This generously illustrated volume, honoring Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., field director of the Sardis Expedition for over thirty years, and commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Harvard-Cornell archaeological excavation, presents new studies by scholars closely involved with Professor Greenewalt's excavations at this site in western Turkey. The essays span the Archaic to the Late Antique periods, focusing primarily on Sardis itself but also touching on other archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Three papers publish for the first time an Archaic painted tomb near Sardis with lavish interior furnishings. Papers on Sardis in late antiquity focus on domestic wall paintings, spolia used in the late Roman Synagogue, and late fifth-century coin hoards. Other Sardis papers examine the layout of the city from the Lydian to the Roman periods, the transformation of Sardis from an imperial capital to a Hellenistic polis, the reuse of pottery in the Lydian period, and the history and achievements of the conservation program at the site. Studies of an Archaic seal from Gordion, queenly patronage of Hellenistic rotundas, and ancient and modern approaches to architectural ornament round out the volume.

About the Author
Nicholas D. Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Andrew Ramage is Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Christopher Ratte is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Fikret K. Yegul is Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.


Book Information
ISBN 9780674031951
Author Nicholas D. Cahill
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Archeological Exploration of Sardis
Publisher Archeological Exploration of Sardis