2008.69: Amphora Handle with Greek Stamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2008.69

Title

Amphora Handle with Greek Stamp

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

handle

Date

4th-1st century BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Campania

Period

Hellenistic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175270

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Stamped

Dimensions

5.86 cm (2 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp and inscription: SAIMIS (reversed, i.e. "SIMIAS")

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Collected by Horton O'Neil in the fields outside Carthage, 1924-1925.
Given to McDaniel Collection by O'Neil in December 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2008

Object Number

2008.69

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Fragment of a handle in pinkish clay. Fabric is Campanian. Stamp on upper portion of handle. The stamp, which was pressed carefully to show completely despite the curve of the handle, is rectangular, 4.98 cm: SAIMIS. The letters read backwards, as the stamp was the positive, indicating the name "Simias."

Publication History

• Nancy Hirschland and Mason Hammond, "Stamped Potters' Marks and Other Stamped Pottery in the McDaniel Collection", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1968), Vol. 72, pp. 369-82, no. ON. 20

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