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This area allows you to search for and learn about artifacts published by the Sardis Expedition. Currently (2020) the database consists of artifacts in the exhibition and catalog “The Lydians and Their World” (Yapı Kredi Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul, 2010); Judith Schaeffer, Nancy Hirschland Ramage, and Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr., Sardis M10: Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery; Jane Evans, Sardis M13: Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts; Georg Petzl, Sardis M14: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017; G.M.A. Hanfmann ve N.H. Ramage, Sardis R2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975; and A. Ramage, N.H. Ramage, ve Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Sardis R8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. In coming years we intend to add objects from other Sardis Reports and Monographs.

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Select an object type from the list below. Certain object types (including architectural terracottas, coins, pottery, sculpture) include subtypes (shape and ware of pottery, denomination and mint of coins) to refine your search.

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Select a Sardis CATNUM from the list below. CATNUM is made up from object type, year, and sequential number. BI = Bone Implement; G = Glass; J = Jewelry; L = Lamp; M = Metal; NoEx = not excavated; Org = Organic; P = Pottery; S = Sculpture. Coins are numbered with the year of discovery and a running number, or year, C, and a running number. Currently (Feb. 2020) this doesn't give a complete list, only the first 99 entries; to find a specific CATNUM, please use the full-text search at the top of the page.

Select a historical period from the (alphabetical) list below. Note that periods are defined culturally rather than politically, so Lydian (rather than Archaic) refers to the period ca. 800 BC - ca. 547 BC; Late Lydian or Persian (rather than Late Archaic or Classical) from ca. 547 until ca. 330 BC; Hellenistic until the earthquake of 17 AD; Roman and Late Roman continue until the early 7th century AD, except for coins where, as traditional, Prof. Evans begins the Byzantine period in the 6th century.

Select a publication name from the list below. LATW = Lydians and Their World (2010). R2 = Hanfmann and Ramage, Sculpture from Sardis (1978). R8 = A. Ramage, N.H. Ramage, ve Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Sardis R8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021). M10 = Schaeffer, Ramage, and Greenewalt, The Corinthian, Attic, and Pottery from Sardis (1997). M13 = Evans, Coins from the Excavations at Sardis, 1973-2013 (2018). M14 = Petzl, Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II (2019).

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The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

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  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 525.0002

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r., behind head Δ DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG ; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm spearing fallen horseman, who clutches horse’s neck, in l. field B dot, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CON[.] .

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 525.0001

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r., behind head Δ DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG ; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm spearing fallen horseman, who clutches horse’s neck, in l. field B dot, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CON[.] .

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 526.0002

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises clutches neck, in l. field dot S dot, in r. field star, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE2 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 526.0001

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises clutches neck, in l. field dot S dot, in r. field star, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0006

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0005

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0008

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0007

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0002

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0004

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0003

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].

  • Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople
    Late Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy AE3 of Constantinople

    M13 Cat. 527.0001

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    351 AD - 355 AD (Late Roman)

    This coin type: Obverse: Bust pd. cuir. dr. r. DNCONSTANTIVSPFAVG; Reverse: Virtus with shield on l. arm, spearing fallen horseman, who raises l. arm, FEL TEMP REPARATIO, in ex. CONS[.].