Given that excavations at the prefecture of Rethymno during the last decades have brought to light several assemblages of Hellenistic pottery, however, stamped amphora handles remain a rare find. Two such handles have been found during the excavation of a Hellenistic building at Sfakaki, Rethymnon prefecture, while another one was discovered at "House B" of the Nisi site in Eleutherna. Thetwo handles from Sfakaki reveal contacts with the north Aegean and north-west Asia Minor areas. As for the

more »

... irst among them, the morphological features of its shape indicate a probable provenance from Samothrace and its dating in the second half of the 4th century B.C. The second bears the name ΑΛΚΑΝΟΡΟΣ in the stamp, which includes it in a known group of similarly stamped handles, dated in thethird quarter or in the middle of the 3rd century B.C. and probably produced in Troia. The handle from Eleutherna is likely to have a provenance from Kos, and is dated in the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C.