Amphora

This globular bucchero "spiral amphora" has two strap handles. The amphora is intact (one handle was broken and reattached), with some cracks around the base. The belly of the amph...

This Nolan-type amphora is decorated with the simple composition and limited ornamentation characteristic of this vessel shape (1). On side A, a woman sits in a high backed chair h...

Red-figure Nolan amphora, minor restorations. SIDE A: Demeter and Triptolemos. The goddess Demeter, left, wears a peplos, earrings, and a crown with a veil. With her right hand ...

On one side: Theseus and Sinis. Sinis was a bandit who lived at the Isthmus of Corinth, the only land-route from the Greek mainland to the Peloponnesian peninsula, and would trick ...

Potsherd of red clay, incised before firing and later covered with a yellowish gray slip. The wheel-marks inside show that this is from the bottom of the amphora, and that the insc...

Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color. Rim is trumpet-shaped. Stamp is on the exterior of the rim. Stamp is square, 1.55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its...

Part of the handle at the point of attachment to the vessel neck has been sheared off. The stamp has been imperfectly impressed, preserving a small section through the middle. Visi...

The amphora factories of F. Paternus were located in Baetica (southern Spain), probably in the area of the city of Italica. Paternus was involved with the factories of the Iunii Me...