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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 Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 25

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wall fragment. At left, the leg and tail of a satyr walking left. In the center, Dionysus seated on a diphros. In front of him at right, another figure, draped, or perhaps a staff and a foot walking right. Painting much worn.

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

    M10 Cat. Att 26

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    500-475 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Foot and base of a black-figured lekythos. Disk-shaped foot, flat resting surface. Reserved: resting surface and outside edge of foot; also a band on lower body. Trace of the beginning of a panel, perhaps showing a foot. Glaze is thinly applied and s...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 27

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    500-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of a white-ground lekythos. A man in a short tunic creeps to the right, amidst grape vines, one of which is preserved at the left. His cloak hangs down, and he may have carried a staff, seen at the right. The bottom of his tunic is shown by ...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 28

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    500-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Shoulder and body fragment of a small lekythos. Head and shoulders of a chinless man with a shapeless nose and incised eye. Very badly worn. Trace of original reserved surface only near the man's right shoulder. Trace of black line which encircled th...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 29

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    470-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Shoulder fragment. Palmette and tendrils with crude tongues above. The palmette is from the right of the handle. This scheme is used by both the Athena Painter (Athens NM 1133; ABL 175 and 246, no. 49, pl. 45:6) and the Beldam Painter; Att 29 is clos...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 30

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    470-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Upper body fragment of a white-ground pattern lekythos. Horizontal bands below the shoulder; checker pattern of black and white rectangles in three rows. Below is a stemmed fruit cluster of ivy berries and an ivy wreath.

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

    M10 Cat. Att 31

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    first half of 5th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Wall fragment. Lower portion of a painted panel. At right, legs of a standing male figure, facing left. In center, a draped figure seated to right on a stool. One of the two figures holds a staff. At far left, drapery and foot of a third figure (?). ...

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

    M10 Cat. Att 32

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Shoulder fragment of a small lekythos. Two up-and-down palmettes in silhouette and two tendrils, one between the flowers and another encircling the neck. Extra dot of glaze purposely placed between a tendril and a palmette. A fine and delicate piece....

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

    M10 Cat. Att 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Shoulder fragment with a palmette, similar to the above.

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

    M10 Cat. Att 34

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wall fragment. Tiny fragment of the lower left edge of a panel, with vertical border at left. The bottom edge on the panel is used as a ground line. A male figure runs or creeps to right; only his foot and a flowing chlamys falling behind are preserv...

  • 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.