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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 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
  • Black on Red bowl
    Black on Red bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 146

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of small bowl with straight side and sharp carination. Fine red micaceous clay. Black on Red decoration. Exterior, opposed triangles making a butterfly pattern runs the height of the wall of the cup with a black line above and below. Interio...

  • Small jug
    Small jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 147

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Everted rim of cup with slightly tapered lip. Red, micaceous clay. A duller Black on Red. Decoration on exterior consists of a series of opposed triangles, as in a butterfly pattern, bordered top and bottom by a black line at the rim and base of neck...

  • Black on Red cup or bowl
    Black on Red cup or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 148

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Everted rim and rounded lip. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior is painted with a line below the rim, and opposed triangles directly below it. Black paint is of the duller kind.

  • Cup
    Cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 149

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Simple cup rim. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Interior and exterior have dark brown band at rim.

  • Buff cup
    Buff cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 150

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim fragment of cup. Buff micaceous clay that has been burned. Exterior, two dark bands on rim; below on body, two standing concentric circles. Interior, dark band on rim.

  • Cup
    Cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 151

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of cup. Red micaceous clay. Exterior, small but thick pendent concentric semicircles below a streaky band. Interior, dark brown.

    For comparison to Cycadic pottery, see Coldstream, GGP, pl. 52.

  • Buff cup
    Buff cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 152

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Cup fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior and interior: black band at rim.

  • Buff cup
    Buff cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 153

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Cup fragment. Buff clay with some mica. Exterior, band of brown on base of foot. Interior of bowl, streaky brown.

  • Trefoil rim
    Trefoil rim

    R8 Cat. HoB 154

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Trefoil rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim.

  • Mycenaean krater
    Mycenaean krater

    R8 Cat. HoB 155

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Rim and upper body of krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. A ledge rim with a few short radial lines. Exterior, a band of orange at rim and a tight fat wavy line below. Interior, orange band at rim. A handle scar on wall.

    Penelope Moun...

  • Mycenaean krater fragment
    Mycenaean krater fragment

    R8 Cat. HoB 156

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Fragments of a large krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. Ledge rim has a reddish band along the length of it. Exterior, a red band below the rim, and a tight fat wavy line at handle height. A handle scar. Interior, a red band continu...

  • Geometric krater or bowl
    Geometric krater or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 157

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim and one further below, between which are groups of vertical wavy lines. Use of multiple brush, painted top to bottom. Exterior and interior are smoothed. Similar decoration to HoB...