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4. Description of the amphora types
Roman province in the late 2nd and early 1 st centuries B.C.”192. A number of Hellenistic amphorae in Ephesus
have stamps. There is only one round, not easily legible stamp at the Terrace House 2.
EmExi... and in the center No.... - no. 508
The stamps with the bull’s head and the palm leaf, characteristic of the first century B.C., can be found in
Ephesus as well. There are fewer stamps from the first century B.C. Late Hellenistic stamped handle fragments
have been found among the ruins of the Agora.
Palm leaf - no. 40 is common (in many variations) on the late
Knidian handles
Bibl.: Grace - Savvatianou-Petropoulakou 1970, Delos E221;
second quarter of first century B.C.
The bull’s head - no. 43 was also common on Knid-
ian handles in the late second/early first century B.C.
Bibl.: Grace - Savvatianou-Petropoulakou 1970,
331-343.
Bunch of grapes? - no. 47, was stamped twice. The
traces of the shifted die are visible. I have not seen
similar stamps.
Few Knidian amphorae are known outside the eastern Mediterranean and stamped amphorae are very rare.
A typical stamp was found in a layer dated to the second half of the first century B.C. at the Magdalensberg
excavations. (The right profile of a theatre mask respresenting a bearded man is recognizable in the stamp)193.
Contents and origin: Knidian amphorae probably contained wine194. A number of production sites are known
in the Knidos region and in other parts of the Datqa peninsula195. A workshop has been partially unearthed near
Res?adiye, near modem Datqa. The terrace areas preserved traces of wine production196. Today the hillside
country of new Knidos has only olive groves.
Distribution: Knidian wine was popular in Hellenistic times but its consumption in the Imperial period is
less documented197. Amphorae of this type dated to the Roman period have been found in Italia, Narbonensis,
Raetia, Germania, Dalmatia and Noricum, Pannonia, the Red Sea region and Indian Ocean region198.
192 Grace 1979, under fig. 64.
193 Bezeczky 1993,239.
194 Athenaeus I, 32 “Knidian wine produces blood, is nourishing, and causes easy relaxing of the bowels; but when drunk too copiously
it weaknes the stomach”; Whitbread 1995, 68.
195 Empereur - Picon 1986, 116-118 fig. 23; Empereur - Tuna 1988; Empereur - Tuna 1989; Empereur et al. 1999; Tuna 2003.
196 K. §enol personal communication.
197 Grace 1979,abovefig.31;Riley 1979,128;Panella 1986,621;Martin-Kilcher 1994,440; Majcherek 2007,14f.;Williams2005,Pompeii38.
198 Panella 1986,621; Rizzo 2003,155; Lemaitre 2002,221 fig. 1; Martin-Kilcher 1994,440; Anderson-Stojanovic 1992, Pl. 79 no. 668; Martin-
Kilcher 1994, 440; Gassner 1989, 71 no. 25 fig. 10; Sciallano - Sibella 1994, Diverses Amphores Grecques; Bezeczky 1993, 237-241;
Bezeczky 1994a, 117; Vidrih Perko 1994, 85 T/8 no. 1; §enol - Kerem 2000, 98 no. 23; Tomber 2005,229; Tomber 2008,39-43,166.
4. Description of the amphora types
Roman province in the late 2nd and early 1 st centuries B.C.”192. A number of Hellenistic amphorae in Ephesus
have stamps. There is only one round, not easily legible stamp at the Terrace House 2.
EmExi... and in the center No.... - no. 508
The stamps with the bull’s head and the palm leaf, characteristic of the first century B.C., can be found in
Ephesus as well. There are fewer stamps from the first century B.C. Late Hellenistic stamped handle fragments
have been found among the ruins of the Agora.
Palm leaf - no. 40 is common (in many variations) on the late
Knidian handles
Bibl.: Grace - Savvatianou-Petropoulakou 1970, Delos E221;
second quarter of first century B.C.
The bull’s head - no. 43 was also common on Knid-
ian handles in the late second/early first century B.C.
Bibl.: Grace - Savvatianou-Petropoulakou 1970,
331-343.
Bunch of grapes? - no. 47, was stamped twice. The
traces of the shifted die are visible. I have not seen
similar stamps.
Few Knidian amphorae are known outside the eastern Mediterranean and stamped amphorae are very rare.
A typical stamp was found in a layer dated to the second half of the first century B.C. at the Magdalensberg
excavations. (The right profile of a theatre mask respresenting a bearded man is recognizable in the stamp)193.
Contents and origin: Knidian amphorae probably contained wine194. A number of production sites are known
in the Knidos region and in other parts of the Datqa peninsula195. A workshop has been partially unearthed near
Res?adiye, near modem Datqa. The terrace areas preserved traces of wine production196. Today the hillside
country of new Knidos has only olive groves.
Distribution: Knidian wine was popular in Hellenistic times but its consumption in the Imperial period is
less documented197. Amphorae of this type dated to the Roman period have been found in Italia, Narbonensis,
Raetia, Germania, Dalmatia and Noricum, Pannonia, the Red Sea region and Indian Ocean region198.
192 Grace 1979, under fig. 64.
193 Bezeczky 1993,239.
194 Athenaeus I, 32 “Knidian wine produces blood, is nourishing, and causes easy relaxing of the bowels; but when drunk too copiously
it weaknes the stomach”; Whitbread 1995, 68.
195 Empereur - Picon 1986, 116-118 fig. 23; Empereur - Tuna 1988; Empereur - Tuna 1989; Empereur et al. 1999; Tuna 2003.
196 K. §enol personal communication.
197 Grace 1979,abovefig.31;Riley 1979,128;Panella 1986,621;Martin-Kilcher 1994,440; Majcherek 2007,14f.;Williams2005,Pompeii38.
198 Panella 1986,621; Rizzo 2003,155; Lemaitre 2002,221 fig. 1; Martin-Kilcher 1994,440; Anderson-Stojanovic 1992, Pl. 79 no. 668; Martin-
Kilcher 1994, 440; Gassner 1989, 71 no. 25 fig. 10; Sciallano - Sibella 1994, Diverses Amphores Grecques; Bezeczky 1993, 237-241;
Bezeczky 1994a, 117; Vidrih Perko 1994, 85 T/8 no. 1; §enol - Kerem 2000, 98 no. 23; Tomber 2005,229; Tomber 2008,39-43,166.
