Volume 21 / Number 4

1979

Special Edition: Mediterranean Market Trade in Classical Times

On The Cover: Greatly enlarged lion head terminal of the Achaemenid gold bracelet from Gordion (inventory # S 1).

Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Margaret Thompson

Hoards and Overstrikes: The Numismatic Evidence

Coins contribute little to a discussion of Mediterranean trade in the 6th century, for there are no relevant hoards which […]

Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: John Boardman

Athenian pottery traveled far, and often in quantity. The limits of distribution range from Spain through central Europe, South Russia, […]

Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Martin Biddle

An important—perhaps too important—way of judging a museum’s success or failure is to look at the number of its visitors. […]

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By: Cynthia Jones Eiseman

Introduction In this issue of Expedition we publish the proceedings of a symposium entitled “The Mediterranean Market: Aspects of Trade […]

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By: G. Kenneth Sams

Sometime during the first quarter of the 7th century, invading marauders known to history as the Kimmerians brought to an […]

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By: Peter S. Wells and Larissa Bonfante

The Problem Massalia, the Greek city on the site of modern Marseille, was founded about 600 B.C. by Ionian Greeks […]

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Appointments The Museum is proud to announce the appointment of Spyros Iakovidis, Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of […]

Vol. 21 / No. 4

By: Lionel Casson

In the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Athens fed its population-150,000 by conservative estimates—chiefly on grain imported from south Russia, […]