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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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  • Attic Black Figure Column-Krater Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Column-Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 43

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Fragment of body. Leg and toe of a man, walking to right. Three purplish bands (one serving as ground line) and solid black area are preserved. Interior glazed.

  • Attic Black Figure Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 44

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580-570 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of wall. Siren to right, near the handle zone, which was at left. Added red on the tail and wing feathers.

  • Attic Black Figure Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 45

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580-560 BC (Lydian)

    Lid. Fragment preserves a small part of two tiers of animal friezes. Upper: legs of a bird or siren. Lower: panther to left with frontal face. Interior black.

  • Attic Black Figure Komast Cup
    Attic Black Figure Komast Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 46

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 555 BC (Lydian)

    Fifty-four fragments of a nearly complete komast cup. The narrow offset lip is decorated with a net pattern, framed by black lines, one at rim and one at offset. On each side of the cup, two komasts, the left one naked and the right one padded, dance...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 47

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580-560 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment. On lip, trace of a double-decker scheme of decorative floral motifs and two horizontal bands painted in white. Black band just below offset lip. Palmette, with alternating purple and black petals separated by incised lines. Heart of palmett...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 48

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-555 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of bowl. Interior: within the tondo, a large black area, rounded at outer edge and with incised lines just following the edge. Tondo defined by a black line, a reserved band, and then alternating red and black bands. Exterior: rays and conce...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 49

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    570-560 BC (Lydian)

    Body fragment. Exterior: wing of a bird, sphinx, or siren with added red and incision on the wing. Horizontal line above. Interior: border of the tondo has three concentric circles, a double row of dots, and at least two more concentric circles.

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 50

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    575-550 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment from top of body, broken off at out-turning of lip. Exterior: black band at top of fragment and head of a bearded man, facing right; his left arm is stretched out in front of him. Neck and tunic in added purple. Interior: black glaze with tw...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 51

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    560-550 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of the wall of the cup. Interior of tondo: a male figure standing to the right: the lower garment, right foot, and heel of the left foot are preserved. The ankle bone is incised, as are the hem of the garment and the wiggly lines of folds. T...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 52

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 560-550 BC (Lydian)

    Siana or lip cup foot fragment. Black glaze on the upper part of the foot, with two narrow purple lines at turn to stem. Outer edge of the foot is purple. Underside reserved with narrow concentric rings: black, red, three black together, and another ...

  • Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 53

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-555 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of wall. Exterior: reserved band. Interior: edge of the tondo reserved, with three concentric circles and a trace of a tongue pattern within. The thinness of the wall, 0.001 m. at the tondo, makes this an outstanding example of potting. The ...

  • Attic Black Figure Merrythought Cup
    Attic Black Figure Merrythought Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 54

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 550 BC (Lydian)

    Restored. The seventy fragments of the cup include most of the bowl and both wishbone handles, but only one of the handle knobs. Neither the stem nor foot was preserved. The restoration, conducted in 1980 and 1981, replaces all missing parts based on...