Inventory Number: | SS 1577 | |
Section Number: | Ζ 534 | |
Title: | Stamped Amphora Handle: Rhodian | |
Category: | SS Rhodian | |
Description: | Neck of jar mended from many fragments; surface largely gone. Angular rising handles, narrow-waisted; trace of the lower attachment of the more fragmentary one; rolled rim with flat insloping top; circle slightly compressed by handles. Buff clay. Impression A: slightly doubled; somewhat worn letters, perhaps from used die; worn at deep end, which is however the outer, more exposed end; incomplete above. Impression B: the deep left end preserved; slightly doubled, but very sharp and fresh; cornucopia. Cf. Nilsson (1909), p. 194; seven seals, of which five have this arrangement and where preserved, a cornucopia to the right. | |
Notes: | Stp: both hdls sl doubled* Par: Nilsson 1909, nr 194, 7 seals of which 5 are sim to stp (a), w/ corn to r.* Smp: on 28.viii.72 sm pc (plus chip) taken by F.Matsou for petrographic test by Paecock (nr 1); see folder Rom: PEACOCK, for VG comment of viii.78 on stps on smpled hdls(VG)* | |
Context: | In late Hellenistic fill. | |
Writing: | a) Ἐπ̣[ικρά] cornu τε[υς] copia (pair) b) Ἐπὶ Παυσαν[ί] α Πανάμου | |
Negatives: | Leica, 4-63 | |
Dimensions: | P.H. ca. 0.295; Th. 0.031; W. 0.036; Diam. 0.121 | |
Date: | 12 May 1933 | |
Section: | Ζ | |
Grid: | Ζ:15/ΙΕ | |
Elevation: | 58.90m. | |
Masl: | 58.9m. | |
Bibliography: | Whitbread (1995), p. 63. | |
Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 302. | ||
Published Type: | R 203(a), RE 171(b) | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 3 (1934) Image: 2013.13.1200 Image: 2013.13.1201 Image: 2013.13.1202 Notebook: Ζ-4 Notebook Page: Ζ-4-96 (pp. 769-770) Card: SS 1577 Card: SS 1577 |