A.

VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2
FOUNDER AND
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jerome M.
Eisenberg, Ph.D
MANAGING
EDITOR
David Parks a n d Stephen Heywood Anna Lethbridge,
M.A.

Romanesque Wall Paintings

Wall paintings of international

significance discovered in a ruined church

h aces from Ancient Egypt

Mummy portraits at the British Museum
Susan Walker

Dark Age or Golden Age?

Britain AD 400-900

Leslie Webster

The Rubens Vase in Baltimore

An Oriental COPY?

Jerome M. Eisenberg

Bronze Age Bridges

Excavating the ancient course of the
David Miles
Thames

Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Evidence of a rich and complex society

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Alison South

Antiquities in Australia
New gallery in Melbourne
Timothy Potts, Margaret Legge, Amanda Dunsmore

Auction Reports: the Winter 1996 .

antiquities sales

CONSULTING
EDITOR
Peter Clayton,
F.S.A.
ASSISTANT
EDITOR
Sophia Wilberforce
EDITORIAL ADVISORY
BOARD
Donald Dinwiddie,
London
DI Pieter Meyers,
Los Angeles
DI David Mitten,
Cambridge, Ma.
Kenneth Painter, M.A.,
FAA., London
Dr J. Michael Padgett,
Princeton
Dr Pratapaditya Pal,
Los ~ G e l e s
Dr Nicholas Reeves, F.SA.
London
CORRESPONDENTS
David Breslin, Dublin
Christopher Follett,
Copenhagen
Sean Kingsley, Jerusalem
SybiUe Krause, Leipzig
Germany
Jean Pierre Montesino,
Paris
Dr S. Perea Yebenes,
Madrid
Dr K.D. Politis, Amman
Stephen C. Rossi,
Viareggio, Italy
Dr Filippo Salviati, Rome
Laura Wynn, Litohoro,
Greece
PUBLISHER
Jerome M.
Eisenberg, P11.D.

Jerome M. Eisenberg

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2 .News
53 Book Reviews

58 Numismatic News
60 Calendar

IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES
Isis: the Myth and the Mystery The new Money Gallery at the
British Museum Excavating in Uzbekistan Greek vase forgeries

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