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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 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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  • Wild Goat style dish
    Wild Goat style dish

    R8 Cat. HoB 616

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Two joining body sherds of Sardis Wild Goat style (photograph shows only one of the sherds). Matt black and added red over fine and thick white slip. Exterior, partially preserved two rays, alternately black outlined and painted red and black in silh...

  • Small streaky glazed skyphos
    Small streaky glazed skyphos

    R8 Cat. HoB 617

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Rim, bowl, base, and handle (single handle preserved) of streaky glazed skyphos. Slightly inverted plain rim; slightly hemispherical bowl; low conical foot; horizontal loop handle below rim. Red to black (with a metallic sheen on the interior). Exter...

  • Bichrome lebes
    Bichrome lebes

    R8 Cat. HoB 618

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Red Bichrome. Many joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, body and horizontal handle (single stump preserved) of lebes. Flaring rim; spherical body; horizontal cylindrical handle below rim. Matt black, red, and white. Exterior, over rim: groups of ...

  • Ephesianizing lebes
    Ephesianizing lebes

    R8 Cat. HoB 619

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Ephesianizing ware. Rim and body fragment of lebes. Flaring triangular rim. Matt black and red over a fine, thick white slip. Exterior, horizontal red band; narrow band with short dogtooth pattern, with a line above and below; a broad area partitione...

  • Bichrome oinochoe
    Bichrome oinochoe

    R8 Cat. HoB 620

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Red Bichrome. Several joining fragments of neck, shoulder, body and handle (stump preserved) of oinochoe. Vertical neck; sharp transition to shoulder; spherical body; vertical strap handle. Matt black, red to brown and added white over clay surface. ...

  • Streaky glazed oinochoe
    Streaky glazed oinochoe

    R8 Cat. HoB 621

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Many joining fragments of rim, neck, body and handle of streaky glazed oinochoe. Trefoil mouth; ridge at the end of neck; sagging from below neck towards lower body; vertical, double cylindrical handle from shoulder to rim. Red to black streaky glaze...

  • Bichrome oinochoe or amphora fragment
    Bichrome oinochoe or amphora fragment

    R8 Cat. HoB 622

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Bichrome. Two joining fragments of body. Matt black, red, and white. Exterior, partially preserved pendent concentric hooks; two black horizontal lines; lower portion painted red.

  • Wild Goat style oinochoe or amphora
    Wild Goat style oinochoe or amphora

    R8 Cat. HoB 623

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Shoulder fragment in Sardis Wild Goat style. Matt black and added red on white slip. Exterior, wide band framed with three parallel horizontal black lines over a red-coated band below: partially preserved open palmette flower (petal outlined and pain...

  • Bichrome Waveline amphora
    Bichrome Waveline amphora

    R8 Cat. HoB 624

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Ten joining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and handle (single handle preserved) of Bichrome Waveline amphora. Everted and thickened square rim; nearly vertical, long neck; ovoid body; vertical strap handle. Red to black, and added white. Ext...

  • Bichrome jar
    Bichrome jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 625

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Red Bichrome. Six joining fragments of rim and body of storage jar. Everted and thickened rim; sharp flange on the exterior; nearly vertical walls. Matt black, red, and white. Exterior, plain red to dark streaky from rim to flange with horizontal bla...

  • Orientalizing thymiaterion (?)
    Orientalizing thymiaterion (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 626

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Seven joining and nonjoining fragments of thymiaterion (?). A: two joining fragments of upper body and knob. B: single fragment of shoulder, wall, and handle stump. C: four joining fragments of shoulder and body. Top body surface nearly flat, knobbed...

  • Small Black on Red pyxis
    Small Black on Red pyxis

    R8 Cat. HoB 627

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Black on Red. Three joining fragments of pyxis, complete, except a small piece on lower body. Plain rim; wide and cylindrical neck; sharp-angled shoulder; slightly concave-sided belly; sharp-angled transition to lower body; flat base. Matt black on r...