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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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  • Bichrome oinochoe (?)
    Bichrome oinochoe (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 548

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Strap handle fragment of Bichrome oinochoe (?). Red and black over white slip. Exterior, horizontal band with a single line below. A row of linked lozenges, alternately reserved and crosshatched at the center. Compare PC 76.

  • Carinated bowl
    Carinated bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 80

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Small shallow carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine buff micaceous clay. Rim is much thinner-walled than the rest of the vessel. Cf. HoB 82.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Rod or spit holder
    Rod or spit holder

    R8 Cat. HoB 106

    Pottery

    Terracotta

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

    Fragment of an oval terracotta object used as a rod or spit holder. Two projections at the top may have been part of a row used to steady rods or a spit. Compare HoB 230, from Deep Sounding C.

  • 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...

  • Black on Red dish
    Black on Red dish

    R8 Cat. PC 80

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to 6th c BC (Lydian)

    \A fragment of a Black on Red dish with a double concentric circle with dots connecting the two circles on the interior. A dot was placed in the center. Compare PC 70, probably by the same painter. This one here has a redder slip. Exterior is slipped...

  • Buff Ware bowl
    Buff Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 82

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Rim of a plain Buff Ware carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine textured fabric. Above the carination, the rim is much thinner than the wall of the bowl. Cf. HoB 80.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Handle of amphora or jug with paint
    Handle of amphora or jug with paint

    R8 Cat. HoB 107

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Vertical handle, oval in section. Painted wavy line runs along its length. Similar to HoB 169, from same elevation in Deep Sounding C. A deep gouge on the exterior.

    Mycenaean, or imitation?

  • Fragment of painted vessel, turned into a loom weight?
    Fragment of painted vessel, turned into a loom weight?

    R8 Cat. HoB 212

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment from an unknown part of a painted vessel; buff micaceous clay. Red compass-drawn pendent semicircles below a band. The remains of a sizable hole indicates that this was reused as a disk with a hole, possibly a loom weight. Compare PC 50.

  • Clay basin of breadtray fabric
    Clay basin of breadtray fabric

    R8 Cat. HoB 88

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A fragment, part of the base and wall, of a straight-edged clay basin with a thick vertical wall and thick, flat base. Medium-hard breadtray fabric with large pebble inclusions. Interior somewhat smoothed but exterior is very uneven. Cf. HoB 217.

  • 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...

  • Catalogue and Tabulations of Ceramics and Other Finds from the Lydian Trench of Sector HoB
    Nancy H. Ramage, Andrew Ramage and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir
  • Catalogue of Ceramics and Other Finds from Pactolus Cliff
    Nancy H. Ramage
  • Imported Geometric cup
    Imported Geometric cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 292

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small fragment of a cup in buff clay with nicked rim. Rim painted on top and exterior with orange-brown paint. On upper body, below rim, concentric circles. Interior painted the same orange-brown (cf. HoB 281, although this one is finer).

  • Chapter 1. Lydian Pottery: An Overview
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 10. Stratigraphy and Finds from Pactolus Cliff
    Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 7. Lydian I (Late Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries B.C.)
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 3. Late Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age (Thirteenth to Tenth Century B.C.)
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 6. Lydian II (Early to Third Quarter of the Seventh Century B.C.)
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 5. Lydian III: The Destruction Level (Last Quarter of the Eighth Century B.C.)
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Bichrome jar
    Bichrome jar

    R8 Cat. PC 29

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    8th c BC (Lydian)

    Large belly fragment of a jar with orange-red fabric, slipped red. On body, a wide register with thick white glaze, bordered by two horizontal black bands. This register is slightly raised from the area above and below it. Over the white paint, a des...

  • Chapter 4. Lydian IV: Iron Age (Ninth to Early Eighth Century B.C.)
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 2. Introduction to Lydian Trench—Sector HoB
    Andrew Ramage and Nancy H. Ramage
  • Chapter 9. Introduction to the Lydian Levels at Pactolus Cliff
    Nancy H. Ramage
  • Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle
    Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle

    R8 Cat. PC 41

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 700-690 BC (Lydian)

    Rim and upper body of a fine Protocorinthian linear kotyle. Two horizontal lines at the rim. A bird faces right next to vertical lines. Schaeffer identifies this bird as transitional between a soldier bird and a wire bird.

    Late Early Protocorinthian.

    F...

  • Ephesianizing ware
    Ephesianizing ware

    R8 Cat. PC 91

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to 6th c BC (Lydian)

    A small fragment from the rim of an Ephesianizing bowl. Rounded rim, black on top, inside, and outside. Exterior: white slip overall, with a delicate dogtooth pattern of short vertical black lines, alternating upwards and downwards between two horizo...