Abstract
The mysterious stamps 'with the wheel ' dating from the second half of the 4th century BC have the original form of a circle divided generally into 3 or 4 sectors, each containing a letter or monogram. About 2,000 examples of these have been retrieved, mainly in the north Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They have been thought to originate from Thasos and have been attributed unquestionably to Akanthos, ever since the discovery in the 1980s of abundant remains of an amphora workshop (scrap heaps and kilns) at the foot of the fortification wall. More recently, it has also proved possible to distinguish and interpret the two types of abbreviation found together on each of the stamps: on the one hand we have a proper name (of the magistrate rather than the maker?) and on the other a capacity (between 2 chous and 1 metrete, sometimes in the form of monograms {ΠΧ} and {ME}). This decipherment will undoubtedly be of some use to the formal study of Greek amphoras and reflection on the finality of their stamping.
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