A Revision of the Dating of Heraclea’s Amphorae with Stamps by the “Distressful” Manufacturer Etymos Cover Image

Еще раз о гераклейских амфорах с клеймами «многострадального» фабриканта Этима
A Revision of the Dating of Heraclea’s Amphorae with Stamps by the “Distressful” Manufacturer Etymos

Author(s): Sergei Ju. Monachov
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Economic history, Ancient World
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Heraclea Pontica; 4th—3rd centuries BC; amphorae; stamps; chronology; complexes

Summary/Abstract: The author critically examines the question of chronology of Heraclea’s stamps with the name of the late manufacturer Etymos, which since the mid 1990s has been traditionally dated by the late 4th — early 3rd centuries BC. The analysis of a series of complexes with stamps of this manufacturer found in the barrow at village Peski, pit no. 105 on Belozero settlement, from Nimphean cellar (found in 1993), from Gorgippian wells no. 10 and no. 269 and from the feast on Alexandropol barrow allows a rather reliable synchronization of this manufacturer within the 340s —330s BC, i. e. 35—40 years earlier. This raises the issue of the necessity to review the straightforward typological classification of the Heraclean stamps by presence of one or two names on stamps and to provide their new dating.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 357-369
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian