Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor

Contents: Tepe Chenchi: An Important Settlement Near Khorsabad (G. Algaze); Re-Examination of a Cult-and-Art Object from Beth Yerah (R. Amiran); Notes on the Style and Iconography of the Chalcolithic Hoard from Nahal Mishmar (P. Beck); A Recut Old Babylonian Seal with a Sumerian Prayer of the Kassite Period (R. D. Biggs); Comments on Small Finds and Items of Artistic Significance from Tell Hadidi and Nearby Sites in the Euphrates Valley, Syria (R. H. Dornemann); Village Potters in Early Bronze Age Palestine: A Case Study (D. Esse); Damonen ohne Stammbaum: Zu einigen mesopotamischen Amuletten aus dem Kunsthandel (W. Farber); Hittite kursa 'Hunting Bag' (H. G. Guterbock); God or Worshipper (Th. Jacobsen); A Royal Head from Luxor (J. H. Johnson and D. Whitcomb); A New Third Millennium Sculpture from Mozan (M. Kelly-Buccellati); An Early Industrial Proto-Urban Center on the Central Plateau of Iran: Tepe Ghabristan (Y. Majidzadeh); A Monster Mirrored (H. P. Martin); The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh (T. L. McClellan); Crown Window Panes: Constantinian or Justinian? (C. Meyer); Mosaic, Glass, and Frit Vessels from Marlik (E. O. Negahban); Problems of Late Assyrian Reliefs (E. Porada); The Judean Desert Treasure from Nahal Mishmar: A Chalcolithic Traders' Hoard? (M. Tadmor); Urartian Bronzes Formerly in the Oriental Institute Museum (M. van Loon); Carved Bones from Corinth (E. Vermeule); Some Foreign Personal Names and Loan-Words from the Deir el-Medineh Ostraca (W. A. Ward); An Early Pottery Jar with Incised Decoration from Egypt (B. B. Williams); North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon 'Major' Arts (I. J. Winter); Ancient Egypt and the Red Sea Trade: The Case for Obsidian in the Predynastic and Archaic Periods (J. Zarins); Pottery Profiles Reconstructed from Jar Sealings in the Lower Seal Impression Strata (SIS 8-4) at Ur: New Evidence for Dating (R. L. Zettler).