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The article deals with the study of stamps on the most numerous imported Byzantine amphoras of the "Trebizond" group in the Golden Horde pottery assemblage. Amphoras of this group make 99% of all finds of imported container ceramics on the territory of the Golden Horde and came throughout the entire period of the existence of sedentary life in the state. More than half of all stamps on amphoras of this group are an emblem in the form of a straight grid of various variants. Less often there are epigraphic stamps with monograms or full forms of names or complicated ligatures of anagrams. Byzantine amphoras of the "Trebizond" group with stamps came to the Golden Horde in the first half of the XIV century.

This article analyzes twenty-six amphora stamps found during the excavations at the ancient city of Kalynda in 2022-2023. Twenty are identified as being of Rhodian origin, five are from Knidos, and one is unidentified. These finds not only contribute to our understanding of the Hellenistic history of the settlement but also provide some new information on the distribution and statistics of stamped amphora handles in southwestern Asia Minor. The quantity of stamped amphora handles found in Kalynda during a brief excavation period suggests that the settlement engaged in commercial relations with neighboring regions in the Hellenistic era. About 85% of the stamps found relate to the 3rd century BC, verifying the locality’s situation on a bustling trade path as backed by epigraphic documents and literary sources. These connections indicate an important relationship between Kalynda and the Ptolemaic administration.

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Amphorae are stamped by production centers, especially in the Aegean Region. Stamps, which are epigraphic evidence, provide the date of the layer or context they were found by determining the origin of the amphorae and reveals the commercial relations between the production and consumption centers. There are many amphorae in the Edirne Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography. These amphorae are recorded in various ways in the inventory of the museum. It was determined that only five of the amphorae in the museum collection were stamped. This article aims to classify the stamped amphorae according to their production centers, to give a date to the stamped amphorae and to analyze the inscriptions on the stamps.In this study, seven stamps on five amphorae with preserved double handles were examined. Three of these stamps are Thasos and four are Rhodes. Only two of the Rhodesian stamps have been resolved. As a result of our investigations, it was determined that these stamped amphorae belonged to Thasos and Rhodes. The stamps have the names of the eponym and the producer, ethnicon and symbol. The date of the stamps that can be read within the scope of this article is determined by the names of the eponyms and producers. It is understood that the stamped amphorae here are generally from between the 4th – 2nd centuries BCE.

Bodrum Türk Kuyusu Mahallesi kurtarma kazıları, antik Halikarnassos kentinde stadyumun batısında, tiyatronun güneyinde, Mars Tapınağı ve Dorik Stoanın doğusunda gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu makalede, kazılar sonucunda ele geçen ve Hellenistik Döneme tarihlendirilen ithal amphoralara ait mühürler ele alınmıştır. İncelenen 38 mühürden 19'u Rhodos, 4'ü Rhodos Peraiası, 8'i Knidos ve 4'ü Kos kökenli amphoralara aittir. Buluntular arasında yeralan Khios, Amorgos ve Nikandros Grubu amphoralarına ait mühürler de birer örnekle temsil edilmektedirler. Ele geçen söz konusu mühürlü amphora kulpları kentin Hellenistik Dönem ticari faaliyetlerine ilişkin bilgiler vermektedir. The rescue excavations at Bodrum, Türk Kuyusu Quarter were carried out in the west of the stadium, the south of the theatre, the east of the Temple of Mars, and the Doric Stoa of the ancient city of Halikarnassos. In this article stamps found from the excavations and belonging to imported amphorae dated to the Hellenistic Period are studied. Totaly 38 stamped handles are presented here and 19 of the stamps are from Rhodes, 4 from Rhodian Peraea, 8 from Knidos, and 4 from Kos. Stamps belonging to the amphorae of Khios, Amorgos, and Nikandros Group are represented by one example among the finds. These stamped amphora handles give information about the trade relations of Halikarnassos in the Hellenistic Period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These five Hellenistic stamps provide chronological milestones for dating the occupation of this site for more than two centuries, from the second third of the 4th century to the second half of the 2nd century. They bear witness to the spread of goods from the Greek world in the settlements of non-Greek populations along the Danube valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Using Greek ceramics and arrowheads from the Scythian kurgans of the Northern Black Sea region the article proposes chronology of glass monochrome beads – biconical, pyramidal and flat rhomboid, identified in types 88–96, 112–115 and 171 (Fig.1) in the typology of E.M. Alekseyeva (1978). A relatively narrow period of their use has been established, between the last quarter of the 5th and the beginning of the second half of 5th – first quarter of 4th cent. BC, making it possible to reliably date the Scythian burials to this time within a narrow chronological period, even in the absence of other chronoindicators.

The paper describes amphora stamps from an interesting “closed” complex documented in the beginning of the 1980s on the “Kostadin cheshma” site to the west of Bourgas bay. The pit contained fragments of several hundred amphorae, black glazed vessels, and domestic ceramics. It was possible to successfully narrow down the period during which it was filled out to the 370s – 360s BC. Analysis of 133 amphora stamps found in the pit (125 of them englyphic) allows us to make detailed observations on the chronology of amphora stamps and interpret the information contained in the stamps.

