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Stamped Amphora Handle
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Thick fragment of an amphora handle featuring a stamp. The exterior of the handle is whitish-gray. Looking at the cross-section of the handle, it is possible to see the inner rim is red, while the majority of the inside fabric is dark gray. The diameter of the handle is about 4.5 centimeters. [J.Pesce 8/4/10]
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 stamps of the "Two Iunii Melissi", giving forms of the names Melissus and Melissa, belonged to a firm owned by a husband and wife, or a brother and sister. They appear to have operated the firm in the first half of the second century CE. Around the end of the reign of Antoninus Pius, the business appears to have passed to L. Iunius Melissus, who was probably the son of both or one of them. The museum has an example of his stamps (1977.216.154).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Probably acquired by Henry W. Haynes in or near Rome c. 1877.
Bequest of Prof. Henry W. Haynes to Department of the Classics 1912.
Transfer from the Department of the Classics 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Bequest of Henry W. Haynes 1912
Title: Stamped Amphora Handle
Description:
Thick fragment of an amphora handle featuring a stamp.
The exterior of the handle is whitish-gray.
Looking at the cross-section of the handle, it is possible to see the inner rim is red, while the majority of the inside fabric is dark gray.
The diameter of the handle is about 4.
5 centimeters.
[J.
Pesce 8/4/10]
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 stamps of the "Two Iunii Melissi", giving forms of the names Melissus and Melissa, belonged to a firm owned by a husband and wife, or a brother and sister.
They appear to have operated the firm in the first half of the second century CE.
Around the end of the reign of Antoninus Pius, the business appears to have passed to L.
Iunius Melissus, who was probably the son of both or one of them.
The museum has an example of his stamps (1977.
216.
154).
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Stamped Amphora Handle
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