Contents: Non-destructive Investigation of Ivory by FTIR and Raman Spectroscopy ( Arun Banerjee); The Making of Early-Byzantine Pyxides ( Gudrun Buhl); Caillet, Remarques sur l'iconographie Christo-Mariale des grands diptyques d'ivoire du VIe siecle. Incidences eventuelles quant a leur datation et origine ( Jean-Pierre ); Basilius and His Diptych Again ( Alan Cameron); Color on Late Antique and Byzantine Ivories: Problems and Challenges of Conservation ( Carolyn L. Connor); Resemblance and Difference: Carving in Byzantium and Ottonian Germany in the Ivory Century ( Anthony Cutler); Carving in the Center: Evidence for an Urban Workshop on the Palatine Hill in Rome ( Archer St. Clair); Zur Bedeutung der Veranstaltung in Amphitheater und Circus in der Spatantike ( Josef Engemann); Digenis Akritis and a Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket in The Metropolitan Museum of Art ( Helen Evans); Editions of the Joseph Narrative in Ivory between East and West ( John Hanson); Technologische Aspekte ausgewahlter Elfenbeinarbeiten des Museums fur Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin ( Hiltrud Jehle); First-Generation Diptychs in the Discourse of Visual Culture ( Dale Kinney); Die Elfenbein-Staurothek von Cortona im Kontext mittelbyzantinischer Kreuzreliquiarproduktion ( Holger A. Klein); Kopien imaginarer Vorbilder und Reproduktionen. Spatantike, karolingische und byzantinische Elfenbeinwerke im forschungsgeschichtlichen Diskurs ( Ulrike Koenen ); ... als Kunstgeschichte so exakt werden wollte wie die Philologie oder die Zoologie - Die fruhe Elfenbeinforschung in Deutschland ( Barbara Schellewald); La cattedra di Massimiano a Ravenna: Status quaestionis e nuove linee interpretative ( Clementina Rizzardi); The Second Life of Objects: Ivory Horns in Medieval Church Treasuries ( Avinoam Shalem ); Die byzantinischen Elfenbeintafeln im Domschatz zu Halberstadt ( Petra Sevrugian-Janke); Beharrlichkeit oder Die Verteidigung alter Feststellungen ( Paul Speck).
About the Author: Contributor Biography - English Gudrun Buhl received her Ph. D. in Byzantine Art History at Freiburg University in 1990, specializing in Early Byzantine Art and with a focus on iconography for her dissertation on the representation and meaning of personifications of cities, especially Roma and Constantinopolis. After teaching Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Gottingen, she was assistant curator of the Byzantine Collection at the Bodemuseum in Berlin and lectured on Byzantine Art at the Berlin Freie Universitat. As an archaeologist, Gudrun Buhl has participated in surveys of Byzantine rural settlements in Turkey. Since 2005 she serves as curator and director of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum.Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University. The author of numerous books and articles, he has established himself as an international expert on ivory carving with such works as The Hand of the Master: Craftsmanship, Ivory, and Society in Byzantium (Princeton University Press). He has been a member of the Institute forAdvanced Study at Princeton, a resident in art history at the American Academy in Rome, and has held four fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University's Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D. C., as well as a Paul Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. He held the HumboldtResearch Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in 2001-2002 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago during spring 2001. Dr. Cutler was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2002-03 and was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2005. In Spring 2009 he will be a Senior Research Associate at the Khalili Centre at Oxford University.