How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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(3) From 1400 B.C. and 900 B.C. onwards monuments and sculpture.
Human figures are short and thick, generally wearing boots with toes turned up (VI, Fig. 3.) Found in the same regions as the inscriptions and also west of the Halys to the sea. B. Lydian inscriptions. From about 500 B.C. Letters mostly like Greek capitals (sometimes reversed); (Illustration IV, at bottom). C. Lycian inscriptions and monuments. From about 500 B.C. inscriptions, sometimes with a Greek translation. (IV, at bottom.) Monuments, mostly with inscriptions, are generally tombs in stone, built to imitate wood, with the ends of beams projecting or showing. D. Greek antiquities. (1) Early period to 323 B.C. the great Greek colonies on the seaboard and in the coast valleys really formed an outlying part of Greece, and for them the section on Greece should be consulted. (2) Periods of Seleucid and Pergamene rule, 323-130 B.C. Inscriptions of these periods to be found mostly in the coastal region, rarely on the plateau. Chiefly royal ordinances, thank offerings, municipal honorary inscriptions, decrees, covenants, and the like. |
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