The studies collected in this volume present aspects of a historical period during which the city flourished within a context enlivened by contacts with other economies and other cultures. The features discovered in one of the most important spaces of the polis (the agora), are accompanied by the initial layout of the so-called Tesmophorion, alongside architectural members, sculpture, pottery, clay sculpture and writing.
The regional profile of Caria is enriched by the little archaic sculpture from the territory around Halikarnassos, which presents some intriguing parallels with materials from Iasos.