Amphores timbrées d’époque hellénistique à Mytilène (Lesbos)
Hellenistic stamped amphorae in Mytilene (Lesbos)

Summary/Abstract: Excavations carried out by the Canadian team from the University of Vancouver (resp. H. Williams) on two sites in Mytilene (Kastro and Rue de Nicomédie) yielded significant amphoric material dominated by gray pulp packaging of local origin, of the Lesvos type, but also containing a certain number of import items from the Hellenistic period, some of which are stamped, the subject of this communication. A total of 57 amphoric stamps have been collected and 42 identified so far; distributed among 13 production centers more or less insured. The Rhodesian stamps, which are in the majority, belong to several different chronological groups, and the Thasians, all in the recent era of stamping in Thasos. Even though these stamps come from excavated layers, they cannot be considered to have any real stratigraphic value. and absolute. On the other hand, they provide important data on amphoric prosopography and on the commercial exchanges maintained by the island of Lesbos.

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