Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two years of what Hanfmann plans ideally to be a ten-year operation have yielded great finds. First the exact location of the Lydian capital has been definitely established. Though the Princeton expedition had found traces of Lydian art-work near the Temple of Artemis, it had not discovered any building dating back to the seventh century...
...Near the elegant main room of the "H.B.", a small room full of vases was uncovered. Though almost ready to close the expedition for the year, the two young archaeologists who found the area rushed to Professor Hanfmann who could verify the type of pottery. He excitedly identified the cases and sherds as Lydian, ranging from the Early Iron Age to archaic (Sixth Century B.C.). The room, apparently a potter's shop, was a remnant of the fabled city of Sardis, the fied the vases and sherds as Lydian, from uncovered some of the town walls of Sardis dating from...
...completely new site, started after a landslide in the late winter of 1958 had uncovered some fine Hellenistic sculptures near the Patoclus river, brought to light what Hanfmann considers the most promising of Lydian buildings...
...three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely useful in tracking the urban growth of this area, one of the main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century Lydian metropolis of Saddis therefore was larger than its Roman counterpart. Urbanization in Lydia in the sixth century was of far greater proportions than scholars had ever expected...
...been very well chosen, representing several sectors of Soviet life, weighted perhaps toward the intelligentsia at the expense of the worker or agricultural areas. Perhaps for this reason several members of their delegation looked with apprehension at their next stop at Penn Yan, N.Y., a small farming community near Ithaca, although Voschinin, often the group's spokesman, said with a smile before leaving Cambridge, "I'm sure it will be interesting."Group leader, V ADIM LOGINOV 32, and accordion player, V LADIMIR FEDOSEYEV, 27, a music student in Moscow, seem to be enjoying themselves at the International Students' Association building...