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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.

Showing 812 results for:   R8 / Pottery
  • Brown on Buff jar
    Brown on Buff jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 108

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Neck fragment of a thick-walled high-fired jar (?) with Brown on Buff painted band and broad triangles below; a second horizontal band across base of triangles. Horizontal band on interior. Body partly reduced at exterior.

  • Closed vessel
    Closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 109

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small body fragment of thick-walled closed vessel. Fabric reddish on inner and outer surface; body thoroughly reduced. Purplish band or else thinner black glaze above black band or area.

  • Closed vessel
    Closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 110

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of a closed vessel. Reddish fabric. Two narrow bands of brown paint with larger dark area below.

    Sub-Mycenaean or Protogeometric?

  • Gray Ware bowl
    Gray Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 111

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of low foot of thick-walled Gray Ware bowl. Light, silvery, self-slipped, and polished surface with a body reduced to a uniform gray throughout. Some post-breakage burning.

  • Gray Ware bowl with loop handle
    Gray Ware bowl with loop handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 112

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of small shallow Gray Ware bowl with ledge rim and stump of a delicate flat loop handle. Sharp carination below rim.

  • Gray Ware one-handled cup
    Gray Ware one-handled cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 113

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Five fragments, four joining, of a Gray Ware cup. Micaceous fabric. Steep straight wall, slightly flaring; vertical handle, oval in section, attached at point of carination to the rim; circular base. Two horizontal incised lines about mid-height. Han...

  • Gray Ware dish
    Gray Ware dish

    R8 Cat. HoB 114

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Gray Ware detached high foot or stand of a cup or dish. Top surface has radiating ridges to secure the join between foot and separately made body [lost].

  • Jar with herringbone pattern
    Jar with herringbone pattern

    R8 Cat. HoB 115

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Two joining fragments of the shoulder of a large buff jar. At least two horizontal rows of incised herringbone pattern. Probably local.

    Early Iron Age.

  • Jar with combed wave pattern
    Jar with combed wave pattern

    R8 Cat. HoB 116

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Fragment of shoulder of thin-walled closed jar with finely incised, combed wave pattern and a slightly indented horizontal ridge above it. Fine smooth buff surface; distinctly micaceous. Probably local.

    Early Iron Age.

  • Gray Ware jug handle
    Gray Ware jug handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 117

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a Gray Ware jug handle. Stump of vertical handle, round in section. A projection below base of handle.

  • Handmade jar with rope pattern
    Handmade jar with rope pattern

    R8 Cat. HoB 118

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Two joining pieces of the wall of a handmade storage jar. Red fabric with chalk inclusions. Two raised bands with diagonal slashes making a rope pattern.

  • Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean jug handle
    Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean jug handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 120

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    1275–1240 BC (Late Bronze Age)

    Rim and vertical band handle of an imported Mycenaean jug. Buff colored surface. Handle has a red curved line painted between the vertical lines that run along the edge; solid red at top of handle. Penelope Mountjoy, from photos (2016), thought it mi...