Word: lydian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This uncommonly rich site had already yielded great finds to the probes of American scholars in a previous expedition. During the four years that preceded World War I, a group of Princeton archaeologists unearthed the Hellenistic temple of Artmis, a architectural masterpiece, and numerous examples of Lydian minor arts...
Further, the Princeton group wished to explore the archaeological resources of this area especially to uncover traces of the original Lydian city, but the World War, and later, the Turko-Greek conflicts continually discouraged their efforts. One of the members of the Princeton group was George Chase, who later became a professor of Archaeology here and a Dean of the GSAS. Chase's administrative duties prevented him from tracking down the Lydian earthware that the expedition had discovered but had left at the site. Instead, in 1938, he suggested to his then-assistant, Professor Hanfmann, that a return trip...
George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, will lead a party of fourteen in futher excavation efforts at Sardis, Turkey. Hanfmann's group made an exceptional find last year when they discovered a potter's workshop dating from the time of the Lydian kings...
...Site. After working for a while near Building B, the diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...
...golden Lydian treasures or inscriptions in Lydia's language have yet come out of these diggings, but archaeologists are excited and hopeful. Lydia's contribution to civilization was largely obscured by the Greeks, who proverbially wrote all the histories and gave themselves all the breaks. The finding of Lydia's splendid capital may lead to better knowledge of the non-Greek roots of Western culture...