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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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  • East Greek cup
    East Greek cup

    R8 Cat. PC 120

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small fragment of cup. Preserved from just below the nicked rim to lower part of handle band. Four black on buff vertical lines, and vertical zigzags on both sides of the lines. Interior black-glazed. Two other East Greek fragments were found nearby ...

  • Skyphos
    Skyphos

    R8 Cat. PC 121

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Two fragments of a thin-walled skyphos with buff-fabric. Slightly inturned rim with tapering lip. Horizontal loop handle. Exterior: a narrow band at the rim. The handle is black and the handle zone has raised knobs on each side of the handles, also p...

  • East Greek jug
    East Greek jug

    R8 Cat. PC 122

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Geometric patterns from a reserved panel on the shoulder of an East Greek jug. Panel bordered by three vertical lines at left. A geometric “tree” and crosshatched triangles bordered by double lines within the reserved panel. Unglazed on interior.

    Earl...

  • Bichrome dish
    Bichrome dish

    R8 Cat. PC 123

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wide flat rim fragment, turning into the body of a dish. Exterior: a dark red slip with a band of black wiggly lines made by a multiple brush, bordered at top and bottom by black lines. Interior: dark red slip, with a band of thick white paint, borde...

  • Protocorinthian linear kotyle
    Protocorinthian linear kotyle

    R8 Cat. PC 124

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 720–690 BC (Lydian)

    Body fragment of an unusually large, thin-walled, early linear kotyle. Horizontal lines and the beginning of the dark lower body. Light buff fabric with narrow black bands. Exterior polished. Interior buff slipped.

    720–690 BC

    Not in Sardis M10.

  • Bichrome lug handle
    Bichrome lug handle

    R8 Cat. PC 125

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large lug handle with hole in center. Orientation is unclear, but because the edge where it was attached is completely flat, perhaps it was one of two handles attached to a lid, or else one of two at the end of a flat “tray.” On one side of the handl...

  • East Greek jug
    East Greek jug

    R8 Cat. PC 126

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Three fragments of the body of an East Greek jug. A diamond with four smaller hatched diamonds within the larger one. Three vertical lines to one side of these patterns, and then the beginning of a solid red field of color at the left. Above this are...

  • East Greek jug (?)
    East Greek jug (?)

    R8 Cat. PC 127

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late 9th–early 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Body fragment of a jug with cream slip and black decoration. All registers are separated by horizontal lines. There is a solid field of black with a reserved section next to it; a horizontal zigzag; and a register of alternating opposed triangles and...

  • East Greek bowl
    East Greek bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 128

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late 9th–early 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragment with inward curving nicked rim of bowl, painted black. Upper body reserved, and painted with alternating groups of vertical wiggles and of vertical straight lines. Interior: A wide band of black below rim. Clay is buff.

    Late ninth or early ei...

  • Gray Ware krater (?)
    Gray Ware krater (?)

    R8 Cat. PC 129

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Gray Ware wall of bulbous krater (?) with knobs under handle. Stump of a band handle with three knobs beneath, imitating a metal pot where rivets would have attached the handle. Wall is thin for the size of pot.

  • Gray Ware band handle
    Gray Ware band handle

    R8 Cat. PC 130

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Gray Ware handle with delicately incised decoration consisting of two obliquely crosshatched triangles. Between them, three tiny hook-shaped stamps, and above each triangle is a stamped circle, more firmly pressed in on the left than the right. Coars...

  • Geometric vessel
    Geometric vessel

    R8 Cat. PC 131

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to 6th c BC (Lydian)

    Thick-walled fragment of a Brown on Buff closed vessel. Exterior decoration consists of two horizontal bands with vertical crosshatched meanders and two horizontal bands with obliquely crosshatched triangles. These two different designs alternate wit...