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[ SOLD OUT ] LAPATIN, K. D. S., Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford University Press, 2001. 340p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. 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 clear-headedness that set this book apart from other works on ivory and colour. Anthony Cutler, Times Literary Supplement 25/10/2002 (Publisher's information). (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780198153115