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Fig. 4.

Based on similar samples, we propose that it should Archaic Period Lesbian Amphoras
have been produced around 575-550 BC (Fig. 3a). Named after their production site, the Island of
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Amphora Lamboglia Type II Lesbos (Mytelene), these types of amphoras had been
Although initially the production site of these am- heavily produced throughout the Archaic and Clas-
phoras was controversial, arguments about their ori- sical Periods. It has an everted bracelet-shaped short
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gin have ended with the discovery of workshops they rim, cylindrically curved handles, a short wide neck, a
were produced during the surveys conducted on the baggy ovoid body tapering to base, and a ring-shaped
shorelines of the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy . The base. The handles with oval-sections have a carinated
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Lamboglia II amphora that we found intact, except profile called “rat-tail” on where they are attached to
part of a handle, during our survey was a singular find shoulders . The rim, neck and handles of the Lesbian
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at the site. The description of this type of amphoras amphora we found have survived to the present day
includes a thickened rim with overhang, a massive, intact. Thickly covered with marine organisms, this
cylindrical and high neck, oval-section handles start- amphora was broken, without body and base. Based
ing from lower part of the rim and upper part of the
neck, attaching to the body on shoulder, a large body on similar examples, we propose that it can be dated
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and a pointed base . Based on similar samples, we to the third quarter of the 6th century BC (Fig. 4).
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propose that it can be dated to the late 2nd century Rhodian Amphoras
BC (Fig. 3b). Rhodos played an important role in the Mediterra-
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GREEK aMPHORaS nean trade from the Archaic Period .

4 For contemporary samples, please also see PY-PY 1974, 141-254.
5 For detailed information on its origin, please see PEACOCK-WILLIAMS 1986, 99.
6 CIPRIANO-CARRE 1989, 80-81. fig.12.
7 Since Lamboglia II amphoras and Dressel 6 amphoras closely resemble in form, some researchers use both designations PEACO-
CK-WILLIAMS 1986, 98-101.
8 For development of forms in Lesbian amphoras, please also see DOĞER 1991, 99-103 fig. 103-108.
9 BÎRZESCU 2005, 52-53 Abb. 2, Kat. No.4.
10 ŞENOL 2009, 122.
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