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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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  • Island Geometric krater
    Island Geometric krater

    R8 Cat. PC 107

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Red on buff body fragment of a krater. Parts of two large concentric circles, a star burst, part of a swastika, and dots. This field is separated from another by four vertical lines. Then, two vertical lines filled with diagonal hatching, which may b...

  • Bichrome dish
    Bichrome dish

    R8 Cat. PC 109

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim and two body fragments of a Lydian bichrome dish. Flat ledge rim, painted on top with black or dark red squares on a white slip. Exterior: white band covers area below rim. Orange-red concentric circles closely spaced on this white band, each wit...

  • Deep basin with painted decoration
    Deep basin with painted decoration

    R8 Cat. PC 110

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    The rim projects both outward and inward. Vertical attached (nonfunctional) handle has a flat projection at the top. The scar of the other side of the handle, which looped downwards, is preserved at the left of the fragment. Painted decoration on the...

  • Bichrome bowl
    Bichrome bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 111

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment of a white Bichrome dish or shallow bowl. Overall red-slipped. Exterior: Rim painted black, and a black line just below the rim. Then a thick white band bordered by black lines, and one dividing it down the middle. On both halves of the ...

  • Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines
    Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines

    R8 Cat. PC 112

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    6th c BC (Lydian)

    Rim, handle, and body fragments of a large skyphos. Inturned rim with a tapering lip. Exterior is slipped in white. A reddish-orange band along the rim. Body has sections of vertical red wiggly lines made with a ten-headed multiple brush, making a ma...

  • Large Black on Red krater
    Large Black on Red krater

    R8 Cat. PC 113

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim and body fragment of large krater. Ledge rim projects outward. Upper body covered with Black on Red decoration. Below the rim, two overlapping horizontal bands. Below, squares with crosshatching alternating with reserved squares. In the register ...

  • Bowl with handle
    Bowl with handle

    R8 Cat. PC 114

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Handle and rim of a Bichrome bowl. Handle, rising from the rim, is slipped white on both sides and on top; vertical lines painted over the white on all sides. This pattern continues on the flat top and both sides of the rim, which has a square profil...

  • Bichrome pyxis
    Bichrome pyxis

    R8 Cat. PC 115

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    6th c BC? (Lydian)

    Body and shoulder fragments of a red Bichrome pyxis with a white slip. Large cylindrical body with tapering shoulder. Orange-red fabric with cream slip on exterior. A register of a horizontal, orange wavy line just below where the shoulder bends towa...

  • Lydion
    Lydion

    R8 Cat. PC 116

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Small thick-walled body fragment of a lydion. Neck of vessel is black. Differently sized bands of black at the shoulder and belly. Streaky black near (missing) base. It looks as if a slice was purposely broken off the belly, perhaps to obtain better ...

  • Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale
    Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale

    R8 Cat. PC 117

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Shallow, Gray Ware bowl with everted rim and rounded lip. Three recessed grooves (the lowest of which is more prominent) run horizontally around the body of the vessel. Center has an omphalos. Smoothed on interior and polished on exterior.

  • Gray Ware lid
    Gray Ware lid

    R8 Cat. PC 118

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Flat lid with a loop handle. Lid has a central hole and a second squared cutout for a ladle at the edge. Traces of burning on bottom.

  • East Greek bird bowl
    East Greek bird bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 119

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of a large bird bowl, imported. The reserved panel from the cup wall preserves two vertical lines, and three horizontal lines at the bottom with a horizontal wavy line above these and the beginning of another horizontal line above that. Inte...