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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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  • Skyphos with orientalizing decoration, confronted sphinxes
    Skyphos with orientalizing decoration, confronted sphinxes

    LATW Cat. 91

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 575-550 BC (Lydian)

    More than of the vessel, including most of body and all of foot and handles, restored (by J.-F. de Lapérouse). Cream slip over which decoration in dark sepia/yellow brown slip, and white slip. Exterior decoration: handle zone (only one side partial...

  • Stemmed dish with painted decoration
    Stemmed dish with painted decoration

    LATW Cat. 92

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Probably 8th or 9th century BC (Lydian)

    Ceramic stemmed dish with painted decoration. Low flaring foot, flat, thick-walled plate with squared rim. Interior decorated in orange on cream slip. Tondo entirely orange, although there is a pattern of abrasion in the shape of an asterisk that pro...

  • Stemmed dish with painted decoration
    Stemmed dish with painted decoration

    LATW Cat. 93

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Probably 8th or 9th century BC (Lydian)

    Ceramic stemmed dish with painted decoration. Tall flaring stemmed foot, relatively deep plate with thickened, squared horizontal rim. Gray surface, decorated with white and black paint. Neatly drawn 16-petal rosette in tondo. Triangles on upper surf...

  • Oinochoe
    Oinochoe

    LATW Cat. 94

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 600-570 BC (Lydian)

    Large ceramic oinochoe. Ovoid body, relatively narrow neck with flaring trefoil rim. Wide streaky-glaze band over mid and lower body; exterior of neck and handle streaky-glazed. Four pendant hooks on shoulder, consisting of 11 concentric black bands,...

  • Lydion
    Lydion

    LATW Cat. 95

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    540-510 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Lydion, with small foot, ovoid body, flaring neck with out-turned rim. On shoulder, marbling.

  • Lydion
    Lydion

    LATW Cat. 96

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Horizontally ridged lydion, with conical foot, globular body, wide flaring neck, horizontally everted rim. Painted with slightly streaky slip; burned, and original color uncertain. Intact. Height 0.074 m, diameter 0.061 m.

  • Lydion
    Lydion

    LATW Cat. 97

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Horizontally ridged lydion, with conical foot, globular body, wide flaring neck, everted, slightly downturned rim. Painted with streaky black lustrous slip, burned. Intact except for chips on foot and rim. Height 0.070 m, diameter 0.058 m.

  • Ring askos
    Ring askos

    LATW Cat. 98

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Medium-size gray ring askos. Doughnut-shaped body, low vertical neck, flaring rim. Single basket handle from top of body to neck. Gray semi-matte slip on entire body, possibly slightly burnished. Complete, mended. Height 0.049 m, diameter 0.097 m.

  • Ring askos
    Ring askos

    LATW Cat. 99

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Miniature ring askos. Doughnut-shaped body, low vertical neck, flaring rim. Single basket handle from top of body to neck. Painted with cream slip, with decoration applied in red. Three red stripes on neck, band of diagonal lines around the rim. The ...

  • Lower Body and Feet of a Prehistoric Idol
    Lower Body and Feet of a Prehistoric Idol

    R2 Cat. 1

    Sculpture

    Schist, Stone

    Ca. 2500-2000 BC (?) (Early Bronze Age)

    Preserved are the lower body and legs tapering to small pointed feet. The interior of the legs is unfinished. This is an example of a flat idol of obese type.

    According to D.G. Mitten it is “like a silhouette cut-out of a mother goddess figurine.”

  • Bird’s Head
    Bird’s Head

    R2 Cat. 2

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Third Millenium BC? (Early Bronze Age)

    The round eye is made with a little chisel, the mouth by sawing and thin file or with abrasive. There were three strokes on the left of the neck to characterize feathers. This is not a Greek or Roman piece but either early Lydian or more likely Bronz...

  • Small, Crowned Female Head
    Small, Crowned Female Head

    R2 Cat. 3

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 600 BC (Lydian)

    The hair is stylized in large “Daedalic” beads, with waves over the forehead; they are separated by incised lines on her right side with eight vertical beads in two tresses. Plain in back, the hair falls over the back of the throne. It curves around ...

  • Lower Part of Archaic Kore, “North Kore”
    Lower Part of Archaic Kore, “North Kore”

    R2 Cat. 4

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    580-570 BC (Lydian)

    The lower part of the small female archaic statue is made in one piece with the base and has a back pillar. Her chiton falls in vertical folds down to the ground but leaves a niche for two schematized feet set apart. The oblique bit of garment seen a...

