Telephone: (0)71-312624 Telex: 39296 brill nl EJ. Brill of Leiden. Publishers, Printers and Booksellers since 1683. Over 300 years synonymous with high quality scholarly publishing, printing and selling of books and journals on the humanities and biological sciences. Experts in the typesetting of foreign languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian and Turkish. (Mnemosyne, Supplement 91) 1986. (xiv, 226 p., 3 maps, 20 ill.) ISBN 90 04 07644 1 Gld. 85.-/£ 27.-This work summarises and

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... the volume, type and content of Roman trade in the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Gulf area, and establishes a fairly consistent line in Roman government policy vis-a-vis this trade for the period under consideration. Roman Portrait Sculpture 217-260 A.D. The transformation of an artistic tradition SUSAN WOOD (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 12) 1986. (xiv, 150 p., 64 pi.) ISBN 90 04 07282 9 cloth Gld. 82.-/£ 26.05 A study of the developments in portrait styles under the 'soldier-emperors' on the basis of official portraiture, this work traces the changes which led to the abstraction of late-antique style. II Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum ELISA LISSI-CARONNA (Etudes preliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, 104) 1986. (viii, 52 p., frontisp., 42 [16 col.] pi., 9 fig.) ISBN 90 04 07493 7 Gld. 95.-/£ 30.15 This book presents summary reports, descriptions and analyses of finds made during the excavation of the Mithraeum discovered under the church of S. Stefano Rotondo in the heart of Rome.