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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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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Figural terracotta of a bird
    Figural terracotta of a bird

    R8 Cat. PC 43

    Figural Terracotta

    Terracotta

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

    Slightly concave body fragment of a terracotta bird. A cream slip on the exterior with an oblique crosshatched pattern painted in black. Within most diamonds created by the crosshatching, a painted black dot. Interior a gray color. Made in two pieces...

  • East Greek or Island lid
    East Greek or Island lid

    R8 Cat. PC 53

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a nearly flat lid in a fine cream-colored fabric. Brown painted decoration consists of two groups of six to seven parallel lines encircling the lid. Between these groups, a series of interlacing loops, each resembling an 8. Smoothed on th...

  • 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
    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...

  • Bichrome strap handle
    Bichrome strap handle

    R8 Cat. PC 76

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Upper end of a red-slipped handle, with a band of white slip framed by thin black lines. Over the white slip, diagonal lines in both directions, making a crosshatched diamond in the center, with the exterior lines of the diamond continuing to the edg...

  • Black on Red dish
    Black on Red dish

    R8 Cat. PC 80

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    \A fragment of a Black on Red dish with a double concentric circle with dots connecting the two circles on the interior. A dot was placed in the center. Compare PC 70, probably by the same painter. This one here has a redder slip. Exterior is slipped...

  • Black on Red bowl
    Black on Red bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 81

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and upper body fragment of a large Black on Red bowl. Outwardly turned rim has groups of radial lines (six in a group) made with a multiple brush on its flat top. Below rim, two bands preserved, bordered by horizontal lines. Within each band, ver...

  • Black on Red deep bowl
    Black on Red deep bowl

    R8 Cat. PC 82

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim of a large Black on Red deep bowl. Small thickened rim with radial black lines. Two bands preserved, bordered by horizontal lines. Within each band, vertical lines making squares, within which are wiggly lines made by a six-headed multiple brush....

  • Ephesianizing ware
    Ephesianizing ware

    R8 Cat. PC 91

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    A small fragment from the rim of an Ephesianizing bowl. Rounded rim, black on top, inside, and outside. Exterior: white slip overall, with a delicate dogtooth pattern of short vertical black lines, alternating upwards and downwards between two horizo...