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This CVA fascicule, the fourth in the Greek series, includes 108 Attic black-figure skyphoi in the National Museum of Athens. The National Museum's skyphoi represent almost every type produced in the Athenian Kerameikos during the 6th and the 5th centuries B.C., thus offering a good picture of the development of the shape. Most of the 6th-century Attic black-figure skyphoi in the National Museum have been included in this fascicule; on the numerous later mass-produced skyphoi, particularky of the CHC Group and of the Ure's Class K 2, only a selection is given, while no pinc...

This CVA fascicule includes seventy-eight Attic and five Atticizing amphorae dating to the period from Sub-Mycenaean to Late Geometric. They represent the great majority of the Attic and Atticizing amphorae of that period kept in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. Amporae from published excavations (e.g. the Nea Ionia vases) and those included in a previous CVA volume (e.g. the monumental belly handed amphora inv. no. 804) were systematically excluded from this volume. Emphasis has been given to the unpublished Attic amphorae and sixty-three vases are presented he...

The catalogue of Byzantine Glazed Pottery in the Benaki Museum is not one of those glossy, voluminous publications that glorify subjects of ephemeral interest. Nonetheless a delight to the eye, it is one of those books indented primary for the reader-researcher with scholarly curiosity, who seeks works of modest format and cost, and studies in the solitude of libraries.[...] Angelos Delivorrias