ARTICLES

STEPHENS, MICHAEL (Monash University): Some Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Obelisk Transportation Scene (131–146)

SCHULZ, RAIMUND (University of Bielefeld): Over the Water and across the Desert – Trans-Saharan Contacts of the Mediterranean World in the 6th and 5th Century BC (147–174)

SCHROPP, JACK W. G. (University of Innsbruck): Kaiser Tiberius im Bürgerkrieg: Zu einem Fragment Senecas bei Suet. Tib. 73,2 (175–184)

RESEARCH SURVEY: THE ANCIENT ECONOMY – NEW STUDIES AND APPROACHES

NEUMANN, HANS (University of Münster): Das alte Vorderasien (185–210)

ZHAO, YIFENG (Institute for the Study of Asian Civilizations, NENU, Changchun): The Formation and Features of the Ming / Qing Imperial Agro-mercantile Society (229–256)

Abstracts (257–259)