Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers

Wonders Lost and Found: A celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers comprises, in all, twenty-one contributions, all on archaeological themes, written by friends and colleagues of Professor Michael Vickers, commemorating his contribution to archaeology. The contributions, reflecting the wide interests of Professor Vickers, range chronologically from the Aegean Bronze Age, to the use made of archaeology by dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seven contributions are related to the archaeology of Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and has made his home.

Table of Contents

Early Cycladic? Lead model boats in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – Susan Sherratt

Two Cushions, a Bes, a boar and a bead. New ‘discoveries’ in the Aegean collection at the Ashmolean – Helen Hughes-Brock

Ancient Colchis and the origins of iron: interim results from recent field survey work in Guria, Western Georgia – Brian Gilmour, Marc Cox, Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, Nana Khakhutaishvili and Mark Pollard

The structure and function of ancient metrology – John Neal

The second stage of the Grakliani Culture – Vakhtang Licheli

Owl skyphoi around the Adriatic – Branko Kirigin

Gyenus on stage: civic foundation and the comedy of Aristophanes’ Birds – David Braund

New archaeological finds at Pichvnari (November-December 2010) – Amiran Kakhidze

A double-sided glass relief pinhead from ancient Colchis – the Pichvnari ‘Heracles – Sujatha Chandrasekaran

Gold jewellery from Kavtiskhevi – Darejan Kacharava

Palynological analysis of organic materials from Pichvnari (including the earliest silk in Georgia) – Eliso Kvavadze and Maia Chichinadze

Mercurial metrics – Kenneth Lapatin

The Erechtheion glass gems: classical innovation or Roman addition? – Despina Ignatiadou

Carp from the Danube delta? Notes on an unusual gold-glass in the Wilshere Collection – Susan Walker

Mediterranean drinking habits in Roman Britain: celery-flavoured wine prepared in an Iron Age bronze strainer – Eberhard W. Sauer, Mark Robinson and Graham Morgan

From an offshore island: classical art and the Britons in Late Antiquity – Martin Henig

The siege-drill (trypanon): new archaeological evidence from Georgia – Nicholas Sekunda

An emphatic statement: the Undley-A gold bracteate and its message in fifth-century East Anglia – Daphne Nash Briggs

The Levant Company and British collecting – Arthur MacGregor

Cryptography and vasology: J.D. Beazley and Winifred Lamb in Room 40 – David W.J. Gill

Dictators and Antiquity – Clive Foss