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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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  • Pithos
    Pithos

    R8 Cat. PC 59

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Thick-walled pithos fragment preserves a deeply incised rope pattern made by pressing in an actual rope, or else an object (a stick?) repeatedly impressed on the diagonal. A second smaller rope pattern lightly impressed in a second zone above the fir...

  • Small jug with gold wash
    Small jug with gold wash

    R8 Cat. PC 60

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Probably 9th c BC (Lydian)

    Trefoil mouth and neck of a small jug. Buff fabric with micaceous gold wash. Neck decorated with four narrow brown bands, with streaky glaze between the top two bands. A narrow horizontal wave pattern between the second and third bands. Then a wide r...

  • Lydian jug (?) with gold wash
    Lydian jug (?) with gold wash

    R8 Cat. PC 61

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small fragment of shoulder and trace of the turn to neck of jug. At right, a streaky broad band divides two reserved panels. To left of band, a border in stronger dark red color at top, bottom, and side of the panel with concentric circles. At top of...

  • Cooking pot with impressed boss
    Cooking pot with impressed boss

    R8 Cat. PC 62

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a large round cooking pot with a boss. The boss was impressed in two directions, making an X across the top surface. Made by a round-shaped implement such as a small bone that was pressed in the clay. The broken fragment was apparently cu...

  • Black on Red dish or bowl
    Black on Red dish or bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 63

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim fragment of a Black on Red shallow dish or bowl. Exterior, with pendent semicircles, heavily worn. Interior: below the rim, a black line frames a wavy line pattern made with a five-headed multiple brush that was held at an angle, so that the line...

  • Greek Geometric jug
    Greek Geometric jug

    R8 Cat. PC 64

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Large jug of buff fabric with rich black painted decoration. Lower neck of jar (barely preserved) is black. Shoulder has a reserved panel of horizontal bands, alternating between zigzags and vertical wiggly and straight lines (made with the same five...

  • Gray Ware bowl
    Gray Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 65

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Complete tall base of a Gray Ware bowl. Has clearly been cut down and the edges chipped for reuse as a stopper or lid. Burnished on exterior. This is from the lowest point where sherds were found in Zone 2A.

  • Black on Red shallow bowl
    Black on Red shallow bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 66

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim fragment of a Black on Red shallow bowl. Exterior: overlapping pendent concentric semicircles below the rim. Interior: a black line below the rim; a broad reserved area with a group of four (or more) vertical lines, and wiggly horizontal lines ma...

  • East Greek bowl
    East Greek bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 67

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Small fragment of a large East Greek bowl. Two concentric circles (with a dot in the center) above two horizontal lines, a wide black band, and two narrow horizontals. Black on interior.

    Early seventh century.

  • Bichrome stemmed dish
    Bichrome stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. PC 68

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    First half of 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of a white Bichrome dish with a central indentation or dip. Exterior has a raised, circular area surrounding the (missing) stem. Black band along the raised area, and then a pattern of standing Vs with crosshatching. Interior: a thick, white...

  • Lydian Geometric dish
    Lydian Geometric dish

    R8 Cat. PC 69

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a Brown on Buff shallow dish, rising at the edge near the rim. Interior: two dark bands, concentric semicircles each with a central dot, three more bands, and then a central circular dark field. Exterior: pendent triangles with diagonal l...

  • Black on Red dish
    Black on Red dish

    R8 Cat. PC 70

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Black on Red fragment from near the center of a dish. Interior: two black concentric circles with dots in the space between them and another dot in the center. This motif repeated immediately next to it. The beginning of what looks like an omphalos i...