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Amphora Handle with Greek Stamp
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Amphora handle with rim section. Pale pink clay. The handle has a flat top and abrupt angle. An oblong stamp is impressed on the top, deeply at the inner end and perhaps running off at the outer, where there is no defined margin; it is 2.1 cm wide and as preserved 5 cm long. A roughly oval boss in the middle has two ribbon-like protuberances on either side of its upper end. Central attribute might be a bunch of grapes hanging from a branch. To the left two lines in Greek read: ME/TRA and on the right: NE[ /TO[. Comparable examples suggest restoring the name Menestratos. The letters are generously square and the A has the central crossbar broken downwards.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Found by Mason Hammond at Pompeii 1938.
Given to the McDaniel Collection September 1959.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Amphora Handle with Greek Stamp
Description:
Amphora handle with rim section.
Pale pink clay.
The handle has a flat top and abrupt angle.
An oblong stamp is impressed on the top, deeply at the inner end and perhaps running off at the outer, where there is no defined margin; it is 2.
1 cm wide and as preserved 5 cm long.
A roughly oval boss in the middle has two ribbon-like protuberances on either side of its upper end.
Central attribute might be a bunch of grapes hanging from a branch.
To the left two lines in Greek read: ME/TRA and on the right: NE[ /TO[.
Comparable examples suggest restoring the name Menestratos.
The letters are generously square and the A has the central crossbar broken downwards.
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