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Recent excavations in ancient Tomis (Western shore of the Black Sea) produced a few amphora stamps we publish here. New eponyms are being added for Tomis with respect to the expected production centers of Rhodos, Thasos, Sinope and Cnidus. Of particular note, is a stamp of Diotimos most probably from Ainos (Thrace).

This article brings additional information to the previous reports on the amphora stamps discovered and published by the authors in various publications in the country and abroad, regarding the new amphora stamps found both in the area of ancient Callatis and its chora.

The aim of the present article is to publish amphora stamps found during recent archaeological research in Tomis, on the western shore of the Black Sea, focusing this time on stamps found in 2006. The stamps originate from Rhodos, Knidos, Sinope, and Thasos.

In this new article, we continue the publication of a number of amphora stamps found in Histria, during the excavations in the Basilica Pârvan sector and several other older sectors. The amphora stamps under discussion originate from Sinope, Rhodos, Tauric Chersonesos, Thasos, and Heraclea Pontica. Several novelties are briefly commented upon.

In this short note, we present two amphora stamps from Rhodos, discovered during excavations undertaken in the CN (Center North) sector, in Histria, on the Western shore of the Black Sea.

We publish the amphora stamps recently discovered in ancient Tomis (nowadays Constanța, Romania) during the excavations in the Arhiepiscopiei Street 11. The amphora stamps originate from Sinope, Rhodos, Knidos, Kos, Akanthos, and Thasos. A few monograms are added. Several novelties are being commented upon.

Our paper deals with the amphora stamps (from Rhodos, Sinope, Thasos and Tauric Chersonesus; all unpublished) discovered during several excavation campaigns at Histria, the ACS (Acropolis Center-South) sector.

Our paper deals with a number of amphora stamps (from Rhodos, Sinope and the Tauric Chersonesus) discovered during the excavation campaigns at the Pârvan Basilica in Histria (all unpublished), as well as with a few new amphora stamps from previous excavations in various parts of the city. Another paper on remaining amphora stamps will follow shortly.

During rescue operations in Mangalia (Romania), in the area of the ancient Callatis there were found the remains of the building structures that are 50 meters from the sacred area of the ancient city. Numerous amphora fragments were identified, among them there was a small collection of amphora stamps - 16 samples, of which five belong to Sinop, 3 stamps - to Rhodes, 2 Knidos stamps, and to the amphora production of Kos, Paros, Thasos and Heraclea Pontica there were attributed by one stamp. For two stamps it was impossible to determine centers of production. Chronological framework of this small collection includes the period of time from the 3rd century to the 40-20-ties of the 2nd century.

Rescue excavations at Histria–“ Pescărie” uncovered a rich archaeological assemblage, mostly from the Hellenistic period. The finds probably come from a previously destroyed tumulus, where three burials were also found. The area where the research took place is located on the contact zone between the Early Roman extra muros neighbourhood and the tumuli belonging to the western necropolis of Histria. One explanation could be that in this area the Greek habitation is overlapped directly by a Roman tumulus (as suggested by the already excavated other tumuli situated in the near proximity – no. VII, VIII and XXXV dated to the third stage of the necropolis). It is also possible that the Greek finds originated in a tumulus from the autonomous period of the city, where secondary burials had also taken place. Accepting this interpretation would imply that the previously mentioned tumulus together with tumulus XXXVI, represent the earliest and the closest funerary structures to Hellenistic defence walls from the western plateau of the city. The archaeological assemblage consists of amphora stamps (from Thasos, Sinope, Rhodos, Cnidos, the Parmeniskos type), fragmentary mouldmade relief bowls, Attic decorated pottery, fragments of kantharoi (one with graffito), lamps etc. The amphora stamps suggest a date towards the middle of the 4th century BC (365/ 360 BC) until the first decades or the middle of the 2nd century BC. Best represented among all the types of finds is the 3rd century BC. Finds with an earlier date (first half of the 4th century, or even the end of the 5th century BC) or later than the middle of the 2nd century are rare. The only finds from the Roman times are bone items