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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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Select an object type from the list below. Certain object types (including architectural terracottas, coins, pottery, sculpture) include subtypes (shape and ware of pottery, denomination and mint of coins) to refine your search.

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Select a Sardis CATNUM from the list below. CATNUM is made up from object type, year, and sequential number. BI = Bone Implement; G = Glass; J = Jewelry; L = Lamp; M = Metal; NoEx = not excavated; Org = Organic; P = Pottery; S = Sculpture. Coins are numbered with the year of discovery and a running number, or year, C, and a running number. Currently (Feb. 2020) this doesn't give a complete list, only the first 99 entries; to find a specific CATNUM, please use the full-text search at the top of the page.

Select a historical period from the (alphabetical) list below. Note that periods are defined culturally rather than politically, so Lydian (rather than Archaic) refers to the period ca. 800 BC - ca. 547 BC; Late Lydian or Persian (rather than Late Archaic or Classical) from ca. 547 until ca. 330 BC; Hellenistic until the earthquake of 17 AD; Roman and Late Roman continue until the early 7th century AD, except for coins where, as traditional, Prof. Evans begins the Byzantine period in the 6th century.

Select a publication name from the list below. LATW = Lydians and Their World (2010). R2 = Hanfmann and Ramage, Sculpture from Sardis (1978). R8 = 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 (2021). M10 = Schaeffer, Ramage, and Greenewalt, The Corinthian, Attic, and Pottery from Sardis (1997). M13 = Evans, Coins from the Excavations at Sardis, 1973-2013 (2018). M14 = Petzl, Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II (2019).

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The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

The stratigraphic contexts (findspots) of artifacts from Sardis are recorded at different levels of specificity. Sector is the most general, referring to a broad area of the city. Trenches are yearly excavation areas (in current usage) or more specific areas of sectors (in early records which used a different excavation system). A Locus is a single stratigraphic unit, i.e. a single deposit of soil, a destruction level, a grave, a dump or other deposit. For instance, MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34 is the destruction level from one room of a Lydian house just inside the fortification wall in sector MMS, containing a rich deposit of Lydian pottery and other artifacts. Note that loci can be continued over a number of years, and so belong to different trenches, if the same stratigraphic unit is excavated over a number of years. For a list of sectors see Hanfmann and Waldbaum, A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outside the City Walls (Sardis R1, 1975), 13-16. Currently (2020) in order to search for a specific locus, you must search for Trench first to narrow the results, and then search within that for the locus. Sorry.

Showing 812 results for:   R8 / Pottery
  • Early Lydian cup
    Early Lydian cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 1

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    9th or early 8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Joining fragments of large cup with complete profile. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Slightly everted rim; globular body; vertical strap handle; flaring ring foot. Dark brown, thick band at rim with pendent concentric semicircles. Two incised lines at...

  • Early Lydian cup
    Early Lydian cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 2

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Four joining fragments of cup with complete profile except for the handle. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Everted rim with groove below; low flaring ring foot. Exterior, dark band at rim with pendent concentric semicircles. Several worn bands on lower ...

  • Protogeometric cup
    Protogeometric cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 3

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Probably 9th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment of cup. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band on upper part of cup with pendent concentric semicircles below band. Interior, dark brown band on rim.

    M. Kerschner confirms that it is imported, probably ninth century (personal comm...

  • Cup
    Cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 4

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment of cup with steep walls. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, brown band on rim with pendent concentric semicircles. Exterior surface smoothed.

  • Cup
    Cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 5

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay with gray core. Exterior, band of dark brown on rim with pendent concentric semicircles below. Interior, streaky brown band on rim.

  • Bowl
    Bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 6

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Buff, micaceous clay. Both the interior and exterior are slipped with a darker brown near the rim that lightens to a light brownish below.

  • Large jug
    Large jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 7

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Trefoil mouth of jug. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with buff surface. Rim has thick band of dark brown paint that expands beyond rim itself; reddish-brown band at join of trefoil mouth to shoulder.

  • Jug
    Jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 8

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment of jug with just a hint of the neck preserved. Reddish-buff, micaceous clay. At neck join, trace of the ends of parallel lines. On shoulder, a red band with trace of wavy line below.

  • Large jug
    Large jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 9

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Neck fragment of jug. Reddish-buff clay with some mica. Purplish uneven wavy line between two horizontal bands.

  • Jar or amphora
    Jar or amphora

    R8 Cat. HoB 10

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of jar. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Reddish-orange remains of rays (?) above broad red-streaked band.

  • Small jar
    Small jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 11

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder and a portion of a neck fragment. Buff, micaceous clay. Dark band on neck. On the shoulder, a streaky brown wavy line with a darker band below. Exterior smoothed.

  • Red on buff rim
    Red on buff rim

    R8 Cat. HoB 12

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Ledge rim fragment. Buff, micaceous clay; red on buff decoration. Rim has radial lines on the top. Exterior, thick red band below rim. Interior, red band below rim.