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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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  • Relief Stele with Standing Male
    Relief Stele with Standing Male

    R2 Cat. 138

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

    A rectangular stele--whether horizontal or vertical is not certain--is framed at the r. side by a Doric pilaster with a wide, flat base and a shaft which tapers markedly upward. There are two fasciae of an epistyle. A man dressed in a himation stands...

  • Relief Fragment with Adult and Child
    Relief Fragment with Adult and Child

    R2 Cat. 139

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Late Hellenistic? (Hellenistic or Roman)

    At the l. are the neck, shoulders, and part of the chest of an adult--whether man or woman is difficult to tell. The head was possibly veiled. The r. hand clutches the cloth coming over the l. shoulder; the arm must have been covered by the himation,...

  • East Greek Stele with Mother, Daughter, Son
    East Greek Stele with Mother, Daughter, Son

    R2 Cat. 140

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st C. BC or 1st C. AD (Hellenistic or Roman)

    The stele has a simple panel frame, the top of which is straight, not pedimental. There are two ladies in Pudicitia posture, the one on the l. smaller, the other in the center taller (cf. Cat. 245 Fig. 425); a young man at the r. has his r. arm in a ...

  • Stele with Horseman Relief, Cut from a Doric Column
    Stele with Horseman Relief, Cut from a Doric Column

    R2 Cat. 141

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd-1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

    The stele is made from nearly half of a large Doric column with four arrises preserved. The interridge distance is ca. 0.08. Between two trees is a horseman galloping to r. Holding the reins in his l. hand, he turns his head slightly back. It is not ...

  • Nude Male
    Nude Male

    R2 Cat. 142

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Hellenistic? (Hellenistic or Roman)

    The nude male figure carries a cloth draped over his l. shoulder. His l. arm is bent at the elbow, comes forward, and grasps the heavy drapery which falls in broad folds from his shoulder. A trace of the drapery, or possibly of the r. arm, survives a...

  • Stele of Nympheros
    Stele of Nympheros

    R2 Cat. 143

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd C. AD (Roman)

    A heroic nude male figure in high relief stands frontally with his arms away from his body. He looks off to his l. The weight is on his l. leg, the r. is bent and drawn back slightly. In his r. hand he holds a thick round object, probably a weight (...

  • Unfinished Stele (?) Fragment
    Unfinished Stele (?) Fragment

    R2 Cat. 144

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Roman)

    A male figure, apparently a child, is only roughly blocked out. The youth stands with both feet firmly planted on the base. A curving shape on his r. side suggests that he was intended to carry a cornucopia, and a slight protuberance across his body ...

  • Relief Fragment with Reclining and Standing Figures. Inscription on Reverse
    Relief Fragment with Reclining and Standing Figures. Inscription on Reverse

    R2 Cat. 145

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd C. AD? (Roman)

    The two fragmentary figures are separated by a vertical band, W. 0.03. Figure at l. is a youthful male with chlamys over both shoulders and a sleeved tunic. Three horizontal swinging folds are on his chest. His head is broken off at the neck. He recl...

  • Two Blocks Showing Venatio Scenes
    Two Blocks Showing Venatio Scenes

    R2 Cat. 146

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd or 3rd C. AD (Roman)

    A belongs to the l. of B. Both blocks are in two registers depicting scenes of venatio and wild beast fights.

    A. Upper Register: bull, destroyed behind front legs, facing man (nude or wearing trunks). Also a bear, standing on hind legs, fighting a bul...

  • Marble Frieze Slab with Venatio Scene (Bulls and Boar)
    Marble Frieze Slab with Venatio Scene (Bulls and Boar)

    R2 Cat. 147

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd-4th C. AD (or later?) (Roman)

    The three reliefs which follow, two venatio compositions and an enigmatic cult scene, were found together, by chance, in a vegetable garden, ca. 145 m. W of PBr and ca. 130 m. E of the mausoleum of Claudia Antonia Sabina (No. 32.1 on Fig. 1; the find...

  • Marble Frieze Slab with Venatio Scene
    Marble Frieze Slab with Venatio Scene

    R2 Cat. 148

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd-4th C. AD (Roman)

    The three reliefs which follow, two venatio compositions and an enigmatic cult scene, were found together, by chance, in a vegetable garden, ca. 145 m. W of PBr and ca. 130 m. E of the mausoleum of Claudia Antonia Sabina (No. 32.1 on Fig. 1; the find...

  • Marble Frieze Slab with Cult Scene at a Tree
    Marble Frieze Slab with Cult Scene at a Tree

    R2 Cat. 149

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd-4th C. AD (Roman)

    The three reliefs which follow, two venatio compositions and an enigmatic cult scene, were found together, by chance, in a vegetable garden, ca. 145 m. W of PBr and ca. 130 m. E of the mausoleum of Claudia Antonia Sabina (No. 32.1 on Fig. 1; the find...