This volume provides a unique survey of locally produced funerary representations from across regions of ancient Syria, exploring material ranging from reliefs and statues in the round, to busts, mosaics, and paintings in order to offer a new and holistic approach to our understanding of ancient funerary portraiture.

An essential study by Richard and Mary Rouse on the life and work of illuminators and scribes after the arrival of the first printing presses in Paris.

An in-depth sociocultural analysis of Roman senatorial arbitration as a political mediation tool in the second century BC