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authentic, though he does not bring
out the fact that the Calvary has a
much better claim than the tomb itself.
Quite rightly, he is severeon the "Garden" or "Gordon" tomb. Something
like a dozen ancient tombs of varying
types are discussed,and this makes it
possible to envision the tomb of the
Savior with its proper setting in architectural history.
Like many others from the Occident,
M. Parrot is affronted by the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre in its present
condition, and he gives very little material on it. He accepts the monumental work of Vincent and Abel (Jérusalem, II [1914]) as being the last
word on the architectureof the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, and evidently
feels that their rather arbitrary diagrams suitably represent the lost ancient buildings. Certain cautious students, fearing to fall into the errors
of old-fashionedromantic restorations,
avoid all restorations but the simplest.
This reviewer believes that much
more than a diagram is possiblein the
case of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The same desire to know and
to tell about the holy sites which has
prompted M. Parrot's own publication

IONIAN

devoted to the descriptionof the works
of ancient art discovered at Cyrene.
The sculptures included are limited to
those with a religious significance.
(Other classes are to be treated by
other specialists.) These works of art
range in date from ca. 570 B.c. to ca.
50 B.c. During certain periods the
items consist largely of works produced at the chief artistic centers of
the Greek world (in early times,
Samos and the Cyclades, with use of
island marbles; rarely Spartan or
Peloponnesianin general; in the Classical age, Athens, where Pentelic marble is used), or else executedat Cyrene
itself either by immigrant artists or by
local craftsmen under the influenceof
DI CIRENE: these homeland schools.At other times
DELLE
SCULTURE
CATALOGO
Statue e Rilievidi CarattereReligioso,
by the demand for sculpture was preEnrico Paribeni. x, 168 pages, 483 dominantly met by local artists who
figures on 209 plates. "L'Erma" di developeda distinct style of their own.
Dr. Paribeni's acknowledged emiBretschneider, Rome 1959 (Monograas an interpreter of ancient
nence
fie di Archeologia Libica, no. 5) 18,000 lire
sculpture will attract special attention
This splendid publication is far re- to his appraisal of this unique material
moved from the character of a "mere" - an interpretation which includesthe
which he
catalogue, in its origin, in the nature informative photographs
few
In
a
taken.
instances,
has
himself
of the material treated, and in the
method of presentation. It is one of a it was necessary to use old photoseries of volumes which are to be graphs which show the statues in a

has brought into being, through the
centuries, a considerable body of pictures, descriptionand commentary,beginning with a famous pilgrim account
of 333 (two years before the first
church on the site was dedicated). For
my conscientiousattempt to make pictorial restorations on the basis of this
material, one may consult Speculum
31 (1956) 1, or the Proceedingsof the
American Philosophical Society 102
No. 1 (1958) 14. I am glad to acknowledge that these studies owe a
debt to M. Parrot's French text of
1955, as well as to Vincent and Abel.
Kenneth Tohn Conant
Harvard University

TRADE

AND

COLONIZATION

BY CARL ROEBUCK
Number IX in the series of monographs on Archaeology and Fine Arts sponsored by
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This study is an account of the process by ern Mediterranean and to follow the course
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nomic basis of their society, which enabled Sea. Through this and the intricate complex
them to play a major role in Greece before of trade which resulted, metals, land and
the Persian Wars. The evidence of recent food were obtained to develop the very high
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Asia Minor and South Russia is woven into the Persian conquest in the sixth century
a broad and fully documented synthesis with before Christ. This regional growth of
the historical tradition. The account begins Ionia is related also to the development of
with a discussion of the siting of the major early Greece as a whole to demonstrate how
Ionian towns and of their early political and its simple agrarian economy was expanded
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