Stamped Plate.

Center of floor preserved.

Convex underside, with trace of groove around edge. At center of floor, six-petaled rosette within hexagon with concave sides, all within circular field. Reddish brown fabric (5YR 5/4) with voids and small white and black inclusions; metallic brownish black glaze.

Similar: P 31925 (F 13:3, upper fill [unknown depth]).

Central stamps are unknown in Attic but common in Italian wares: e.g. Morel 1965, nos. 12, 16, 66, 104, pp. 34--36, 52--53, 65, pls. 2, 3, 5, 9, 39, 40, 46; Py 1976, p. 576, fig. 9:1--12, p. 578, fig. 10:14--27 (Campana A); Jehasse and Jehasse 1973, nos. 226, 1015, pp. 168, 312, pl. 122. They also occur in the east in ESA, black glaze, and gray ware: Samaria III, no. 33, p. 258, fig. 52:33, no. 6, p. 260, fig. 53:6 (with additional references, black glaze); Pagenstecher 1913, nos. 2, 9, p. 30, fig. 35 (gray ware) and p. 143, fig. 150:b (black glaze); Antioch IV, i, Shape 30, p. 12, fig. 3:2 (black glaze); Tarsus I, nos. 41, 42, 138, pp. 213, 221, figs. 120, 121, 127 (local glazed ware); Hama III, ii, p. 67, fig. 30 (ESA).