This paper presents the results of the analysis of amphorae found during excavations for construction of the new archaeological base of NAIM – BAS in Pliska. Significant quantities of amphorae from the Günsenin I and II classes that are datable to the second half of the 10th – the beginning of the 11th c. show that in this period Pliska grew as a large consumer center of food products. The variety of amphora profiles suggests that contacts were maintained with different, either synchronously or diachronically existing production centers in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The food supplies were distributed through a well-organized and efficient trade network.

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.

The paper deals with publishing and analyzing amphora stamps from the early Hellenistic cinder heap No. 2 of the ancient sanctuary Viktorovka I based on excavation materials from 2017 and 2019. In total, nine stamps were found, which allow us to ascertain the entry of stamped amphora containers into the filling of the cinder heap for about sixty years — since the 20s. of the 4th century to the beginning of the 60s. of the 3rd century BCE. The earliest stamps in the complex are Sinope, and the latest are Rhodes. The presence of the “wheel-shaped” Akanf stamp in the cinder heap, as well as the stamp of an unidentified center Ἑρμι(-), makes it possible to correct their chronology and date them no earlier than the last third of the 4th century BCE.

This paper is occasioned by the identification in museum collections of four Rhodian stamped amphora handles discovered in the Dacian settlement from Cetățeni (Romania), which raises to 114 the quantity of Rhodian stamps known from here. This large number of Rhodian amphora stamps compared to any other Dacian site is explained by the fact that the settlement of Cetățeni (2nd century BC - 1st century AD), located at the southern foot of the Carpathians, controlled a very important road that started from the Danube and crossed mountains to the north. The amount of imports in general (pottery, ornaments, coins) in this settlement is high, and indicates clear connections with the Mediterranean civilization, first with the Hellenistic world and then with the Roman one. The batch of Rhodian amphora stamps from Cetățeni covers the periods III-VI, with an obvious peak in the V period, in the decade 130-121 BC. The four new stamps are divided into two of eponym (Andrias, who is one of the last eponyms of the period Va, and an illegible one) and two of fabricant (both of them belonging to Linos). They complete and at the same time confirm the batch already known from this site: Andrias is making his first attestation at Cetățeni, but the quantity of Linos' stamps from the settlement is now rises to five, Linos being the fabricant with the largest number of stamps here. A substantial part of the paper is dedicated to tracing the chronology of the Rhodian fabricant Linos. From the analysis of all available elements, the period in which Linos operated as fabricant in Rhodes is a long one, most likely extending over the third quarter of the 2nd century BC. This chronology is also confirmed by the relatively numerous contexts in the Dacian settlements on the Lower Danube, in which Linos' stamps were discovered over time (not only at Cetățeni, but also at Popești, Cârlomănești, Pleașov and Adâncata). The spread of this fabricant's amphorae in the Dacian world is wide and is an argument for the existence of a deep rooted and well-established trade. It is more and more obvious that the penetration of amphorae carrying Aegean wine to the Carpathians was not at all a sporadic, negligible occupation, or minor affair, but a well-organized operation that involved the transport of considerable quantities of goods. The discussion on trade mechanisms between Rhodes and the 'barbarian' territory north of the Danube is resumed, on the basis of the amphorae imported in Dacian settlements. The paper examines the real role of Greek colonies from the Black Sea in mediating this trade on an ancient road that led deep into the 'barbarian' inland, from the shoreline to the Carpathians. The significant influx of Rhodian wine to Cetățeni at a time when the West and also the North of the Pontos Euxeinos market are in obvious decline may also suggests the existence of alternative routes cut directly through the North Thracian lands and avoiding the Greek cities in reaching the untamed 'Barbarian' land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

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.

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.

