, and the name of an official. The names are usually in the nominative, but in one instance at least the genitive is used. The symbols include an amphora, kneeling archer, cornucopia, dolphin, etc. (Fig. [24]).[[527]] The known stamps of Paros are few in number; they are simply inscribed
, which in one instance is written retrograde.[[528]]
Handles inscribed with the name of an aedile (ἀστυνόμος) and of another person, probably a magistrate, have been found on various sites in the Crimea and Southern Russia, principally at Olbia. At Panticapaeum (Kertch) two amphorae were found with stamps across the neck, thus:
the upper name being that of the magistrate.[[529]] These vases appear to have been made on the spot.
From Dumont.
FIG. 24. AMPHORA-STAMPS FROM THASOS.
Stoddart also mentions amphora-handles as having come from Corinth,[[530]] with names which can be traced to the time of the Roman dominion. Falkner found at Pompeii an amphora with a Greek inscription of three lines painted in red and black, with the name of Menodotos and the letters KOR. OPT., which may mean “the best Corcyraean brand.”[[531]] A bibliography of the subject is appended below.[[532]]