A New Lot of Greek Amphoric Stamps from Medgidia Elenistic 1 site, Constanța County

• Published in: Studia antiqua et archaeologica Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 21 - 45
• Main Authors: Mateevici, Natalia, Colțeanu, Petre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi 2023; The Publishing House of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
• Subjects: Ancient World; Archaeology; Cultural history; chronological groups; Greek centers; amphora; stamps; magistrates; producers
• ISSN: 1224-2284; 2392-6031
• DOI: 10.47743/saa-2023-29-1-2

The preventive archaeological research carried out on the Medgidia Elenistic 1 site, by MINA Constanța, which took place between November 2022 and July 2023, brought to light a rich and beautiful ceramic material of all kinds, from Getic and Scythian hand modeled pottery by – to luxury black-glazed Greek vessels, gray pottery and, of course, a rich batch of Greek amphorae and their fragments. In general terms, the discovered material falls chronologically between the IV and III BC. Among the amphoric material, the majority on the site, a special place is occupied by the amphoric stamps (67), coming from6 Greek producing centers, both Mediterranean - Thasos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and from the Pontic ones - Heraclea, Sinope, Chersones. Among the stamps from Medgidia, some specimens of unknown centers were also noticed, some present for the first time in the W-NW area of the Black Sea, as well as, we believe, a new Sinopean producer. Most of the stamps belong to the Sinopean amphoric production - 34, which represents 60% of the total of this lot. From a chronological point of view, the batch of stamps discovered on the Medgidia Elenistic 1 site falls between the first half of the century 4th and mid-century 3rd century Chr.