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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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  • Fragment of a Goddess Holding a Snake (?) Standing in Columnar Shrine, “South Kore”
    Fragment of a Goddess Holding a Snake (?) Standing in Columnar Shrine, “South Kore”

    R2 Cat. 6

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

    The figure of a woman is linked by background with a columnar structure. Standing stiffly, she holds in her huge right hand a wiggling snake, the tail of which drags on the ground. She wears a chiton with six vertical central folds and a short Ionic ...

  • Marble Naiskos of Cybele
    Marble Naiskos of Cybele

    R2 Cat. 7

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Monument in the form of a shrine decorated with reliefs, with goddess standing in front, henceforth referred to as “Cybele shrine.”

    A frontal female figure wearing a girt chiton stands between two snakes (or plants?) in the entrance of a shrine. The s...

  • “Mantle Wearer” (Kore?)
    “Mantle Wearer” (Kore?)

    R2 Cat. 8

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    530-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The statue stood with the I. leg slightly forward of the r., both arms down the sides. The figure wears a chiton with delicate wavy folds, half-length sleeves with long seams, and a wide semi-circular border with two edges around the neck. The cloak,...

  • Relief of Frontal Standing Draped Female Figure
    Relief of Frontal Standing Draped Female Figure

    R2 Cat. 9

    Sculpture

    Limestone, Stone

    520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The figure is carved into the flat broad surface of a rectangular limestone block which is plain on the sides and back. The background was treated with claw chisel, then smoothed. She stands with her small short feet parallel and slightly apart, arms...

  • Kore Torso
    Kore Torso

    R2 Cat. 10

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 500 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    The plain upper garment has a large overfold from the left shoulder. Almost entirely preserved is the powerful upper left arm; only the frontal part of the right arm remains. Small drill plus fine chisel work are used to separate arms from body. A cu...

  • Upper Part of Under-Lifesize Female Torso
    Upper Part of Under-Lifesize Female Torso

    R2 Cat. 11

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

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

    A heavy cloak with large round folds is draped over the right shoulder, and round clasps button the chiton at the shoulder. There are thin, cleanly chiseled but not as yet transparent folds at the shoulder and V of neck. The piece seems parallel to f...

  • Amazon or Artemis Upper Torso
    Amazon or Artemis Upper Torso

    R2 Cat. 12

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

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

    The r. arm was raised, l. extended sideways in fighting posture. The head was turned to proper l. The himation with overfold goes diagonally across the back and ties over the upper l. shoulder. Three short locks fall on the back of the r. shoulder wi...

  • Shoulder of Colossal Draped Figure
    Shoulder of Colossal Draped Figure

    R2 Cat. 13

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

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

    Possibly the right side of a colossal statue or relief. The fragment has a fold falling across the shoulder, another going across the back, and long shallow vertical folds falling down the back. It is at least one and a half times life size.

    Because o...

  • Fragment of Archaic Kouros Head
    Fragment of Archaic Kouros Head

    R2 Cat. 14

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 540-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The fragment has a pattern of near-hexagonal rounded “beads” arranged in three continuous lines from l. to r. plus an intrusive line of three beads. It is possible from the hair of an archaic kouros (?), the back portion either just below the top (Ri...

  • Back of a Male Head
    Back of a Male Head

    R2 Cat. 15

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    480-460 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    A regular pattern of tight curls goes down to the nape of the neck which has fine light chisel work and finish. The back of the head is rounded in profile. It is probably a late archaic or early classical original. B.S. Ridgway has suggested (orally)...

  • Two-Sided Relief Fragment with Folds or Feathers
    Two-Sided Relief Fragment with Folds or Feathers

    R2 Cat. 16

    Sculpture

    Lava, Stone

    Before 570 BC? (Lydian)

    Curving, finely cut folds border a shallowly molded muscle of a leg (?). The piece was originally recorded in a horizontal position as possibly a leg and part of a wing of a sphinx. It may, however, be viewed as vertical, either a walking lion or bul...

  • Inscribed Stele with Seated Man (Atrastas, son of Sakardas)
    Inscribed Stele with Seated Man (Atrastas, son of Sakardas)

    R2 Cat. 17

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The stele was set at the bottom into a base. The back, which was probably not seen, is extremely roughly trimmed. The sides are finished with multiple claw chisel. The lower part of the front preserves the scattered stroke patterns of claw chisel and...