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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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  • Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication to Men Axiottenos
    Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication to Men Axiottenos

    M14 Cat. 471

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of a stele of white, poor quality marble. Two lines of an inscription, written in rather “shaky” letters on guidelines, are partly preserved. Toward the upper left corner of the fragment are the remains of an unidentifiable relief.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment: Votive Dedication to Men Ouranios, by Stratonik[ ]
    Inscribed Stele Fragment: Votive Dedication to Men Ouranios, by Stratonik[ ]

    M14 Cat. 472

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD(?). (Roman)

    Fragment of a stele of white marble; broken on all sides, except perhaps for a small portion of the original edge on the left. The inscribed surface is badly worn.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment: Votive Dedication to the Holy and Just God
    Inscribed Stele Fragment: Votive Dedication to the Holy and Just God

    M14 Cat. 473

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of the left part of a stele of white marble; broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Block: Record of donations to the Temple of Artemis?
    Inscribed Block: Record of donations to the Temple of Artemis?

    M14 Cat. 474

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    “Early first century BC” (Malay). (Hellenistic)

    Lower section of a block of marble.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by Euprepes
    Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by Euprepes

    M14 Cat. 475

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Lower left corner of a marble stele; elsewhere broken. In a recess are preserved the remains of a relief: two legs of a table(?) and two human feet. The inscription is under the relief. Irregular letters (lunate three-bar sigma).

  • Inscribed Block: Dedication by Titus Ma--- Agrippa
    Inscribed Block: Dedication by Titus Ma--- Agrippa

    M14 Cat. 476

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    1st or 2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Block of white marble; the right side is broken off. At the back end of the upper face is a rectangular clamp hole.

  • Inscribed Base: Dedication by Lucius Flavius Stlaccius
    Inscribed Base: Dedication by Lucius Flavius Stlaccius

    M14 Cat. 477

    Statue Base, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Probably 2nd century AD. (Roman)

    Base of white marble, the upper and lower ends with moldings; on the upper surface there are two holes. The script is badly worn.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by man and his wife
    Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by man and his wife

    M14 Cat. 478

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD (letter shape). (Roman)

    Lower right fragment of a stele of white marble. The remains of a relief show the lower part of a bare left leg and foot, and the toes of the right foot of a standing person. Below, there is a protruding zone (H. 0.075) bearing the inscription.

  • Inscribed Stele? Fragment: Confession Inscription?
    Inscribed Stele? Fragment: Confession Inscription?

    M14 Cat. 479

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of the right part of a stele(?) of white marble; broken on all other sides.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication
    Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication

    M14 Cat. 480

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of the right part of a stele of white marble, broken on all other sides. The script is placed between guidelines.

  • Inscribed Fragment: Dedication?
    Inscribed Fragment: Dedication?

    M14 Cat. 481

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment, probably the right part of a stele of white marble; the right edge is preserved, broken on all other sides.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication to Men Axiottenos?
    Inscribed Stele Fragment: Dedication to Men Axiottenos?

    M14 Cat. 482

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of a stele of white marble; broken on all sides. Above the inscription there are the remains of a crescent.