Archaeology Monograph Research Articles

Gleanings from the First Fifty Years of Teocentli. Gleaned by Charles R. McGimsey III. Occasional Papers No. I , Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. 1998

Archaeological reports and monographs tend to follow a fairly formal style and it is the. rare author who includes recollections of life in the field, budget cuts, or such problems as finding enough workspace in the museum or department. Also, a significant amount of fieldwork never gets reported, although the Current Research section (and Notes and News before it) in Amercan Antiquity pro­vided a great deal of valuable information not available elsewhere, until it was killed off by the editor in 1994.

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo & J. Scott Raymond (ed.). Recent advances in the archaeology of the northern Andes: In memory of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Institute of Archaeology Monograph 39). xvii+713 pages, illustrations. 1998. Los Angeles (CA): University of California, Institute of Archaeology; 0-917956-90-7 paperback.

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo & J. Scott Raymond (ed.). Recent advances in the archaeology of the northern Andes: In memory of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Institute of Archaeology Monograph 39). xvii+713 pages, illustrations. 1998. Los Angeles (CA): University of California, Institute of Archaeology; 0-917956-90-7 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 281

T. W. Potter & A. C. King Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato. (Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome 11.) xx+456 pages, 255 illustrations, 77 tables. 1997. London: British School at Rome & British Museum; 0-904152-31-6 paperback.

T. W. Potter & A. C. King Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato. (Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome 11.) xx+456 pages, 255 illustrations, 77 tables. 1997. London: British School at Rome & British Museum; 0-904152-31-6 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 277

The Hill-Forts of the Samnites. By S.P. Oakley. 300mm. Pp. xi + 164, ills. Oxford: Oxbow Books for the British School at Rome, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, no. 10, 1995. ISBN 0-904152-28-6. £35.00.

The Hill-Forts of the Samnites. By S.P. Oakley. 300mm. Pp. xi + 164, ills. Oxford: Oxbow Books for the British School at Rome, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, no. 10, 1995. ISBN 0-904152-28-6. £35.00. - Volume 78

People Who Lived in Big Houses: Archaeological Perspectives on Large Domestic Structures. Gary Coupland and E. B. Banning, editors. 1996. Monographs in World Archaeology, No. 27. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin, v + 185 pp., figures, tables, references. $39.00 (paper).

People Who Lived in Big Houses: Archaeological Perspectives on Large Domestic Structures. Gary Coupland and E. B. Banning, editors. 1996. Monographs in World Archaeology, No. 27. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin, v + 185 pp., figures, tables, references. $39.00 (paper). - Volume 63 Issue 2

The Hill-Forts of the Samnites. By S.P. Oakley. 300mm. Pp. xi + 164, ills. Oxford: Oxbow Books for the British School at Rome, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, no. 10, 1995. ISBN 0-904152-28-6. £35.00.

The Hill-Forts of the Samnites. By S.P. Oakley. 300mm. Pp. xi + 164, ills. Oxford: Oxbow Books for the British School at Rome, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, no. 10, 1995. ISBN 0-904152-28-6. £35.00.

R. P. Symonds, Rhenish Wares: Fine Dark Coloured Pottery from Gaul and Germany (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 23). Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1992. Pp. 121, 52 pls, 53 figs, ISBN 0-947816-23-2. £28.00.

R. P. Symonds, Rhenish Wares: Fine Dark Coloured Pottery from Gaul and Germany (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 23). Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1992. Pp. 121, 52 pls, 53 figs, ISBN 0-947816-23-2. £28.00. - Volume 87

Excavations at Navan Fort 1961–71. By D.M. Waterman, completed and edited by C.J. Lynn. 244 pp., 32 pls, 87 figs. Belfast: The Stationery Office. Northern Ireland Archaeological Monograph 3. 1997. ISBN 0 337083 61 4. £25.00

Excavations at Navan Fort 1961–71. By D.M. Waterman, completed and edited by C.J. Lynn. 244 pp., 32 pls, 87 figs. Belfast: The Stationery Office. Northern Ireland Archaeological Monograph 3. 1997. ISBN 0 337083 61 4. £25.00 - Volume 63

The Birth of Democracy - W. D. E. Coulson, O. Palagia, T. L. ShearJr, H. A. Shapiro, F. J. Frost (edd.): The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy: Proceedings of an International Conference Celebrating 2500 years since the birth of democracy in Greece, held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December 4–6, 1992. (Oxbow Monographs

The Birth of Democracy - W. D. E. Coulson, O. Palagia, T. L. ShearJr, H. A. Shapiro, F. J. Frost (edd.): The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy: Proceedings of an International Conference Celebrating 2500 years since the birth of democracy in Greece, held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December 4–6, 1992. (Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology, 37.) Pp. 250; ills. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1994. £40.00. - Volume 46 Issue 2

Formation processes in archaeological context. Paul Goldberg, David T. Nash, and Michael D. Petraglia (Editors), 1993, Prehistory Press, Monographs in World Archaeology No. 17, Madison, Wisconsin, 188 pp., $32.00 (paperbound)

Formation processes in archaeological context. Paul Goldberg, David T. Nash, and Michael D. Petraglia (Editors), 1993, Prehistory Press, Monographs in World Archaeology No. 17, Madison, Wisconsin, 188 pp., $32.00 (paperbound)

Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity. Gil Stein and Mitchell S. Rothman, editors. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 18. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1994. vii + 236 pp., figures, tables, references cited. $35.00 (paper).

Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity. Gil Stein and Mitchell S. Rothman, editors. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 18. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1994. vii + 236 pp., figures, tables, references cited. $35.00 (paper).

Radiocarbon Dating and Italian Prehistory. Edited by Robin Skeates and Ruth Whitehouse. Pp. x + 289. London: joint publication by the Accordia Research Centre, University of London (Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy, 3) and the British School at Rome (Archaeological Monographs, 8), 1994. ISBN 1-873415-11-7. £32.00.

Radiocarbon Dating and Italian Prehistory. Edited by Robin Skeates and Ruth Whitehouse. Pp. x + 289. London: joint publication by the Accordia Research Centre, University of London (Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy, 3) and the British School at Rome (Archaeological Monographs, 8), 1994. ISBN 1-873415-11-7. £32.00. - Volume 76

Alexander H. Joffe. Settlement and society in the Early Bronze I & II southern Levant: complementarity and contradiction in a small-scale complex society. (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 4.) 129 pages, 29 figures. 1994. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; 1-85075-437-3 hardback £25 & $37.50

Alexander H. Joffe. Settlement and society in the Early Bronze I & II southern Levant: complementarity and contradiction in a small-scale complex society. (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 4.) 129 pages, 29 figures. 1994. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; 1-85075-437-3 hardback £25 & $37.50

Archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the dutchess quarry caves, orange county, new york, R. E. Funk and D. W. Steadman, 1994, Persimmon Press Monographs in Archaeology, 125 pp., $16.95 (paperbound)

Archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the dutchess quarry caves, orange county, new york, R. E. Funk and D. W. Steadman, 1994, Persimmon Press Monographs in Archaeology, 125 pp., $16.95 (paperbound)

Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis. John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, editors. Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. 320 pp., 184 figures, 19 tables, appendixes, bibliography, Index. $28.00 (paper). - The Ceramics of Tikal: Vessels from the Burials, Caches and Problematic Deposits. T. Patrick Culbert. University Museum Monograph 81: Tikal Report No.

Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis. John S. Henderson and Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, editors. Institute of Archaeology Monograph 35. University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. 320 pp., 184 figures, 19 tables, appendixes, bibliography, Index. $28.00 (paper). - The Ceramics of Tikal: Vessels from the Burials, Caches and Problematic Deposits. T. Patrick Culbert. University Museum Monograph 81: Tikal Report No. 25, Part A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1993. xi + 360 pp., 155 figures, 5 tables, references, index. $65.00 (cloth). - Volume 6 Issue 3

Maya Stone Tools: Selected Papers from the Second Maya Lithic Conference. Thomas R. Hester and Harry J. Shafer, editors. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 1. Prehistory Press, Madison, 1991. 304 pp., 122 figures, 45 tables, references. $30.00 (paper). - Maya Ceremonial Specialization: Lithic Tools from the Sacred Cenote at Chickén Itzá, Yucatán. April Kay Sievert. Monographs in World Archaeology No.

Maya Stone Tools: Selected Papers from the Second Maya Lithic Conference. Thomas R. Hester and Harry J. Shafer, editors. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 1. Prehistory Press, Madison, 1991. 304 pp., 122 figures, 45 tables, references. $30.00 (paper). - Maya Ceremonial Specialization: Lithic Tools from the Sacred Cenote at Chickén Itzá, Yucatán. April Kay Sievert. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 12. Prehistory Press, Madison, 1992. 162 pp., 53 figures, 46 tables, appendix, references. $28.50 (paper). - Volume 6 Issue 2

Book reviews

Amicitiae und Pacta. Bündnis, Einung, Politik und Gebetsgedenken im beginnenden 10. Jahrhundert. By Gerd Althoff. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. Edited by Emilie Amt. Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West. By Bernard S. Bachrach. The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator. Translated with notes and introduction by S. J. Barnish The Lives of the Eighth‐Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis). Translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecution. Translated with notes and introduction by John Moorhead The Last Christology of the West. Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul 785–820. By John C. Cavadini. Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rurina and San Liberato (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 4). Edited by Neil Christie. San Vincenzo al Volturno 1: The 1980–86 Excavations Part 1 (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 7). Edited by Richard Hodges. Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain. By Roger Collins Early Anglo‐Saxon Shields. By Tania Dickinson and Heinrich Harke. Saint Patrick, A. D. 493–1993. By David N. Dumville Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus. Kaiserliche Rompolitik und sach‐sische Historiographie. By Knut Görich. The Early State and The Towns: Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy AD 568–774. By Dick Harrison. Norse and Later Settlement and Subsistence in the North Atlantic. Edited by Christopher D. Morris and D. James Rackham. The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic. Edited by Colleen E. Batey, Judith Jesch and Christopher D. Morris. An Anglo‐Saxon Watermill at Tamworth. Excavations in the Bolebridge Street area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, in 1971 and 1978. By Philip Rahtz and Robert Meeson. Éducation et culture dans l'occident médiéval. By Pierre Riche. Tintagel, Arthur and Archaeology. By Charles Thomas The Caliphate in the West. By David J. Wasserstein Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry 750–1150. By Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Radiocarbon dating and Italian prehistory. Edited by Robin Skeates and Ruth Whitehouse. 288 pp. London: University of London, 1994. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 8 — Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 3. ISBN 1873415117. £32.00.

