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II.—Amphora-stopping from Tarentum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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The Rev. Greville J. Chester has presented to the British Museum an object of some interest which he lately found himself in the cutting near the Ramleh railway station. It consists of a circular cake of gypsum, or what we should call rough plaster of Paris, which was discovered within the neck of an amphora for which it had evidently served as the stopper. It presents the appearance of having been poured in in a liquid condition upon the contents of the amphora, a rough impression of which is consequently preserved in the uneven surface of the under side: the upper side bears the impression of a stamp, thus:
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page 158 note 1 Unfortunately Mr. Chester could not bring the portion of amphora to which this stopper belonged: but from his description I gather that it was similar in form to the wine-jars of Rhodes.
page 159 note 1 See Böckh. C. I. iv. p. 428, Nos. 9076 etc.
page 159 note 2 
page 159 note 3 Hor. Od. I. 20, 3; III. 8, 10.
page 159 note 4 Satyr. 114.
page 159 note 5 The derivation of the word (πιττόω, πίττα) would seem to favour this view.
page 160 note 1 P. 47.
page 160 note 2 Plate ciii.
page 160 note 3 See Pollux vi. 48.
page 160 note 4 See Böckh, C. I. 3892, 4108, add. 4351, where months are indicated by numerals.