The exhibition suggests that Sparta was not as artistically backward as tradition would have it ; that although Athens far outshone Sparta in its proliferation of great buildings , monuments and sculptures , the Laconians fashioned fine works in metal , pottery and ivory , at least during the Archaic Period -LRB- 650-480 B.C. -RRB- , when Greece was in its heyday .
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