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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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  • Bowl with handle
    Bowl with handle

    R8 Cat. PC 114

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Handle and rim of a Bichrome bowl. Handle, rising from the rim, is slipped white on both sides and on top; vertical lines painted over the white on all sides. This pattern continues on the flat top and both sides of the rim, which has a square profil...

  • Bichrome pyxis
    Bichrome pyxis

    R8 Cat. PC 115

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    6th c BC? (Lydian)

    Body and shoulder fragments of a red Bichrome pyxis with a white slip. Large cylindrical body with tapering shoulder. Orange-red fabric with cream slip on exterior. A register of a horizontal, orange wavy line just below where the shoulder bends towa...

  • Lydion
    Lydion

    R8 Cat. PC 116

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small thick-walled body fragment of a lydion. Neck of vessel is black. Differently sized bands of black at the shoulder and belly. Streaky black near (missing) base. It looks as if a slice was purposely broken off the belly, perhaps to obtain better ...

  • Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale
    Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale

    R8 Cat. PC 117

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shallow, Gray Ware bowl with everted rim and rounded lip. Three recessed grooves (the lowest of which is more prominent) run horizontally around the body of the vessel. Center has an omphalos. Smoothed on interior and polished on exterior.

  • Gray Ware lid
    Gray Ware lid

    R8 Cat. PC 118

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Flat lid with a loop handle. Lid has a central hole and a second squared cutout for a ladle at the edge. Traces of burning on bottom.

  • East Greek bird bowl
    East Greek bird bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 119

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragment of a large bird bowl, imported. The reserved panel from the cup wall preserves two vertical lines, and three horizontal lines at the bottom with a horizontal wavy line above these and the beginning of another horizontal line above that. Inte...

  • East Greek cup
    East Greek cup

    R8 Cat. PC 120

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small fragment of cup. Preserved from just below the nicked rim to lower part of handle band. Four black on buff vertical lines, and vertical zigzags on both sides of the lines. Interior black-glazed. Two other East Greek fragments were found nearby ...

  • Skyphos
    Skyphos

    R8 Cat. PC 121

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Two fragments of a thin-walled skyphos with buff-fabric. Slightly inturned rim with tapering lip. Horizontal loop handle. Exterior: a narrow band at the rim. The handle is black and the handle zone has raised knobs on each side of the handles, also p...

  • East Greek jug
    East Greek jug

    R8 Cat. PC 122

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Early 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Geometric patterns from a reserved panel on the shoulder of an East Greek jug. Panel bordered by three vertical lines at left. A geometric “tree” and crosshatched triangles bordered by double lines within the reserved panel. Unglazed on interior.

    Earl...

  • Bichrome dish
    Bichrome dish

    R8 Cat. PC 123

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Wide flat rim fragment, turning into the body of a dish. Exterior: a dark red slip with a band of black wiggly lines made by a multiple brush, bordered at top and bottom by black lines. Interior: dark red slip, with a band of thick white paint, borde...

  • Protocorinthian linear kotyle
    Protocorinthian linear kotyle

    R8 Cat. PC 124

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 720–690 BC (Lydian)

    Body fragment of an unusually large, thin-walled, early linear kotyle. Horizontal lines and the beginning of the dark lower body. Light buff fabric with narrow black bands. Exterior polished. Interior buff slipped.

    720–690 BC

    Not in Sardis M10.

  • Bichrome lug handle
    Bichrome lug handle

    R8 Cat. PC 125

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large lug handle with hole in center. Orientation is unclear, but because the edge where it was attached is completely flat, perhaps it was one of two handles attached to a lid, or else one of two at the end of a flat “tray.” On one side of the handl...