Archaeology Magazine - June 1964 - Cover4

A Catalogueof an
THEARTOF BENIN:
Exhibition
of the A.W. F. Fullerand ChiCollections
cago NaturalHistoryMuseum
from Benin,Nigeria,by
of Antiqjjities
Philip J. C. Dark, iii, 74 pages, 48
plates. Chicago Natural History
Museum,Chicago 1962 $2.00
The exhibition of Benin art that
VASA,THEKING'SSHIP,by BeNGT brought together the collections of
A. W. F. Fuller and of the Chicago
Ohrelius. Translated by Maurice
Michael, x, 124 pages, 8 figures, Natural History Museum was out32 plates. Chilton Books, Philadel- standing both for quality and for
size. The 391 pieces have been catphia and New York 1963 $3.95
alogued by Professor Dark, who
ISRAEL On August 10, 1628, the Vása, has
OFERETZ
THEANCIENT
POTTERY
also written a fascinating
from Its Beginningin the NeolithicPe- Sweden's best, biggest and newest
"The Art of Benin: An
riod to the Endof the FirstTemple(in man-of-war, left her berth on a chapter,
and
to Its
Introduction
with
Hebrew), by Ruth Amiran,
beautiful sunny morning for her Collection." TogetherDiscovery
with
exthe
the assistanceof Pirhiya Beck and maiden voyage- and two hours tensive
bibliographies and the 48
Uzza Zevulun. xiv, 370 pages, later a mere puff of wind turned fine
plates of photographs, this cat358 photos, 101 plates. The Bialik her over and sent her to the bottom.
alogue
presents one of the best acInstitute and the Israel Exploration Commander Ohrelius, who has de- counts of
Benin art now available.
voted his life to ships and the sea,
Society,Jerusalem 1963
A much needed history of ancient tells a plain, unvarnished and inCOLUMBUS.
The Art of
tale of how Swed- ARTBEFORE
pottery in Israel from its Neolithic tensely exciting
from the ArchaicVilMexicobeginnings to Iron Age III (early ish divers and engineers plucked Ancient
B.C.to
sixth century b.c.) has now ap- the great ship from the mud, lages of the SecondMillennium
the
ANDRÉ
of
the
Aztecs,
her
on
a
concrete
and
Splendor
slab,
by
Its
in
a
edition.
Hebrew
planted
peared
Photographs by Lee
profuse illustration, including both are building about her a house of Emmerich.
172 illustraphotographs in the text and plates concrete and glass which will be- Boltin.21 256 pages,
of drawings, must serve for non- come the Vasa Museum. Good pho- tions, maps, 1 chart. Simon and
readers of Hebrew, but it is to be tographs, particularly of the wood Schuster, New York 1963 $10.00
This handsome book summarizes
hoped that this is only temporary carving with which the vessel was
and that Ruth Amiran's text will apparently encrusted.
the archaeologyof Mexicoin chronsoon be available in English, for
ological and geographical terms,
the archaeologyof Israel is a vital
with emphasis on artistic achieveHuTHE
OF
MAN
from
the
First
STORY
link in Egyptian-Near Eastern-Aemanto Primitive
Cultureand Beyond,by ments. It accomplishesan excellent
gean relations.
Carleton S. Coon. Secondedition, balance between the lesser known
revised, xxii, 438, xvi pages, numer- regional developments and those
more familiar.
und ous figures, 32 plates. Alfred A. already
EINAPOLLON-KOPF
IN FRANKFURT
York
New
1962
$7.50
des 5. Jahrhun- Knopf,
die Niobiden-Gruppe
DERZENUNDHERKUNFT
Kunstwerke
aus Rom,
derts- Griechische
We are indebted to Professor URSPRUNG
FATJANOWO
KULTUR,
by German Hafner. 64 pages, 2 Coon for his lucid and perceptive TRALRUSSISCHEN
figures, 24 plates. Bruno Grimm, account of man, from the earliest by Jekabs Ozols. viii, 96 pages, 46
Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, primates to discover the advantages plates, 1 map. Walter De Gruyter
Baden-Baden 1962 (Deutsche Bei- of walking erect to the men of our & Co., Berlin 1962 (Berliner Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, day who are trying to harness the träge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte,
Vol. 17)
awesome power of nuclear fission. Band 4)
The Fatyanovo culture, which
A head of Apollo in Frankfurt, More than most investigatorsof the
made for insertion into a draped story of man's biological and cul- arose in central Russia at the end
tural development, the author ap- of the thirdbody, is obviously by the same
beginning of the secmaster as a naked Apollo in Rome, plies both commonsense and imagi- ond millenniumB.c.,here receivesa
of
this
nation
to
the
interpretation
which has been associatedwith the
treatment which brings together all
well-known Niobid in the Terme, development. Whether or not one the recent Russian material. A carethe two in Copenhagen and other agrees with him on all points, it is ful summary of the sites of the
impossiblenot to find The Story of Moscow, Jaroslav and Chuvashian
pieces. Hafner reviews the problem Man
irresistiblereading. Format and groups is followedby a brief analyof the Niobids, visualizes the composition as a free-standinggroup on illustrations are well chosen; a few sis of the material culture and its
a semicircular base, and postulates editorial slips (such as the omission development.Ozols rejects the Rusa pendant group of Apollo Cith- of figure numbers on Plates VI-VII sian theory of an origin in the
arode and the Muses, on the evi- and letters to accompanythe figures Middle Dnieper area for a South
dence of the Frankfurt head. He on pages 204-5 which are referred Russian origin, namely in the
believes that both compositions to in the caption) should not be Altgruben-Kultur, i.e. the Yamno
or Pit Grave culture.
stood in the precinct of the Temple ascribedto the author.

discussed by N. M. Verdelis, E. B.
French and W. D. Taylour. The
plans are by C K. Williams. The
texts of the tablets are read and
commented upon by J. Chadwick,
and further observations are made
by E. L. Bennett, Jr. The tablets
include lists of names of men and
women, ration lists, records of the
issue of wheat, etc. An appendix by
Chadwick treats of some inscribed
jars found at Tiryns.

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of Apollo in Rome before its renovation by Sosius and, on the basis
of style, ascribes them to a Tarentine master active around 440-430
B.c.
A well illustrated and interesting
study of an interesting problem.

Archaeology Magazine - June 1964

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