Running out of time so just a super quick post to tell you all about the AMAZING find we excavated on Monday!
It's very rare to find pottery in this region with raised designs... even more rare to find those designs with human figures... well, we found a number of pottery sherds (yes it's sherds, not shards)with what appears to be a depiction of Ganymede in the embrace of an eagle. According to the myth, Ganymede was from Troy and was the most beautiful mortal. One day while he was tending flocks on a mountain (because all mythological heroes like to tend flocks for a while), Zeus came to him in the form of an eagle and abducted him, taking him to Mt. Olympus where he became cup-bearer to the gods. After debating whether the figure we had was ganymede and the eagle, or medusa and a demon, we found a new way to piece the sherds together and are not nearly positive that the figure is indeed the abduction of Ganymede. Even cooler (though it makes our job a bit more difficult) is that we can't find a similar depiction in any other piece of art. SCORE ONE for PFP2010!