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Sardis |
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Flat Settlement |
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Altitude:
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100 m |
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Region:
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Aegean |
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Province:
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Manisa |
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District:
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Salihli |
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Village:
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Sardmustafa |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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| It is located to the south of the district of Ahmetli in the province of Manisa. Excavations were carried out by a team led by C.H. Greenewalt between the years 1977 and 2007. Since 2008, N.D. Cahill has been leading the excavations at Sardis. In the 1983 field season; pottery of EBA type was recovered in two areas. The sherds were found in Iron Age contexts; but according to their good condition and large size; it is suggested that their original context should be in the near vicinity. The examined materials were dated to ca. 3000-2000 BC. Based on this fact; it is believed that Sardis can be dated to a millennium before the date suggested for the earliest settlement. |
| Location: It is situated on the Izmir-Ankara motorway to the south of the Ahmetli District, 9 km west of the Salihli District in Manisa. |
| Geography and Environment: It was founded on and around a hill on the northern skirt of the Mount Bozdag (Tmolus) in the Pactolus (Sart) Brook Valley in the Gediz (Hermus) Plain. The acropolis section is 400 m high above the plain level [Umar 2001:62-65]. |
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