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SAMOS / Heraion (continued)
prevents seeing virtually any architectural vestige earlier than the VIIth century. I went in vain over all the corners of the vast field of ruins of the Heraion (the largest, they say of the great Greek sanctuaries), I could not manage to make out the earlier architectural phases, imsubmerged or drowned in the greenery (no upkeep on the part of the Greek archaeological authorities!...). So in the end all that remains for us is to trust the publications of the German Mission (currently directed by Prof. Homann-Wedeking, whom I did not dare disturb, given the situation of the excavations). I did, however, see the trenches
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain