Istanbul, the Suleymanye (Professor Fred Winter, 1978)

Three weeks ago when in introducing Cole Furr, an MA student in Art History at the University of Toronto, to his trench at the Petras cemetery excavation [see: www.petras-excavations.gr], seeing the jumble of stones, with sherds and bones protruding from bottom and the scarps, I told him, “It’s complicated”. Both his trench and the rest of those being excavated this year have proven to be “complicated”.

Istanbul, two Corinthian capitals of narthex of St. John of Studion (Professor Fred Winter, 1978)