Date : between 1910 and 1914
Material : Steel
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Outdoor Architecture
Ustensil (Grue)
Area related
Sardis (Turkey)
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The first systematic large-scale Sardis expedition was founded and directed by Howard Crosby Butler of Princeton, from 1910 to 1914. Butler's principal accomplishment was to free the great temple of Artemis, the fourth largest Ionic temple known, which had been nearly buried under landslides. His team also explored more than a thousand rock-cut tombs in the steep western cliffs, most of them plundered by grave robbers. The expedition assumed quite a colorful status among the locals, who were bemused by the team's requisite formal attire at dinner and by Butler himself, who galloped about on a black steed.
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