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Museum experts intimated, their present detractors appeared not to have done the homework on the original discovery. It represented a considerable fracas while it lasted. And as for me, I was rather pleased that Knidos, which I had just had a hand in excavating, and the temple which I had just surveyed, had come to attract such public attention. I was able to bask in the warm glow of the media spotlight, albeit caused by an academic furore, which, of course, was in any case far beyond my own competence, a point I was only too eager to admit.

Alas, apart from the occasional newsy notes in the early 1970’s in some annual American journals, as far as I know no-one ever went on to publish fully any of the discoveries that were made at Knidos. In a way I suppose this behaviour might be construed as a kind of archaeological inattention, since the full details of the new discoveries were never to be subjected to legitimate academic scrutiny nor were scholars able to use the findings to compare with other sites in the region. So I never did get to see my surveys, plans and sections of Knidos, of which I for one was rather proud, in print. It represented for me at least a rather damp squib, a somewhat ignominious outcome to what was otherwise undoubtedly a magnificent expedition.

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