Radiocarbon dating and Italian prehistory. Edited by Robin Skeates and Ruth Whitehouse. 288 pp. London: University of London, 1994. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 8 — Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 3. ISBN 1873415117. £32.00.

G. Barker and J. Lloyd (eds), Roman Landscapes: Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Region (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 2), London, British School at Rome, 1991. xvi + 240 pp. £28.00. ISBN 0 904152 16 2.

G. Barker and J. Lloyd (eds), Roman Landscapes: Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Region (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 2), London, British School at Rome, 1991. xvi + 240 pp. £28.00. ISBN 0 904152 16 2.

Mantles of the Gods and Catullus 64

J.L. Sebesta: Mantles of the Gods and Catullus 6435 Mantles of the Gods and Catullus 64 Judith L. Sebesta More than halfof Catullus' epyllion on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis is in the form of an ecphrasis that describes a tapestry depicting Ariadne abandoned on Dia. Commentators have generally interpreted this tapestry as a coverlet for the marriage bed of Thetis and Peleus which is placed in a bower. The source for this setting is Theocritus' Idyll 15 ("The Adoniazusae"), which describes the marriage bed and bower of Adonis and Aphrodite that formed an important part of the ritual in the annual Adonis festival. A.L. Wheeler comments on Catullus' dependence upon Theocritus as follows: "He [Catullus] represents the ceremony as occurring in a bower of greenery which, together with the figured coverlet and glitter of gold and silver and ivory within the palace, suggests the splendors of the potentates of Asia and Egypt described for us in the Adoniazusae of Theocritus-splendors at which their subjects were allowed to gaze on festal days."1 This Idyll (15) of Theocritus recounts the visit of two Alexandrian women to the palace of Ptolemy ? to view the tableau created for the Feast of Adonis. An important part of this tableau was a figured hanging with images woven so realistically that to Gorgo and Praxinoa they seemed to be real; one of these images depicted Adonis reclining on a silver ???sµ?? (79-86). The singer of the "dirge" that concludes this Idyll gives additional details of the tableau. There are bowers (?ta?de?)2 made of fronds of dill, among which are suspended small figures of 1 AX. Wheeler, Catullus and the Traditions ofAncient Poetry (Berkeley 1964) 126. 2 The Greek ??f??« was traditionally in the form of a ?????* or a ?????, with its interior decorated as heaven. See E.B. Smith, "Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages," Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology 30 (1956) 111. A.S.F. Gow (Theocritus: Commentary [Cambridge 1950] 297) reconstructs the ataáBes as one or more canopies adorned with green dill. If this tableau is outside in a garden, he continues, the Erotes might be suspended from the branches of trees spreading over the oxidSe? under which are the images of Adonis and Aphrodite positioned as at theirbridal feast. 36Syllecta Classica 5 (1994) Erotes and eagles carrying Ganymedes made of ebony, gold, and ivory (1 19-123).3 On the ebony, gold, and silver couch are spread purple carpets (125). Gow's interpretation of the somewhat elliptical comments of Gorgo and Praxinoa in reconstructing the bower has generally been followed by subsequent translators and commentators. He argues that since the figured cloth is woven (???fa?t? 83), it is a tapestry. While tapestry weaving had been done in Greece from the time of Homer onward,4 only eastern looms were large enough to create large scale tapestries. In the Hellenistic period Alexandria was an important center of production and export of such tapestries which were described as "composed of many threads" (p???µ?ta).5 Gow interprets the text to indicate that these tapestries are hung around the tableau and do not form the clothing for the images of Adonis and Aphrodite reclining on the coverlets of the couch. The coverlets, he notes, are described later in the poem only by the word "purple." That the women are indeed commenting on figured tapestries, he thinks, is indicated by Gorgo's comment: "You would think that they are mantles of the gods" (?e?? pe????µata 79).6 Gow also argues that when the women see the figured tapestries, they have just entered the palace and have not yet pressed their way up close to the tableau. The figured tapestries, visible from a distance, must therefore be hangings. Gow understands Praxinoa's subsequent words as describing one of the figures on these tapestries as the dead Adonis lying on a silver ???sµ?? (84) for the following reasons. First, diis Adonis and silver couch cannot be part of the tableau, for the singer ofthe dirge states that the statue of Adonis in the tableau lies on a????? made of ebony, gold, and ivory (123). Secondly...