Work resumed after 22-year hiatus. Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Copyright: Marie-Lan Nguyen License: CC-BY-SA
Posted on 10/03/2018 2:44:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Emory University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University completed a summer of excavations at the Sanctuary of Great Gods on Samothrace in northern Greece on August 8... focused on the stoa in the western section of the sanctuary and the monuments on the terrace it stood on, as well as on the publication of the area's findings.Emory professor Bonna Wescoat was top excavator for a new five-year research project, carried out through the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and supervised by the Evros Ephorate of Antiquities... Findings suggest that there was religious activity on the site in the 7th century BC, but construction of the monumental buildings commenced in the 4th century BC and is associated with the royal house of Macedon. The sanctuary attained its greatest glory in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and was abandoned towards the end of the 4th century AD... it is the only large monument in the sanctuary that has been constructed solely of local limestone, which came from the quarry of Akrotiri, near the present area of Kamariotissa... even though there is no single stone on its retaining wall that survives in its original position, a multitude of architectural pieces have been found: more than 1,700 limestone pieces, 1,000 fragments from the roofing and multiple fragments from the decoration of interior walls. The excavating team also worked further on a 3D digital model of the Sanctuary, the ministry added, on the measurements and ratios of architecture on Samothrace island, and on the analysis of local stones used in architecture and statuary of the sanctuary.
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Work resumed after 22-year hiatus. Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Copyright: Marie-Lan Nguyen License: CC-BY-SA
Ping to the ancient playground.
The island itself is in the north central Aegean Sea, close to the southern exit of the Hellespont / Dardanelles, the passage between the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas.
Not much interest in this one, eh? Here's something that might help -- the ancient kings of Ireland came from this place, the first one even took his name from it -- Sam O'Thrace.
I thought the first Irish king came from the island at the mouth of the Danube, Malar Key.
Fred's neighbor, Blarney Rubble... hmm, haven't finished this one yet...
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