Wine Amphora with Stamp, Mleiha, Sharjah

Fragment of a wine amphora from Rhodes with a stamp that names the eponym Agemachos and the month Dalios. Agemachos can be quite accurately dated to ca. 181 – 179 BCE. An eponym was a yearly elected official, hence his name is preceded by the Greek preposition epi, meaning ‘under the term of’. The second handle of the amphora would have had the stamp of the fabricant. The repair holes along some of the breaks show that this amphora was repaired in antiquity, before it was placed as a funerary gift in a tomb. The amphora fragment was discovered in 2014 by the Belgian archaeological expedition in the graveyard area AV-Z at Mleiha, Sharjah. 336 photos. Completely processed (aligned, scaled, modeled, cleaned, simplified, unwrapped, textured, meshed) in Reality Capture. GDH thanks and acknowledges Dr. Bruno Overlaet for this description. B. Overlaet, E. Haerinck, et al. , Preliminary Report on the 2014 Belgian Excavations at Mleiha area AV, Sharjah (UAE), Annual Sharjah Archaeology 15, 2018, p. 38, Fig. 6.