Amphora handle
- Description
- This is the handle from an ‘amphora’ storage jar. Onto it is stamped a Greek inscription indicating the name of the person who made the jar, or the name of the estate where it was filled with produce.
- Accession Loan No.
- 1036/1988/3
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- amphora handle
- Simple Name
- amphora
- Full Name
- amphora handle
- Dimensions
- length 100 mm; W 65 mm; TH 80 mm
- Cultural Group
- Greek? Roman?
- Period Classification
- Classical - 500-336 BC; Hellenistic - 336-146 BC
- Family Group
- Material
- pottery
- Collection Country
- Greece?
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
