Skip to main content

Distance: -

Period : Pre-Islamic
Material : Ceramic
Scan QR

Fragment of a wine amphora from Rhodes with a stamp that names the eponym Agemachos and the month Dalios. Agemachos can be quite accurately dated to ca. 181 – 179 BCE. An eponym was a yearly elected official, hence his name is preceded by the Greek preposition epi, meaning ‘under the term of’. The second handle of the amphora would have had the stamp of the fabricant. The repair holes along some of the breaks show that this amphora was repaired in antiquity, before it was placed as a funerary gift in a tomb.


Gold Ring
Pre-Islamic Gold Jewellery, Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE. On display in the Mleiha Archaeological Center. 1st-2nd Century CE. Read More
Scorpion Chalice
Chalice, or drinking cup, with stylized scorpions. Reportedly imported in the 1st century CE from Iran to the site of Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE. MLH8-01. Read More
Neolithic Arrowhead 1
Neolithic flint arrow head. Jebel al-Faya, Sharjah, UAE. On display in the Mleiha Archaeological Center. 8th millenium BCE. Read More