Un lot nou de ștampile de amfore grecești descoperite la Callatis
A new lot of Greek amphora stamps from Callatis

Summary/Abstract: Every season of archaeological researches in Callatis or in the callatianchora discovers a very rich archaeological material, which provides new information concerning the economic relations between the citizens of Callatis and the Greek traders, based especially on the commercial amphoras. It is obviously clear that the most detailed information is given by the amphora stamps from various Greek centres of production. The current article presents some samples of Greek amphora stamps found by the authors in the period of 2021-2022. This lot contains 22 samples of Greek amphora stamps from Greek centres: Sinope, Thasos, Rhodes, Heraclea, Cnidus, Mende, Akanthos, Samothrace. The sinopean stamps are in majority, followed by the thasian and heraklean amphorae stamps. The most important artefact of all, is the Samothrace s amphora stamp which, at this time, is unique in the north and northwest Pontic region. Generally, these artefacts can be dated between the middle of the fourth century B.C. and the middle of the second century B.C. and regulary publishing of the archaeological information is a very important contribution for completing the information about amphora’s imports in the region and is completing or changing the image of the commercial relations development between the Callatis inhabitants and the Greek traders.

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