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Category: Amphi
Rhodes as ... Amphipolis!
Written by Zacharias Loudaros
Okay, the truth is I have come up – down. The other puts with the cunning filtraki in her mouth till you twist the cigarette and kleftes glimpses into the cast hung with clothespins "Goal", the time that o ntalikeris in the parking lot of the national reading “MadameFigaro”. Go the following to do communication targeting to ' target ' common.
There are however five – ten things that, so through the current social experience and research, are emerging as issues with a horizontal resonance. So, is not a small thing that at this hour, half the planet discussing what will draw the skeletal DNA research of Amphipolis. As there is no small thing to have at this moment a global debate on the return of the Parthenon marbles.
Proving once again that the culture is in fact along with the natural beauty of, the only truly competitive advantages of Greece. And even with a timeless constant value. In a world where trends change with 4 g speeds, We can "sell" ( with good sense) temporal Plato and ... plane tree! Because "this is Greece», at least in my eyes that is not Simitis.
How well we utilize these advantages is of course another story, pain and klaysigeloy. After the late Melina, which VRE BRO had a feel for the life and things, those politicians succeeded to the Chair of the Ministry of culture is like the fake facebook profile. All you see on the screen and you think they speak with "Victoria's Secret Angels" though never come into physical contact see the "Tasmanian Devil".
Instead of being ready to get killed for kwlopetrelaia, should we now physical world protected theme park, intellectual and aesthetic beauty and you don't need to do anything else to produce a GDP, at least twice the current. But to do something like that on the one hand there must be a vision and secondly be enabled some ' glands ', who do not seem to exist in "eynoychismeni" Greek political class.
Nevertheless there are some efforts, that make the difference and the exception to the rule. Can spend on "loose change" of mainstream media or no, but fortunately there is the Internet and social media. Thanks to my girlfriend Rena Diakidi, journalist in Rhodes, I learned about the first success of the new prefect, South Aegean George Hadjimarkou. The day before yesterday inaugurated Rhodes Antiquities exhibition in The Louvre Museum and the most important, the Marshal has the report be transferred to Rhodes soon after and remain for the duration of the new tourist season.
What makes the place of Chatzimarkos, is Greece a policy open and optimistic, who knows WINS likes and becomes share throughout the world having authentic profile!
YG1: The new roads, want new ideas. And new ideas will not arise through the remnants of the ' big narratives ' of past centuries. THE 21ND It is the century of pragmatism. For example – coincidentally and completely random – the strategy of a "left-wing" Government should look like a little with the commercial communication of alcohol: "Enjoy responsibly". Goystaroyn to drink all but certainly there is no reason he will drink, to do as did regulars like 1960s soyblatzidikwn 70, with 40 beer bottles in a row on the table to see «ntirla» and «jukebox» playing with taliro (drachmes of course) the "bitter poison is like a passport that I got for the alien».
YG2: I read a nice quotation on Circle Of Solidarity (). “Multiculturalism is wealth in food, in art, in the cerebration, in culture, in love, in fun, everywhere. No one stands alone.”. The truth she highlights and video production of the South Aegean Region for the "Poly-culture" of Rhodes. Is not a blockbuster but it has dignity.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = XKATS6XBHH0&w=854&h=510] Source: rizopoulospost.com"At these marbles were playing small»: The Lake and its relationship to Amphipolis
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In addition to the revelation of the tomb of deceased Amphipolis sensation caused on Wednesday and the announcement of the Ministry of culture for the Marbles that belong to the outer precincts of the mound and found Kasta in kerkini.
Source: iefimerida.gr
How deep is the third Chamber of the Mound of Amphipolis;
Without a visible end seems to be the third Chamber of the funerary monument to the Tumulus Kasta. The excavation continues with great care and under adverse conditions due to cold and dampness- in the last compartment of the Tomb. Although …
the excavators have reached the 8 meters ' depth ' counting from the roof, There is no indication as to how exactly is the height of the space.
As to the findings, According to information arriving at protothema.gr, There's something else besides fragments of stone pwrinwn of the so-called "stamping" flooring. So far there is no trace mobile find, Neither organic (ashes or bones), Neither mineral (sarcophagus, Larnaca etc).
As the excavations where there was a large artificial excavation in the third Chamber, the need for stringing/wiring of the roof and the side walls are retaining more and more pressing. For’ This and work within the monument, the excavation and the prop, go parallel, where before all must ensure that static channel balance.
The investigation continues with the hope that it will reveal the,anything that could contribute to the identification of the deceased to whom it was dedicated the majestic monument. Anyway, though, than,What seems, There are only a few days until the present, first phase of excavation. Probably next week will be made official announcements from the developers, the who will also announce the Greek University which takes the Mound diaskopisi Kasta geologic.
