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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 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.

  • Inscribed Fragment
    Inscribed Fragment

    M14 Cat. 787

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Late Antiquity. (Roman)

    Fragment of fine gray marble; only a part of the upper edge is preserved, broken on all other sides. Squared lunate sigma.

  • Inscribed Plaque Fragments
    Inscribed Plaque Fragments

    M14 Cat. 788

    Inscription

    Marble, Stone

    Late Antiquity. (Roman)

    Two joining fragments of a plaque of white marble; broken on all sides. The front is roughly worked.

  • Lydian Electrum Third stater
    Lydian Electrum Third stater

    M13 Cat. 1.0001

    Coin

    Electrum

    Ca. 630 - 580/560 BC? (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of roaring lion r. with "nose wart" of multiple rays; Reverse: Double incuse punch.

  • Lydian Electrum Third stater
    Lydian Electrum Third stater

    M13 Cat. 1.0002

    Coin

    Electrum

    Ca. 630 - 580/560 BC? (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of roaring lion r. with "nose wart" of multiple rays; Reverse: Double incuse punch.

  • Lydian Gold Twelfth stater
    Lydian Gold Twelfth stater

    M13 Cat. 2.0001

    Coin

    Gold

    Ca. 580-547 BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion r. confronting bull head l.; Reverse: Double incuse punch.

  • Lydian Silver Stater
    Lydian Silver Stater

    M13 Cat. 3.0001

    Coin

    Silver

    Ca. 580-547 BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion r. confronting bull head l.; Reverse: Double punch incuse.

  • Lydian Silver Twelfth stater
    Lydian Silver Twelfth stater

    M13 Cat. 4.0001

    Coin

    Silver

    Ca. 580-547 BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion r. confronting head of bull l.; Reverse: Double punch incuse.

  • Lydian Silver Twenty-fourth stater
    Lydian Silver Twenty-fourth stater

    M13 Cat. 5.0001

    Coin

    Silver

    Ca. 580-547 BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion r. confronting head of bull l.; Reverse: Single punch incuse.

  • Lydian Silver Twenty-fourth stater
    Lydian Silver Twenty-fourth stater

    M13 Cat. 5.0002

    Coin

    Silver

    Ca. 580-547 BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of roaring lion r. confronting head of bull l.; Reverse: Single punch incuse.

  • Archaic Silver Hemihekaton of Miletus
    Archaic Silver Hemihekaton of Miletus

    M13 Cat. 6.0001

    Coin

    Silver

    Late 6th–early 5th c BC (Lydian)

    This coin type: Obverse: Forepart of lion l., head of roaring lion r.; Reverse: Star-flower in incuse, one side indented.

  • Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Larger denomination of Thrace
    Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Larger denomination of Thrace

    M13 Cat. 7.0001

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    306 BC - 281 BC (Hellenistic)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of Athena in Phrygian helmet r.; Reverse: Trophy ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ.

  • Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Larger denomination of Thrace
    Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Larger denomination of Thrace

    M13 Cat. 7.0002

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    306 BC - 281 BC (Hellenistic)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of Athena in Phrygian helmet r.; Reverse: Trophy ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ.

  • Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis
    Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis

    M13 Cat. 8.0001

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    306 BC - ca. 280 BC? (Hellenistic)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of Athena in crested helmet r.; Reverse: Lion leaping r., spearhead below, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, illegible mg.

  • Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis
    Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis

    M13 Cat. 8.0002

    Coin

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    306 BC - ca. 280 BC? (Hellenistic)

    This coin type: Obverse: Head of Athena in crested helmet r.; Reverse: Lion leaping r., spearhead below, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, illegible mg.