J. Paul Getty Museum journal

DECORATIVE ARTS

Acquisitions Made by the Department of Decorative Arts, 1979 to mid 1980	1
Gillian Wilson

PAINTINGS

A Late Fifteenth Century Venetian Painting of a Bird Hunt	23
George Goldner

A Condition Report of a Fifteenth Century Panel Painting	33
Susan Page

Note sulla pittura lucchese alla fine del Quattrocento	35
Mauro Natale

Additions to the Oeuvre of Michael Sweerts	63
Malcolm Waddingham

Text, Narrative and Tradition: Scenes from Esther by Aert de Gelder	69
Daniel Lettieri

ANTIQUITIES

SCULPTURE:
Some Greek Sculpture in Malibu	87
Jirí Frel

Conservation Report on the Bronze Herm	98
Patricia Tuttle

A Fragment of an Attic Grave Stele in the Getty Museum	99
Helayna lwaniw Thickpenny

A New Portrait Type of Demetrios Poliorketes (?)	107
Phyllis Williams Lehmann

A New Portrait Type of Octavia Minor (?)	117
K. Patricia Erhart

Ein Endymionsarkophag in Malibu	129
Guntram Koch

Zur syrischen Plastik der römischen Kaiserzeit	141
Klaus Parlasca

OTHER ANTIQUITIES

An Etruscan Mirror with "Spiky Garland" in the Getty Museum	147
Larissa Bonfante

A Set of Ancient Silverware in the Getty Museum	155
Andrew Oliver, Jr.

Additional Observations on a Set of Archaic Greek Finger Rings	167
Brigitta Strelka

A Larva Convivalis in the Getty Museum	171
Faya Causey Frel

Four Roman Votive Bronzes in the Getty Museum	173
Jeanne Peppers

Two Amulets in the Getty Museum: A Gold Amulet for Aurelia's Epilepsy; An Inscribed Magical-Stone for Fever, "Chills," and Headache	181
Roy Kotansky

Roman Surgical Instruments in Malibu and Richmond	189
Lawrence J. Bliquez

More Republican Coins from Two Hoards in the Getty Museum	197
Jane M. Cody

NOTES

A Lead Curse Tablet	199
Mark Jentoft-Nilsen

A Fifth Century Athena	 202
Faya Causey Frel

Le sculpteur des danseuses. Addenda et corrigenda 206
Jirí Frel

Metamorphoses of the Grimani "Vitellius." Addenda and Corrigenda	207
Stephen Bailey