Imperial Stamps on Early Byzantine Amphoras The Athenian Agora Examples

Abstract

Until now only eight stamps depicting an emperor have been found on Late Roman Amphoras type 2/13 (these globular amphoras probably carried olive oil). Unfortunately, in only two cases do we know their place of manufacture, the late Roman settlement of Halasarna on the Island of Kos. They are published in detail and dated on the basis of excavation data. Others have been found in Constantinople, Pnyka (Athens), on the Island of Geronisos, Alexandria, Kellia, and Tocra. The aim of this paper is to present in more detail the four stamps found in the Athenian Agora, whose existence was noted by Virginia Grace in her publication of the example found in Pnyka.