The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum’s permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the Journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, Curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, Curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with the articles written by Gillian Wilson, George Goldner, Susan Page, Mauro Natale, Malcolm Waddingham, Daniel Lettieri, Jiří Frel, Patricia Tuttle, Helayna Iwaniw Thickpenny, Phyllis Williams Lehmann, K. Patricia Erhart, Guntram Koch, Klaus Parlasca, Larissa Bonfante, Andrew Oliver, Jr., Brigitta Strelka, Faya Causey Frel, Jeanne Peppers, Roy Kotansky, Lawrence J. Bliquez, Jane M. Cody, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, and Stephen Bailey.

• DECORATIVE ARTS
• Acquisitions Made by the Department of Decorative Arts, 1979 to mid 1980
  Gillian Wilson
• PAINTINGS
• A Late Fifteenth Century Venetian Painting of a Bird Hunt
  George Goldner
• A Condition Report of a Fifteenth Century Panel Painting
  Susan Page
• Note sulla pittura lucchese alla fine del Quattrocento
  Mauro Natale
• Additions to the Oeuvre of Michael Sweerts
  Malcolm Waddingham
• Text, Narrative and Tradition: Scenes from Esther by Aert de Gelder
  Daniel Lettieri
• ANTIQUITIES SCULPTURE
• Some Greek Sculpture in Malibu
  Jiří Frel
• Conservation Report on the Bronze Herm
  Patricia Tuttle
• A Fragment of an Attic Grave Stele in the Getty Museum
  Helayna Iwaniw Thickpenny
• A New Portrait Type of Demetrios Poliorketes (?)
  Phyllis Williams Lehmann
• A New Portrait Type of Octavia Minor (?)
  K. Patricia Erhart
• Ein Endymionsarkophag in Malibu
  Guntram Koch
• Zur syrischen Plastik der römischen Kaiserzeit
  Klaus Parlasca
• OTHER ANTIQUITIES
• An Etruscan Mirror With “Spiky Garland” in the Getty Museum
  Larissa Bonfante
• A Set of Ancient Silverware in the Getty Museum
  Andrew Oliver, Jr.
• Additional Ovservations On A Set Of Archaic Greek Finger Rings
  Brigitta Strelka
• A Larva Convivalis in the Getty Museum
  Faya Causey Frel
• Four Roman Votive Bronzes in the Getty Museum
  Jeanne Peppers
• Two Amulets in the Getty Museum: A Gold Amulet for Aurelia’s Epilepsy; An Inscribed Magical-Stone For Fever, “Chills,” And Headache
  Roy Kotansky
• Roman Surgical Instruments in Malibu and Richmond
  Lawrence J. Bliquez
• More Republican Coins from Two Hoards in the Getty Museum
  Jane M. Cody
• NOTES
• A Lead Curse Tablet
  Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
• A Fifth Century Athena
  Faya Causey Frel
• Le sculpteur des danseuses. Addenda et corrigenda
  Jiří Frel
• Metamorphoses of the Grimani “Vitellius.” Addenda and corrigenda
  Stephen Bailey