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The Problem with Dexileos: Heroic and Other Nudities in Greek Art
Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Pledges of Empire: The Ara Pacis and the Donations of Rome
Diana E.E. Kleiner and Bridget Buxton
The Persian and Carthaginian Invasions of 480 B.C.E. and the Beginning of the Classical Style: Part 1, The Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Significance of the Acropolis Deposits
Andrew Stewart
The Persian and Carthaginian Invasions of 480 B.C.E. and the Beginning of the Classical Style: Part 2, The Finds from Other Sites in Athens, Attica, Elsewhere in Greece, and on Sicily; Part 3, The Severe Style: Motivations and Meaning
Andrew Stewart
Technologies of Memory in Early Sasanian Iran: Achaemenid Sites and Sasanian Identity
Matthew P. Canepa
Parthian Influence on Vaulting in Roman Greece? An Inquiry into Technological Exchange Under Hadrian
Lynne C. Lancaster
Mycenaean Pottery from Pylos: An Indigenous Typology
Julie Hruby
Civilization Under Construction: Depictions of Architecture on the Column of Trajan
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill
Si quis hic sederit: Streetside Benches and Urban Society in Pompeii
Jeremy Hartnett
False Fronts: Separating the Aedicular Facade from the Imperial Cult in Roman Asia Minor
Barbara Burrell
The Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum
Matthew Bogdanos
Death, Prestige, and Copper in Bronze Age Cyprus
Priscilla Schuster Keswani
The Parthians in Augustan Rome
Charles Brian Rose
Stratagems, Combat, and "Chemical Warfare" in the Siege Mines of Dura-Europos
Simon James
Archaeology and the Anxiety of Loss: Effacing Preservation from the History of Renaissance Rome
David Karmon
Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation
Sarah P. Morris and John K. Papadopoulos
Variations on a Theme: Dual-Processual Theory and the Foreign Impact on Mycenaean and Classic Maya Architecture
Joshua A. Englehardt and Donna M. Nagle
Making Nations from the Ground Up: Traditions of Classical Archaeology in the South Caucasus
Lori Khatchadourian
Photographing Dura-Europos, 1928–1937: An Archaeology of the Archive
J.A. Baird

Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies
Edited by Michael L. Galaty, Dimitri Nakassis, and William A. Parkinson