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Salamis in Cyprus

VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS : Salamis in Cyprus, Homeric, Hellenistic and Roman. Pp. 212; 45 plates, 35 figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. Cloth, £4-20. A SUMPTUOUS book, generously illustrated in black-and-white and in colour, with an abundance of plans and drawings and a sketch-map (p. 15) in support. Further to the point: not one photograph either falls short technically of the highest quality or fails to illuminate the point in question; while the plans and sections are meticulously drawn. A feast, in short, for the eye—on which indeed the main impact of a book of this format and this series is deliberately made; whereas the text serves, by and large, to connect and annotate illustrations, and is grouped chronologically under four headings which then become four chapters (pp. 20-196). There is some useful introductory matter (pp. 1-19); and throughout a minimum of argumentation. The footnotes are demoted, to become the notes, slight and perfunctory, assembled on pp. 199-204; a bibliography concludes, so slender and selective as almost to deceive. Thus for Enkomi, the Bronze Age predecessor of Salamis, there is no reference to the recent and monumental work of P. Dikaios, Karageorghis's own predecessor as Director of Antiquities of Cyprus (although on p. 199, n. 4, C. F. A. Schaeffer's appreciably earlier Enkomi-Alasya, i is cited). This book, in short, has a twofold purpose: it is designed alike to entertain the specialist and to inform the interested layman. In both it is eminently successful. The specialist will already have on his shelves the same author's Excavations in the Necropolis of Salamis, i (1967); but in anticipation of the second volume, he will welcome this advance information on some of Karageorghis's dramatic discoveries.