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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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  • Fragment of a terracotta sima or geison, with scroll/lyre
    Fragment of a terracotta sima or geison, with scroll/lyre

    LATW Cat. 58

    Architectural Terracotta

    Terracotta

    Ca. 560-550 BC (Lydian)

    Terracotta fragment of a raking sima or geison; molded and painted with cream, dark sepia, and red-brown slips, showing parts of two primary motif zones, the more complete of which has a scroll or lyre motif, and a top or bottom border, which has a h...

  • Large cup
    Large cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 395

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of a large cup with nicked rim. Reddish-orange clay with light gray core. Rim covered in light red band, below which is a reserved metopal pattern of alternating groups of vertical lines and wavy lines done with a multiple brush; a band of d...

  • Appendix. NAA Analysis of Lydian Ceramics from Sectors HoB and PC
    Nicholas D. Cahill
  • Bone appliqué, decorated with curled animal
    Bone appliqué, decorated with curled animal

    LATW Cat. 54

    Bone and Ivory

    Bone

    Ca. 650 BC (Lydian)

    Bone plaque of irregular round shape. The front side has an arcuated profile and shows a curled animal with round eye and ear that extend beyond the round outline. The eye has an inner incised circle and central dot; the ear has a triangular cut at i...

  • Bone inlay, decorated with two birds’ heads
    Bone inlay, decorated with two birds’ heads

    LATW Cat. 55

    Bone and Ivory

    Bone

    Ca. 625-580 BC? (Lydian)

    Bone plaque, round. The front side has an arcuated profile and shows two birds’ heads with large bills, the lower bill of one adjoining the upper bill of the other, occupying ca. two-thirds of the surface. Heads emerge from the straight border of an ...

  • Terracotta spit holder
    Terracotta spit holder

    R8 Cat. HoB 230

    Pottery

    Terracotta

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

    A terracotta fragment of a spit holder. Gray fabric core, pink on smooth surfaces. Perhaps rectangular in its original form, but now broken on both sides. Triangular in section (wider at base, tapering toward top), with uneven ridges and depressions ...

  • Cooking Stand
    Cooking Stand

    R8 Cat. PC 132

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Lydian)

    Fragment includes the rim and inward-facing spur of a hearth stand. The triangular spur, sloping downward, would have supported a cooking pot over the fire. A small lump of clay was added on the rim at the side of the spur. Black gritty fabric with s...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. HoB 379

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Black on Red stemmed dish with simple rounded rim. Thick clay tapers toward stemmed disk foot. Interior gray (discolored) with black band at rim; concentric semicircles hang from this band. At mid-bowl a central line with a series of offset concentri...

  • Figural terracotta of a bird
    Figural terracotta of a bird

    R8 Cat. PC 43

    Figural Terracotta

    Terracotta

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

    Slightly concave body fragment of a terracotta bird. A cream slip on the exterior with an oblique crosshatched pattern painted in black. Within most diamonds created by the crosshatching, a painted black dot. Interior a gray color. Made in two pieces...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. PC 27

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large, shallow stemmed dish. Wide ledge rim with slightly rounded lip. Stemmed base with flaring ring foot. A black band marks the inner and outer limits of the ledge rim. Between these bands, a series of crosshatched squares that alternate with rese...

  • Black on Red bowl
    Black on Red bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 81

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and upper body fragment of a large Black on Red bowl. Outwardly turned rim has groups of radial lines (six in a group) made with a multiple brush on its flat top. Below rim, two bands preserved, bordered by horizontal lines. Within each band, ver...

  • The Expedition
    Sardis Expedition
  • Geometric cup
    Geometric cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 144

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

    Fragment of rim of nicked cup. Buff micaceous clay. Black and brown decoration on buff. Exterior rim is painted with a black band; below is a metopal arrangement with alternating vertical wavy lines and vertical straight lines in brown. Interior pain...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. HoB 425

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Four joining fragments of Black on Red stemmed dish. Small parts of rim, stem, and base missing. Plain rounded rim. Matt dark over red clay surface. Exterior, single band along rim. Interior, from top to bottom, below rim: in a wide band with a singl...

  • Imported Black on Red globular vessel
    Imported Black on Red globular vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 354

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Three fragments, joining, of globular vessel. Fabric is reddish-yellow. A portion of the belly and the beginning of the neck of a delicate pot. Thin horizontal lines throughout, interrupted by two reserved bands: the upper one, below neck, with an al...

  • Lebes with lions and other creatures
    Lebes with lions and other creatures

    LATW Cat. 90

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    600-570 BC (Lydian)

    Pottery broken, mended, and partly restored. Exterior covered with cream slip over which decoration in reddish and dark brown-grey slip as follows: on rim, pattern band of alternating circles and dots and criss-crosses and dots, separated by pairs of...

  • Imported Brown on Buff large metopal deep bowl
    Imported Brown on Buff large metopal deep bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 345

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Brown on Buff bowl. Simple rim with rounded lip. Exterior of bowl has a series of ten painted vertical lines that alternate with five vertical wavy lines. These lines are bordered at the lower side by three thicker horizontal bands that encircle the ...