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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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  • Small jar
    Small jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 171

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Fragment of wall of small jar. Red micaceous clay. Exterior, tan slip with red band and red pendent concentric semicircles drawn without a compass.

  • Red on Buff closed vessel
    Red on Buff closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 172

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Shoulder fragment. Red micaceous clay; tan slip. Exterior, Red on Buff with two bands below the remains of a curved design that looks like an early form of a Waveline hydria.

  • Band handle
    Band handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 173

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Fragment of vertical band handle with dark brown horizontal lines. Reddish-buff micaceous clay.

  • Brown on Buff closed vessel
    Brown on Buff closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 174

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Fragment of neck of closed vessel, decorated with nine concentric pendent semicircles. One of the brushes was much thicker than the others. Two horizontal bands, the lower one painted over by the multiple brush making the semicircles.

  • Brown on Buff closed vessel
    Brown on Buff closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 175

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Body fragment with streaky Brown on Buff decoration. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior brown pendent concentric semicircles from a wide band.

  • Brown on Buff closed vessel
    Brown on Buff closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 176

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Brown on Buff body fragment. Buff clay with some mica. Exterior, pendent concentric semicircles below a thick band. Exterior smoothed.

  • Body of closed vessel
    Body of closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 177

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Body fragment. Buff micaceous clay; red on buff decoration. Exterior, pendent concentric semicircles (more of the circle completed than usual) below a wide band.

  • Body of closed vessel
    Body of closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 178

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Body fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, brown pendent concentric semicircles.

  • Large Black on Red Lydian Geometric biconical pot stand, or foot of a large krater
    Large Black on Red Lydian Geometric biconical pot stand, or foot of a large krater

    R8 Cat. HoB 179

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Four joining fragments plus an additional small fragment of a Lydian biconical pot stand or foot of large krater. Micaceous body with considerable mineral inclusions in body. Core is gray.

    Intense black geometric ornament on strong red body, decorated...

  • Gray Ware cup or bowl
    Gray Ware cup or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 180

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Handle and body fragment of a shallow Gray Ware cup or bowl. Light, silvery, self-slipped, and polished surface with a body reduced to a uniform gray throughout. Rim has a slightly squared lip. Rim is thinner than the rest of the vessel. Large, round...

  • Gray Ware handled bowl
    Gray Ware handled bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 181

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Bowl with high handle that joins wall. A wide recessed band below rim on exterior. Silvery wash on exterior and interior.

  • Gray Ware bowl
    Gray Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 182

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    9th c BC or earlier (Early Lydian)

    Gray Ware shallow bowl. Rim and wall preserved. Nicked rim. Polished interior and exterior.

    Ninth century or earlier.