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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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  • Cooking Stand
    Cooking Stand

    R8 Cat. PC 132

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early Iron Age (Lydian)

    Fragment includes the rim and inward-facing spur of a hearth stand. The triangular spur, sloping downward, would have supported a cooking pot over the fire. A small lump of clay was added on the rim at the side of the spur. Black gritty fabric with s...

  • Krater
    Krater

    R8 Cat. PC 133

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and handle fragment of a krater with buff fabric. Chocolate brown color over creamy slip. Everted ledge rim with projecting lug serving as the place where the curved faux handle attaches to the rim. Curved handle imitation is attached to the body...

  • Gray Ware jug
    Gray Ware jug

    R8 Cat. PC 134

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Lower neck and shoulder fragment of a Gray Ware jug with bulbous body. Four grooves at the join of neck to shoulder. A silvery wash on the exterior.

  • Gray Ware twisted handle
    Gray Ware twisted handle

    R8 Cat. PC 135

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a handle with spiral incisions. A thumb indentation pressed in near bottom.

  • Gray Ware baby feeder
    Gray Ware baby feeder

    R8 Cat. PC 136

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Approximately half of a globular Gray Ware baby feeder, preserving whole profile except the spout and handle. Surface burnished. Cf. PC 12 and baby feeders from HoB: HoB 215 (from a ninth- or eighth-century level in Deep Sounding C) and HoB 344.

  • Black on Red jug
    Black on Red jug

    R8 Cat. PC 137

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    7th c BC (Lydian)

    Rim with a trace of the handle, neck, and upper body of a jug. Rim is not quite round, may show the start of a trefoil mouth. Slightly outward tilted straight-sided neck, with sharply flaring shoulder of a finely potted squat jug. Neck has a series o...

  • Globular cooking pot with “gold dust” slip
    Globular cooking pot with “gold dust” slip

    R8 Cat. PC 138

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wall of a finely potted globular cooking pot and the base of a band handle, squared at bottom of handle. Surface covered with a gold-colored micaceous slip (Gold Dust ware). Red clay. Had been used for cooking, as indicated by blackened lower portion...

  • Bichrome open vessel
    Bichrome open vessel

    R8 Cat. PC 139

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Upper body fragment of open vessel. Surface slipped in a pinkish-white color, with red Vs and the beginning of inverted Vs below, to make a repeated X pattern. Vertical lines and a diamond pattern to the right. Two broader bands in red with two wavy ...