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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 Glaze Krater Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 163

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Three fragments (two from same pot?).

  • Attic Black Glaze Krater Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 164

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Three fragments (two from same pot?).

  • Attic Black Glaze Krater Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 165

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    From near the base.

  • Foot Fragment of an Attic Black Glaze Krater
    Foot Fragment of an Attic Black Glaze Krater

    M10 Cat. Att 166

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Krater (?). Miltos at bottom of the foot; outer edge, resting surface, and underside reserved. Interior glazed.

  • Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 167

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 450 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of rim and body. Projecting flange for lid, thumb spur, and part of horizontal ribbon handle preserved. Top of rim reserved. Glazed inside and out.

  • Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 168

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 450-400 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Stem of knob of lid. Vertical stem, sawed off and smoothed, and part of the lid. Abrasion or saw marks clearly visible. Very fine black glaze. Possibly prepared for a secondary purpose, such as a stopper or a game piece. However, it may have had a se...

  • Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 169

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 425-400 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of rim with flange for lid, thumb spur, and base of handle preserved. Reserved: projecting handle zone, with black-glazed diagonal step pattern. Interior misfired.

  • Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 170

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Wall and base of handle. Misfired red on inside.

  • Half of an Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish
    Half of an Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish

    M10 Cat. Att 171

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 6th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    About half preserved. Rim and groove reserved. Found with mixed sixth- and fifth-century material, including Att 41 (krater by the Polos Painter), Att 102 (floral band cup), and Att 172, a similar shape. Perhaps Att 171 and Att 172 were meant to be a...

  • Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 172

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 6th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of rim and wall. Rim and groove halfway down wall reserved.

  • Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 173

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 6th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Foot fragment. Slight torus; flat upper edge to foot. Fillet reserved with added purple at join of foot to body. Reserved band at the edge of the underside of the foot.

  • Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Stemmed Dish Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 174

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of lip and body. Thickened lip slopes outwards. At junction of lip and wall a raised flat fillet, painted with added purple, and a recessed narrow band on top and bottom.