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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 Lebes Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 35

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. Parts of two friezes from below the widest circumference of the pot. Upper frieze: a pendent lotus flower, a trace of a palmette to the left, and interlace. Cuff of the lotus has fine cross-hatching by incision. Most of the flower is p...

  • Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 36

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580-560 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. Head and shoulders of a panther, to left, with face frontal. Added red on the neck. Heavy incision for outline and internal details. Interior misfired red.

  • Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 37

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 570 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment from upper body. A man riding a horse. He sits low on the back of the horse with his hands out in front of him, his fingers extended and holding onto the reins, which show at both sides of the horse's neck. The rider wears a purple tuni...

  • Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 38

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    575-550 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. Wing of a sphinx. Incision used for the wing outline and feathers. Curving wing bar has an overlay of purple paint. Interior black glazed. Dated in the second quarter of the sixth century, because of the purple on the wing and because ...

  • Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 39

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 570-560 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of wall. Hindquarters and body of a lion (?) with tail curled over his back. Interior black.

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

    M10 Cat. Att 40

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 580-560 BC (Lydian)

    Handle-plate. On top surface, a lotus flower with tendrils. Within the outspreading sepals of the lotus flower are alternating purple and black petals, separated by incised lines. A black cuff and purple calyx are at the bottom of the flower. On eith...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 41

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    575-550 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. Part of two friezes, separated by three rows of dots, more or less regularly spaced on top of each other and framed by glazed lines, thinly applied. Top frieze: two forelegs of a lion (?) and, in front of it, the top of the lowered hea...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 42

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 570-560 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of the neck and shoulder of a column-krater (?). Neck is black. On shoulder, tongue pattern, alternating black and added purple. A warrior wielding a spear and wearing a crested helmet, to right. Added purple and elaborate zigzag pattern at ...

  • 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...