. ISBN 81-73004-1994-6. Rs. 425.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 691-692
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Early Roman glass from the Persian Gulf - DAVID WHITEHOUSE, EXCAVATIONS AT ED-DUR (UMM AL-QAIWAIN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) vol. 1. THE GLASS VESSELS with an appendix by ROBERT H. BRILL, illustrations by ERIK SMEKENS, and a preface by ERNIE HAERINCK (editor) (Peeters, Leuven 1998). Pp. 89, 1 map, 113 figs., 15 pls., 2 color pls. ISBN 90-429-0662-6. BEF 1800.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 693-697
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Berenike on the Red Sea and its hinterland - STEVEN SIDEBOTHAM and WILLEMINA WENDRICH (edd.), BERENIKE ’94: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT BERENIKE (EGYPTIAN RED SEA COAST) AND THE SURVEY OF THE EASTERN DESERT (CNWS Publications, Leiden 1995). Pp. 125, 67 ills. ISBN 90-73782-41-4. DF1. 45. - Iid. (edd.), BERENIKE ’95: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT BERENIKE (EGYPTIAN RED SEA COAST) AND THE SURVEY OF THE EASTERN DESERT (CNWS Publications, Leiden 1996). Pp. 483, 332 ills. ISBN 90-73782-70-8. DF1. 85. - Iid. (edd.), BERENIKE ’96: REPORT OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT BERENIKE (EGYPTIAN RED SEA COAST) AND THE SURVEY OF THE EASTERN DESERT (CNWS Publications, Leiden 1998). Pp. 477, 329 ills. ISBN 90-5789-001-1. DF1. 90.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 698-702
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Ostraca from the Egyptian stone quarries - JEAN BINGEN, ADAM BÜLOW-JACOBSEN, WALTER E. H. COCKLE, HÉLÈNE CUVIGNY, FRANÇOIS KAYSER, WILFRIED VAN RENGEN, MONS CLAUDIANUS. OSTRACA GRAECA ET LATINA II (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Documents de Fouilles de l'IFAO 32, Cairo 1997). Pp. 312, 62 plates. ISBN 2-7247-0198-4.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 702-706
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Egyptian agriculture in historical perspective - ALAN K. BOWMAN and EUGENE ROGAN (edd.), AGRICULTURE IN EGYPT FROM PHARAONIC TO MODERN TIMES (Proceedings of the British Academy 96, Oxford 1999). Pp. xxviii + 427. ISBN 0-19-726183-3. £40.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 707-711
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Le mythe d'Europe en mosaïques romaines - ODILE WATTEL-DE CROIZANT, LES MOSAÏQUES REPRÉSENTANT LE MYTHE D'EUROPE (Ier-VIe SIÈCLE): ÉVOLUTION ET INTERPRÉTATION DES MODÈLES GRECS EN MILIEU ROMAIN (De Boccard, Paris 1995). 313 pages, 25 fig. in texte et 31 pl. hors texte coul. et n. et bl. ISBN 2-7018-0091-9.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 711-715
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Recent books on Tunisian and Algerian mosaics - M. YACOUB, SPLENDEURS DES MOSAÏQUES DE TUNISIE (Éditions de l'Agence Nationale du Patrimoine, Tunis 1995). Pp. 421,206 col. figs. - F. GHEDINI (editor) of Italian edition of M. FANTAR, with contributions by F. BÉJAOUI, S. BEN MANSOUR, L. FOUCHER, F. GHEDINI, N. JEDDI, M. KHANOUSSI, G.-CH. PICARD, H. SLIM, and M. YACOUB, I MOSAICI ROMANI DI TUNISIA (Editoriale Jaca Book SpA, Milan 1995). Pp. 272, many col. ills., some fold-out, 1 map. - S. FERDI, MOSAÏQUES DES EAUX EN ALGÉRIE: UN LANGAGE MYTHOLOGIQUE DES PIERRES (Éditeur Régie Sud Méditerranée, Algiers–Paris 1998). Pp. 193, many col. ills., map.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 716-718
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The mosaics of Berenice in Cyrenaica - D. MICHAELIDES, EXCAVATIONS AT SIDI KHREBISH BENGHAZI (BERENICE) IV.1 THE MOSAIC AND MARBLE FLOORS (Supplements to Libya Antiqua V; Dept, of Antiquities, Tripoli, in collaboration with the Society for Libyan Studies, London; Tripoli 1998). Pp. 212,16 colour pls., 110 figs.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 719-720
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Society and economy in North Africa - POL TROUSSET (textes réunis par), L'AFRIQUE DU NORD ANTIQUE ET MÉDIÉVALE vol. 1: PRODUCTIONS ET EXPORTATIONS AFRICAINES. ACTUALITÉS ARCHÉOLOGIQUES; vol. 2: MONUMENTS FUNÉRAIRES. INSTITUTIONS AUTOCHTONES (VIe Colloque International sur l'Histoire et l'Archéologie de l'Afrique du Nord, Pau, octobre 1993 – 188e Congrès) (Editions du CTHS, Paris 1995). Vol. 1: 442 pp., figs.; vol. 2: 328 pp., figs. ISBN 2-7355-0309-7. FF 250 each.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 721-724
