REVIEWS 193 sheet cross, spatha , short swords, lance-head, shield, quality belt fittings and combs. The deceased presumably formed part of the garrison, clearly residing with families. As well as anthropological assessments of the burial groups, Part I includes reports on the Lombard-period material culture from the diverse excavation trenches, helping to build a picture of how connected this castrum was. Part II provides a detailed and copiously illustrated analysis of the extant medieval buildings and fabrics, followed by Cardone’s discussion and GIS mapping of Monselice’s urban form. Similar assessments come in Part III, where Roat and Schivo detail the medieval evolution of nearby Arquà Petrarca, famous as residence of the poet Petrarch in the 1360s–70s, and preserving various 13th- to 15th-century houses, inns and palazzi, many of which saw restorations in the 1930s–40s to ‘re- medievalise’ the borgo . Finally, Part IV puts Monselice in its territorial context, with strong papers by Vedovetto on the early medieval religious landscape and Brogiolo assessing powers (noble families, counts, bishops, abbeys) and architecture in the landscape in the 11th and 12th centuries. NEIL CHRISTIE (University of Leicester) Byzantine Artefacts from Ephesos. A Catalogue . By Andrea M Pülz. 18 × 24 cm. 61 pp, 24 colour plate pages, 1 b&w fig. Vienna: Holzhausen GmbH, 2017. ISBN 978-3-903207-02-8. Price: €14.90 pb. Long-running excavation by the Austrian Archaeological Institute has generated a detailed, fascinating sequence at Ephesos in Asia Minor. The Byzantine city (defended by new walls c AD 600) featured at least 15 churches, notably the episcopal church of St Mary; Ephesos became a focus of pilgrimage which helped sustain it into the late Byzantine period. This compact publica- tion is not a full catalogue of Byzantine small finds: just 73 items are described here, whereas Pülz notes (p 9) how c 1100 objects are known overall, from luxury metal objects through to copper-al- loy ornaments to iron keys and tools. The objects come not just from the Austrian programme, but also from Turkish excavations and include finds by locals and from foreign collections. What this volume first presents are dress ornaments — brooches, buckles, cloak clasps, some perhaps locally produced — and personal items such as finger rings and crescent earrings; decoration on rings include monograms, invocations and pentagrams. Pülz emphasises the frequency of such objects, indicating soldiery, officials, high to lower ranking women and city-based craftworkers, and offers useful comment on form and design and how objects were worn (9–12); there is also outline commentary on production techniques — casting, cutting, soldering, filigree — and questioning of ‘serial production’ (13–14). Core to the catalogue (nos 40–72) are crosses: 7th- to 11th-century personal pendants (often offerings in churches); reliquary crosses (hinged halves), which peak in the 10th–11th centuries and which commonly depict Christ on the Cross, a praying St John, Mary or St George; and large processional crosses. NEIL CHRISTIE (University of Leicester) Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land. By Varda Sussman. 21 × 29 cm. iv + 634 pp, 245 b&w pls and figs, plus 82 Plate pages. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78491-570-4. Price: £65.00 pb. This richly illustrated volume opens with a general introduction of the history of the pro- duction of oil lamps in Israel from late-Roman times up to the early Islamic period. The prompt to this study is the large collection of lamps registered at the Israel Antiquities Authority until 1988. Sussman’s analysis focuses on various assemblages, deriving from a number of excavations across the Holy Land; the author also draws in some unpublished materials. However, it is worth noting that, as Sussman herself states, no petrographical analyses have been conducted and some measurements are not precise. Arguably, more attention could have gone to producing a detailed overview of the region in key relevant historical periods, notably the late-Roman and Byzantine. The volume’s core is the well-organised catalogue, with brief descriptions of sites and sufficient references to track down relevant excavation reports. The catalogue divides the assemblages of oil lamps into seven main areas, although it is not always immediately clear whether the division is simply geographical or relates to specific areas of production. In terms of graphics, images are of generally high quality, especially the reproductions at the end of the catalogue. However, it would have been better to put fewer pictures on each page, as the final composition is too dense.