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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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  • Trefoil jug
    Trefoil jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 27

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Trefoil jug rim, neck, and shoulder. Orangish-buff micaceous fabric. Part of the vertical band handle remains attached at the rim. Traces of a micaceous slip on exterior.

  • Open vessel with lug handle
    Open vessel with lug handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 28

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Vertical rim. Reddish-buff micaceous fabric with large pebble inclusions. Horizontal lug handle with vertical, perforated hole. Exterior is polished and interior is smoothed.

  • Scoop handle of bowl
    Scoop handle of bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 29

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Partial body, rim, and handle of shallow bowl. Orangish-buff with some mica. Round, vertical loop handle; two grooves at base, only one of which continues along the handle.

  • Cooking pot
    Cooking pot

    R8 Cat. HoB 30

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Many joining pieces of cooking pot with complete profile. Thinner walls and finer fabric than is usual for a cooking pot. Band handle from rim to belly, with finger depression at join with belly. Row of short diagonal slashes around lower neck. Light...

  • Wide-necked cooking pot
    Wide-necked cooking pot

    R8 Cat. HoB 31

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Handmade pot. Coarse reddish fabric with evidence of burning on the exterior. Handle scar at shoulder and at rim. Possibly for industrial use; white incrustation inside.

  • Band handle of cooking pot
    Band handle of cooking pot

    R8 Cat. HoB 32

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Band handle and partial body of a globular cooking pot. Reddish-buff micaceous coarse clay with gray core. A fine double ridge runs along the neck of the jar. Signs of burning on exterior.

  • One leg from a three-legged cooking bowl
    One leg from a three-legged cooking bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 33

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Coarse three-legged cooking bowl. Reddish-gray clay with large quartz inclusions and some mica. Preserved leg is crescent-shaped. Foot and bottom of bowl show extensive burning, and some burning also on interior of bowl.

  • Hammer-shaped loom weight
    Hammer-shaped loom weight

    R8 Cat. HoB 34

    Weaving Equipment

    Terracotta

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

    Loom weight lightly fired. Fabric is slightly micaceous. Temper: chaff. A hole pierced through, top to bottom. Bottom is slightly concave (missing a piece/eroded?). Uniform texture, more like mudbrick than pottery. Surface is powdery. Loom weight is ...

  • Bronze bead
    Bronze bead

    R8 Cat. HoB 35

    Jewelry and Ornaments

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

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

    Small perforated bronze bead with a zigzag design on exterior. Flattened, top and bottom.

  • Bronze fibula
    Bronze fibula

    R8 Cat. HoB 36

    Jewelry and Ornaments

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

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

    Fragment of a bronze bow fibula; part of clasp and bow preserved.

  • Iron knife blade
    Iron knife blade

    R8 Cat. HoB 37

    Metalwork

    Iron

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

    Heavily corroded blade of iron knife.

  • Bone toggle
    Bone toggle

    R8 Cat. HoB 38

    Bone and Ivory, Jewelry and Ornaments

    Bone

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

    Bone worked into a cylindrical shape that is narrower in the center than at the edges; a round hole through the middle. The ends are deeply indented. Entire surface smoothed. A crack on one side.