“The science of archaeology can expect great things from this excavation… The Heraion of Samos is regarded as the national monument of the Ionians, and was the largest of the ancient temples and the most ancient of the great temples built by the Ionians, who were expelled from Greece after the descent of the Dorians and emigrated to Asia Minor”, Kavvadias reported. [...] In 2009, the five-year programme of the German Archaeological Institute began, which included excavation of the lowest archaeological strata in the vicinity of the Altar and north of the Sacred Way, under the direction of Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier and with the collaboration of Ourania Kouka. [...] The newspaper aligned itself with the view expressed by the Ephor of Antiquities regarding the transfer of the antiquities to Vathy, where the Paschaleio and the Georgeio were both located, since “the building in Tigani is heavily damaged and the storeroom near the Meta- morphosis church is of no particular interest.” On 4 July of the same year, the Prefecture of Samos asked the President of the C. [...] Instead of the Samian fleet with its penticonters and samaines, that once plied the Mediterranean, the port of the city of Samos now berthed ships of the Egyptian and Rhodian fleets, as the naval base of the Ptolemies initially and of the Rhodians later. [...] View of the east side of the Sanctuary with Rhoecus’ altar, the remains of the Roman temple of Hera, the Christian basilica and the apse of the 16th-cent.
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