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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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  • Bichrome lid
    Bichrome lid

    R8 Cat. PC 102

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Reddish-buff fragment of a thick-walled shallow lid. Cream-colored slip on exterior. Nearer the outer edge, two concentric bands in red; between them, smaller black concentric circles and in the center of the design, a black dot. Toward the center of...

  • Red on buff open-shaped vessel
    Red on buff open-shaped vessel

    R8 Cat. PC 103

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Broad brush strokes make two vertical lines and one horizontal on a small fragment. Also a narrow vertical and horizontal line. Interior has broad light-colored brushmarks.

  • Shoulder of Lydian jug
    Shoulder of Lydian jug

    R8 Cat. PC 104

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Fragment of the shoulder of a small painted jug. Brown on Buff with parts of two large painted triangles preserved. One triangle filled with an oblique checkerboard pattern with brown and reserved diamonds. The other, with oblique crosshatching. Of t...

  • Pithos with graffito
    Pithos with graffito

    R8 Cat. PC 105

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Thick-walled body fragment of a pithos. Coarse red clay. Two small raised bands between which is a symbol resembling an X with an additional extra diagonal line running from the bottom half of the X and another extra short diagonal line at the top ha...

  • Gray Ware krater
    Gray Ware krater

    R8 Cat. PC 106

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Large vessel with ledge rim that also projects slightly inward. On the exterior, four distinctive raised ridges run horizontally on the vessel below the rim. The top of the rim is decorated with an incised wave pattern and is polished. Smoothed on ex...

  • Island Geometric krater
    Island Geometric krater

    R8 Cat. PC 107

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Red on buff body fragment of a krater. Parts of two large concentric circles, a star burst, part of a swastika, and dots. This field is separated from another by four vertical lines. Then, two vertical lines filled with diagonal hatching, which may b...

  • Raw amber
    Raw amber

    R8 Cat. PC 108

    Miscellaneous

    Amber

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Tiny fragment.

  • Bichrome dish
    Bichrome dish

    R8 Cat. PC 109

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim and two body fragments of a Lydian bichrome dish. Flat ledge rim, painted on top with black or dark red squares on a white slip. Exterior: white band covers area below rim. Orange-red concentric circles closely spaced on this white band, each wit...

  • Deep basin with painted decoration
    Deep basin with painted decoration

    R8 Cat. PC 110

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    The rim projects both outward and inward. Vertical attached (nonfunctional) handle has a flat projection at the top. The scar of the other side of the handle, which looped downwards, is preserved at the left of the fragment. Painted decoration on the...

  • Bichrome bowl
    Bichrome bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 111

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment of a white Bichrome dish or shallow bowl. Overall red-slipped. Exterior: Rim painted black, and a black line just below the rim. Then a thick white band bordered by black lines, and one dividing it down the middle. On both halves of the ...

  • Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines
    Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines

    R8 Cat. PC 112

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    6th c BC (Lydian)

    Rim, handle, and body fragments of a large skyphos. Inturned rim with a tapering lip. Exterior is slipped in white. A reddish-orange band along the rim. Body has sections of vertical red wiggly lines made with a ten-headed multiple brush, making a ma...

  • Large Black on Red krater
    Large Black on Red krater

    R8 Cat. PC 113

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim and body fragment of large krater. Ledge rim projects outward. Upper body covered with Black on Red decoration. Below the rim, two overlapping horizontal bands. Below, squares with crosshatching alternating with reserved squares. In the register ...