Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King's Peace to the Peace of Apamea

346 Pages·2019·15.684 MB·English

by  Andrea M. Berlin (editor), Paul J. Kosmin (editor)

Spear-Won
Land
Publication of this book has been made possible, in part, through support from
Boston University and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Anonymous Fund of the
College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the
generous support and enduring vision of Warren G. Moon.
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Spear-Won
Land
Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea
Edited by
Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berlin, Andrea, editor. | Kosmin, Paul J., 1984– editor.
Title: Spear-won land : Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea / edited by
Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin.
Other titles: Wisconsin studies in classics.
Description: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019] |
Series: Wisconsin studies in classics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045777 | ISBN 9780299321307 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Sardis (Extinct city) | Excavations (Archaeology)—Turkey—Sardis (Extinct city)
Classification: LCC DS156.S3 S64 2019 | DDC 939/.22—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045777
To all the members of the
Sardis Expedition

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction 3
Paul J. Kosmin and Andrea M. Berlin
Part I. City and Empire
1 Inside Out: Sardis in the Achaemenid and Lysimachean Periods 11
Nicholas Cahill
Spotlight: Sealstones from Sardis, Dascylium, and Gordion 37
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
Spotlight: Life outside the Walls before the Seleucids 44
William Bruce
2 The Archaeology of a Changing City 50
Andrea M. Berlin
Spotlight: Continuing Crafts—Antefixes and Roof Tiles 68
Andrea M. Berlin
3 Remaking a City: Sardis in the Long Third Century 75
Paul J. Kosmin
Spotlight: The Metroön at Sardis 91
Nicholas Cahill
4 The Mint at Sardis 97
Jane DeRose Evans
Spotlight: Assigning a Mint 114
Jane DeRose Evans
Spotlight: Who’s in Charge? 116
Jane DeRose Evans
Spotlight: Coins as Evidence of a City’s Economy 118
Jane DeRose Evans
5 A Clay Kybele in the City Center 120
Frances Gallart Marqués
6 The Temple of Artemis 132
Fikret Yegül
7 The Hellenistic City Plan: Looking Forward, Looking Back 139
Philip Stinson
Part II. Cities in a Landscape
8 The Inhabited Landscapes of Lydia 145
Christopher H. Roosevelt
9 Pergamum and Sardis: Models of Neighborliness 165
Ruth Bielfeldt
10 Ephesus: Sardis’s Port to the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic Period 191
Sabine Ladstätter
11 Drinking under the New Hellenistic Order at Sardis and Athens 205
Susan Rotroff
12 Gordion, on and off the Grid 220
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
Conclusion
A New View of Sardis 235
Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin
Sardis’e Yeni Bir Bakış 241
Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin, translated by Güzin Eren
Bibliography 249
Contributors 275
Index 277
Illustrations
Plates after page 96
1 The Lydian and Achaemenid empires
2 Plan of Sardis, 2017
3 View of the acropolis of Sardis
4 Plan of the terraces in the city center, ByzFort and Field 49, with Lydian and Hellenistic remains
5 Lydian and Achaemenid Asia Minor, with the course of the Royal Road
6 The Pactolus neighborhood, Persian-era plan
7 Vessels of the mid-fourth century found on the floor of a house in Sector MMS/S
8 Vessels found on the floor of units XIX–XX in the Pactolus neighborhood, c. 300
9 Vessels from lowest levels of the Southern Well in the Pactolus neighborhood, c. 300
10 V essels for individual dining from Phase 1 of the Hellenistic house in the new western neighborhood,
c. 275–225
11 V essels for individual drinking from Phase 1 of the Hellenistic house in the new western
neighborhood, c. 275–225
12 Utility vessels from Phase 1 of the Hellenistic house in the new western neighborhood, c. 275–225
13 C ooking vessels from Phase 1 of the Hellenistic house in the new western neighborhood, c. 275–225
14 Vessels from Phase 1 of the Hellenistic house in the new northern neighborhood, c. 275–225
15a S hallow hemispherical cups with interior decoration from Phase 2 of the Hellenistic house in the new
western neighborhood, c. 225–160
15b I mported mold-made bowls from Phase 2 of the Hellenistic house in the new western neighborhood,
c. 225–160
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