The department of the Mediterranean Archaeo- logy of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków posses- ses twenty unpublished and one published amphora handle stamps. Twelve out of the twenty-one stamps are on the exhibition.
1These handles were collected and later donated by Jarosław Sagan, the curator of the Museum before the Second World War, in which he joined the British Force in Palestine and collected archaeological materials in Egypt and Sudan.
2Seven- teen out of the twenty-one stamps are from Ras el- -Soda near Alexandria in Egypt, famous for its temple of Isis built in the second century CE. One stamp is from El-Kantara, which I tentatively identify with El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya in northern Sinai, about 50 kilometres south of Port Said.
3Another stamp is also from Egypt but from unknown provenance. The other three are from unknown provenance. What follows is the catalogue of the stamps categorised according to the place of production. One stamp is Thasian, one is unidentifi ed, and the other nineteen are Rhodian.
I basically follow G. Finkielsztejn (2001) in dating the eponyms.
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This study was made possible by generous permission given by Krzysztof Babraj of the Department of the Mediterranean Archae- ology and by kind assistance of him and Anna Drzymuchowska of the same department. The study was conducted on September 19–20, 2011, supported by the research grant of the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation.
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