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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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  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 55

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 550-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of a bowl with edge of the tondo. Exterior glazed. Interior: tongues of purple and black between delicate radiating lines. The tondo is encircled by two bands, one dilute, the other added purple.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 56

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Rim fragment. Exterior: lip and handle zone reserved; on the rim, a black band; two dots, one on the upper edge, one on the lower edge of lip, may be accidental. On the handle zone, a horizontal band just below the lip. Part of a palmette with added ...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 57

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: lip and handle zone reserved. The handle zone has a cross-linked lotus-and-bud frieze with a glaze line at the top of the pattern. A splatter (?) of dilute glaze between lotus buds. Black glaze below. Interior glazed. The pattern ...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 58

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 550 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment. Exterior: a panther walking right on a glazed band. Incision for facial details and shoulder; added purple blob on the haunch. Interior glazed.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 59

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    550-540 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Rim and bowl fragment. The lip is turned out slightly. Wide reserved band with a lion rearing slightly on his hind legs and pawing the air with both front feet. His mouth is open, with tongue hanging out. His tongue and tail are in dilute glaze, the ...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 60

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    550-525 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of wall and inset lip. Exterior: lip was painted black. In band, traces of figural decoration, perhaps the horn of a goat. Interior: black glaze.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 61

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 550-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: reserved band with two dancing men, who move to the left but turn their heads back to the right. Incision for the round eye, eyebrow, ear, and the edge of hair. A white fillet (?), now worn off, around the neck of the man at left....

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 62

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragments. Exterior: reserved band with the hind legs of a horse. Two short incised lines across the top of the legs. Narrow reserved band below. Interior: part of reserved tondo preserved. Two other small fragments preserved. (Appendix 2, sample AP ...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 63

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Fragment of rim and small part of reserved band on exterior. Thin reserved band inside the rim. Only top of head preserved.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 64

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Fragment of rim and small part of reserved band on exterior. Thin reserved band inside the rim. Only top of head preserved.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Droop Cup (?)
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Droop Cup (?)

    M10 Cat. Att 65

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540-510 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: upright interlaced lotus buds on reserved handle zone. Interior glazed.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Cassel Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Cassel Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 66

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: alternating added purple and black tongues, encircled by three lines, two rows of small dots, and three more concentric circles. Part of a figure is preserved at the top of the fragment. Interior glazed. The combination occurs on ...