Agora Object: SS 9295
Inventory Number:   SS 9295
Section Number:   ΒΒ 501
Title:   Stamped Amphora Fragment: Byzantine
Category:   SS Misc.
Description:   Part of neck and top of one handle preserved.
Micaceous pinkish clay; light slip.
Stamp on neck beside and below handle; bust of Byzantine emperor with sceptre at left; “B” in field beside; legend around; coin type(?).
Cf. SS 5654, SS 9085, SS 2263, SS 9434.
Notes:   Par: cf Harales: SS 09085, SS 02263, SS 05654, P 00213;
on arch: SS 09434, BB 565(VG)*
Context:   Sandy fill.
Writing:   α) Ἐπὶ [-5-]εμέου̣ς̣ ἄρχο̣ν̣τ̣(
bust
(in O)
b) Κ (to l. of inscription)
Negatives:   Leica
Date:   9 June 1939
Section:   ΒΒ
Grid:   ΒΒ:33/ΛΘ
Bibliography:   Opait and Diamanti (2014), p. 55,57, figs. 9-10.
    Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), p. 188, under no. 14.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949)
Image: 2013.01.0082
Image: 2013.01.0083
Card: SS 9295
Card: SS 9295