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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 Red Figure Squat Lekythos
    Attic Red Figure Squat Lekythos

    M10 Cat. Att App. 23

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Palmette on front is sole ornament.

  • Attic Red Figure Squat Lekythos
    Attic Red Figure Squat Lekythos

    M10 Cat. Att App. 24

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    On front, female head to right with the hair bound up and a plain earring. Palmette on each side of the head, egg and dot below

  • Attic Red Figure Squat Lekythos
    Attic Red Figure Squat Lekythos

    M10 Cat. Att App. 25

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Late or local imitation. Crudely drawn anthemion on front. Handle lost.

  • Attic Red Figure Askos Fragments
    Attic Red Figure Askos Fragments

    M10 Cat. Att App. 26

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Two fragments, not joining, from the same vase. A: from upper side, reserved laurel leaves with central painted rib. B: from center of upper side, with knob at top preserved, egg pattern radiating from knob and parts of reserved leaves from same desi...

  • Attic Red Figure Lid of Pyxis (or Plate?) Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Lid of Pyxis (or Plate?) Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att App. 27

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Chase, "Field Notes": "Buff clay, good black glaze, carelessly applied." Female head, to right with hair in short strokes and eye in two short strokes. Simple bow-shaped earring. "Very late, fine

    Tomb also contained West Slope ware.

  • Attic Red Figure Stamnos Fragment
    Attic Red Figure Stamnos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att App. 28

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Fragment of a glazed horizontal handle. Area around the handle reserved, with egg pattern within black borders. Streaky glaze on the interior

  • Attic Black Glaze Pheidias Mug
    Attic Black Glaze Pheidias Mug

    M10 Cat. Att App. 29

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 400 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Intact. Vertical ribbing. Low ring foot.

  • Attic Black Glaze One-handled Jug
    Attic Black Glaze One-handled Jug

    M10 Cat. Att App. 30

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    ()

    Handle broken off. May not be Attic.

  • Attic Black Glaze Skyphos Fragment
    Attic Black Glaze Skyphos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Att App. 31

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Base fragment.

  • Attic Black Glaze Bosal
    Attic Black Glaze Bosal

    M10 Cat. Att App. 32

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Intact. Rim turns outwards.

  • Attic Black Glaze "Saucer"
    Attic Black Glaze "Saucer"

    M10 Cat. Att App. 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Perhaps a shallow bowl. Black glaze overall except reserved bottom, with two concentric circles and a central dot. May not be Attic.

  • Attic Black Glaze Small Bowl
    Attic Black Glaze Small Bowl

    M10 Cat. Att App. 34

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Reserved on underside, badly worn. "Fine black varnish." May not be Attic.