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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 13

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wall fragment. Parts of two draped figures, both facing left. On the figure to the right, a woman, white paint is used for the arms and hands. Traces of purple paint, as well as much incision on garments. Possibly Ionian black glaze.

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 14

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wall fragment of an amphora (?). Parts of the bare legs of a man, with interior details shown by incision. At left, a trace of drapery and perhaps the leg of a horse. Turned brown by fire.

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragments
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragments

    M10 Cat. Att 15

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 490 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Eleven fragments of a Type B belly amphora. Two large and one small section of a figured panel. Also preserved is the profile of most of the rim and the scar of the handle attachment (on C). Black glaze on interior of the rim. The panel is bordered a...

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora
    Attic Black Figure Amphora

    M10 Cat. Att 16

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Legs of a man, preserved only at the knee area. Right leg seen in profile, left leg frontally. Incision on both legs.

  • Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 17

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Border of figured panel with vertical dots.

  • Attic Black-Figure Hydria Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Hydria Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 18

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Wall fragment. Edge of reserved panel with border of ivy. At right, a female arm, painted in white, and small part of her black belt with three horizontal incised lines. Unglazed on interior. The ivy border is typical of the Leagros Group.

    D. von Both...

  • Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 19

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of upper body. Leto or Artemis and Apollo with kithara, partially preserved. Forehead and nose of Apollo at left of fragment and outstretched fingers of his left hand can be seen behind the strings of the kithara. White paint used for the fa...

  • Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 20

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 510-490 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Rounded rim and upper body. Panel on neck bordered at the top by a double net pattern within two horizontal lines. Bearded Dionysus faces left. On his shoulder are two white dots. Andrew J. Clark (by letter) has attributed this piece to the Painter o...

  • Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 21

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of wall. Rump and tail of a donkey at left, facing left; at right, buttock and upper leg of a man, facing right. Interior ribbed horizontally, unglazed.

  • Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 22

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 6th or early 5th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Wall fragment. Apparently a banquet scene with table and draped reclining man. Traces of horizontal and vertical strokes of white paint.

  • Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 23

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Shoulder fragment. Palmette and part of spiral tendril; a second tendril from near the base of the neck and a trace of a tongue.

  • Lower Portion of an Attic Black-Figure Lekythos
    Lower Portion of an Attic Black-Figure Lekythos

    M10 Cat. Att 24

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    early 5th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Lower body. Foot broken off at join with body. Lower body is black; above this is a series of horizontal bands, alternately in black and purple. Trace of pattern on the reserved area.