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Stamped and Inscribed Objects from Seleucia on the Tigris. By R. H. Mc Dowell. (University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, XXXVI). Pp. xv + 268; 6 plates. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1935. $3.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , 1935 , pp. 251 - 252
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1935

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1 I may mention exempli causa one instance. Under II A, 1 a (1), pl. II, 24 (the system of classification of the author is very complicated and makes the use of the book very difficult) appears a small impression which is described as shewing the portrait head of Seleucus I (see discussion, p. 210). I for my part see in it a typical head of Silenus, not a portrait at all. The parallel quoted by the author (I A, 3 a (1), pl. I, 6) and described as the head of Seleucus I with beard and moustache is not convincing. I have not seen the original, but the reproduction gives not the slightest hint at a beard or a moustache. Nor can I see any similarity of our impression to a coin of Antiochus I (?) published by Mr.McDowell, (Coins from Seleucia, No. 27, pl. II, p. 32Google Scholar) with the head of Zeus in three quarters. I fail to recognise in this head of Zeus the likeness of Seleucus I.

2 No need to say how important is this kind of Rhodian jars for the economic history of the Hellenistic period. With one stamped Rhodian handle found at Susa the Seleucian jars give witness to the spread of Rhodian commerce far into the depths of the Seleucid Empire.