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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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  • Black on Red plate
    Black on Red plate

    R8 Cat. HoB 279

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment from a plate that was covered with standing and pendent concentric semicircles, with a broad black line between them, forming an apparent wave decoration. Traces of another row of semicircles or circles closer to the center of the plate. Sim...

  • Large Bichrome krater
    Large Bichrome krater

    R8 Cat. HoB 280

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A lower body fragment of a krater with black patterns over red slip and bands of white paint on top of the slip. Crosshatched squares between horizontal lines on alternating red and white bands. Interior red slipped.

  • Cup, perhaps Cycladic or Euboean Middle Geometric
    Cup, perhaps Cycladic or Euboean Middle Geometric

    R8 Cat. HoB 281

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    First half of the 8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Five fragments (three joining) of the rim and body of a cup. Dark brown paint on a pinkish-buff body. Below rim, a band of concentric circles with one line above and three lines below. Then solid dark paint with a trace of a reserved rectangle. Inter...

  • Large whetstone or polishing stone
    Large whetstone or polishing stone

    R8 Cat. HoB 282

    Stone Implement

    Stone

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

    Rectangular stone with rounded ends. The top dips down in the middle and is smoothed by wear.

  • Large shallow bowl
    Large shallow bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 283

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large shallow bowl with reddish pendent semicircles with a dot at center below rim. Clay is buff colored. A pinkish slip over most of it, but reserved on the exterior below the rim. On body, two broad bands in reddish paint. Top of rim and broad band...

  • Large Black on Red bowl
    Large Black on Red bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 284

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wide overhanging ledge rim. Black lines radiating on rim. A checkerboard pattern of crosshatched squares, separated by black lines. Exterior and interior red slipped.

  • Black on Red cup rim
    Black on Red cup rim

    R8 Cat. HoB 285

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Black on Red cup with nicked rim. Brownish-red micaceous clay. Exterior rim has duller black band followed by a narrow line just below rim; body has two wavy bands with three lines below.

  • East Greek bird kotyle
    East Greek bird kotyle

    R8 Cat. HoB 286

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 700-660 BC. (Early Lydian)

    Two joining fragments of the wall of a buff-colored cup. Panel with lozenges near top. Then two horizontal lines, with a zigzag below and at least three more horizontal lines. Vertical lines painted at left. Interior: traces of black paint. Bird skyp...

  • Round-mouthed Black on Red jug
    Round-mouthed Black on Red jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 287

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and neck of jug fragment with concentric circles crossing a band just below rim. Dark band at junction of neck and shoulder. Gray slip inside neck.

  • Large East Greek closed vessel
    Large East Greek closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 288

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    The lower body of a jug (?). Dark brown paint on buff clay. Solid black below and a series of bands, thicker and thinner, above. Interior unglazed. Fragment has been burned and discolored.

  • White Bichrome jar
    White Bichrome jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 289

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Several pieces of the shoulder and body of a white Bichrome jar decorated with patterns set radially around the neck: At top, a white band with checkerboard squares. Then, diagonally crosshatched checkerboard and diamond patterns, as well as a trace ...

  • Gray Ware cup
    Gray Ware cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 290

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Flat base and outwardly flaring walls. Bottom heavily worn. Base of the handle preserved. Polished on exterior. Clay has gone pinkish on exterior.