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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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  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 762

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble; except for a portion of the left edge, broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 763

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides. Letters with long apices.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 764

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of marble, only part of the upper edge is preserved, broken on all other sides.

  • Inscribed Fragments
    Inscribed Fragments

    M14 Cat. 765

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Two non-joining fragments of white marble; (a) has a portion of the left edge preserved; (b) has a portion of the right edge preserved.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 766

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble with gray stripes; broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 767

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Fragment: Inscription mentionind Emperor Commodus (damnatio memoriae?)
    Inscribed Fragment: Inscription mentionind Emperor Commodus (damnatio memoriae?)

    M14 Cat. 768

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Under Commodus? (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 769

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd century AD. (Roman)

    Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides except for a portion of the left edge.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragment
    Inscribed Plaque Fragment

    M14 Cat. 770

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Imperial period. (Roman)

    Fragment of a plaque of white marble, front and rear face smooth, broken on the other sides. Letters with apices; squared lunate sigma.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragment
    Inscribed Plaque Fragment

    M14 Cat. 771

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Imperial period. (Roman)

    Fragment of a plaque of reddish marble; the front and rear faces are smooth, broken on the other sides. Letters with apices; squared lunate sigma.

  • Impression in mortar left by inscription used as revetment
    Impression in mortar left by inscription used as revetment

    M14 Cat. 772

    Inscription

    Mortar

    Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

    Impression in mortar left by an inscription used as revetment.

  • Inscribed Block Fragment (from Theater)
    Inscribed Block Fragment (from Theater)

    M14 Cat. 773

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Unknown. (Roman)

    Block of marble; broken at top and bottom. There is a slight outward curve at the top of the face, indicating that portion was probably under a molding. Thin and shaky script.

  • Inscribed Block Fragment (from Theater)
    Inscribed Block Fragment (from Theater)

    M14 Cat. 774

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Unknown. (Roman)

    Block of marble; broken on all sides. There is a slight outward curve at the top of the face, indicating that portion was probably under a molding.

  • Inscribed Fragment (from Theater)
    Inscribed Fragment (from Theater)

    M14 Cat. 775

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Unknown. (Roman)

    Fragment of marble; broken on all sides. “Letters inscribed onto flat plane which protrudes slightly from rounded molding below” (excavation record).

  • Inscribed Slab Fragment with relief: Votive for Hero?
    Inscribed Slab Fragment with relief: Votive for Hero?

    M14 Cat. 776

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

    Fragment of a slab of marble; broken on the right side and partly damaged below. Within a framed field is the crude relief of a man in profile with frontal face, holding an unknown object (an axe or pruning knife?, see below) in his hands. To the lef...

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 777

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

    Fragment of marble; broken on all sides. The fragment was reused as revetment.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragment
    Inscribed Plaque Fragment

    M14 Cat. 778

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Unknown. (Roman)

    Fragment of a plaque of white marble, broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Fragments: Inscription mentioning Emperor Antoninus?
    Inscribed Fragments: Inscription mentioning Emperor Antoninus?

    M14 Cat. 779

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Five non-joining fragments of white marble. The bilingual Latin and Greek inscription was surrounded by a quadrangular molding that consisted of two recessed borders of ca. 0.02 m in width each; portions of the molding are preserved from the upper, l...

  • Inscribed Fragment: Epigram
    Inscribed Fragment: Epigram

    M14 Cat. 780

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of marble, broken on all sides.

  • Inscribed Stele Fragment
    Inscribed Stele Fragment

    M14 Cat. 781

    Stele, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

    Fragment of the left side of a stele of bluish marble; broken on all other sides.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 782

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of marble with only a part of the right edge preserved; broken on the other sides. Lunate sigma; ω-shaped omega.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragment
    Inscribed Plaque Fragment

    M14 Cat. 783

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of a plaque of white marble. The rear face is well smoothed, and the edges are trimmed for reuse. In approximately the middle of the lower edge are the remains of a fixing clamp. Squared lunate sigma.

  • Inscribed (Funerary?) Altar? Fragment
    Inscribed (Funerary?) Altar? Fragment

    M14 Cat. 784

    Altar, Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of a (funerary?) altar(?) of white marble; broken on all sides except for the lower face. Above the inscription, which is written on a smoothed surface, there is a protruding rough area.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 785

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    3rd–4th century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

    Fragment of marble; broken on all sides.

  • Graffito on column
    Graffito on column

    M14 Cat. 786

    Inscription, Graffito

    Marble, Stone

    4th–6th century AD (Ameling). (Roman)

    Graffito on a column.