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Stamped Amphora Handle

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This stamp, of the F(iglina), or possibly F(undus) of a certain Alb. Lic. (whose name cannot be completed), is dated to the second century CE on the basis of the position of another example found in Monte Testaccio in Rome. Another example of the stamp is known on a globular vessel in Arbon, Switzerland; that particular type of amphora suggests that the origin of the stamp, and therefore the location of the property of Alb. Lic., was in southern Spain, in the ancient province of Baetica.
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. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
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Title: Stamped Amphora Handle
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This stamp, of the F(iglina), or possibly F(undus) of a certain Alb.
Lic.
(whose name cannot be completed), is dated to the second century CE on the basis of the position of another example found in Monte Testaccio in Rome.
Another example of the stamp is known on a globular vessel in Arbon, Switzerland; that particular type of amphora suggests that the origin of the stamp, and therefore the location of the property of Alb.
Lic.
, was in southern Spain, in the ancient province of Baetica.

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