The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

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Horsemen on a fragmentary relief-ware vase of the 7th C. BC, three of many fragments from Sardis (now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 26.199.21a, b, c)
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Credit line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926)
Tentative water-color reconstruction of one of the horsemen on the relief-ware vase from Sardis by Lindsley F. Hall
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Credit line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926)
Horsemen in relief sculpture on a marble panel, perhaps belonging to funeral furniture or architecture; acquired in the tumulus cemetery at Bin Tepe north of Sardis (now London, British Museum, no. 1889,1021.1)
© Trustees of the British Museum
Pottery lebes or krater fragment decorated with bridled horse head
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
Terracotta sima/geison fragment, probably from Düver in Pisidia; now Istanbul, Archaeological Museums. The motif on the rump, present on many tiles of this type and either triskeles or tetraskeles, might be a brand.
Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.
Bridle ornament from Sardis, No. 48
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Bridle ornament from Sardis, No. 49
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Bridle ornament from Sardis, No. 50
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Lydian horse racing recreated: still from the film Antika Talanı, produced by Yusuf Kurçenli (1997)
Courtesy of Yusuf Kurçenli
Map of Anatolia, showing the approximate boundaries of Lydia, the extent of the Lydian Empire, and important sites
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College. Landsat image courtesy of NASA.
The Hermus River, north of Sardis (1960)
Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.
View of the Hermus River (1960)
Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.