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DOI Artikel:Sztetyłło, Zofia: Heracles with a cornucopia on the seal of a Sinopean amphora
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17138#0044
1. Heracles with a cornucopia 011 tlie scal of a Sinopean amphora, 150 — 120 B.C., National
Museum in Warsaw.
of Thearionos. Numerous analogous finds enable us to date this seal as of 150 —102 B.C.1.
Next to tlie inscription there is, similarily to seals from othcr territories, an artistic sym-
bol. It is a słender youth with a cornucopia leaning on a support (a post or a column).
Tlie consistent repctition of this symbol by the name of differcnt potters seems to itidicate
that it is the sign of an official2.
V. Canarache publishing the stamped handlcs from Istria defines analogous images on
the seal as "the figurę of a woman with a cornucopia leaning against a column"3. The
illustration of these monuments by "rubbings" rendcrs more difficult a detailcd com-
parison of the object from Mirmeki with Rumanian seals. There is no doubt, however, that
1. Z. Sztetyllo, ,,Stemplowane imadła amfor", in Pamiętnik wystawy zabytków z wykopalisk iv Mirmeki w 1957 Toku (by
M. L. Bernhard), Warszawa, 1959 (National Museum in Warsa w), p. 344, Nr. 246.
2. Cf. the remarks of V. I. Cechmistrenko, K voprosu o periodisatzii sinopskih keramitcheskih kleim", Souetskaia Archeo-
logia, 1958, 2, p. 56 f.
3. V. Canarache, Importul amforelor stampitale la Istria, Bucuresti, 1957, p. 139 — 141, Nrs. 323 — 329.
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Museum in Warsaw.
of Thearionos. Numerous analogous finds enable us to date this seal as of 150 —102 B.C.1.
Next to tlie inscription there is, similarily to seals from othcr territories, an artistic sym-
bol. It is a słender youth with a cornucopia leaning on a support (a post or a column).
Tlie consistent repctition of this symbol by the name of differcnt potters seems to itidicate
that it is the sign of an official2.
V. Canarache publishing the stamped handlcs from Istria defines analogous images on
the seal as "the figurę of a woman with a cornucopia leaning against a column"3. The
illustration of these monuments by "rubbings" rendcrs more difficult a detailcd com-
parison of the object from Mirmeki with Rumanian seals. There is no doubt, however, that
1. Z. Sztetyllo, ,,Stemplowane imadła amfor", in Pamiętnik wystawy zabytków z wykopalisk iv Mirmeki w 1957 Toku (by
M. L. Bernhard), Warszawa, 1959 (National Museum in Warsa w), p. 344, Nr. 246.
2. Cf. the remarks of V. I. Cechmistrenko, K voprosu o periodisatzii sinopskih keramitcheskih kleim", Souetskaia Archeo-
logia, 1958, 2, p. 56 f.
3. V. Canarache, Importul amforelor stampitale la Istria, Bucuresti, 1957, p. 139 — 141, Nrs. 323 — 329.
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