Front matter, SCI 24 (2005)

War and State-Building in Roman Republican Times

1-33

Eleazar Auaran and the Elephant: Killing Symbols in Hellenistic Judaea

35-44

Myth or Reality? A Geographical Examination of Semiramis’ Journey in Diodorus

45-63

A Decree of Delos Concerning the Jews? (Jos. AJ 14.231-232)

65-74

Once Again: Who Captured Masada? On Doublets, Reading Against the Grain, and What Josephus Actually Wrote

75-83

Early Roman Rule in Commagene

85-100

Neue Militärdiplome für die Provinzen Syria und Iudaea/Syria Palaestina

101-118

Ein Soldat der Legio VII Claudia in einer Grabinschrift aus Acco/Ptolemais

119-123

A New Aramaic Dedicatory Inscription from Israel

125-133

Revocation of Wills in Roman Egypt

135-138

Child Labour and Taxes in the Agriculture of Roman Egypt: ΠΑΙΣ and ΑΦΗΛΙΞ

139-149

Scalping in Roman Palestine —‘minime Romanum sacrum'?

151-162

The Function of the Pellichus Sequence at Lucian Philopseudes 18-20

163-180

Vegetius on Liburnae: Naval Terminology in the Late Roman Period

181-193

Roman Legislation as Reflected in the Settlement History of Late Antique Palestine

195-206

An Apostle to Ankara from the New Jerusalem: Montanists and Jews in Late Roman Asia Minor

207-223

La coerenza ortografïca del Latino

A Letter to Prof. Giuliano Bonfante

225-228

Refugee Classicists in Britain after 1933

229-247

Images of Power: Memory, Myth and Monuments in the Roman Republic

Peter J. Holliday, The Origins of Roman Historical Commemoration in the Visual Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 310 pp. ISBN 0-521-81013-2

249-271

Etre vieux à Rome

273-280

Μ. Brosius (ed.), Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions. Concepts o f Record-Keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 362 pp. ISBN 0 19 925245 9.

281-283

Martin L. West (ed.), Homeri Ilias. Recensuit / testimonia congessit. Volumen prius, rhapsodias I-XII continens. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1998. lxii + 372 pp. ISBN 3 519 01431 9.

283-285

Gunnel Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals o f Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods. Kernos Supplément 12. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2002. 429 pp. ISSN 0776 3824.

285-287

Deborah Levine Gera, Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language and Civilization. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. xii + 252 pp. ISBN 0 19 925616 0.

287-288

Benjamin Isaac, The Invention o f Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xiv + 563 pp. ISBN 0 691 11691 1.

288-291

Α. Mayor, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs. Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2003. 319 pp. ISBN 1 58567 348 X.

291-293

D. Erkelenz, Optimo praesidi. Untersuchungen zu den Ehrenmonumenten fü r Amtsträger der römischen Provinzen in Republik und Kaiserzeit. Antiquitas: Reihe 1, Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte, Band 52. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt Gmbh, 2003. 395 pp. ISBN 3 774

293-296

Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East, 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire. Η.Μ. Cotton and G.M. Rogers (eds.). Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xxix + 470 pp. ISBN 0 0878 2852 1.

297-301

Yasmine Zahran, Zenobia between Reality and Legend. BAR International Series, vol. 1169. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 130 pp. 60 figures. ISBN 1 84171 537 9.

301-302

Andrew Gillet, Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv + 335 pp. ISBN 0 521 81349 2.

303-304

Jean Α. Straus, L ’achat et la vente des esclaves dans l ’Egypte romaine.Contribution papyrologique à l'étude de l ’esclavage dans une province orientale de l ’Empire romain. Archiv für Papyrusforschung 14. München and Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004.

xxiv + 373 pp. 6 planches. ISBN 3 598 77947 0.1

304-310

Uri Yiftach-Firanko, Marriage and Marital Arrangements, A History o f the Greek Marriage Document in Egypt, 4th century BCE-4th century CE. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 93. München: Verlag C. Η. Beck, 2003.

xiii + 388 pp. ISBN 3 406 51167 8.

310-313

L.H. Schiffman (ed.), Semitic Papyrology in Context: A Climate o f Creativity. Papers from a New York University Conference Marking the Retirement o f Baruch A. Levine. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 14. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003.

xiv + 288 pp. ISBN 90 04 12885 9.

313-315

Tonio Sebastian Richter, Rechtssemantik und forensische Rhetorik: Untersuchungen zu Wortschatz, Stil und Grammatik der Sprache koptischer Rechtsurkunden. Kanobos: Forschungen zum griechisch-römischen Ägypten 3.

Leipzig: Verlag Helmar Wodtke und Katharina Stegbauer, 2002. ix + 447 pp. ISBN 3 934374 06 9.

315-316

Pieter W. van der Horst, Philo's Flaccus. The First Pogrom. Translation, Introduction and Commentary. Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series 2. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xii + 277 pp. ISBN 90 04 13118 3.

317-318

Yuval Shahar, Josephus Geographicus. The Classical Context o f Geography in Josephus. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 98. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. 305 pp. ISBN 3 16 148256 5.

318-321

R. Talgam and Ζ. Weiss, The Mosaics o f the House o f Dionysos at Sepphoris, Excavated by E.M. Meyers, Ε. Netzer and C.L. Meyers. Qedem 44. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University, 2004. xvi +136 pp. ISSN 0333 5844.

321-324

B. Bitton-Ashkelony and Α. Kofsky, Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. viii + 247 pp. ISBN 90 04 13868 4.

324-326

Judith Μ. Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Greco-Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 370 pp. ISBN 0 19 926289 6.

326-328

Reinhard Pummer, Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism.Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 92. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002. 518 pp. ISBN 3 16 147831 2.

329-331

Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton (eds.), Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2003. χ + 283 pp. ISBN 1 58046 125 5.

331-332

L. Sawicki and D. Shalev (eds.), Donum grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour o f Hannah Rosén. Orbis/Supplementa 18. Leuven, Paris and Sterling, Virginia: Peeters, 2002. xvi + 411 pp. ISBN 90 429 1026 7 (Leuven),

2 87723 582 3 (Paris).

332-334

Troy, 2004, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Screenplay David Benioff.

335-337

Ya‘akov Meshorer

1935-2004

339-340

Paolo Vivante

1921-2004

340-341

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies

2-3 June 2004, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

348-349