Church E

Name of structure: Church E
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Turkey
Region within country or main area: Manisa
City or area within region: Sardis
Date of structure: 1204-61
Century of structure 1: 13 AD
Century of structure 2: 13 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Scattered glass tesserae in rubble.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

n/a
Date of mosaic: 13C
Century of mosaic 1: 13 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 13 AD
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?

Finds in the interior included […] several pieces of glass from saucer-shaped dumps which had formed the ‘stock’ from which mosaic cubes were cut (see Mellink).
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

1910-14: American team led by H. C. Butler
1962-63: team from the Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis led by M. Del Chiaro & H. Detweiler
1972-74: team led by H. Buchwald, A. Ramage & G. M. A. Hanfmann


 
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

von Saldern, A., Ancient and Byzantine Glass from Sardis (Archaeological Explorations of Sardis, 6) (Cambridge, 1980).


H. Buchwald, ‘Sardis Church E: A preliminary report’, JÖBG 26 (1977) 265–99.


Hanfmann, G.M.A. & Jacobs, S.W. (eds.), Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Report 1 (Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1971-83).


Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 174 (1964), 3-58; 199 (1970), 7-58; 215 (1974), 33-41. 


Butler, H. C., Sardis I, The Excavations, Part I: 1910-1914 (Leyden, 1922).

Mellink, Machteld J., ‘Archaeology in Asia Minor’, American Journal of Archaeology, 77.2 (1973), 169-193, see. p. 192


Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 144


Majewski, Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 199 (1970), 53ff
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Comments:

Wall fragments with glass tesserae found in the Gymnasium Complex-Synagogue area (blues, greens, reds, yellows, and gold and silver foil) in 1969. No date given, but the floor mosaics in the synagogue are dated to 355-383 (Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (1977), 53.  


 

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