The Byzantine Shops at Sardis (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Monograph 9)
Hardcover
1990 · Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Crawford, J. Stephens et al.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. Hardcover. VG (Only slightly aged a bit around binding edges, otherwise clean.). Lavender cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 156 text pp. followed by plate pages at rear with 610 BW illus. and figures. Documents findings at the excavations at Sardis. "The primary importance of the Byzantine Shops at Sardis lies in their unique completeness. ... In terms of finds, the Shops constitute a rare sealed deposit of securely dated material containing over one hundred types of objects; no other shops from this period have been discovered with their contents, for all practical purposes, intact. Nor have any other equivalent shops provided such complete information about their occupants' trades, religion and wealth." (p. 1) With many illustrations. (Inventory #: 156062)