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By Alan M. Greaves

Incorporating over a century of archaeological examine, Greaves deals a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that makes an attempt to appreciate the area inside of its greater Mediterranean context and gives a thematic review of its towns and folks.

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58 Diehl 1965: 827–47. 59 Senff 2003. 60 Jeffery 1990. 61 Alexander Herda, speaking at the British Museum, March 14, 2007. 62 Although the provenance of this artifact has been questioned by some scholars, it is generally accepted by most, including the SEG, to have come from Branchidai-Didyma. See Greaves forthcoming (3) for a summary of the discussion. 65 The coins and the lead ingot bearing Lydian text are small portable items and do not imply that Lydian was read and understood in Miletos and Ephesos; however, the marble fragment from the Artemision may tell a different story, as inscriptions erected in temples were presumably designed to be read by someone.

This suggests what the desired properties of a modified astragalus were and why this had been done. As with ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology does not generate new archaeological data, but it does provide a useful aid to interpretation and a point of discussion. The large-scale conservation of architectural monuments at a number of sites in Ionia has also brought to light new information and insights into the histories of the buildings being conserved. 85 At Ephesos, the excavation of small trenches to accommodate the stanchions for a protective dome over the ruins of Roman houses revealed interesting new information.

B) A view of Ayasoluk Hill today, surrounded by the modern town of Selçuk. Note that the piers of the aqueduct can still be seen in the midst of the modern buildings in the centre left of the image. 96 Unfortunately, the delay between excavation and publication is too great – some final publications never appear and it is difficult to reconstruct the original excavation from the surviving records. 98 In some cases it is possible to return to unpublished material, where the artifacts, records, or preferably both, survive.

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