Stamped Amphora Handle

Title: Stamped Amphora Handle
Inventory Number: A0406
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, Monte Testaccio
Description: Heavy handle of irregularly lumpy plano-convex section; irregularly rectangular stamp w PORTO on ext surface close to attachment to neck.
State of Preservation: Upper section of handle only w small section of attached neck
Height: 6.6 cm
Length: 15.8 cm
Width: 10.1 cm
Color: Clay body 2.5Y 8/4 (yellow); core 10R 6/6 (red); discoloration & incrustation 2.5Y 5/2 (grayish brown).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay