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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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  • Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Fragment from the shoulder and upper body. In the shoulder frieze, a hound (lower neck, front quarters, and belly preserved) coursing to left. His front foot rests on a band of black glaze marked by a line of added white. Below the hound's belly is a...

  • Late Protocorinthian Alabastron Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Alabastron Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 34

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Small fragment of convex wall, possibly from an alabastron. Scale pattern in black-polychrome technique covers the entire fragment. Portions of five registers remain. The scales increase in size and complexity from the top to the bottom: three rows o...

  • Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape
    Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape

    M10 Cat. Cor 35

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Probably LPC. Small wall fragment. Scale pattern, with portions of seven registers remaining. The pattern alternates rows of scales with wide borders and those with narrow borders. The wide borders are outlined by two sets of parallel incisions. The ...

  • Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape
    Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape

    M10 Cat. Cor 36

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Probably LPC. Tiny wall fragment. A scale pattern with portions of three registers remaining. The pattern alternates rows of black scales with wide borders and those with narrow borders. The wide borders have two parallel incisions marking the outer ...

  • Late Protocorinthian Kotyle Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Kotyle Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 37

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. Exterior: scale pattern, with portions of seven rows remaining. The scales alternate rows of black scales with wide borders created by two sets of parallel incisions, and red scales with narrow black borders created by a single set of ...

  • Late Corinthian Aryballos Fragment
    Late Corinthian Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 38

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Probably LPC. Tiny shoulder fragment. The rounded ends of two tongues at the top, followed by a band of reserve. Scale pattern below, with a small part of two registers preserved. The scales have narrow borders created by two parallel incisions. They...

  • Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape
    Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape

    M10 Cat. Cor 39

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Probably LPC. Tiny wall fragment. Small scale pattern with portions of six registers preserved. Two fine parallel incisions form the narrow borders of the scales. The ends of these either overlap or do not quite meet. Compass points. Glaze: almost en...

  • Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 40

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Fragment from the neck and mouth. Band of black glaze around the opening of the mouth. Glaze: worn, but originally black and glossy. No incision. Clay: hard and smooth.

    May belong with Cor 41, found in the same location in a hearth or ash heap, and/or...

  • Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 41

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Shoulder fragment. The lower part of three incised tongues appears on the shoulder, followed by parallel incisions which mark the upper portion of another row of tongues, facing downward. The style is similar to that of Cor 42. Glaze: almost entirely...

  • Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 42

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Two joining pieces, from the shoulder to the foot. Evidence of burning. Carefully incised tongues spring from the foot. Glaze: worn, but once black and shiny. Clay: hard with prismatic breaks. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).May ...

  • Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 43

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Probably LPC. Most of the mouth disk and the neck of an aryballos. The disk is flat with a very thin lip profile. The underside of the disk slopes down slightly to meet the neck. The eight concentric circles on the mouth disk are fairly even in execu...

  • Late Protocorinthian Pyxis Fragment
    Late Protocorinthian Pyxis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 44

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650-630 BC. (Lydian)

    Late in LPC. Fragment from the base of a small straight-sided pyxis. A scale pattern with three registers preserved, alternating rows of red and black. The scales have narrow borders created by double-incised arcs. The arcs cover more of the circle t...