Love for Lydia : a Sardis anniversary volume presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008. |
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| Description: | xvi, 249 p., 20 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Archaeological exploration of Sardis. Report ; 4 Report (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (Program)) 4. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7546903 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 249 p., 20 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-228) and index. " Bibliography of Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr.": p. [xiii]-xvi. |
| ISBN: | 9780674031951 0674031954 |