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Twenty years ago, Greek archaeologists studied some amphora producing workshops on Kos and succeeded to identify ceramic vessels of this center dated to 4th c. BC. In the past years, the author processed a collection of sixty Koan amphorae of 5th—1st cc. BC and built a typological scheme of the Koan amphorae production, having distinguished five types belonging to the indicated time span, which, in their turn, are distributed into a number of variants and series. Owing to a big number of complexes where Koan amphorae are found along with synchronous vessels produced in other centers, it is possible to provide a rather reliable dating to these variants and series. Also distinguished were some types of “pseudo-Koan” amphorae of the late Hellenistic time.

Keywords: Kos, amphorae, stamps, chronology, complexes

Information about author:

Sergey Monachov (Saratov, Russia). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of archeology and cultural heritage of the Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky. Bolshaya Kazachyia St., 112, Saratov, 410012, Russia.
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