JOHN E. CURTIS (ed.), Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period. Cambridge, James Clarke & Co, 2020. xiv + 217. ISBN 978 0 227 17705 1

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Abstract: The volume under review is a memorial volume to the late Terence Mitchell, formerly a curator in the British Museum, and it comprises a brief introduction with a bibliography of the honoree’s publications, eight essays, and a name index. A number of high-quality color photographs accompany the essays as relevant. The most pleasing offering of the volume begins the essays, Paul Collins’ “Five Unpublished Persepolis Relief Fragments in the Ashmolean Museum” (1–9), which does precisely what the title proclaims. The article briefly describes the said fragments with some preliminary notes on how they appeared in the Oxford collection yet escaped scholarly notice. This will be of use to scholars of Achaemenid art and the antiquities trade.