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Dr. Carlson's lecture gave some perspective on life in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. She spoke of the wreck at Kizilburun, which is off the coast of Turkey, in which her team found 8 large drums that were to be part of a column. The marble from which the column was made was from Proconnesus and was possibly made for the temple Claros in Turkey. It was a large, unfinished doric temple. The fact that this marble was being shipped south from the quarry shows that there was organized trade happening at this time. Other items found on the wreck were gravestones, marble slabs, and washing bins, amphorae, and a coin. There was also a terracotta figure of Hermes, so this possibly speaks to the religion of the sailors on board and shows that Greek religion was reasonably widespread around the Aegean.