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So we hire a taxi at Kusadasi to reach Miletus, nearly 60 km from there - We pass below Priene without stopping. At the immense site of Miletus, we learn that the Mission resides at 6 km from there, near the Turkish village of Akköy - We therefore go there and to learn unfortunately that the two chief officers are away for the day at Söke . . . . This obliges us to return to the site and to search there alone for the quarters where the Mycenaean levels late have been cleared: there, success complete, and revelation of the extent uncovered, under and around the temple classical of Athena. Everything is bathed in a murky water of an extraordinary green, and what emerges appears of a purple mauve no less striking.
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