Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts: Coins from the 1973 to 2013 Excavations

by Jane DeRose Evans

Sardis, capital city of the Lydian and Persian kings, stronghold of the Seleukid kings, metropolis of Roman Asia, and episcopal see in the Byzantine period, has been the focus of archaeological research since the early 1900s. This monograph focuses on the over 8,000 coins minted in the Lydian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods that were excavated between 1973 and 2013 in the Harvard-Cornell Expedition. The book places coins within eastern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067498725X
• ISBN13: 9780674987258
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.3"