In the 1950s, University of Pennsylvania archaeologists recovered over fifty pieces of wooden furniture from three royal tumulus burials and the city mound at Gordion, Turkey. Tumuli MM and P (eighth century BCE) contained thirteen tables and three serving stands with characteristic Phrygian features. The style and joinery of the tables tie them to a long trajectory of wooden tables from the ancient Near East. A variety of fine wooden objects was found in two tombs excavated in 1972 at Verucchio in northern Italy (late eighth through early seventh centuries BCE). The finds from tombs 85 and 89 include wood tables, footstools, thrones, boxes, and other organic materials. Three tables from tomb 85 had legs attached to the table top with a version of the collar-and-tenon joinery used for the Gordion tables. Rarely are ancient wooden artifacts recovered in good condition; the finds from Verucchio and Gordion provide a large and important corpus from the early first millennium BCE. This paper examines the similarities (and differences) between Gordion and Verucchio wooden furniture and investigates the possibility of interaction between Near Eastern and Italic woodworking schools in the eighth through the seventh centuries BCE.

In this chapter we give a table with the feasible parameter sets of arbitrary strongly regular graphs on at most 512 vertices, and add comments about the known examples. These include: existence (and number of nonisomorphic examples), the parameters, the spectrum, information about being a descendant of a regular two-graph or being in the switching class of a regular two-graph, possible relation with a projective two-weight code,possible relation with a partial geometry, whether it is a conference graph or transversal design. Miscellaneous comments include references to earlier parts of the book, name of the graph, reason for non-existence, possible relation with a Steiner system, etc.