- Object Name:
- Stamped Jar Handle
- Place Made:
- Rhodes (Greece)
- Date:
- c. 110–80 BCE
- Medium:
- Clay: wheel-turned, slipped, stamped, and fired
- Dimensions:
- 2 7/8 × 4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (7.3 × 11.7 × 8.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Betty and Max Ratner Collection
- Accession Number:
- 1982-21
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In Israel, these stamped handles from large wine storage jars are frequently found at excavated sites. For example, they were numerous in the City of David (Jerusalem). The Greek inscription bearing the name of the vintner (in this case, Menandros) and the decorative motif, the rose, indicate that the jars and their wine contents came from Rhodes, which had an active wine trade in the eastern Mediterranean from the 3rd to the 1st centuries B.C.E.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.