American and Greek Archaeologists at Sardis during a Fateful Year

by Theodore C. Eliopoulos

Hesperia, Volume 93, Issue 3
Page(s): 505-567
Stable URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937556
Year: 2024
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ABSTRACT:

This article publishes for the first time a notebook and a report by the Greek archaeologist Nikolaos Laskaris. Both documents date to the spring of 1922, when Laskaris was supervising the American excavations at Sardis. Combined with additional archival material presented here, Laskaris’s writings contribute to our knowledge of Sardian archaeology, and at the same time illuminate the dire historical circumstances of the ongoing Greek-Turkish War that surrounded the campaign of that year.