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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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  • Imported jug (?)
    Imported jug (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 63

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Body sherd of jug. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior has dark brown streaky bands. Exterior polished.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Painted cup
    Painted cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 64

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Tiny fragment of slightly everted cup rim. Narrow, dark bands on interior. Exterior is light brown. Polished on interior and exterior.

  • Closed vessel with concentric semicircles
    Closed vessel with concentric semicircles

    R8 Cat. HoB 65

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of a closed vessel; vessel thickens considerably where the handle would have been attached. Buff, micaceous fabric. Brown painted decoration on exterior includes two horizontal bands on which are standing concentric semicircles; also a ...

  • Buff Ware bowl with loop handle
    Buff Ware bowl with loop handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 66

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim and vertical loop handle of a Buff Ware bowl. Pinkish-brown fabric. Slightly everted rim. Handle is attached to rim with a rough spool shape.

  • Krater with painted three-quarter concentric circles
    Krater with painted three-quarter concentric circles

    R8 Cat. HoB 67

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment of a krater. Buff micaceous clay. Brownish-black band with three-quarter concentric circles. Interior plain; polished on exterior.

  • Gray Ware closed vessel
    Gray Ware closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 68

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Joining fragments of shoulder and rim of a high-necked Gray Ware closed vessel with silvery wash. A raised band runs along the rim of the vessel and two raised bands mark where the shoulder meets the neck. Interior shows wheel marks. Polished surface...

  • Carinated bowl
    Carinated bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 69

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Everted rim and body of a carinated bowl. Surface color is uniformly buff. Slight ridge beneath exterior rim. Polished on interior and exterior.

  • Gray Ware bowl
    Gray Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 70

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Two joining fragments of rim, slightly everted, with horizontal lug handle. Handle is notched on both sides and perforated with an off-center vertical hole. Traces of silvery wash.

  • Pithos with incised mark and hole
    Pithos with incised mark and hole

    R8 Cat. HoB 71

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Shoulder fragment of a pithos. Red clay. Slight depression where the thickness of wall thins toward the neck. Two vertical incised lines and a trace of a third one on neck. A round hole was drilled through the wall.

  • Gray Ware bowl with lug handle
    Gray Ware bowl with lug handle

    R8 Cat. HoB 72

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim fragment of a shallow Gray Ware bowl, slightly carinated. Silvery wash. Horizontal lug handle perforated with vertical hole.

  • Brown on Buff krater with concentric semicircles
    Brown on Buff krater with concentric semicircles

    R8 Cat. HoB 73

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of krater. Reddish-buff fabric with some mica. Brownish-black band with pendent concentric semicircles. Exterior polished, interior plain.

  • Bowl
    Bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 74

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Shallow bowl fragment with flaring rim. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Polished surface on exterior and interior.

    Late Bronze Age.