Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 18/2014

Contents:

Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz, Fantastic creatures and cobras from Tell el-Farkha /11

Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, Early Egyptian tomb security - middle class burials from Tell el-Farkha /29

Maciej Pawlikowski and Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, Bone material and mineralogical processes of its destruction at the site of Tell el-Farkha /37

Magdalena Maria Nowak, Results of the preliminary analysis of Lower Egyptian settlement discovered on the Central Kom in Tell el-Farkha /49

Mariusz A. Jucha, Tell Abu el-Halyat. The new Naqada III - Old Kingdom (?) site in the northeastern Nile Delta /65

Marcin Czarnowicz, Knobbed bowls from Naqada II and III contexts in Egypt /77

Joachim Śliwa, Pharaoh triumphing over an enemy. Remarks on a scene from Aksha /91

Tomasz Podgórski, A brief excursus on some royal portraits from the Temple of Thotmes III at Deir el-Bahari /101

Krzysztof Jakubiak, Some remarks on the camel on Sasanian seals /107

Agata Dobosz, What did the burning torch appearing on Rhodian amphora stamps symbolise? /117

Wojciech Machowski, Graves beneath barrows on Ancient necropoleis in the North-Pontic area /127

Edyta Marzec, The domed-mouth unguentaria from Cyprus /151

Agnieszka Fulińska, The missing link? Iconography and literary legend of Alexander the Great /159

Wojciech Sowa, Old Persian Yanā takabarā and Macedonian Kαυσία /175

Marta Korczyńska-Zdąbłarz, Lasa ed iconografia delle figure femminili alate su alcuni monumenti etruschi /185

Kamil Kopij, Pietas in the propaganda of Sextus Pompey /203

Dorota Gorzelany, Devicta Brittania. Fragment of a Roman sword scabbard in Krakow /219

Katarzyna Lach, Roman coins from Berenike (Seasons 1994-2000) /229

Agnieszka Ochał-Czarnowicz, The cult of heroes reflected on mosaic pavements /235

Marta Kania, Discovery and manipulations. Some comments about archaeology, politics and the right to the cultural heritage in Peru in the centenary of the ‘Scientific Discovery’ of Machupicchu /247

Grażyna Wrona, Polish scientific magazines on Classical philology, archaeology and prehistory in the period 1918-1939 /263

Leszek Zinkow, The ‘Egyptian House’, Hans Makart and Cleopatra from Krakow /275

Editorial Note /286