Ariassos 1990

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The survey of Ariassos, which we had begun in 1988, was completed between 24 August and 24 September 1990. The team members were Dr. Stephen Mitchell, Dr. Eddie Owens, Linda Keyes, and Ian Williams (University College of Swansea), Sabri Aydal (Antalya Museum). Ian Pollet and Danny Gysen (Leuven), Sarah Cormack (Yale), Armin Schulz (Münster), Claudia Rutherford (Oxford), and Yusuf Gül (Izmir Museum, representing the Turkish Department of Antiquities). Funds for the season were provided by the British Academy, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, the Roman Society, and the Craven Committee. The student members of the group were also aided by travel grants from their various universities. The Institute at Ankara, as ever, provided invaluable logistic support, notably the use of a landrover, and I am particularly grateful to Chris Lightfoot for helping to arrange our accommodation before work began. Special thanks are due to our many friends in the small town of Bademaǧaç, notably to Ramazan Şener and his family and to Ayfer Orbay, our “landlady”.