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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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  • Lydion from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı
    Lydion from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı

    LATW Cat. 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 540-520 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Pottery lydion. Fairly tough fabric; micaceous clay. Decoration in white slip and dark slip with metallic sheen: dark slip on neck; white slip over which stripes in dark slip over shoulder to mid-body; dark slip streakily applied over lower body and ...

  • Marble Naiskos of Cybele
    Marble Naiskos of Cybele

    LATW Cat. 34

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Block of white marble carved to represent a rectangular temple with goddess standing in front. The temple is represented by columns, one at each corner and one in the middle of each side and of the back; between columns are three registers of figures...

  • Marble Votive Stele Showing Artemis and Cybele
    Marble Votive Stele Showing Artemis and Cybele

    LATW Cat. 35

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 400 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    White marble. Rectangular stele missing top. Raised borders representing the steps, antae, and pediment of a temple or naiskos frame, four figures in relief. Occupying more than two-thirds of the framed space at left and center are two female figures...

  • Stemmed Dish with Orientalizing Decoration: Potnia Theron
    Stemmed Dish with Orientalizing Decoration: Potnia Theron

    LATW Cat. 36

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    600-570 BC (Lydian)

    Stem and foot missing. Clay pink-orange-brown, soft, micaceous, friable. Inside and outside, cream-buff slip over which a decoration in matte grey-sepia and shiny orange-brown slip. Inside, figural composition of which female (?) face, wings, hands a...

  • Fragment of Inscribed Astragal Molding, from a Column of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
    Fragment of Inscribed Astragal Molding, from a Column of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

    LATW Cat. 37

    Architecture, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Third century BC (Hellenistic)

    Marble astragal molding from the bottom of an Ionic column shaft, inscribed. The text preserves one complete word, “srkastulis,” and the beginning of a second, “sf[….”

  • Ritual Dinner Jug
    Ritual Dinner Jug

    LATW Cat. 38

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact except for small rim parts. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous, friable. Outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.

  • Ritual Dinner Oinochoe
    Ritual Dinner Oinochoe

    LATW Cat. 39

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside around rim and outside over upper body and handle, mottled reddish-to-dark-sepia slip.

  • Ritual Dinner Skyphos
    Ritual Dinner Skyphos

    LATW Cat. 40

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside, reddish slip; outside except for reserve handle zone and underside of foot, streaky reddish-to-sepia slip.

  • Ritual Dinner Dish
    Ritual Dinner Dish

    LATW Cat. 41

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside and outside around rim in even zone and on lower body and foot, reddish slip over which narrow bands of black slip as follows: at center of bowl, spiral of seven-to-eight turns; at juncture of bowl and lip,...

  • Ritual Dinner Jug
    Ritual Dinner Jug

    LATW Cat. 42

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside around rim and outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.

  • Ritual Dinner Oinochoe
    Ritual Dinner Oinochoe

    LATW Cat. 43

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside around top of rim, across handle outer surface, outside on neck and body, bands in reddish slip.

  • Ritual Dinner Skyphos
    Ritual Dinner Skyphos

    LATW Cat. 44

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)

    Broken, complete. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside and outside, except for reserve handle zone and underside of foot, reddish slip.