Bronze Stamps from Antioch-on-the-Orontes and Rest of Turkey Antiochiae haereditati latinae, terrae motu destructae anno MMXXIII
Biblische Zeitschrift, vol.69, no.2, pp.227-258, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 69 Issue: 2
- Publication Date: 2025
- Doi Number: 10.30965/25890468-06902004
- Journal Name: Biblische Zeitschrift
- Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, ATLA Religion Database, Linguistic Bibliography, Old Testament Abstracts Online
- Page Numbers: pp.227-258
- Keywords: bronze bread stamps, signacula-instrumenta inscripta, Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Turkey, Syria, Byzantine epigraphy, Byzantine archaeology, Early Christian Near East, museum studies
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
In this brief article we present a collection of eleven bronze bread stamps of the Early Byzantine period which are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay, i.e., ancient Antioch-on-the-Orontes in south-eastern Turkey that played a fundamental role in the shaping and developing of political life and cultures in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine East for more than a millennium. Eleven items are catalogued here in detail and identified as Late Antique-Early Byzantine bread stamps with, for the most part, Christian symbolism or connotations. At appendix 1 at the end of the paper seven Roman and Early Byzantine bronze and terracotta stamps from Turkish museums in eastern central Turkey and at appendix 2 two Early Byzantine bronze objects with monograms from the Archaeological Museum of Izmir are treated.