Friday, August 20, 1999
UC hears from excavators in Turkey: We're fine
On Thursday, the University of Cincinnati's classics department learned its expedition in Turkey since June 1 felt the earthquake but escaped harm.
The department received a fax from John Wallrodt, who runs UC computers at the excavations at Troy near Canakkale in western Turkey. He wrote:
“I guess I should have written this a couple days ago, but we did not know things were so serious here.
“The earthquake in Izmit was app. 250 miles from here. We felt it but it did no damage (in contrast to the brush fire the day before). Everybody here is fine.
“The communications are a mess. ... We leave the site next Friday. I don't think that any of the roads between here and Istanbul have problems, so we don't predict any difficulties getting home.”
Four children from suburban Atlanta and their paternal grandfather are thought to be the only Americans among the 7,000 people confirmed dead in the earthquake.
The trip's official photographer, Jennifer Greenwald, 23, a recent graduate of the Cincinnati Art Academy, managed to call her father in Crestwood, Ky., at about 6:20 a.m. Tuesday. Bob Greenwald, 48, said the call came soon after the quake. . Ms. Greenwald told her father the group felt minor temblors after the quake, but no one was hurt.
UC's classics department team includes Brian Rose, associate professor and head of the team; William Aylward, Michael Baumann and Kathleen Quinn, all graduate students; Mr. Wallrodt, an alumnus of the classics department; and his wife, Susan Wallrodt, a graduate student.
This is UC's second major dig at the site considered by many to be the Troy of the Trojan War.
In the 1930s, UC archaeologist Carl W. Blegen led seven annual expeditions to Troy, focusing on the Bronze Age of Homeric legend.
World War II intervened, and the site was inactive for 50 years.
In 1988, UC Professor Getzel Cohen arranged a partnership with Germany's University of Tuebingen and they began the new dig.
“The whole project has been tremendously successful and productive,” Mr. Cohen said Thursday.
The two universities created an annual report, Studia Troica, to put their findings before other scholars as quickly as possible.
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