Word: lydian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the family. On view in the nursery are the children's 18th century rocking horse and a dollhouse with the original handmade furnishings. Articles of Emerson's clothing--his tall beaver hat, the "Gaberlunzie" robe he probably wore when he got up early and his wife Lydian slept late--hang in other rooms...
...Turkish investigative journalist. In the "open-air museum" that is his homeland, he says, farmers go into hock to buy metal detectors, while Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs "sell better than Korans." One Turkish case, tied up in litigation since 1986, involves the country's claim on the Lydian Hoard, a famous collection of 250 gold and silver wares. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which bought the pieces, does not acknowledge that they came from Turkey...
David G. Mitten, Loeb professor of art and archaeology, has been excavating a Lydian and Greco-Roman site called Sardis in present-day Turkey...