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A. W. Johnston: Trademarks on Greek Vases . Pp. viii + 271; 14 figures, 8 plates. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1979. £24.

This book brought waves of nostalgia to the reviewer who has walked over and lunched many times on the site of Maroni and thought wistfully of the prospect of digging the Late Bronze Age city, still unexcavated. This is a painstaking and admirable work of compilation. Basically it is concerned with recounting the early and not completely laudable excavation in the Late Bronze Age cemetery by Walters on behalf of the British Museum, and with compiling what is known to have been found: to this is added a catalogue stating the present whereabouts of the surviving objects with full illustrations. The photographs are with few exceptions excellent and it might be a little carping to wish that vases had not been taken so often from below and against a fabric background. Forty-eight pages of plates are, however, rather lavish for the value of the finds, the more routine of which could well have been reproduced much smaller with little loss. So, too. economies could have been made in the layout of the text. Purchasers are, inevitably, now very concerned about cost. Most of the important objects were already well known and there are few surprises, but it is good to have a full coverage. The value of the excavation, given its nature and what was recorded, is severely limited. This is fully recognized by the author who with an admirable sense of proportion and unusual brevity summarizes what can be learnt from it. She has helped fill in the picture by adding finds of other periods made in neighbouring sites and from field surveys. The book will no doubt find a deserved place on the shelves of the ardent scholar of Cypriot archaeology and should certainly be available as a reference book in any library claiming to cover this particular field. Its appeal outside this limited field is, however, questionable.