transport amphora
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.39
- Description
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Fragment of neck and oval handle of a Rhodian pottery transport amphora with rectangular stamp. Clay near fine, buff.
- Production date
- 137 BC (see N. Badoud, Le temps de Rhodes, 2015, 143.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.20 centimetres (of handle)
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Height: 1.10 centimetres (of stamp)
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Length: 10.90 centimetres
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Width: 2.90 centimetres (of handle)
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Width: 3.10 centimetres (of stamp)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Name Thersandros
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See Bailey 1969,37-38 and Fourrier and Kiely 2012, 273-84 for details of discovery.
Rhodian stamps predominate among the examples discovered in the modern French excavation at Bamboula and indeed throughout the island.
Bibliography:
Calvet Y. 1972, Salamine de Chypre III. Les timbres amphoriques (1965-1970) (Paris: De Boccard).
Calvet Y. 1978, 'Timbes amphoriques de Salamine (1971-1974)', RDAC 1978.
Calvet Y. 1982, Kition-Bamboula I. Les timbres amphoriques (Paris: ERC).
Karageorghis V. 2005, Excavations at Kition VI. The Phoenician and later levels (Nicosia: Department of Antiquities).
Salles J.-F. (ed.) 1993, Kition-Bamboula IV. Les niveaux hellénistiques (Paris: ERC).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Salvaged during the partial demolition of a site called Bamboula (hill) in Larnaka in 1879 by British military engineers. The material, along with other items in the registraiton sequence GR 1880,7-10 was donated to the British Museum in the name of the Foreign Secretary Lord Granville (q.v.), though the transfer was almost certainly requested or arranged by Charles Newton (q.v.).
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.39
