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While drinking from animal dishes, the Phrygian child may have worn diapers of a sort. Bronze safety pins found in the tomb suggest that children's underpinnings have not changed in 2,600 years...
Child's Toys. For six years, archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted...
Carefully packed in a big bronze kettle were toys that modern children would appreciate: wooden horses, one of them winged, a lion fighting a bull, a yoked ox. Perhaps the Phrygian child had been a "feeding problem" and had to be cajoled into eating his meals. At any rate, his tomb was furnished with special dishes for mealtime entertainment. One pitcher was like a goat's head with the horns for handles. Other vessels were modeled after geese, stags or rams...
...light. About 60 ft. long and 22 ft. wide, it looked a good deal like an early Christian church, with a central nave, two side aisles and a rounded apse at one end. In the apse the diggers found the marble head, delicately carved, of a god in a Phrygian cap. Then they knew that the ruin was a temple of Mithras, built about A.D. 150, where armored Roman legionnaires worshiped, particularly during the dying years of the Roman empire, when the Mithras cult was most popular...
...young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might reply: easier said than done. Not all the conviction in the world...