Show i I I EXCAVATING YATING THE ANCIENT CITY OF SARDIS OF-SARDIS SARDIS I t t I NE N of or the int interesting resting sidelights on 0 the report of Howard C C. C Butler professor of art and archaeology in University ity ou on the rC results of oft the American e expedition for the excavation excavation excava excava- tion of ot Sardis in Asia Minor last spring was the display of remarkable resourcefulness resource resource- and ability t to surmount almost impossible obstacles on the part of the young American engineers whom Professor sor for EntJer took with him bim to the thc Orient When ben making makins up the personnel of his party Professor Butler was pa particularly particular careful as aa to whom he should choose c lot for lor his engineering corps Three young oung Princeton graduates of the civil engineering engineer engineer- ing lug course found Cound places in the party and tJ to the writer who him bim im Professor Profesor r Butler JuUel said that they fully ully justified his bis selection by their subs subsequent quent work His cataloguer was Edward Edard K R. B. B Princeton 00 00 of Philadelphia and nud William R. R Berry Princeton 09 00 and L. L R R. Page Princeton D 18 IS both Loth of Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia were assistant engineers Theother The other two engineers engineer Philip S toc er and Lloyd ilo-d T. T Im Emery ry were yere also o of Philadel- Philadel elI el- el nhia S I The annual expedition for tor unearthing 1 the ancient city which probably existed In in the tho sixth century B. B C C. costs in hi the thc I neighborhood of which is subscribed subscribed sub sub- scribed by f prominent New York men who however contribute to the iu only on the condition conditio that their theil names b be kept kepi secret SaidU Sardis is quite a n distance inland in Asia Asin Minor and while the J I bad railroad communication with the tho outside out onto J side world nil all the advantages o of lUh and Am American engineering i service wet wet-c lackin lacking The young youn engineers had 1 to re replace replace re re- pl place ce the brohen cn parts of oC their apparatus with t-ith their own con contrivance As 8 s Pro 1 re or Butler said aid they y could not lIot call ondon or New c York on the thc telephone led and get ct the parts they wanted The lUl youthful Americans were thrown th rown upon their own o rc resources and thI th they y made muc good is shown b the by i of or this years year's expedition When asked how Ion long it would take to excavate the thc whole eit city of Sardis Sardie Professor Butler said aid that fifty or orone orone one oue hundred years sears would b be You sec he lie continued Sardis Sar i an area arM of six SIX square mil miles L I and our expeditions there have re resulted in Unearthing un Un- un-j un only square quare feet teet Professor Butler will make mak his hi report to tol I the American mel can Journal of or Archaeology rd arid and andis is at nt present t busy sorting out the hundreds i J of photographs A be he took to illustrate the tile ess of the work in the thc Orient This years year's developments de were verc important in the e eyes es of oC the world of oC art Several eral c inscriptions which it took took I IrJa's lays days to copy front the stone in io which tue they were hn have fe paved pared the way for Cur deci deciphering previously discovered erd in rip which had hitherto been Leen S able abbe Professor sor Ennos Littmann formerly of the faculty of Princeton and recently a a. member of or the faculty of or the tue University o of Stra Strassburg and Dud wh who is I s now no occupying a n chair l' In 10 t the thC l University er t of or is at present reent deciphering the inscriptions which were ivere found round this sear in Lydian the newly discovered language I The JU Uler lau pat party unearthed what lint is supposed d to be C evidence of th tb the worlds world flu first industrial strike The record refold was wais a n j Itoman inscription oo in Greek Gre and was an Ull t between th the strikers s Ii and und their theil j h whereby the strikers went back to work olk under new nei con condition I The work of excavating was II lie begun UD un ou on February 1 J and lasted lastel until the early cuy part hart of July when tl th laborers went vent into the fields About them tm Iro iH Butler says fear eal cai which was iras v d d be fore