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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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  • Coarseware vessel
    Coarseware vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 51

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim of an open, straight-walled vessel with large inclusions. Pinkish-red, coarse clay. Faint ridge on exterior of rim. Exterior smoothed.

  • Shoulder of coarseware vessel
    Shoulder of coarseware vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 52

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Thick, squared rim with groove, possibly for a lid. Grayish-buff, coarse clay with large inclusions. Wall of vessel thins considerably away from the rim. Hand made.

  • Black on Red plate
    Black on Red plate

    R8 Cat. HoB 53

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Wide ledge rim decorated with two parallel lines painted a blackish-brown with groups of radial lines in between. On the exterior, an irregular wavy line enclosed by a parallel band on either side. Painted concentric circles preserved b...

  • Gray Ware bowl
    Gray Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 54

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Eleven fragments of a carinated Gray Ware bowl. Shallow bowl, possibly stemmed or on a high foot. Slightly everted rim with rounded lip. Two horizontal lug handles are perforated with large vertical holes. Obvious polishing on exterior.

  • Amphora
    Amphora

    R8 Cat. HoB 55

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age? (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Neck of a large amphora (?) with shoulder marked by a raised band. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior and interior polished but exterior more heavily. Burning on interior.

    Late Bronze Age?

  • Painted lid of large pithos (?)
    Painted lid of large pithos (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 56

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Domical lid, perhaps of a pithos. Coarse and dense; red fabric, gray core. Exterior has a recessed groove that follows the circumference of the lid, and a second groove, thus making a shallow ridge between them. Orangey red is painted on the raised r...

  • Pithos with incised marks and decoration made with a finger
    Pithos with incised marks and decoration made with a finger

    R8 Cat. HoB 57

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Large body sherds of a coarse pithos with incised decoration. Reddish-buff fabric with some mica. On the shoulder, large oval shapes made by pressing a finger in the wet clay, and below these, several rows of a herringbone pattern made with a tool he...

  • Pithos with incisions and finger marks
    Pithos with incisions and finger marks

    R8 Cat. HoB 58

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Two joining shoulder fragments of a large pithos. Incised decoration consists of a band of criss-crossed lines making a diamond pattern, and below that, three rows of diagonal hatching making a herringbone pattern. Above and below these patterns, a d...

  • Painted bowl or jug
    Painted bowl or jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 59

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Ring base and body of a bowl or jug. Buff fabric. Exterior decorated with reddish bands, some streaked, alternating with brownish-black bands. Surface much worn.

  • Carinated bowl
    Carinated bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 60

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Shallow, carinated bowl with everted rim. Buff clay. Interior and exterior are painted with thin reddish-orange bands. Exterior polished.

  • Painted pithos or krater
    Painted pithos or krater

    R8 Cat. HoB 61

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Large checkerboard pattern in red consisting of a large square with four smaller red squares within. Additional horizontal and vertical bands as well.

  • Pithos with incised mark
    Pithos with incised mark

    R8 Cat. HoB 62

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Shoulder of pithos with incised lines drawn on a shallow horizontal band on the neck of the pithos. Graffito consists of three lines that converge to a point.