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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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  • Brown on Buff cup
    Brown on Buff cup

    R8 Cat. HoB 75

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small rim fragment of Brown on Buff cup. Exterior of rim has thin brown painted line. Interior, wider band along rim. Paint is slightly streaky.

    Mycenaean import?

  • Trefoil jug
    Trefoil jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 76

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim, handle, and shoulder of plain jug. Reddish fabric. Raised ridge at base of neck. Handle from rim to shoulder has round section and a knob at top and bottom. Neck made separately from body.

  • Carinated storage jar
    Carinated storage jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 77

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of the belly of a carinated storage jar. Dense purplish body with white slip on exterior; many small light-colored inclusions. Hard fired. Added coil at carination.

    Perhaps an import.

  • Pithos with incised chevron pattern
    Pithos with incised chevron pattern

    R8 Cat. HoB 78

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim of large storage vessel. Reddish-orange micaceous clay with gray core. Ledge rim; below, on neck, two raised bands flanking an incised chevron pattern.

  • Gray Ware jar with ridges
    Gray Ware jar with ridges

    R8 Cat. HoB 79

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Vertical neck of Gray Ware jar with ledge rim. Shallow, recessed groove on exterior below rim; four narrow raised ridges on neck. Light gray fabric with silvery wash is smoothed on exterior and interior, although much thinner on interior.

  • Carinated bowl
    Carinated bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 80

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Small shallow carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine buff micaceous clay. Rim is much thinner-walled than the rest of the vessel. Cf. HoB 82.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Streaked and banded bowl
    Streaked and banded bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 81

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Base and part of wall of a streaked and banded bowl. Buff fabric. Streaked brownish-black with darker bands on exterior. Signs of secondary burning on the interior and exterior.

    Perhaps an import based on the color of the paint (iron, not manganese).

  • Buff Ware bowl
    Buff Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 82

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Rim of a plain Buff Ware carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine textured fabric. Above the carination, the rim is much thinner than the wall of the bowl. Cf. HoB 80.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Buff Ware bowl
    Buff Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 83

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Rim of plain Buff Ware bowl. Outwardly thickened, flaring rim with lip narrowing to the top. Slipped on interior for a very smooth finish.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Buff Ware cup or bowl
    Buff Ware cup or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 84

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Rim of Buff Ware cup or bowl. Slightly offset, everted rim, painted on interior and exterior with a brownish-black band.

  • Buff Ware jar
    Buff Ware jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 85

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

    Everted, flat ledge rim. Micaceous buff fabric.

    Late Bronze Age.

  • Early Lydian cup (?)
    Early Lydian cup (?)

    R8 Cat. HoB 86

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Vertical band handle and part of the rim of a Protogeometric cup (?). Buff clay with noticeable inclusions. Everted rim. Remains of worn, brownish-black paint on interior and exterior. Traces of narrow pendent concentric semicircles at left of handle...