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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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  • Anthemion Stele Fragment with Lydian Inscription
    Anthemion Stele Fragment with Lydian Inscription

    R2 Cat. 49

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

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

    The carefully cut ornament includes part of a downward-pointed lotus with five thin leaves, a concave leaf-like ending to the lower part of a volute, and a rounded part above. The finial projected sideways from the shaft. The leaf-like volute end con...

  • Decorated Marble Slab
    Decorated Marble Slab

    R2 Cat. 50

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    6th C. BC? (Lydian?)

    The slab, probably a door lintel rather than a doorjamb, must come from a chamber tomb in the mound. It is decorated on one side with two connected spirals incised within a panel with raised edges. K. J. Frazer observed that the rougher areas outside...

  • Fragment of Sima Frieze?
    Fragment of Sima Frieze?

    R2 Cat. 51

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The tall relief is crisply cut and smoothed. Part of the lotus and the tip of a palmette are at the top l. The central leaf rises to a sharp median ridge, the l. leaf to a less marked one. Found in the top layer of LA 2, the late archaic piece may be...

  • Fragment with Lotus and Volute Palmette
    Fragment with Lotus and Volute Palmette

    R2 Cat. 52

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    The fragment has part of a double lotus with five (?) leaves arching over a large seven-petalled palmette between two Ionic volutes (only the l. preserved). A smaller downward-pointed palmette has five petals. The floral decoration is on a straight f...

  • Torso Fragment with High-Girt Chiton
    Torso Fragment with High-Girt Chiton

    R2 Cat. 53

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic)

    The lady wears a high-girt chiton, tied beneath the breasts with a ribbon belt ending in a double knot. The diagonal folds of the bound-up cloth of the himation are slung across her hips. The banded border at the neckline of the chiton comes to a sli...

  • Lower Portion of Peplos Figure
    Lower Portion of Peplos Figure

    R2 Cat. 54

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Late Hellenistic (Hellenistic)

    The figure stands with the right knee bent and the leg drawn back. This leg is clearly revealed by the clinging drapery, while the other leg is totally obscured. The peplos is carefully carved on all sides, although the folds are deeper on the front ...

  • Marble Sculpture of a Woman with Archaistic Drapery
    Marble Sculpture of a Woman with Archaistic Drapery

    R2 Cat. 55

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic or Roman)

    The woman stands with l. foot forward slightly, her weight on the r. leg. The overfold of the himation is attached at her r. shoulder, and hangs in diagonal folds to her upper thighs. The pattern is elaborated by two nearly symmetrical falls of drape...

  • Attenuated Figure, Perhaps Athena
    Attenuated Figure, Perhaps Athena

    R2 Cat. 56

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic or Roman)

    The greatly attenuated figure wears a peplos girt just beneath her breasts. Two long broad folds fall from r. arm to feet, with zigzag folds on the surface. The lower garment has deep, swallow-tail folds. The r. leg, drawn back, is revealed; the l. l...

  • Fragment of “grosse Herculanerin” Type
    Fragment of “grosse Herculanerin” Type

    R2 Cat. 57

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic or Roman)

    The l. leg is slightly advanced, the knee pulling the drapery forward. The himation stops just below the knees. The drapery is gathered over the l. arm and falls in rich folds at her l. side, and there is also a long vertical fold at her r. side. Acr...

  • Archaistic torso
    Archaistic torso

    R2 Cat. 58

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st C. BC or AD (Hellenistic or Roman)

    She wears a thin chiton with vertical wavy folds over r. shoulder and breast; an incised line for the seam runs from the neckline down r. arm. Heavier drapery of himation sweeps diagonally across the front, r. armpit to l. shoulder, with the loose en...

  • Woman with Himation
    Woman with Himation

    R2 Cat. 59

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st half of 1st C. AD (Roman)

    The heavily draped woman stands with weight on her l. leg, r. knee forward, r. foot drawn back. The l. hip is thrown out sideways, the shoulders back. Her chiton has five buttons on the r. sleeve. A himation is flung over her l. shoulder, where the e...

  • Torso Fragment with High-Girt Chiton
    Torso Fragment with High-Girt Chiton

    R2 Cat. 60

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    The figure wears a chiton, tied beneath the breasts by a belt, in a double knot. A second, heavier garment, the himation, was slung across her hips, and the end of it can be seen hanging over her l. shoulder.

    The same arrangement of dress is seen here...

