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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 Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 782

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

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

    Fragment of marble with only a part of the right edge preserved; broken on the other sides. Lunate sigma; ω-shaped omega.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragment
    Inscribed Plaque Fragment

    M14 Cat. 783

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

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

    Fragment of a plaque of white marble. The rear face is well smoothed, and the edges are trimmed for reuse. In approximately the middle of the lower edge are the remains of a fixing clamp. Squared lunate sigma.

  • Inscribed (Funerary?) Altar? Fragment
    Inscribed (Funerary?) Altar? Fragment

    M14 Cat. 784

    Altar, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

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

    Fragment of a (funerary?) altar(?) of white marble; broken on all sides except for the lower face. Above the inscription, which is written on a smoothed surface, there is a protruding rough area.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 785

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    3rd–4th century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of marble; broken on all sides.

  • Graffito on column
    Graffito on column

    M14 Cat. 786

    Inscription, Graffito

    Marble, Stone

    4th–6th century AD (Ameling). (Roman)

    Graffito on a column.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 787

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Late Antiquity. (Roman)

    Fragment of fine gray marble; only a part of the upper edge is preserved, broken on all other sides. Squared lunate sigma.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragments
    Inscribed Plaque Fragments

    M14 Cat. 788

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Late Antiquity. (Roman)

    Two joining fragments of a plaque of white marble; broken on all sides. The front is roughly worked.

  • Lower Body and Feet of a Prehistoric Idol
    Lower Body and Feet of a Prehistoric Idol

    R2 Cat. 1

    Sculpture

    Schist, Stone

    Ca. 2500-2000 BC (?) (Early Bronze Age)

    Preserved are the lower body and legs tapering to small pointed feet. The interior of the legs is unfinished. This is an example of a flat idol of obese type.

    According to D.G. Mitten it is “like a silhouette cut-out of a mother goddess figurine.”

  • Bird’s Head
    Bird’s Head

    R2 Cat. 2

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Third Millenium BC? (Early Bronze Age)

    The round eye is made with a little chisel, the mouth by sawing and thin file or with abrasive. There were three strokes on the left of the neck to characterize feathers. This is not a Greek or Roman piece but either early Lydian or more likely Bronz...

  • Small, Crowned Female Head
    Small, Crowned Female Head

    R2 Cat. 3

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 600 BC (Lydian)

    The hair is stylized in large “Daedalic” beads, with waves over the forehead; they are separated by incised lines on her right side with eight vertical beads in two tresses. Plain in back, the hair falls over the back of the throne. It curves around ...

  • Lower Part of Archaic Kore, “North Kore”
    Lower Part of Archaic Kore, “North Kore”

    R2 Cat. 4

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    580-570 BC (Lydian)

    The lower part of the small female archaic statue is made in one piece with the base and has a back pillar. Her chiton falls in vertical folds down to the ground but leaves a niche for two schematized feet set apart. The oblique bit of garment seen a...

  • Lower Part of Small Archaic Kore
    Lower Part of Small Archaic Kore

    R2 Cat. 5

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    580-570 BC (Lydian)

    Five near-vertical, straight chiseled folds flank either side of two wide ribbons which fall vertically from the belt. Preserved at the top right and left are bits of double-folded overhang from a himation. In addition to the overhang, there are thre...