English description: The periodical "Mitteilungen zur Spatantiken Archaologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte" is designed to provide the field of achaeology and early art history and byzantine art history with new scholarly contributions covering various aspects. The range of time, region and methods is wide in order to encourage a diversity of ideas. This volume contains articles on motifs in late antiquity pictures, on the design of a sarcophagus from Naxos and one article questioning and analysing methods of the field. German description: Inhalt: Norbert Franken: Leda und der Schwan Ulrike Koenen: Forschungen im Elfenbeinturm? Fragen zur Aktualitat traditioneller Denkmodelle am Beispiel spatantiker und mittelalterlicher Elfenbeinkunst Catherine Vanderheyde: The Carved Decoration of Middle and Late Byzantine Templa Vasiliki Tsamakda: Die Fresken der Heiligen Paraskeve-Kirche in Trachiniakos auf Kreta (14. Jh.)