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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 Red Figure Oinochoe (?) Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Oinochoe (?) Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 109

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Wall fragment. Three broad horizontal bands between two narrow bands.

  • Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 110

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of body. White-ground area bordered below by two narrow bands of dilute glaze. Interior ribbed.

  • Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 111

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 5th-early 4th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Body fragment. Egg-and-dart pattern from border below a panel. Fine relief lines on the horizontal borders. The "dart" consists only of dots along bottom line. Interior unglazed.

  • Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragments
    Attic Red Figure Lekythos Fragments

    M10 Cat. Att 112

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    late 5th-4th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Squat lekythos. Palmette decoration, horizontal ground line, and black lower body and foot. Interior ribbed. Underside of the foot and recessed bottom are unglazed.

  • Attic Red Figure Askos Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Askos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 113

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    mid-4th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment from the top of an askos. A stalking leopardess or panther with spots. A hind foot, one large teat, and part of the back and belly are preserved. Some internal details in dilute glaze, largely worn away. Interior slightly ribbed.

  • Attic Red Figure Askos Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Askos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 114

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Fragment of body. Exterior: a reserved palmette and volute from the border at the turn to the neck; a reserved border enclosing the palmette. Also a reserved rounded shape. Interior unglazed.

  • Attic Red Figure Head Vase Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Head Vase Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 115

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of head. A female head with three wavy strands of hair across her forehead and other strands falling vertically. Her hair is wrapped in a black sakkos, on which a crown of ivy is painted; it consists of a wavy brown line with heart-shaped le...

  • Attic Red Figure Head Vase Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Head Vase Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 116

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of head. Molded shape. Largely black for hair or sakkos, with a wavy line and heart-shaped leaves in added red. A small reserved area may be the forehead or neck.

  • Attic Red Figure Fragment of a Closed Shape Vessel
    Attic Red Figure Fragment of a Closed Shape Vessel

    M10 Cat. Att 117

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Rays near base.

  • Attic Red Figure Krater Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 118

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 450-425 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Calyx- or bell-krater. Fragment of out-turned rim. Black glaze with reserved band at join of rim to body. Horizontal pattern of laurel leaves. Interior: reserved band where the rim turns out; otherwise black glaze.

  • Attic Red Figure Krater Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Krater Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att 119

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    4th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Bell-krater. Fragment of body. Two feet, flat on ground line, walking to right, with painted toes seen in the three-quarter view. Maeander pattern below. Interior black glaze. A second fragment (uninv. PN), shown with it (see Pl. 42), was found withi...

  • Attic Red Figure Krater Fragments
    Attic Red Figure Krater Fragments

    M10 Cat. Att 120

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 380-350 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Two joining rim fragments. Probably from a bell-krater; a small part of molding at the top of the neck preserved. A nude youth, with body twisted to his left, looks back over his right shoulder, his arms extended. He wears a crown of the type worn by...