Öz The material vvhich forms the subject of this article vvas obtained in the course of the excavations undertaken at Sardis by the American Exp- loration of Sardis team directed by Professor G.M.A. Hanfmann, of the Fogg Art Mnseum of Harvard UniversityProfessor Hanfmann, who has been vvorking at Sardis since 1958, had arranged with Professor Muzaffer Şenyürek, Chairman of the Division of Palaeoanthropology of the Univer­ sity of Ankara, for the human skeletal remains to be examined by him After his dcath in September 1961, I entered into an agreement with Pro­ fessor Hanfmann to continue Professor Şenyürek’s work on this material and it u’as thereafter sent to me I should like to record here my grateful thanks to Professor Hanfmann for allowing ing this valuable material.