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). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Amphorae stamps are one of the most informative categories of archaeological material discovered during excavations of the Nadlimanskoe fortified settlement of Chobruchi on the left bank of the Dniester firth. The first publications of the stamps contained a lot of mistakes, including gross ones. In the present paper these errors have been corrected. In addition, the analysis of the stamps of the Black Sea and Mediterranean centers was conducted. The analisis makes it possible to distinguish four stages of the receipt of imported products in stamped ceramic tare on the Nadlimanskoe fortified settlement: 1) 410—371 BC; 2) 370—336 BC; 3) 335—306 BC; 4) 305—271. Taking into account the coefficients of stamping, authors managed to calculate the absolute density of distribution of the products in the ceramic tare that arrived in the Nadlimanskoe fortified settlement from the end of the 5th c. BC till the end of the first fird of the 3rd c. BC.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amphorae and jar stoppers found during the 2010–2014 seasons of the Polish–American excavations at Berenike in the Red Sea are found mainly in the early Roman trash dumps, although single finds come from all over the ancient city. Altogether 54 stoppers were studied. More than 60% were preserved fragmentarily, some were stamped and colored. As a category they are typical of the Eastern Dessert. Numerous finds come from Myos Hormos and Mons Claudianus, single finds from Mons Porphyrites and Sikait. They reflect Egyptian wine production during the Roman period and in late antiquity. They consist of plug and sealing mixture, made from various materials like plaster and mud, ceramic elements (bowls, lids, roudcuts(?), sherds), natural cork, wood or textile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the perspective of a complete external prosopography of the Pisidians in progress, this article presents a commented catalogue of 61 persons who lived on the island of Rhodos and in its Carian Peraia from the 3rd century BCE to the beginning of the Roman Imperial period. Concerning those slaves, mercenaries, artists, craftsmen or merchants, a historical context is provided, then remarks on their juristic, social and economical status. The evoked documentation is based on inscribed monuments—mainly funerary—and amphora stamps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The material published here contributes in differing ways to amphora and onomastic studies. The rare name Demonomos appears on some stamps and the various aspects of name and stamp are balanced up. An understandable misreading by Flinders Petrie of a Rhodian stamp of c. 210 BC is corrected and its bearer identified. An inscribed amphora lid from Naukratis, probably of c. 100 BC and of Adriatic origin, has no known parallel. Three graffiti on amphoras of Cyrenaic origin reflect official civic dating usage and may also be of the first century BC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is dedicated to a series of 49 amphora stamps of Sinope found during the excavations at Orgame-Argamum (Jurilovca, Tulcea County) after 1992. The new stamps add to the previously published 44 stamps, both series revealing analogies with astyonomes and producers. The stamps of Sinope found at Ogame-Argamum provide an opportunity to resume the subject of Sinope amphorae's circulation at this site and to refine, by comparison with the amphora stamps identified in other west Pontic fortresses, the hypotheses regarding the role of Orgame-Argamum in the trade with Sinope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

32 stamped amphora handles were excavated on the Agora site in Paphos (ancient Nea Paphos), Cyprus, within the framework of the Paphos Agora Project conducted by the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology under the direction of Professor E. Papuci-Władyka since 2011. Most of them were found in contexts dated from the Hellenistic to the Roman period. There are, however, a few stamped handles that were uncovered in definitively uncontaminated Hellenistic contexts. Most probably all of the stamped handles date to the Hellenistic period. They come from Greek amphora production centres including Rhodes, Knidos, Thasos in the Aegean and from Sinope on the Black Sea coast. Most of these stamps are commonly known, although there are several examples of a special interest.

To date Mleiha has yielded eighteen stamps belonging to Rhodian wine amphorae. Eleven of these can be dated to the second half of the third and the first half of the second centuries BC. Rhodian stamps are vital for the chronological framework of the PIR-A period at Mleiha. Most of them, if not all, belonged to funerary contexts but were unfortunately rarely found in undisturbed contexts. The stamp types of the eponym Ἀριστεύς and of the fabricants Ἀπολλώνιος and Φιλοστέφανος do not seem to occur very often. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Located in Southwestern Anatolia, Patara was one of the most important port cities in Lycia. The fact that Patara, along with Telmessos, had one of the largest and most secured seaports in Western Lycia enables us to trace the commercial amphorae in the city from Late Antiquity (c. 12th A.D.), uninterruptedly back to the 7th century B.C. Alongside this temporal continuity observed in the amphorae from the city, particularly as it was on the maritime trade route linking the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean cities and with its proximity to the prominent contemporary wine and amphora producers such as Rhodes, Cnidus, and the Rhodian Peraia, which produced in Anatolia under Rhodian control during the Hellenistic Period, resulted in the finds of a wide variety of amphora typologies at Patara. Despite the historical significance of the region as outlined above, neither a detailed analysis nor any comprehensive archaeological study has previously been conducted on the Roman amphorae from Lycia, obscuring through the lack of research, recognition of the region that reflects its importance. In this context, the four amphora stamps from the Roman Empire Period, unearthed at different sites at Patara, are of significant importance. The detailed analysis of these amphora stamps, the main focus of this study, should provide the first solid data to illuminate the trade affairs of Patara and particularly of Western Lycia during the early Roman period and it presents the first preliminary information regarding the overseas trade activities of the city during this period. These stamps, uncovered through only a limited number of excavation campaigns at Patara, indicate the city actively engaged in commercial affairs with the Italian peninsula by the 1st century B.C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

32 stamped amphora handles were excavated on the Agora site in Paphos (ancient Nea Paphos), Cyprus, within the framework of the Paphos Agora Project conducted by the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology under the direction of Professor E. Papuci-Wladyka since 2011. Most of them were found in contexts dated from the Hellenistic to the Roman period. There are, however, a few stamped handles that were uncovered in definitively uncontaminated Hellenistic contexts. Most probably all of the stamped handles date to the Hellenistic period. They come from Greek amphora production centres including Rhodes, Knidos, Thasos in the Aegean and from Sinope on the Black Sea coast. Most of these stamps are commonly known, although there are several examples of a special interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the way how to attach absolute dates to the eponyms on Rhodian amphora stamps. It says that the sequence should follow the pattern of previous scholars in counting backwards from the final name recorded in Carthage. It mentions that the hypothetical character of the dates must be stressed to determine the sequence. It adds that future discoveries of new combination of eponyms and fabricants can result to the adjustment of the whole sequencing pattern.