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Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba William D World Languages and Cultures Publications World Languages and Cultures 5-1997 Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba William D. E. Coulson American School of Classical Studies at Athens Margaret S. Mook Iowa State University, [email protected] James W. Rehard Virginia R. Grace Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, and the Classical Archaeology and Art History Commons The ompc lete bibliographic information for this item can be found at http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ language_pubs/41. For information on how to cite this item, please visit http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ howtocite.html. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in World Languages and Cultures Publications by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba Abstract This article publishes the 39 stamped amphora handles found during excavations conducted at Tel Beersheba between 1969 and 1976. All were found in poorly stratified contexts and so have no real stratigraphic value. They do, however, attest to the importance of Beersheba in the Rhodian economic sphere of the late Hellenistic period and add to our knowledge of Rhodesian fabricants and eponyms of the second century B.C. Disciplines Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | Archaeological Anthropology | Classical Archaeology and Art History Comments © 1997 American Schools of Oriental Research. All rights reserved. Republished here by permission of the American Schools of Oriental Research This article is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/41 Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba Author(s): William D. E. Coulson, Margaret S. Mook, James W. Rehard and Virginia R. Grace Source: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 306 (May, 1997), pp. 47-62 Published by: The American Schools of Oriental Research Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1357548 Accessed: 21-04-2015 21:08 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. The American Schools of Oriental Research is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 129.186.176.91 on Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:08:33 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba WILLIAM D. E. COULSON MARGARET S. MOOK JAMES W. REHARD American School of Classical Studies College of Arts and Sciences 1003 Hilldale Drive 54 Souidias Street Foreign Languages and Literature Macon, Missouri 63552 Athens 10676 Iowa State University Greece Ames, IA 50011 [email protected] [email protected] with contributions by Virginia R. Gracet This article publishesthe 39 stampedamphora handles found duringexcavations conductedat TelBeersheba between 1969 and 1976.All werefound in poorlystratified contexts and so have no real stratigraphic value. They do, however, attest to the impor- tance of Beersheba in the Rhodian economic sphere of the late Hellenistic period and add to our knowledgeof Rhodianfabricants and eponymsof the second centuryB.C. INTRODUCTION and thus represent what is actually preserved rather than what a particularartist saw. Profiles of the han- totalof 39 stampedamphora handles were dle fragments (at a scale of 1:2) have been included A found during excavations at Tel Beersheba because they might help ceramic specialists to study between 1969 and 1976 by the Institute of developments in shape. Profiles of nos. 3, 11, 20, Archaeology at Tel Aviv University under the direc- and 25 are importantbecause in these cases the rims tion of the late YohananAharoni. Since the handles are also preserved; similarly, the profiles of nos. 7, come from poorly stratified contexts, they cannot 33, 35-36, and 37-39 are important because they be considered as having any real stratigraphicvalue, are not from well-known classes. Since the Rhodian but they do provide interesting information on the handles all have a fairly uniform fabric and slip, prosopographyof the late Hellenistic period and for readings from the Munsell Soil Color Charts (1975) this reason are worth publication. are not provided for each individual catalog entry, Of the 39 handles, 19 come from the area of the but are described generally below. Readings are, Hellenistic temple in the center of the site (Derfler however, provided for other less well-known and 1993). With the exception of one surface find, the unidentified handles. The Rhodian fabric consists of rest of the handles were found scattered throughout a well-levigated clay with some small grit inclusions. Strata II-IV of the city; none were found in undis- The color of the fabric ranges from light red (Mun- turbed contexts. For ease in finding their location for sell 2.5YR 6/6) to reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), red- future study, we present precise excavation infor- dish yellow (5YR 7/6), and various shades of pink mation at the beginning of each entry in the accom- (5YR 7/4-8/4 and 7.5YR 8/4). The color of the slip panying catalog; this includes registration number, ranges from shades of pink (7.5YR 8/3-8/4) to those photograph number, and stratum/pail numbers (for of very pale brown (10YR 8/3-8/4). an explanation of the strata, see Aharoni 1973: 8). By far the majority of stamps (31) are of Rhodian Since in most cases the photographs do not add to origin; 26 can be dated to the second century and the drawings and profiles, they have been omitted three to the third century B.C. Of the others, one from this publication. The drawings (at a scale of is Chian, four are Roman of the first century B.C., 1:1) have been made from rubbings of the stamps and three are of uncertain origin. All the datable t Deceased 47 This content downloaded from 129.186.176.91 on Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:08:33 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 48 COULSON, MOOK, AND REHARD BASOR 306 stamps can be assigned to Periods II-V, a period After the end of the second century B.C., the Rhod- of intense Rhodian exportation; indeed, 18 of the ian export market begins to decline and is gradually stamps belong to Period V. For the Rhodian stamps, taken over by Rome. This shift is mirrored by the only Grace's period dates are provided in this arti- presence of four Roman stamps in the Beersheba cle (Grace 1985: 42-43); in this way, whenever the assemblage. absolute dates for a period change as more archae- Even though the Beersheba handles have little ological evidence becomes available, it will be pos- chronological force for the stratigraphyof the site, sible to redate easily previously published material. they do attest to the prominence of the site in the In sum, Grace's period dates, which are based on a Rhodian economic sphere of the late Hellenistic thorough study of Rhodian amphorae and their han- period. They also provide importantinformation that dle stamps, especially exports to Athens and Attica, adds to our knowledge of Rhodian fabricants, in- Alexandria, Delos, and Pergamon, are as follows: cluding three women fabricants and eponyms of the Period II, ca. 240-205 B.C.; Period III, ca. 205-175 second century B.C., and of the devices used in the B.C.; Period IV, ca. 175-146 B.C.;Period V, ca. 146- stamps. They also add significantly to the relatively 108 B.c.; and Period VI, ca. 108-88 B.C. (see also small but growing number of published stamps from Grace and Savvatianou-Petropoulakou 1970: 289- Israel. 317; Grace 1974: 193-203; Rotroff 1987: 4-6). THE STAMPED HANDLES 1. 14026/1. Photo no. 1.2484. 1606 H-2 1601 Rose 1 Aksadv8pou Secondary stamp: theta Rhodian, Periods IV-V ..?(,e) (V. R. G.)1 Aks4avSpog, who uses circular stamps turer?) signed their own work by means of the sec- with rose (above the legend), is one of the Rhodian ondary stamps. Naming the month as well as the fabricants whose amphorae are marked with small year (cf. no. 2) may have been another device for secondary stamps in addition to the regular endors- narrowingthe responsibility:it would make a smaller ing and dating stamps on the tops of the handles. group for discard in case a spot check showed a de- The secondary stamps are usually set on the side of fect. When the production was large, as in the case the upper attachment of one (at random) of the two of the fabricant Mi{ax (cf. no. 24), 30 or more sec- handles of the jar. Thus, on a broken-off handle such ondary stamps may be known in association with a stamp may appear with either an endorsing (fabri- the same fabricant's name; we do not know if the cant's) or a dating (eponym's) name; but in either working potters used new marks each year.
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