Archaeology Odyssey

In 1913 Ballard Thruston was elected President General of the Sons of the American Revolution [Year Book of the Kentucky Society, Sons of the American Revolution (Louisville, KY: 1914), p. 14].

Most of the information on Ballard Thruston’s life comes from The Encyclopedia of Louisville, J.E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, KY: 2000), p. 882; T.D. Clark, “Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston, Engineer, Historian, and Benevolent Kentuckian,” The Filson Club History Quarterly 58.4 (October 1984), pp. 408–435; and P.M. Hessel, “The Ballard-Thruston Collection of Roman Funerary Monuments in the J.B. Speed Art Museum,” The Filson Club History Quarterly 63.4 (October 1989), pp. 419–38.

Recent publications on the art of non-elite Romans include L.H. Petersen, Questioning Roman “Freedman Art”: Ancient and Modern Constructions , Ph.D. dissertation (University of Texas at Austin, 2000); and J.R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.—A.D. 315 (Los Angeles, 2003).

Ali Mousavi, “Parsa, a stronghold for Darius: a preliminary study on the defence system of Persepolis,” East and West 42 (1992), pp. 203–226.

Tadjvidi, Five Years of Excavations at Persepolis (Tehran, 1976), p. 55 (in Persian).

Wolfgang Lentz, “Has the function of Persepolis been fully recognized so far?” Memorial Volume of the Vth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology in 1968 (Tehran, 1972), pp. 289–290; James George, lecture given in the VIIIth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology (Munich, 1976).

Arthur Upham Pope, “Persepolis as a ritual city,” Archaeology 10, 1957; Richard N. Frye, “Persepolis again,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 33 (1974), pp. 383–386.

Ernst Herzfeld, Iran in the Ancient East, (London, 1941), p. 269; The Persian Empire (Wiesbaden, 1968), p. 7; and Roman Ghirshman, “Notes iraniennes VII: à propos de Persépolis,” Artibus Asiae 20 (1957), pp. 265–278.

Hallock, Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Chicago, 1969), p. 1, note 1.

Cameron, Treasury Tablets, p. 17.