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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.

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  • Bichrome oinochoe (?)
    Bichrome oinochoe (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 548

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Strap handle fragment of Bichrome oinochoe (?). Red and black over white slip. Exterior, horizontal band with a single line below. A row of linked lozenges, alternately reserved and crosshatched at the center. Compare PC 76.

  • Terracotta bird (?) figurine
    Terracotta bird (?) figurine

    R8 Cat. HoB 642

    Figural Terracotta

    Terracotta

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragmentary bird (?) figurine, broken at top, below, and on back. Possibly molded in two pieces. Upper part of body and neck preserved. Black and added red over creamy white slip. Upper body divided by a red line into two areas, each crosshatched in ...

  • Cooking ware amphora neck
    Cooking ware amphora neck

    R8 Cat. HoB 711

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Four fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, and handle of amphora in cooking ware. It is rare to have a pot of this shape in this fabric. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; ...

  • Streaky glazed small skyphos
    Streaky glazed small skyphos

    R8 Cat. HoB 724

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Intact skyphos, similar to HoB 723.

  • Gold Dust ware lid with rectangular cutout
    Gold Dust ware lid with rectangular cutout

    R8 Cat. HoB 730

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Slightly arched lid with vertical loop handle. Straight vertical edge. Rectangular cutout for a spoon. A fine gold-colored wash inside and out. Compare PC 60.

  • Waveline amphora or hydria neck
    Waveline amphora or hydria neck

    R8 Cat. HoB 765

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Rim and neck of Waveline amphora or hydria. Handle stump preserved. Rim, thickened and out-turning. Nearly vertical, slightly flaring towards rim. A row of small repair holes were made along the end of the neck. Dark paint on clay surface. Exterior, ...

  • Omphalos of a phiale
    Omphalos of a phiale

    R8 Cat. PC 8

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A Black on Red omphalos, cut down from a large phiale, presumably to be used as a stopper or game piece. A black ring encircles the omphalos, and four diagonally crosshatched triangles meet in the center. Upper side burnished, and underside red-slipp...

  • Gray Ware baby feeder
    Gray Ware baby feeder

    R8 Cat. PC 12

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Small Gray Ware baby feeder with silvery slip. Ovoid juglet with everted rim and rounded lip. Band handle attached from rim to the widest part of the belly. Small sucking spout, circular in section and with a very small hole, was separately attached ...

  • Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug
    Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug

    R8 Cat. PC 13

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

    Globular body of a jug of orangish-buff fabric with a broad-based foot. Cream slip on exterior of vessel with black painted decoration consisting of thicker and thinner horizontal black bands with a reserved band of continuous interlaced loops at the...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. PC 26

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large dish with a wide ledge rim. Stemmed foot is missing. Exterior is red burnished. Interior: ledge rim and bowl has a series of concentric bands with crosshatched squares alternating with reserved areas. The placement of the crosshatched squares c...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. PC 27

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large, shallow stemmed dish. Wide ledge rim with slightly rounded lip. Stemmed base with flaring ring foot. A black band marks the inner and outer limits of the ledge rim. Between these bands, a series of crosshatched squares that alternate with rese...

  • Bichrome jar
    Bichrome jar

    R8 Cat. PC 29

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    8th c BC (Lydian)

    Large belly fragment of a jar with orange-red fabric, slipped red. On body, a wide register with thick white glaze, bordered by two horizontal black bands. This register is slightly raised from the area above and below it. Over the white paint, a des...