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 ContentsEarly Cycladic? Lead model boats in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – Susan SherrattTwo Cushions, a Bes, a boar and a bead. New ‘discoveries’ in the Aegean collection at the Ashmolean – Helen Hughes-BrockAncient 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 PollardThe structure and function of ancient metrology – John NealThe second stage of the Grakliani Culture – Vakhtang LicheliOwl skyphoi around the Adriatic – Branko KiriginGyenus on stage: civic foundation and the comedy of Aristophanes’ Birds – David BraundNew archaeological finds at Pichvnari (November-December 2010) – Amiran KakhidzeA double-sided glass relief pinhead from ancient Colchis – the Pichvnari ‘Heracles – Sujatha ChandrasekaranGold jewellery from Kavtiskhevi – Darejan KacharavaPalynological analysis of organic materials from Pichvnari (including the earliest silk in Georgia) – Eliso Kvavadze and Maia ChichinadzeMercurial metrics – Kenneth LapatinThe Erechtheion glass gems: classical innovation or Roman addition? – Despina IgnatiadouCarp from the Danube delta? Notes on an unusual gold-glass in the Wilshere Collection – Susan WalkerMediterranean drinking habits in Roman Britain: celery-flavoured wine prepared in an Iron Age bronze strainer – Eberhard W. Sauer, Mark Robinson and Graham MorganFrom an offshore island: classical art and the Britons in Late Antiquity – Martin HenigThe siege-drill (trypanon): new archaeological evidence from Georgia – Nicholas SekundaAn emphatic statement: the Undley-A gold bracteate and its message in fifth-century East Anglia – Daphne Nash BriggsThe Levant Company and British collecting – Arthur MacGregorCryptography and vasology: J.D. Beazley and Winifred Lamb in Room 40 – David W.J. GillDictators and Antiquity – Clive Foss