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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
  • Geometric krater or bowl
    Geometric krater or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 158

    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 originating alternately from the rim or band below. Multiple brush used here. Interior, dark brown band at r...

  • Black on Red krater
    Black on Red krater

    R8 Cat. HoB 159

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and partial handle of a Black on Red krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Vertical rim with squared lip. Exterior, duller black band below ledge rim; below this, a crosshatched angular meander pattern. Interior plain. Remains of a ...

  • Brown on Buff (purplish) jug
    Brown on Buff (purplish) jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 160

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Three joining fragments of neck and shoulder of jug. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Neck probably thrown separately. Break in design suggests a handle. Checkerboard on neck. Three lines encircle the join of neck and shoulder; below, large triangles, ob...

  • Brown on Buff jug
    Brown on Buff jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 161

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Neck and shoulder fragment of medium-sized jug; orangish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Brown on Buff decoration. Exterior, on neck checkerboard pattern of alternating reserved and filled squares; on shoulder, two lines, below which are crosshat...

  • Small jug
    Small jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 162

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder to start of neck of small jug. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior, purplish-black pendent semicircles from a narrow band, and a wavy line between two bands below.

  • Jug
    Jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 163

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder and neck fragment of jug. Reddish-buff micaceous fabric. Black on Red decoration. Exterior has standing semicircles, where the artist used a multiple brush but not a compass. Two black lines above and below, and a vertical line at the side. ...

  • Jug
    Jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 164

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body and band handle fragment. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Thick, streaky dark brown band on body of vessel and thinner horizontal lines on lower part of the vertical band handle.

  • Small buff jug
    Small buff jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 165

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of body and base of a vertical band handle. Buff clay with gray core. Exterior, streaked dark brown on body and handle. Exterior smoothed.

  • Red on Buff large jug
    Red on Buff large jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 166

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment. Red micaceous clay, tan slip. Exterior, red pendent concentric semicircles below thick band.

  • Mycenaean (?) Red on Buff amphora or jug
    Mycenaean (?) Red on Buff amphora or jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 167

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Five joining and two additional fragments of shoulder and a trace of the neck of an amphora or jug. Reddish/orange on buff. Three horizontal bands preserved on body, and another just below the join to neck.

    Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean, or local imitati...

  • Red on Buff banded amphora
    Red on Buff banded amphora

    R8 Cat. HoB 168

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Lower belly fragment of amphora. Orangish-buff, micaceous clay. Exterior, metopal decoration with sets of vertical lines between bands of Red on Buff. Exterior smoothed.

  • Mycenaean (?) closed vessel
    Mycenaean (?) closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 169

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Handle and base (of an amphora?). Reddish clay with darker red slip. Handle has a wavy line on the exterior and a trace on the upper inner side. Base has a red band above the disk foot. Unslipped on the interior of the base.

    Mycenaean or imitation-Myc...