Word: pactolus
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...small room of a Roman villa of the 4th century A.D. "The cleverly interwoven pattern of the mosaic," Hanfmann said, "suggests the highly sophisticated ornamental sense of late Roman interior decorators," To command a view of Sardis, the villa was built high on a cliff above the torrent Pactolus, which once brought gold to the ancient Lydians...
...expedition finished excavating a great Persian stepped monument, perhaps the one referred to by the ancient historian Xenophon as the sepulchre of Abradatas and his faithful wife Pantheia. On the banks of the torrent Pactolus, the archaeologists also uncovered an Early Christian vault with wall paintings of birds and flowers...
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