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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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  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 1

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    570-550 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment showing part of two bands of animals, probably the middle and lower animal friezes of an amphora. Upper band: hind leg of animal moving left and two legs of a bird siren moving right. Lower band: panther moving right. Added purple on it...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 2

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment. A siren from a frieze which was below the widest circumference of the pot. Body and legs in black, wing in purple paint over black. Incisions for details. The legs of the siren rest on a ground line. A second horizontal band is barely ...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 3

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

    Wall fragment of an amphora or hydria. Head of a dead man, eyes closed, teeth showing. The facial details are defined by incision, but behind the face, there is a dark circular area that appears to be his arm. The hair is defined by a wavy line, and ...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 4

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 560 or a little earlier (Lydian)

    Fragment, wall of an amphora or hydria. A woman walking left on a ground line. Her skirt has added purple and the lower part is decorated by incised triangles, making a zigzag pattern between double bands. The feet were white. To her left, part of a ...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 5

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of body. Part of shield rim with part of a device, perhaps a star, preserved in added white. Added purple on shield rim. Incised lines below may indicate folds of drapery.

    G. Bakır, personal communication, suggested a date of no earlier than ...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 6

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. mid-6th C. (Lydian)

    Wall fragment of a large closed vessel. Tail of a cock (?). Added purple highlights. Unglazed on interior.

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 7

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment of a neck amphora. Head of a man and a woman, both in profile; the man's head is seen behind the woman's. His silhouette is outlined by incision, which is used also for details. The white paint on the beard is now lost. Two parallel...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 8

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    550-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Wall fragment of an amphora (?). Warrior moving left, walking on ground line; only his leg and probably a trace of his shield are preserved. Added purple on his leg, representing a greave, and incision for the calf muscle. At left the lower part of a...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 9

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    after 540 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Neck fragment of a belly amphora. Addorsed lotus-palmette chain. Much incision and added purple on palmettes and lotus. From scene below, possibly a spear at left and a helmet crest at right. Unglazed on interior. The whole is turned gray by fire, bu...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 10

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    525-500 BC (Lydian or Late Lydian)

    Wall fragment of an amphora (?). Robe of a figure, Dionysus (?), seated on a folding stool. An incised circle, with a white painted circle (flaked off) within it, indicates the joint at the top of the diagonal leg of the stool. The curved line of the...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 11

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Handle and neck fragment of a belly amphora. Handle broken off at stump, but broad black line on each side partly preserved. Palmette at right has schematized petals and fine outline. Part of a similar palmette preserved at left. Interior black glaze...

  • Lower Portion of an Attic Black Figure Amphora
    Lower Portion of an Attic Black Figure Amphora

    M10 Cat. Att 12

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Foot and lower body of a small amphora. Foot has rounded torus. Underside, unglazed, rises to a recessed bottom which has a nipple. A fillet at join of the wall and foot. Only a tiny blob of figured painting is preserved. Below this, a reserved band ...