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Surroundings:

HousesHousesLydian Gold Refinery and Altar, destroyed a ChurchLydian Gold Refinery and Altar, destroyed a ChurchLydian Gold Refinery and Altar, destroyed a ChurchSynagogue of SardisSynagogue of SardisSynagogue of SardisThermeThermeGymnasium SardesGymnasium SardesGymnasium SardesGymnasium SardesLate Lydian Stele of Atrastas, son of Sakardas.Sardes TheatrerSardis, ChapelChurchInscriptionTemple of ArtemisArtemis templeTemple of ArtemisArtemis Tempel SardesTemple of Artemis

Location:

  • Türkiye, Sardis center
  • geo:38.483925,28.038883
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -7xx / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Sardes or Sardis (Greek Σάρδεις): capital of Lydia, one of the most important sites in western Turkey, one of the "seven churches" of the Revelation of John.

Sources:

  1. Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp.124-132
  2. http://sardisexpedition.org/en/essays/about-sardis
  3. Lexie Bilhete, Archaic Sardis: A "Glocal" City Between East and West, 2015 - https://www.academia.edu/21735924/A
  4. http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5829/
  5. Greenewalt, Crawford H., et al. “The Sardis Campaign of 1983.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Supplementary Studies, no. 24, 1986, pp. 1–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20066657. Accessed 3 Mar. 2023.

Nearby

Sardis, Pyramid Tomb

Remains of the fifth century BC tomb

Sardis, Lydian Trench

Lydian market place

Sardis, House of Bronzes

Dyeworks.House of bronzes


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