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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.

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  • Part of thick dish (?) painted in Black on Red
    Part of thick dish (?) painted in Black on Red

    R8 Cat. PC 30

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    9th c BC (Lydian)

    Black on Red painted designs on the upper side of a thick dish or lid. A series of diagonally hatched diamonds between horizontal lines, with short lines in the interstices between the diamonds, on top and bottom. A second horizontal line, with oppos...

  • Shallow bowl
    Shallow bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 31

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and body of a Black on Red shallow bowl. Interior: a series of concentric circles around the middle. Exterior: Concentric semicircles just below the rim, using the same decoration and the same brushes as on the interior. Circles are made with a t...

  • Black on Red jug
    Black on Red jug

    R8 Cat. PC 32

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Neck and shoulder fragment of a Black on Red jug. Upper two bands, separated by horizontal lines, have Xs made by thick lines. Lowest band apparently has thin-lined nested triangles, or pendent semicircles (unclear). Slipped on interior.

  • Gray Ware lid
    Gray Ware lid

    R8 Cat. PC 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Gray Ware lid with stump of the handle and a rectangular cutout for a ladle. Clear signs of burning.

  • Bird bowl
    Bird bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 34

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 650–640 BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of a bird bowl of orange-buff fabric. Concave, body fragment of a bird bowl. A thick band of black below two narrower bands, with the bottom half of a diamond. Two lines, intersecting with the two narrow bands, perhaps bird legs. Interior is...

  • Pithos
    Pithos

    R8 Cat. PC 35

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment of a thick-walled pithos. Two registers of downward-pointing incised triangles with diagonal crosshatching. The upper register is on a slightly raised ridge. The two registers of triangles alternate with one another. The decorator i...

  • Pithos with graffito
    Pithos with graffito

    R8 Cat. PC 36

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a pithos just below the neck. A deeply grooved graffito made with a round-tipped object appears to represent an arrow sign. A shallow groove above the sign.

  • Gray Ware foot (?)
    Gray Ware foot (?)

    R8 Cat. PC 37

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A Gray Ware object of uncertain function. Finished on one side, starting to rise just at the break. Hole in the center is neatly finished. Other side left rough. Compare the unusual objects (“spools”) from HoB, HoB 536, HoB 537, and HoB 539, that see...

  • Painted krater
    Painted krater

    R8 Cat. PC 39

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    7th c BC (Lydian)

    Eight fragments of a large Orientalizing krater, reddish-brown on buff. Outlines of fish swimming to right on left side of attached handle. Alternating dark red and buff bands on rim. Alternating colors also on handle, which has a thumb rest on top, ...

  • Early Protocorinthian kotyle
    Early Protocorinthian kotyle

    R8 Cat. PC 40

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 720-690 BC (Lydian)

    Fine Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle. Reddish glaze on buff. Horizontal lines below [missing] rim. Lower body solid painted except for two reserved bands. Underside of foot reserved. Interior streaky glazed.

    Late Early Protocorinthian (Schaeffer)...

  • Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle
    Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle

    R8 Cat. PC 41

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 700-690 BC (Lydian)

    Rim and upper body of a fine Protocorinthian linear kotyle. Two horizontal lines at the rim. A bird faces right next to vertical lines. Schaeffer identifies this bird as transitional between a soldier bird and a wire bird.

    Late Early Protocorinthian.

    F...

  • Cup or bowl
    Cup or bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 42

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A rim fragment of a cup or bowl with purple paint on buff. Exterior: a line below the rim, and concentric circles below that. Surface has a shiny micaceous wash. Interior red-slipped.