Wine Amphora with Stamp, Mleiha, Sharjah

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Fragment of a wine amphora from Rhodes features a stamp naming Agemachos and the month Dalios. Dating Agemachos to around 181 - 179 BCE is possible with reasonable accuracy. As an elected official chosen yearly, his name starts with the Greek preposition epi, meaning 'under the term of'. The second handle of the amphora would bear a stamp from the fabricant. Repair holes on some breaks show that this amphora was repaired in ancient times before being placed as a funerary gift in a tomb. Archaeologists discovered the amphora fragment in 2014 in the graveyard area AV-Z at Mleiha, Sharjah, by the Belgian archaeological expedition. The Reality Capture software processed 336 photos completely - aligned, scaled, modeled, cleaned, simplified, unwrapped, textured, and meshed. Dr. Bruno Overlaet receives thanks from GDH 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.