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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3950208, member: 85693"]Thanks Kevin, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I should've mentioned earlier that some of the book is available on Google books as a preview: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gGMc04ge4yoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=byzantine+shops+at+sardis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi92Jmw_8fmAhXDK80KHd3VChIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=byzantine%20shops%20at%20sardis&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gGMc04ge4yoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=byzantine+shops+at+sardis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi92Jmw_8fmAhXDK80KHd3VChIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=byzantine%20shops%20at%20sardis&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=gGMc04ge4yoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=byzantine+shops+at+sardis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi92Jmw_8fmAhXDK80KHd3VChIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=byzantine shops at sardis&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure why the valuable stuff - gold coins in particular - were not present in the ruins. Archaeologists are pretty hesitant these days to speculate - they are mostly just describing what they find, and in what context (which is fine - I suppose it is the historians who do the speculating). </p><p><br /></p><p>There was enough other stuff - bronze vessels, dyestuff inventory, marble mortars, for instance - that were in situ to suggest that people left in a hurry, but had time to remove the really high-value stuff - and themselves! A bronze vessel or lamp would be fairly valuable, I'd think, so it seems a little odd nobody came back to dig through the rubble to find things - the archaeologists say the area was abandoned for a while (p. 2 in the excerpt linked above). </p><p><br /></p><p>The 7th century was a pretty scary time - but these excavations show how people kept doing what they do, making a living and eating lunch and counting their pennies. Until the city gets sacked! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3950208, member: 85693"]Thanks Kevin, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I should've mentioned earlier that some of the book is available on Google books as a preview: [URL]https://books.google.com/books?id=gGMc04ge4yoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=byzantine+shops+at+sardis&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi92Jmw_8fmAhXDK80KHd3VChIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=byzantine%20shops%20at%20sardis&f=false[/URL] I'm not sure why the valuable stuff - gold coins in particular - were not present in the ruins. Archaeologists are pretty hesitant these days to speculate - they are mostly just describing what they find, and in what context (which is fine - I suppose it is the historians who do the speculating). There was enough other stuff - bronze vessels, dyestuff inventory, marble mortars, for instance - that were in situ to suggest that people left in a hurry, but had time to remove the really high-value stuff - and themselves! A bronze vessel or lamp would be fairly valuable, I'd think, so it seems a little odd nobody came back to dig through the rubble to find things - the archaeologists say the area was abandoned for a while (p. 2 in the excerpt linked above). The 7th century was a pretty scary time - but these excavations show how people kept doing what they do, making a living and eating lunch and counting their pennies. Until the city gets sacked! :nailbiting:[/QUOTE]
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