sta the rhe expedition in Iii r to the thuc work k IJ being disturbed by lIy the I war var vis entirely c unfounded d. d tI IJ J I few Of tit lh the W were lC d cI un und the luel I deficit was more moie thou than maim made by lv thel I I 1 great Jl number tf Mu m kiu refugees from row tile I 1 mo I L J J The rue young American engineers t found the lle workmen n willing lit uiL which mu tire the li d. ot of carrying t the ork through all the lie harder dei There here were e eight ight of Ih 1 ml nulls antI and several CIlI c derricks der ricks included in the apparatus us used fur for di digging in Whenever t r a 1 oak br-oak- ih I aud this was not lIot nn nix I happen ing illg American 1 brain und n brawn a 11 as C con constituted III in ill the joung cn engineers engineer iu ju tile the I party purt the thu were Only lIl things s up upon u which 11 Professor in h o- o Butler could depend to pet get fH af- af 8 11 in h or order cr t nic While entirely nu used to the climate te o of Asia tsia si the I members of the tue expedition kept in n good health his fis was as partly due to th tnt the good goodwater water which was u-as aJ available un und to to the tho excellent ox- ox ex ex- housing conditions under under- which which the tb they lived H One a of the lit first tasks tuk of tha thu Princeton engineers u when IWU t they hey hl arrived n-as n to a 1 The Kite ite was De l ct upon liNn the side sid of a n hill bill and the house built of oi baked cia clay brick and other I available n materials The he whole thiu thing f t wa was constructed U L by the of oC tb the party I S The most important discovery o of the 3 car cal front from rom n it scientific standpoint lIt was Avas in inthe Inthe Inthe the form of n ii pedestal with u n bilingual inscription in iu in Lydian dian and aud Greek The un unearthing un- un carthin utah und deciphering o of this ill inscription tion wade made for or a 1 hi big step C ward tot in ill the lie complete deciphering o of u a great Lod body of oC d j I j I i I i I I j j h I This j ears y-ears ears ear's work c n nl also s resulted in completely ont com clearing a aJ away J thit- thit CHt earth h a about thc hc Temple of r rl Which was left loft last j ear at the bottom of or a Jeep deep trench Sow Now Nova n a comprehensive c view w o I. of the ruins can cnn he bu I In lii II arins IIi n a away I ground about the thc temple a number r of I smaller manlIer buildings s tome ionic ol or l which wele I still more mOl ut tim ii III Dm the 1 temple tile iti itself IC C Were cre uncovered cled mal and wi with them some very ClY t important por hl Inset statuettes 9 sn and Co COinS coins I I IOn On Oui the side aide of uC the lie temple tho thu cx j e i curators caine across what Ih y believed Lelice to fo be Lc the thc Sacr tl d W Way rom th the heart of tile the lie city to the tho building Among thoi tho statues n i lined hued tin till street was t f on nil a i L iu In of ur I t o wo so lions hitis ant and an all Il l eagle Tim TIlt sculpture titre j Is hi unmistakably of oC t il nud is considered oj ui I form IJU the Ci first t Lulian contribution to lo Iu I t- t kIlO lcJ lr l' l I I I I 1 I L I mon Amon the rill later haet- di discoveries eo which P oI o o- or fes fl'S or Butler r as ss Important WIN a Homan sarcophagus th the tn Ou On the lid UI aie two i Cc figure of uC life lif size mother and auth I daughter rb The h beads ads are JIe buth d 1 cl 11 a aud Jull nil a me IlIC i-c i th the lie only which have l tines IDeS ax ye yet jet r. r t U found on FOu of vr this Illis type The very cry Le sides siles nn and endi lid Lire arc divided ed into panels lii by delicately delicati wrought L between n stUll till full si sized d t s i in iii l relief Ic null and o of great beauty J This sir sir- forms ui-ms ui It n very 1 j important 1 in the history of sculpture iJ in ill Asia Sia Minor thin the d I I 1 I In Iii this years ears s expedition were w Professor ori ori lJ Howard ward Crosby Butler director in el elof of ancient sculpture o anti and archaeology m II II H. Buckler Bucklen of ot Unhand I I trustee of Johns Hopkins engineer in iu cl ct r rs e Edward R. R Sro cr of Philadel- Philadel cataloguer r also in ill charge e of ot colas coins I Harold YV V Bell of c Mats au and aud Assistant Engineers n William 1 It II Berry Ph Lloyd Hp T. T 1 l Emery and L. L U Ii Kj Past Page all nil of f Philadelphia j |