Author: HANFMANN, GEORGE MAXIM ANOSSOV & HANFMANN, ILSE
Title: Letters from Sardis
Description: Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press. 1972, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0674525795) Hardcover. Book, "The metropolis of Asia Minor, the Paris of the ancient world, Sardis was the place where legendary Croesus ruled, where coinage was invented, and economic history revolutionized. The letters published in this book provide an informal account of fourteen years of work by a Harvard-Cornell team to retrieve evidence of the greatness of Lydian culture as well as of the Prehistoric, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations that preceded and followed the Lydian kingdom" ix, 330p. illus [some col.] NOTE : VERY heavy [2 kg] large format volume [29x21x3 cm] Condition - almost as new. Fine/As New.

Keywords: 0674525795 Archaeology Asia Minor Lydia Sardis Turkey Asia Minor


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