  • Lower Half of Peplos Figure
    Lower Half of Peplos Figure

    R2 Cat. 61

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Late 1st-early 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    The woman, draped in a peplos, stands with her weight on her straight l. leg; her r. one is bent at the knee and drawn back slightly. The drapery clings to both legs, clearly revealing their forms, but falls in heavy contrasting folds between the leg...

  • Marble Torso of an Artemis Priestess (?)
    Marble Torso of an Artemis Priestess (?)

    R2 Cat. 62

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st Half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    The figure wears an ungirt peplos with short sleeves; Hanfmann and Polatkan suggest (Three Sculptures, 65) that this may be a priestess of Artemis, although the dress is quite different from Moschine (Cat. 246, Figs. 426-427), the only known priestes...

  • Lower Portion of Standing Woman
    Lower Portion of Standing Woman

    R2 Cat. 63

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    Heavy diagonal folds of the himation are contrasted with deep-cut vertical folds of the chiton. The l. leg is drawn back, and is totally revealed beneath the drapery, which is practically non-existent at this point. The largely regular folds of the c...

  • Fragment of Draped Female
    Fragment of Draped Female

    R2 Cat. 64

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd C. AD? (Roman)

    The l. leg is forward, the knee projecting and pulling the chiton with it. The folds of the chiton, mostly vertical, but curving over the l. foot, range from deeply cut to quite shallow. Heavy, sweeping diagonal folds of the himation can be seen on t...

  • Marble Sculpture of the Lower Part of a Standing Woman
    Marble Sculpture of the Lower Part of a Standing Woman

    R2 Cat. 65

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd C. AD? (Roman)

    The lower part of a heavy woolen cloak goes in a curving diagonal across the chiton, sweeping over the feet. The r. leg was drawn back, pulling the chiton with it. There are deep vertical drill runs in the chiton, whereas the himation has broad smoot...

  • Half-Cloaked Man “Citizen Type”
    Half-Cloaked Man “Citizen Type”

    R2 Cat. 66

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    Late Hellenistic or or 1st C. AD (Hellenistic or Roman)

    Chest and r. shoulder are left bare. The musculature on upper arm and chest is ample. His cloak falls in vertical folds over l. shoulder, and in soft asymmetrical arc across front; it is held under the r. armpit and then falls in a vertical fold by t...

  • Palliatus
    Palliatus

    R2 Cat. 67

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st half of 1st C. AD (Roman)

    In the neck is a hollow for insertion of the head, which was worked separately. As is typical of palliatus statues, the himation falls from l. to r. around the back in swallow-tail folds and across the front on a diagonal from l. shoulder. The r. arm...

  • Fragment of Togate Statue
    Fragment of Togate Statue

    R2 Cat. 68

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd half of 1st C. AD (Roman)

    His weight was on the l. leg, the r. leg bent and drawn back slightly. The toga swings in a mighty hold to r. foot with a deeply drilled central hollow down the middle of the body. Cloth, drawn over r. leg, reveals its shape. L. leg has an independen...

  • Fragment of Palliatus
    Fragment of Palliatus

    R2 Cat. 69

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    The l. leg is brought forward and framed by vertical folds. Simple long curving diagonal folds cover r. leg and move around to back side, where they are shallower. At back, coming from under bent l. arm, is a triangular end piece of cloak with tassel...

  • Palliatus Torso
    Palliatus Torso

    R2 Cat. 70

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

    The palliatus has his r. arm bent across his chest, veiled in the cloak, and holds a rectangular object (volumen). His l. arm is draped to the wrist, the l. hand grasping the vertical folds of his cloak. A large vertical fold, thrown over his l. shou...

  • Herm
    Herm

    R2 Cat. 71

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic)

    Youthful head of herm looks slightly r., with slight smile. Hair is in tight curls all over head and straight across forehead. Incised eyes are slanting. Chin small but firm, neck very short. Cloak, drawn around shoulders in horizontal folds, complet...

  • Colossal Cuirassed Torso
    Colossal Cuirassed Torso

    R2 Cat. 72

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Hellenistic)

    The cuirassed torso, about one and a half times lifesize, is in two pieces. Piece A has the r. side of the back and side of the cuirass, and extends from the neck to below the pteryges of the cuirass. Each flap has four simple engraved vertical lines...

  • Cuirass Fragment with Relief of Aeneas Carrying Anchises
    Cuirass Fragment with Relief of Aeneas Carrying Anchises

    R2 Cat. 73

    Sculpture

    Marble, Stone

    (Roman)

    The shoulder strap of the cuirass is decorated in relief with the figure of Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulder. Their heads are missing, and the lower part of Aeneas’ body, as well as his r. arm. His l. hand can be seen around the far side of A...