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Maussolleion at Halikarnassos, Volume 7 - Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum -- The Pottery (Hardcover)
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Maussolleion at Halikarnassos, Volume 7 - Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum -- The Pottery (Hardcover)
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
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Raised to honour Maussolos, a Persian satrap of the 4th century
BCE, the Maussolleion in Halikarnassos was renowned throughout the
ancient world as one of its Seven Wonders. Pliny the Elder provided
a useful description of it several centuries later, but another
fourteen passed before the invention of moveable type made his
observations available to a wider public. By that time, the
monument was probably ruined beyond recognition, and by 1522 the
remaining stones had been completely torn down and reused to
fortify a nearby castle. Little else was known of the ancient
monument until 1857, when C.T. Newton rediscovered the Maussolleion
site. He removed what he could find of its sculptures - the source
of the monument's original fame - to the British Museum, but while
he answered some basic questions of structure, many were left
unresolved, and his excavations jumbled much of the remaining
materials. The third major contribution to our understanding of the
great mausoleum comes from the Danish excavations led by Kristian
Jeppesen from 1966 to 1977. The results of these digs are analysed
in The Maussolleion at Halikarnassos, of which three volumes form
the long-awaited conclusion. Volume 7 is a study of selected
ceramic finds from the Maussolleion site and the first major
publication on Karian pottery since 1965. From a body of 120,000
items, the authors have emphasized in situ contexts related to the
construction of the Maussolleion, and representative items from the
large body of Hellenistic material. The Maussolleion at
Halikarnassos presents us not only with a new portrait of one of
the classical world's most notable constructions, but also an
instructive case study of archaeologists in action, working their
careful way through a great mass of conflicting evidence.
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