The excavation that is heading toward the end of the witness also environmental conditions, a and within the monument moisture touches the 80%, While the temperature is already under the 10 degrees Celsius.
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Without a visible end seems to be the third Chamber of the funerary monument of Amphipolis. The excavation continues with great care and under adverse conditions, role of cold and intense humidity prevailing in the last compartment of the Tomb.
It should be noted that although excavators have reached in depth 8 measures, counting from the roof, There is no indication as to how exactly is the height of the space.
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The Brilliance of Katerina Peristeri
The Brilliance of Katerina Peristeri
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Marina Schiza asked me to write a short critique about Amphipolis for Phileleftheros, and I did so yesterday. I am not sure when the piece will appear, but it was very easy for me to be critical of the many jealous colleagues whose envy of Dr Peristeri's discovery is eating away at them. I will not repeat what I wrote there, but elaborate on the good work at Amphipolis instead.
Envy is a universal quality to many people suffer from, and over the years I have been repeatedly shocked by how badly some archaeologists behave, in Britain, Denmark, America and almost every country, not just in Greece. I should note that those tend to be the mediocre scholars, envious of those who have skill and talent, mediocrities who try to diminished the work of good archaeologists because they cannot reach such heights themselves.
I do not know Dr Peristeri very well, but her work is of an extremely high caliber. I have known her dig's architect for many years, and he is also one of the most talented people working for the archaeological service (someone from one of the most prestigious American universities asked me last year if I thought he could be lured away from Greece, that is how good his work is). I am not sure which technicians are currently on the dig at Amphipolis, but I was blown away by the amazing work the restorers and technicians working on the slopes of the Acropolis were doing, and their current standard of work is far superior to anything I have seen in Italy, Turkey, Egypt any many other countries. The Chinese have been making remarkable progress in terms of new techniques for preserving archaeological discoveries, for example lacquer found in water-logged tombs, and Greece in my opinion is currently second only to them.
That is why I found it shocking that Dr Peristeri had to defend her work: Ministry of culture and sport – Απάντηση της κ. Κατερίνας Περιστέρη
I generally have avoided reading coverage other than the press releases, because I did not feel the need to read foolish opinions claiming the tomb was Roman, and ridiculous attacks on the techniques used, attacks founded in fantasy not reality as here: Σάλος για την Αμφίπολη-Νακάσης: Δεν έγινε σωστά η ανασκαφή, υπάρχουν κι άλλοι τάφοι
To make it very clear, the team at Amphipolis were not leaking information to me, because they did not need to. They are great archaeologists, and all good archaeologists work in more or less the same way, so it is very easy for me to “read” what they doing and sometimes even thinking of doing next based purely on the photographs and information they release.
The partially excavated mosaic? Yes I think Hades was shown with the features of Philip II, but there was a female arm showing in the first set of photographs, so it was almost certain that the female figure to the right when unearthed would be Persephone.
Do I wish they'd have a little more time to proceed a little more slowly, most of all so that they could have days of rest? Yes. But were they working badly? Not.
The soil fill was obviously all of one date, so the small finds within it would have been plotted and recorded, but there was no need for slow excavation … it was all one ' strata’ or layer of fill, so slowly sweeping away the soil with a brush would have been a ridiculous thing to do. Also tightly packed soil in a closed chamber is impossible to fully sift through inside the tomb, so the soil was bagged up and taken away to be examined by other members of the team in an environment where they would not only have the space to do so, but also the equipment they needed.
Where different techniques were needed, they used them. For example under the blocks in the last room, based on this photograph the various ' strata’ or layers are extremely clear. I have marked alternate strata with red arrows, and the yellowish layer which I assume is the clay with a green arrow:
The stratigraphy is so clear it can be read in photographs, and there are very few other excavations where this is the case. And this photo was only intended to be a general view of where the door was found, not a photograph of the stratigraphic evidence!
To me one of the great joys of Amphipolis is how much interest it has renewed in Greek history and archaeology, with people reading academic articles that would normally only reach a small audience, and discussing them as they form new ideas.
We all have the right to an opinion. I have mine. I disagreed with Olga Palagia’s, but she has the right to express hers, and ideas one disagrees with can push us into better formulating and explaining one’s own. Athanasios Nakasis had the right to his opinions as well. The problem is that he clearly demonstrated that the failure to understand modern archaeological techniques was his, and not made by the team at Amphipolis. In English we call that a Pyrrhic Victory.
I love archaeology and part of my nature is that I love sharing it by trying to explain it to people, and encouraging them to think for themselves about it. But it worries me that several Greek archaeologists, who are teaching Greek students and excavating Greek archaeological sites, seem to be demonstrating so little understanding of the field.
Katerina Peristeri is leading a team doing exemplary work on one of the most important discoveries in archaeology. No amount of ridiculous claims can diminish her, her find or its place in history.
Source: diva