On the Issue of Stamps on Byzantine Amphoras (on the basis of materials from the territory of the Golden Horde)

Abstract

The article deals with the study of stamps on the most numerous imported Byzantine amphoras of the "Trebizond" group in the Golden Horde pottery assemblage. Amphoras of this group make 99% of all finds of imported container ceramics on the territory of the Golden Horde and came throughout the entire period of the existence of sedentary life in the state. More than half of all stamps on amphoras of this group are an emblem in the form of a straight grid of various variants. Less often there are epigraphic stamps with monograms or full forms of names or complicated ligatures of anagrams. Byzantine amphoras of the "Trebizond" group with stamps came to the Golden Horde in the first half of the XIV century.

Keywords

• archaeology
• byzantium
• golden horde
• northern black sea region
• wine trade
• amphoras of byzantine production
• chronology of amphoras
• ceramology
• "trebizond" ware
• amphora stamps