The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar

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 Hattian Royal Tombs of Alaca Hoeyuek
?Aykut Cinaroglu
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 Francoise 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 Cilingiroglu
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
?Guenter 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
?OEzgen 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