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Stamped Amphora Handle
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The amphora stamps of the Melissi family are found all over the western Mediterranean, in such frequency and extent as to suggest that they must have been one of the wealthiest and most productive families in Spain. The distribution of stamps of L. Iunius Melissus range from the 160s through the early part of the 3rd century CE, to judge from the find-spots of stamps in Monte Testaccio. He seems to have inherited the business from the two Melissi (husband and wife, or brother and sister) who stamped their handles as II IVN. MELISSI ET MELISS(a)E, and was probably the son of both or one of them; the museum has a copy of that stamp (1977.216.3037).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
From Monte Testaccio acquired; by George J. Pfeiffer and Rachel Hartwell Pfeiffer Cambridge MA (by 1905) gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University Cambridge MA (1905-1977) transfer; to the Fogg Museum 1977.
Transfer from Department of the Classics 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
Title: Stamped Amphora Handle
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The amphora stamps of the Melissi family are found all over the western Mediterranean, in such frequency and extent as to suggest that they must have been one of the wealthiest and most productive families in Spain.
The distribution of stamps of L.
Iunius Melissus range from the 160s through the early part of the 3rd century CE, to judge from the find-spots of stamps in Monte Testaccio.
He seems to have inherited the business from the two Melissi (husband and wife, or brother and sister) who stamped their handles as II IVN.
MELISSI ET MELISS(a)E, and was probably the son of both or one of them; the museum has a copy of that stamp (1977.
216.
3037).
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