Sardis/Hyde?
a Pleiades
place
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Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
Sardis was the capital of the Lydian Empire, located in western Turkey. In 188 B.C. Sardis became a part of the Attalid kingdom, and thus it passed with the territory of Attalus III to Rome in 133 B.C.
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38.488314, 28.040286
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 24744 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Less than certain: Hyde (750 BC - AD 640)
- Sard (AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Σάρδεις (Sardeis: Ancient Greek, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Sardies (540 BC - 330 BC)
- Sardis (750 BC - AD 640)
- Sart (Turkish, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Sartmustafa (Turkish, 1750 BC - 1450 BC)
- Sparda (Ancient Greek, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- sprd (Aramaic, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Šibartu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ṣart (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Sardis/Hyde? part of (administrative) Achaemenid empire (540 BC - 330 BC)
- Sardis/Hyde? part of (administrative) Attalid kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Sardis/Hyde? capital of Lydia (Kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sardis/Hyde? connection Sardis-Thyateira Road (unspecified date range)
- Sardis/Hyde? connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis located at Sardis/Hyde? (30 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Artemis at Sardis located at Sardis/Hyde? (550 BC - AD 640)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- AES 2015
- AIO Findspot: Sardis
- AIO Original Location: Sardis
- BAtlas 56 G5 Sardis/Hyde?
- Buchwald et al. 2015
- Greenewalt 2003
- Greenewalt 2003
- Greenewalt and Payne 1978
- Greenewalt and Payne 1978
- Greenewalt et al. 2008
- Hanfmann 1975
- Hanfmann 1983
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 336,2 Sardis
- ItMiller 720, 718 [Sardes]
- New Pauly Sardis
- PECS (Perseus) SARDIS or Sardes Turkey
- RE Hyde 1
- RE Sardeis
- Ramage and Ramage 2020
- Ratté 1989
- Ratté et al. 2011
- Roosevelt 2014
- Rotroff 2003
- Shear 1926
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) SARDES
- TP (Talbert: CUP) 8B4 (Talbert 2184)
- ToposText Sardis (Lydia)
- WHL 1731: Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
- Wikipedia (German) Sardes
- Yegül 1986
- See Also:
- Related:
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- Arachne Sardeis (Sardis, Sardes) Manisa (Provinz), Republik Türkei
- EDH Geographic Database G002041: Sardis – Sart
- GeoNames 9986360: Sardes
- KU TP Database (Rathmann) 1288: [Sardes] (Miller)
- MANTO 11299804: Sardis (Lydia)
- TGN 7002615: Sardes (deserted settlement)
- TM GEO ID 2090: Sardeis (Sart)
- Wikidata Sardis (Q232615)
- iDAI.gazetteer 2287726: Sartmahmut
- nomisma.org Persia
- nomisma.org Sardes
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 G5 Sardis/Hyde?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sart
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, ' Sardis/Hyde?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550867> [accessed: 06 March 2026]
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