Agora Object: SS 9085
Inventory Number:   SS 9085
Section Number:   ΖΖ 63
Title:   Stamped Amphora Handle: Byzantine
Category:   SS Misc.
Description:   From an amphora of very late Roman type with slightly curved sloping handle roughly round in section.
Light brownish clay full of air-holes; unglazed.
Circular stamp, only partially struck on handle; at centre bearded bust full front; at right of head, a “clover”-leaf; around the edge letters; below the bust, parts of two letters.
Context:   Loose late fill.
Writing:   Ἐπὶ Ἰν[οκεντίου αρχο]υ cross
bust of Byzantine emperor
Κ̣
(in O)
Negatives:   Leica
Date:   22 May 1939
Section:   ΖΖ
Grid:   ΖΖ:63/ΚΖ
Bibliography:   Opait and Diamanti (2014), p. 55, figs. 11,13.
    Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 188, under no. 14.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949)
Image: 2013.01.0080
Image: 2013.01.0081
Card: SS 9085
Card: SS 9085