Betaalbaar Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World. – LAPATIN, K. D. S.,

A catalogue of fifty-one examples which, while it will not revolutionize the history of ancient art, will put all its historians in his [Lapatin’s] debt … Today’s students will rejoice in his forty pages of testimonia in both the original language and translation. But perhaps the most interesting of Lapatin’s appendices are his inventories of statues mentioned or described in antiquity and here classified by site, subject and period … It is not the benefits of autopsy but the virtues of candour and cle…