Numismatic Work at Sardis, Turkey

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Since 2008, I have compiled a database of coins excavated since 1973, picking up from T.V. Buttrey and A. Johnston, Greek, Roman and Islamic Coins from Sardis. Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Monograph 7 (Harvard, 1981).

The book is now available: Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts: Coins from the 1973-2013 Excavations. Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs 13. (Harvard University Press, 2018)

I have reported on specific finds in:

“Adorning and Protecting: Glass Intaglios and the Changing Character of Being a Sardian in the Early Imperial Period,” Near Eastern Archaeology 83.4 2020: 200-209.

“Glass Intaglios of the Roman Imperial Period from Sardis.” Quaderni Ticinesi (NAC) XLVIII 2019: 1-32.

“The Mint at Sardis [in the Hellenistic Period].” In Spear-won Land: Sardis, from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. Edited Andrea Berlin and Paul Kosmin. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019): 137-156.

“A New Revival of an Old Coin Type: Sardis in the Augustan Era”, in Concordia Disciplinarum: Essays on Ancient Coinage, History, and Archaeology in Honor of William E. Metcalf. Edited by Nathan T. Elkins and Jane DeRose Evans. American Numismatic Society 2019.

“Cultural Memory, Artemis and “Kore”: The Coins of Sardis.” Quaderni Ticinesi (NAC) 46 2017: 133-53.

“What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Date of the Opening of the Civic Mint in Sardis (Turkey)”, Proceedings of the International Numismatic Congress (Taormina, Sicily) 2015 (2017).

“The Third Neokorate of Sardis in Light of a New Coin Type Found in Sardis,” FIDES: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke  (New York: American Numismatic Society, 2015) 1: 417-25

“Five Small Bronze Hoards from Sardis and their Implications for Coin Circulation in the Fifth Century CE” in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 2013: 137-156.

and conference papers:

“Field 55 at Sardis, Stratigraphy, Chronology, and the Coins” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting (virtual) 2021

“Protecting and Adorning: Glass Intaglios from Sardis, Turkey” Univerzita Karlova, Prague 2020

“An Early Imperial Glass Intaglio Workshop in Sardis, Turkey” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, 2019

“The Mint at Sardis amid the Changing Political Landscape of the Third and Second Centuries”, in the colloquium “City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea” : Harvard University Feb 2017  http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sardis-conference-2017/home

“Coins and pottery: tracking the numismatic profile of Late Roman Sardis”, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, 2017

“What archaeology can tell us about the date of the opening of the civic mint at Sardis, Turkey”, International Numismatic Congress (Taormina, Sicily, 2015)

“A votive deposit from Sardis post-dating the earthquake of 17 AD”, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, 2014, with Elizabeth DeRidder Raubolt.  And see http://www.livescience.com/42504-disaster-preventing-eggs-sardis.html

“Roman coins and votive behavior in Sardis”, University of Pennsylvania, October 2013

“Kings, Emperors and Gods: What the Excavation Coins tell us about Sardis” Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture, Harvard University, March 2013

“Early Imperial History and the Excavation Coins of Sardis: Field 55 and the Wadi B Temple”, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting 2012, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, 2013

“Five Small Bronze Hoards from Sardis and their Implications for Coin Circulation in the Fifth Century CE”, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, 2011