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VOLUME 8 NUMBER 6

FOUNDER,
EDITOR-INCHIEF, AND
PUBLISHER
Jerome M.
Robert Morkot
Eisenberg, Ph.D
MANAGING
EDITOR
Anna Lethbridge,
M.A.
CONSULTING
EDITOR
Peter Clayton,
F.S.A.
Donald Dinwiddie
ASSISTANT
EDITOR
Sophia Wilberforce
ASSOCIATE
PUBLISHER
Emma Beatty

Sudan: Kingdoms of the Nile

An important exhibition on Nubian
archaeology in Amsterdam

Persian Lions and Chinese

Dragons Central Asian silks of the
eighth to fourteenth centuries AD

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Searching for Ancient Egypt

Egyptian art from the University of
Pennsylvania Museum

Anne Bromberg a n d David P. Silverman

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DI Cambridge,
David Mitten,
Ma.

Spain3 transition to a Roman province

The Tale of a Lost Papyrus

The rediscovery of an important Egyptian

papyrus at the Petrie Museum

Jac. and Rosalind Janssen

Newsletter from Jordan

Konstantinos D. Politis

Pottery in the Making

Ceramics through the ages
David Gaimster and Ian Freestone

Excavating in Uzbekistan
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D ~ ~ ~ ~ w i d d i e l
Dr Pieter Meyers,

Los Angeles

Hispania Romana
Daria Luisa Patani?

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EDITORIAL ADVISORY
BOARD

Bronze Age culture in Central Asia

DrJ.Mchael
Princeton padgettl
Kenneth Painter, M.A.,
p.s.~.,London
DI Pratapaditya Pal,
Los Angeles
Dr Nicholas Reeves, F.S.A.
London
CORRESPONDENTS
David Breslin, Dublin
Christopher
Co~enhaxen
Follett,

seanLKingGey,Jerusalem
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, Litoho~o,
Greece

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IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES
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