Εμπορικοί αμφορείς από την αρχαία Άκανθο και το τοπικό εργαστήριο

The town of Akanthos became an important commercial port and a communication channel between Eastern Greece, the interior of Chalcidice, and Macedonia. In Antiquity, exchanges of consumer goods can be seen through the abundance of transport amphorae found in the area. The products they contained were mainly liquids, most important wine and oil, but they were sometimes used for solid foodstuffs such as cereals, salted fish and meat, olives, fruit, nuts, resin, etc. The amphorae included in this study come from the workshops of Chios, Klazomenae, Lesbos, Samos, the area of Miletus, the SE Aegean, unidentified workshops of the North Aegean, Mende, Thasos, and from the workshops of South Greece, Attica, Corinth, Laconia, and Corfu. The oldest ones date back to the middle of the 7th century BC and the newest to the first half of the 4th century BC.