The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar

Elizabeth Simpson, PHD (1985), is Professor of Ancient Art and Archaeology at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY. She is Director of the Gordion Furniture Project and Consulting Scholar in the Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Preface
Oscar White Muscarella

Introduction
 Elizabeth Simpson

Part 1: “There is Nothing like First-hand Evidence”
1 Oscar White Muscarella and Sherlock Holmes
 Laurie Adams

Part 2: Arts and Archaeology: Anatolia
2 The King Has Ass’s Ears! The Myth of Midas’s Ears
 Susanne Berndt
3 The Project to Reconstruct the Early Bronze Age Hattıan Royal Tombs of Alaca Höyük
 Aykut Çınaroğlu
4 The Lydian Hoard and Its Progeny: Repatriation and the Statute of Limitations
 Lawrence M. Kaye
5 Labors Lost and Found in Tumulus mm at Gordion
 Richard F. Liebhart
6 A Pithos Burial at Sardis
 David Gordon Mitten
7 Attitudes toward the Past in Roman Phrygia: Survivals and Revivals
 Lynn E. Roller
8 The City Mound at Gordion: The Discovery, Study, and Conservation of the Wooden Fragments from Megaron 3
 Krysia Spirydowicz
9 Monumental Entrances, Sculpture, and Idols at Kerkenes: Aspects of Phrygian Cult East of the Kizilirmak
 Geoffrey Summers and Françoise Summers
10 Of Fibulae, Of Course!
 Maya Vassileva

Part 3: Arts and Archaeology: Urartu
11 Artifacts Belonging to Queen Qaquli and Mr. Tigursagga from an Elaborately Decorated Quarter of the Ayanis Fortress
 Altan Çilingiroğlu
12 A Fragment of a Ram’s Head Rhyton Found at Qalatgah, Iran
 Stephan Kroll
13 Toul-E Gilan and the Urartian Empire
 D.T. Potts
14 Some Considerations on Urartian Burial Rites
 Veli Sevin
15 Architectural and Other Observations Related to Erebuni in the Late Seventh/Early Sixth Centuries b.c.
 David Stronach

Part 4: Arts and Archaeology: The Near East
16 Neo-Assyrian Views of Foreign Cities: A Brief Survey
 Pauline Albenda
17 The Role of the Petra Great Temple in the Context of Nabataean Archaeology
 Martha Sharp Joukowsky
18 Fibulae in Neo-Assyrian Burials
 Friedhelm Pedde
19 Fibulae, Chronology, and Related Considerations: Marlik Reloaded
 Christian Konrad Piller
20 A Middle Bronze Stele from Hama and Old Syrian Cylinder Seals
 Barbara A. Porter
21 A Unique Human Head-Cup from the Environs of Tel Qashish in the Jezreel Valley, Israel
 Irit Ziffer, Edwin C.M. van den Brink, Orit Segal and Uzi Ad

Part 5: Arts and Archaeology: The Mediterranean World
22 Back to the Future: Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in the 12th Century b.c.e. on Paros
 Robert B. Koehl
23 Liturgy
 Günter Kopcke
24 What Did the Fisherman Catch?
 Mark J. Rose
25 The Weight of Good Measure: A Reassessment of the Balance Weights from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun
 Rachael Dealy Salisbury

Part 6: Arts—Craft—Materials—Techniques
26 Kyme: An Ancient Center of Jewelry Production in Asia Minor
 Özgen Acar
27 Voicing the Past: The Implications of Craft-referential Pottery in Ancient Greece
 Einav Zamir Dembin
28 The Neoclassical Klismos Chair: Early Sources and Avenues of Diffusion
 Ana Gutierrez-Folch
29 The Furniture of the Ramesside Pharaohs
 Geoffrey Killen
30 Excavated Roman Jewelry: The Case of the Gold Body Chains
 Meredith Nelson
31 Ivory Identification
 Anibal Rodriguez
32 Luxury Arts of the Ancient Near East
 Elizabeth Simpson

Part 7: Issues and Methods
33 The Literature of Loot: Notes on The Lie Became Great and Its Heirs
 Roger Atwood
34 Oscar the Oracle: On the Publication of Unprovenienced Objects
 Larissa Bonfante
35 The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre: Afterthoughts and Aftermaths
 Neil Brodie
36 Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities
 Clemency Chase Coggins
37 The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (nagpra)
 Emily Field
38 Connoisseurship Conundrums and a Visit to Hans Hofmann’s Studio
 Carroll Janis
39 Blue from Babylon: Notes from the Curatorial Trenches
 Margaret Cool Root and Helen Dixon
40 “Outing” the Old Teaching Collections
 Karen D. Vitelli
41 Figure and Ground: Reading Ancient Near Eastern Sources
 Eva von Dassow

Part 8: “Leave No Stone Unturned”
42 “Elementary”
 Jeanette Greenfield

Master Bibliography
Index of Terms
Authors’ Biographies