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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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  • Lower Portion of a Corinthianizing Ovoid Aryballos
    Lower Portion of a Corinthianizing Ovoid Aryballos

    M10 Cat. Cor 146

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    (Lydian)

    Base and lower body, preserved from above the rays to the small foot. A band of glaze at the top followed by a reserved area with three thin lines. The tips of the thin rays touch the lowest line. The rays are carelessly drawn and their bases are not...

  • Corinthianizing Aryballos Fragment
    Corinthianizing Aryballos Fragment

    M10 Cat. Cor 147

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    (Lydian)

    The top and neck. Exterior: an eight-pointed star. The tips of the uneven points impinge on the framing circle of glaze. The interior of the mouth is glazed. Glaze: dark orange. Clay: reddish in hue.

    The star pattern closely imitates Corinthian types ...

  • Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Type B Cup
    Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Type B Cup

    M10 Cat. Att 73

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Ca. 500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

    Fragment of the tondo and stem. Exterior: black glazed. Interior: in the tondo, a nude, dancing ithyphallic satyr. Torso, arms, legs, and tail preserved. Incision for internal details. White paint, now worn off, depicted a fillet held in his right ha...

  • Nancy H. Ramage
  • 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...

  • Bichrome skyphos krater
    Bichrome skyphos krater

    R8 Cat. PC 97

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Fragment of a bichrome skyphos krater with flaring everted ledge rim. Interior of rim and top of ledge have red slip with black bands. The top of the rim is decorated with groups of black radial lines. Exterior of rim had been painted with white (now...

  • Large Gray Ware bowl with impressed triangles
    Large Gray Ware bowl with impressed triangles

    R8 Cat. HoB 296

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Large bowl fragment with thick, everted rim. Dark gray micaceous clay. Below rim, a thick, raised band with impressed triangles in two rows; the top row had downward-pointing triangles and the bottom has upward-pointing ones. Traces of silvery wash o...

  • Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, Gül Gürtekin-Demir
  • Geometric krater or bowl
    Geometric krater or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 157

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim and one further below, between which are groups of vertical wavy lines. Use of multiple brush, painted top to bottom. Exterior and interior are smoothed. Similar decoration to HoB...

  • Geometric krater or bowl
    Geometric krater or bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 158

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

    Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim and one further below, between which are groups of vertical wavy lines originating alternately from the rim or band below. Multiple brush used here. Interior, dark brown band at r...

  • Black on Red plate
    Black on Red plate

    R8 Cat. HoB 278

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Large fragment of a plate with a band of pendent semicircles at the rim. Standing and pendent concentric semicircles, with a black line between them, form what looks like a wave decoration. A crosshatched rectangle off the center was one arm of a cen...

  • Small Black on Red squat jar
    Small Black on Red squat jar

    R8 Cat. HoB 504

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC (Lydian)

    Four fragments of neck, shoulder, and body of a globular closed vessel. Exterior, black crosshatched meanders; row of butterfly pattern; narrow band of diagonal hashes; band with no decoration except one dot, which may be a stray drip; narrow band of...

  • 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...

  • Gray Ware handled bowl
    Gray Ware handled bowl

    R8 Cat. HoB 17

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Globular Gray Ware bowl with small ledge rim. Gray micaceous clay. Horizontal lug notched on both sides, beneath which is a spool handle added with a pinch of two fingers, and a vertical loop handle below. Bowl is slightly carinated with a large roun...

  • Brown on Buff (purplish) jug
    Brown on Buff (purplish) jug

    R8 Cat. HoB 160

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Three joining fragments of neck and shoulder of jug. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Neck probably thrown separately. Break in design suggests a handle. Checkerboard on neck. Three lines encircle the join of neck and shoulder; below, large triangles, ob...

  • Gray Ware lid with impressed triangles
    Gray Ware lid with impressed triangles

    R8 Cat. HoB 294

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

    Four body fragments (two joining) of a lightly arched lid, found over a large area. Reddish-gray micaceous fabric. Raised band with impressed triangles alternating between upside-down and right-side-up triangles, evidently made with a rolling stamp. ...

  • Terracotta bird (?) figurine
    Terracotta bird (?) figurine

    R8 Cat. HoB 642

    Figural Terracotta

    Terracotta

    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

    Fragmentary bird (?) figurine, broken at top, below, and on back. Possibly molded in two pieces. Upper part of body and neck preserved. Black and added red over creamy white slip. Upper body divided by a red line into two areas, each crosshatched in ...

  • Black on Red stemmed dish
    Black on Red stemmed dish

    R8 Cat. PC 26

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Large dish with a wide ledge rim. Stemmed foot is missing. Exterior is red burnished. Interior: ledge rim and bowl has a series of concentric bands with crosshatched squares alternating with reserved areas. The placement of the crosshatched squares c...

  • Bridle attachment (?) in the form of a wild goat, unfinished
    Bridle attachment (?) in the form of a wild goat, unfinished

    LATW Cat. 49

    Metalwork

    Bronze/Copper Alloy

    Ca. 580-540 BC (Lydian)

    Bronze (for the composition, Waldbaum 1983b, 67), with many surface pocks of irregular form. Solid cast. The front side shows recumbent wild goat to left, with head reversed, beard curving forward over back and upper haunch, and legs folded underneat...

  • Gray Ware baby feeder
    Gray Ware baby feeder

    R8 Cat. PC 12

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Small Gray Ware baby feeder with silvery slip. Ovoid juglet with everted rim and rounded lip. Band handle attached from rim to the widest part of the belly. Small sucking spout, circular in section and with a very small hole, was separately attached ...

  • Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug
    Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug

    R8 Cat. PC 13

    Pottery

    Ceramic

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

    Globular body of a jug of orangish-buff fabric with a broad-based foot. Cream slip on exterior of vessel with black painted decoration consisting of thicker and thinner horizontal black bands with a reserved band of continuous interlaced loops at the...

  • Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and Gül Gürtekin Demir
  • Bichrome jar with circle designs
    Bichrome jar with circle designs

    R8 Cat. HoB 334

    Pottery

    Ceramic

    Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

    Black on white slip on thick-walled fragment with red slip. Large circles with curved lines within. Two large black circles with two parallel curved lines (partial semicircles) facing in one direction, and presumably two facing in the other direction...

  • 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...

  • 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....