Abstract
Sardis obtained under Elagabalus his third neokoria and Greek games of the highest rank, of which a coin once revealed a name : the Elagabalia. When she was twice neokoros, Sardis had two major competitions, associated with these neokoriai, then a third under Caracalla, the Koraia for Kore. The title of three times neokoros appears on the reverse side of bronzes issued under Sulpicius Hermophilos, in charge in 221/ 222 ; it is certainly that year that the emperor granted the neokoria and the games, which a bronze conserved at Harvard designates as Haleia Elagabalia. It is actually Sol Elagabalus who is honored and Helios is probably the deity whose Sardis then became neokoros, and not the emperor. Coins attest to the worship of Helios / Sol at the end of the reign and especially its association with the main deity of the city, Kore. But the damnatio memoriae of Elagabalus puts an end to the neokoria, to the Haleia Elagabalia but also to the Koraia.
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