  • Lower Part of Small Archaic Kore
    Lower Part of Small Archaic Kore

    R2 Cat. 5

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    580-570 BC (Lydian)

    Five near-vertical, straight chiseled folds flank either side of two wide ribbons which fall vertically from the belt. Preserved at the top right and left are bits of double-folded overhang from a himation. In addition to the overhang, there are thre...

  • Fragment of a Goddess Holding a Snake (?) Standing in Columnar Shrine, “South Kore”
    Fragment of a Goddess Holding a Snake (?) Standing in Columnar Shrine, “South Kore”

    R2 Cat. 6

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 560 BC (Lydian)

    The figure of a woman is linked by background with a columnar structure. Standing stiffly, she holds in her huge right hand a wiggling snake, the tail of which drags on the ground. She wears a chiton with six vertical central folds and a short Ionic ...

  • Marble Naiskos of Cybele
    Marble Naiskos of Cybele

    R2 Cat. 7

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    540-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Monument in the form of a shrine decorated with reliefs, with goddess standing in front, henceforth referred to as “Cybele shrine.”

    A frontal female figure wearing a girt chiton stands between two snakes (or plants?) in the entrance of a shrine. The s...

  • Relief of Frontal Standing Draped Female Figure
    Relief of Frontal Standing Draped Female Figure

    R2 Cat. 9

    Sculpture

    Limestone, Stone

    520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The figure is carved into the flat broad surface of a rectangular limestone block which is plain on the sides and back. The background was treated with claw chisel, then smoothed. She stands with her small short feet parallel and slightly apart, arms...

  • Kore Torso
    Kore Torso

    R2 Cat. 10

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 500 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    The plain upper garment has a large overfold from the left shoulder. Almost entirely preserved is the powerful upper left arm; only the frontal part of the right arm remains. Small drill plus fine chisel work are used to separate arms from body. A cu...

  • Upper Part of Under-Lifesize Female Torso
    Upper Part of Under-Lifesize Female Torso

    R2 Cat. 11

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    5th C. BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    A heavy cloak with large round folds is draped over the right shoulder, and round clasps button the chiton at the shoulder. There are thin, cleanly chiseled but not as yet transparent folds at the shoulder and V of neck. The piece seems parallel to f...

  • Amazon or Artemis Upper Torso
    Amazon or Artemis Upper Torso

    R2 Cat. 12

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    5th-4th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    The r. arm was raised, l. extended sideways in fighting posture. The head was turned to proper l. The himation with overfold goes diagonally across the back and ties over the upper l. shoulder. Three short locks fall on the back of the r. shoulder wi...

  • Shoulder of Colossal Draped Figure
    Shoulder of Colossal Draped Figure

    R2 Cat. 13

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    5th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    Possibly the right side of a colossal statue or relief. The fragment has a fold falling across the shoulder, another going across the back, and long shallow vertical folds falling down the back. It is at least one and a half times life size.

    Because o...

  • Fragment of Archaic Kouros Head
    Fragment of Archaic Kouros Head

    R2 Cat. 14

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Ca. 540-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The fragment has a pattern of near-hexagonal rounded “beads” arranged in three continuous lines from l. to r. plus an intrusive line of three beads. It is possible from the hair of an archaic kouros (?), the back portion either just below the top (Ri...

  • Back of a Male Head
    Back of a Male Head

    R2 Cat. 15

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    480-460 BC? (Late Lydian (Persian)?)

    A regular pattern of tight curls goes down to the nape of the neck which has fine light chisel work and finish. The back of the head is rounded in profile. It is probably a late archaic or early classical original. B.S. Ridgway has suggested (orally)...

  • Two-Sided Relief Fragment with Folds or Feathers
    Two-Sided Relief Fragment with Folds or Feathers

    R2 Cat. 16

    Sculpture

    Lava, Stone

    Before 570 BC? (Lydian)

    Curving, finely cut folds border a shallowly molded muscle of a leg (?). The piece was originally recorded in a horizontal position as possibly a leg and part of a wing of a sphinx. It may, however, be viewed as vertical, either a walking lion or bul...

  • Part of a Pediment
    Part of a Pediment

    R2 Cat. 18

    Sculpture, Architecture

    Marble, Stone

    450-430 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The block is probably one of the two pieces which constituted the l. side of a small pediment. The slope was ca. 1:4 (58:232) and the size of the missing corner block can be calculated to ca. 1.00. Half of the pediment was ca. 2.30, and the entire pe...