Word: basement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends, they carried out large quantities of earth. From the building came the sound of an internal-combustion engine. Exhaust vapor escaped through a pipe in the roof. Neighbors deduced that they were building a secret racing car; the Gens boys insisted that they were merely enlarging their basement. They were indeed digging-straight down. In the process, they were uncovering one of the most important Roman relics ever found in Germany: the funeral monument of Lucius Poblicius, a 1st century veteran of the Roman legions and citizen of Cologne...
Perfect Satyr. Erected between 50 and 69 A.D., the monument was discovered by the Gens brothers in 1965 beneath the shop basement. Exposing a large limestone block, they dug around it and discovered the perfectly preserved figure of a satyr chiseled in bas-relief on one side. Beneath the first block, they found a second, also carved. They called officials of Cologne's Roman-Germanic museum, who immediately bought the stones for $2,000 but explained that archaeological teams could not be spared at the moment to in vestigate the site. In the meantime, the museum officials, who have...
...location was noted on a chart so that archaeologists could later determine exactly where the monument stood and how it fell. Eventually, the young archaeologists found and excavated 58 large blocks, which they then correctly reassembled into a section of the ancient monument on an undisturbed area of the basement floor...
Proud of their accomplishment, they recently threw secrecy to the wind, opened their basement display room to visitors. Among them was Professor Otto Doppelfeld of the Roman-Germanic museum, who forgave the youths for disobeying orders. "Indeed, I'm quite pleased the young people made the dig themselves," he says. "We would have excavated, of course, but just the planning would have taken years...
...order to alleviate overcrowding, Widener has transferred several of its less-used collections--among them 15,000 volumes on angling--to the basement of Littauer Center. Other collections will be moved to the new Ed School library as soon as it is built--probably in 1970-- Robert R. Walsh '65, administrative assistant in the Harvard University Library, said yesterday...