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Excavations in Field 55, 2018: a fallen wall with windows

To learn more about the late Roman houses in central Sardis, in 2018 we opened a trench north of that dug in 2013-17. Among the discoveries was a house wall which had collapsed, almost intact, to the floor, presumably in the earthquake that destroyed the other buildings here. Three arched windows are preserved in the fallen brickwork; these opened onto a broad paved courtyard with various water features, which is still under excavation in the foreground. At the right-hand side of the trench, the wall has been split and displaced in the earthquake. We had expected to find an assemblage of artifacts under this fallen wall, as we found in other rooms; however, both these rooms were completely bare, probably abandoned even before the earthquake struck.