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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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  • Stele of Menandros Apol(l)oniou with Gorgoneion in Pediment and Inscription
    Stele of Menandros Apol(l)oniou with Gorgoneion in Pediment and Inscription

    R2 Cat. 150

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd C. AD? (Roman)

    The stele tapers markedly upward. It had a simple profile projecting over the l. and r. sides. A steep pediment (int. H. 0.20; int. W. 0.31) has a crude gorgon’s head. The bottom of the pediment is constituted by six horizontal flower calyxes, and in...

  • Stele with Standing Draped Woman
    Stele with Standing Draped Woman

    R2 Cat. 151

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Probably 3rd C. AD (Roman)

    The relief is probably from a funerary stele. There is no indication whether there were more figures. The woman is standing, head turned to her r. with slightly bent r. arm across chest. Based on a Hellenistic type with short upper, long lower body, ...

  • Top Fragment of Stele with Standing Woman
    Top Fragment of Stele with Standing Woman

    R2 Cat. 152

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd C. AD? (Roman)

    Steep triangular pediment has an incised line following edge of stele; base of triangle is a broken entablature. Within the triangle is an arch supported by impost blocks, which in turn rest on the base of the triangle, all with beveled sides. Within...

  • Stele Fragment with Gladiator Relief
    Stele Fragment with Gladiator Relief

    R2 Cat. 153

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd C. AD? (Roman)

    The gladiator, clutching a short sword in his r. hand, strides toward the r. He is enclosed by a rectangular cutting. Below his feet was an inscription, giving the man’s name; all that remains is ΚΟΣ. The gladiator wears a heavy helmet with squared t...

  • Gladiator
    Gladiator

    R2 Cat. 154

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd C. AD? (Roman)

    The gladiator’s helmet has a protective flap covering his neck; the face is exposed. His round shield, covering the front and l. side of his body, has a small elongated knob in the front center, cf. Cat. 153 (Fig. 298). His body does not seem to be p...

  • Five Gladiators
    Five Gladiators

    R2 Cat. 155

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd or 4th C. AD (Roman)

    A horizontal frieze shows five gladiators, fighting in pairs. Just above their heads is a projecting ledge, above which are traces of a second frieze. Each man wears a helmet with projections to protect the neck, and each has padded legs. The second ...

  • Rock-Cut Relief Aedicula with Two Frontal Figures
    Rock-Cut Relief Aedicula with Two Frontal Figures

    R2 Cat. 156

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd-2nd C. BC (Hellenistic)

    The architectural frame consists of a rather steeply pitched pediment outlined on the rock with rows of points. Underneath the pediment is a row of (originally 16?) rectangles alternately projecting and recessed; 8 raised and 4 recessed rectangles su...

  • Fragment with Charioteer
    Fragment with Charioteer

    R2 Cat. 157

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    3rd or 4th C. AD (Roman)

    A Standing male figure is partially preserved; his l. arm, left part of his body, midriff, skirt, and part of the l. leg to just below the knee. This is a charioteer standing frontally, his l. arm lowered. He wears the typical chiton with multiple gi...

  • Patera and Two Snakes
    Patera and Two Snakes

    R2 Cat. 158

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Early Hellenistic? (Hellenistic)

    Two snakes face each other, with a patera between them. The patera, which is in much higher relief (0.04) than the snakes (0.004), is flat on the surface, then beveled out to the sides. There is a small hole in the center, depressed ca. 0.002 and 0.0...

  • Cybele in Mural Crown in Front of Tree
    Cybele in Mural Crown in Front of Tree

    R2 Cat. 159

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    150-50 BC? (Hellenistic)

    At the top of the relief is a projecting simple profile. Below it are preserved the head of Cybele (or Tyche?) with a tall mural crown and the upper part of a tree. The head of the goddess is seen in profile, facing l. Her turreted crown sits on top ...

  • Altar with Bucrania and Garlands
    Altar with Bucrania and Garlands

    R2 Cat. 160

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd C. AD? (Roman?)

    The three bucrania of the cylindrical altar are tied to garlands with beaded ribbons vittae). Above the garlands are a moon, crescent, and star.

    The dedicatory inscription mentions Noemon, priest of the Mother of the Gods.

    The work is reasonably ca...

  • Cylindrical Marble Altar with Eagle and Inscriptions
    Cylindrical Marble Altar with Eagle and Inscriptions

    R2 Cat. 161

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Late 1st or 2nd C. AD? (Roman)

    The altar consists of a cylindrical shaft with apophyge (top and bottom), a crown molding and foot molding. The top consists of a convex ovolo surmounted by the beginning of a cyma. The raised central area of the top has a dowel hole, showing that an...