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The Roman empire in the middle of the 3rd c. A.D. - XAVIER LORIOT and DANIEL NONY, LA CRISE DE L'EMPIRE ROMAIN 235-285 (Armand Colin, Paris 1997). Pp. 248. ISBN 2-200-21677-7. FF 125. - MICHAEL GRANT, THE COLLAPSE AND RECOVERY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Routledge, London 1999). Pp. 121. ISBN 0-415-17323-X. $30.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 725-726
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Slaves of the soil - ELIO LO CASCIO (ed.), TERRE, PROPRIETARI E CONTADINI DELL'IMPERO ROMANO: DALL'AFFITTO AGRARIO AL COLONATO TARDOANTICO (La Nuova Scientifica Italiana, Rome 1997). Pp. 351. ISBN 88-430-0560-X. - MIROSLAVA MIRKOVIC, THE LATER ROMAN COLONATE AND FREEDOM (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 87, pt. 2; Philadelphia 1997). Pp. vii + 144. ISBN 0-87169-872-2; ISSN 0065-9746. $18 (paper).
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 727-732
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Pottery and economy on the lower Danubian plain - A. G. POULTER, R. K. FALKNER and J. D. SHEPHERD, NICOPOLIS AD ISTRUM: A ROMAN TO EARLY BYZANTINE CITY. THE POTTERY AND GLASS (Leicester University Press for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999). Pp. 400 + xiii. ISBN 0-7185-0168-3. £95.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 733-735
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The story of the Walbrook Mithraeum, London - JOHN SHEPHERD, THE TEMPLE OF MITHRAS: EXCAVATIONS BY W. F. GRIMES AND A. WILLIAMS AT THE WALBROOK with contributions by [24] others (English Heritage Archaeological Report no. 12; London 1998). Pp. xx + 261, 256 figs., 46 tables. ISBN 1 85074 628 1. £20.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 736-742
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Roman Britain: approaching The End - MICHAEL E. JONES, THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN (Cornell University Press 1996). Pp. ix + 323, 10 figs, 2 tables. ISBN 0-8014-2789-4.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 743-744
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Religion in 4th-c. Britain - DOROTHY WATTS, RELIGION IN LATE ROMAN BRITAIN. FORCES OF CHANGE (Routledge, London 1998). Pp. 224, 9 figs. ISBN 0 415 11855 7. £45.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 745-746
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Christlich-antike Sarkophage aus Italien - REPERTORIUM DER CHRISTLICH-ANTIKEN SARKOPHAGE. ZWEITER BAND: ITALIEN MIT EINEM NACHTRAG ROM UND OSTIA, DALMATIEN, MUSEEN DER WELT. Bearbeitet von JUTTA DRESKEN-WEILAND. Vorarbeiten von Giuseppe Bovini und Hugo Brandenburg (P. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1998). XIX + 146 S., 5 Abb., 120 Taf. ISBN 3-8053-1989-4. DM 220, -
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Pagan and Christian voices from late antiquity - AVERIL CAMERON and PETER GARNSEY (edd.), THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY (2nd edn.) vol. XIII. THE LATE EMPIRE, A.D. 337-425. (Cambridge University Press 1998). Pp. xvi + 889, 12 line diagrams, 9 maps. ISBN 0-521-30200-5. £90.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 752-762
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Early Christianity as historical fiction - KEITH HOPKINS, A WORLD FULL OF GODS. PAGANS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1999). Pp. 402, 30 ills., including 12 in color. ICBN 0 297 81982 8. £25.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 763-766
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La basilique de la Campanopétra en Chypre - G. ROUX, SALAMINE DE CHYPRE XV. LA BASILIQUE DE LA CAMPANOPÉTRA (Paris 1998). 296 p., 354 fig., 7 dépliants en fin de volume.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 767-778
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Using Talmudic sources for city life in Palestine - D. SPERBER, THE CITY IN ROMAN PALESTINE (Oxford University Press 1998). Pp. 200. ISBN 0-19-509882-X.
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- 16 February 2015, pp. 779-788
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