Word: lydian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidence of a Lydian alphabet at that date appears in a repeated monogram, translated a "Gugu," along a wall. This was the name given the notorious Lydian king, Gyges, in Assyrian annals, according to George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and field director of the expedition. The structure was the burial mound of Gyges, founder of the great Lydian Kingdom...
David G. Mitten has been promoted to Francis Jones Assistant Professor of Classical Art. An authority on Lydian, Minoan, and Greek art, he has taught at Harvard since 1962 and is assistant director of the Harvard-Cornell Sardis (Turkey) Excavation. He holds the B.A. (1957) from Oberlin and the Ph.D. (1962) from Harvard...
...Harvard-Cornell archeological team has unearthed a marble monument celebrating the Lydian goddess Cebele in its excavations at the ruins of Sardis in southeastern Turkey...
Excavations are also being made north of Sardis, where the Harvard-Cornell team hopes to reach a Lydian burial chamber sometime next year...
...bank of the gold-bearing river Pactolus, an unusual Byzantine church with many small domes, Roman houses and porticoes with mosaics of animal hunts, and immense system of Roman water-mains, and Persian and Lydian houses span two thousand years of history...