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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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  • Loom weight
    Loom weight

    R8 Cat. HoB 99

    Weaving Equipment

    Terracotta

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

    Hammer-shaped loom weight. Reddish-buff clay with stone inclusions. Hole pierced through the middle section of weight. Lightly fired. Traces of burning.

  • Loom weight
    Loom weight

    R8 Cat. HoB 100

    Weaving Equipment

    Terracotta

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

    Hammer-shaped loom weight. Reddish-orange clay with chaff. Hole pierced through the middle section of the weight. More heavily fired. Traces of burning.

  • Iron knife blade
    Iron knife blade

    R8 Cat. HoB 101

    Metalwork

    Iron

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

    Small, oblong iron knife blade. Bottom of blade curves up to meet top of blade, which is straight and level. Rectangular tang.

  • Whetstone
    Whetstone

    R8 Cat. HoB 102

    Stone Implement

    Stone

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

    Fragment of a whetstone of hard gray stone, broken at one end. It probably had a hole at the other end, based on others.

  • Granite quern
    Granite quern

    R8 Cat. HoB 103

    Grindstone

    Stone

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

    Fragment from the middle of a lightly crescent-shaped quern. Smoothed on convex and flat faces while broken edges remain rough. Traces of burning.

  • Buff Ware bowl
    Buff Ware bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 104

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small Buff Ware bowl. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Outwardly thickened rim. Polished on both exterior and interior.

  • Pithos with two small lug handles
    Pithos with two small lug handles

    R8 Cat. HoB 105

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Complete pithos. Red fabric, coarse and gritty. Rounded everted rim with two small lug handles below rim. Body tapers to rounded base.

  • Rod or spit holder
    Rod or spit holder

    R8 Cat. HoB 106

    Pottery

    Terracotta

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

    Fragment of an oval terracotta object used as a rod or spit holder. Two projections at the top may have been part of a row used to steady rods or a spit. Compare HoB 230, from Deep Sounding C.

  • Handle of amphora or jug with paint
    Handle of amphora or jug with paint

    R8 Cat. HoB 107

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Vertical handle, oval in section. Painted wavy line runs along its length. Similar to HoB 169, from same elevation in Deep Sounding C. A deep gouge on the exterior.

    Mycenaean, or imitation?

  • Brown on Buff jar
    Brown on Buff jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 108

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Neck fragment of a thick-walled high-fired jar (?) with Brown on Buff painted band and broad triangles below; a second horizontal band across base of triangles. Horizontal band on interior. Body partly reduced at exterior.

  • Closed vessel
    Closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 109

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small body fragment of thick-walled closed vessel. Fabric reddish on inner and outer surface; body thoroughly reduced. Purplish band or else thinner black glaze above black band or area.

  • Closed vessel
    Closed vessel

    R8 Cat. HoB 110

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Body fragment of a closed vessel. Reddish fabric. Two narrow bands of brown paint with larger dark area below.

    Sub-Mycenaean or Protogeometric?