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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 Band Skyphos
    Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos

    M10 Cat. Att 85

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    600-550 BC (Lydian)

    Forty-nine fragments of a nearly complete cup, which, however, lacks the upper third of the body on one side and small fragments from the foot and other side. The lip is everted, the foot low and flared. The handles rise markedly from their point of ...

  • Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 86

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 550 BC (Lydian)

    Two joining fragments. Above band, the palmette and tendril from near the handle, and next to it, the wing, tail, feet, and part of the body of a siren. Added purple on the heart of the palmette, on the tail feathers, and for tiny dots on the belly. ...

  • Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos Fragments
    Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos Fragments

    M10 Cat. Att 87

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    550-525 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The shape is sometimes known as a Hermogenean skyphos. Ten fragments of the lip and body. Side A, four pieces join to make about one-quarter of the circumference at the lip, including the central motif of the reserved handle zone (a four-horse chario...

  • Attic Black Figure Plate Fragment
    Attic Black Figure Plate Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 88

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    575-550 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment. Interior: central tondo and surrounding frieze. In tondo, part of a floral cross is preserved with the end of a curling tendril. A series of four concentric lines separates the tondo from frieze, on which are preserved the forelegs and fore...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Vessel of Indeterminable Shape
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Vessel of Indeterminable Shape

    M10 Cat. Att 89

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    500-450 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Exterior: head of a youth looking downwards. The oval eye and strands of hair are incised. An added purple fillet in his hair. At left, a thin diagonal line leads toward part of an unidentifiable object (a pot rim?) or animal. Interior unglazed.

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Vessel of Indeterminable Shape
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Vessel of Indeterminable Shape

    M10 Cat. Att 90

    Pottery, Graffito

    Ceramic

    ()

    Exterior: palmette pattern and rays (?) separated by a row of dots between horizontal lines. A graffito faintly incised. Interior: black glazed, but streaky. Decoration seems related to the open end of an epinetron (Athens NM 2184: ABV 481; ABL pl. ...

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 91

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: concave lip is glazed; reserved band of the handle zone has palmettes between schematized lotus buds. The palmette fronds alternate black and added purple. Around the heart of the palmette is a double-incised line. Its center fron...

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 92

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Very similar to Att 91 but rim slightly thicker; apparently a pair.

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 93

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    525-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: two circles preserved from a row of neat black circles with a black dot in the center (chain pattern). Two incised lines and a trace of added purple form the base of the palmette above. Interior glazed. See Att 94 for a more compl...

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 94

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    525-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment. Exterior: chain pattern with dots in center and a palmette and lotus bud pattern. Fronds alternate black and added purple; purple also for the heart of the palmette. Interior: brownish glaze. A round hole at the top edge indicates an ancien...

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 95

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment. Exterior: chain pattern has white dots between links and dilute black in the center of links. A second reserved band below. Interior: black glaze.

  • Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment
    Attic Black Pattern Floral Band Cup Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 96

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim fragment. Not a true band cup because the lip is not everted. Exterior: reserved band at the rim and then the usual reserved band at the handle zone. Dilute line at top of the reserved area. Lotus flower with a white tipped bud and side sepals. P...